Last Sunday, we went voting. My husband and I drove two and a half hours to Shanghai, parked the car in our little secret parking lot close to the French … Read the rest
Month: May 2012
We’ve been producing end-of-session reports detailing the rebellions of government backbenchers for several years now – but we’ve never had to produce one quite so large before. The Bumper Book … Read the rest
Shale gas has, in the space of a few short years, gone from being a little known and little used energy resource to one that is mired in controversy, with … Read the rest
The 21st century has already borne witness to new forms of insecurity including the instability caused by the Arab Spring and piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Tackling such … Read the rest
Writing in the Guardian Comment is Free, Dr Matthew Goodwin offers his assessment of what the local elections reveal about support for the far right.… Read the rest
At 3.24am this morning the number of Liberal Democrat councillors dipped below 3000 for the first time since the party was formed.
If you were being pedantic you’d query that … Read the rest
The second issue of the academic journal Political Studies – currently based at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham – sees publication of research … Read the rest
The film The Iron Lady focused attention on Margaret Thatcher and her leadership of an otherwise male-dominated Conservative Party. In this blog post for History Workshop Online, I assesses … Read the rest
This post from Adam Morton coincides with today’s guest talk to @NottsPolitics by Sir Rodric Braithwaite, formerly Ambassador in Moscow and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, and author … Read the rest
Vera Weghman, a participant observer of the Occupy the London Stock Exchange (LSX) movement, recently gave a most interesting seminar to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global … Read the rest