Over at Policy Network, Dr Matt Goodwin has written a letter to the Labour Party that speaks to the current debate about immigration and identity politics. The post follows a … Read the rest
Month: June 2012
As we all know, in his early days as Conservative leader David Cameron let it be known that he saw himself as the ‘heir to Blair’.
Cameron’s presentational style and … Read the rest
On 15 June 2012, President Obama announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would take steps in order to “cease” deportations of undocumented young people that were brought to … Read the rest
Further and higher education in the UK is under attack. Neoliberal restructuring has reached colleges and universities across the country. University tuition fees have been increased by up to £9,000 … Read the rest
Throughout the Euro 2012 tournament we tweeted about the politics behind the countries competing and looked at whether various factors, such as population size, GDP, constitutional monarchy vs. republics, euro vs. non-euro, and women in government, to see if they made a difference on the pitch.
As the grandees of the transnational capitalist class of the G20 prepared to meet in the municipality of Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja Califonia Sur to discuss … Read the rest
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over Armando Iannucci’s acceptance of an OBE. Alastair Campbell has accused Iannucci of hypocrisy because, despite his situation comedy The Thick of It … Read the rest
This is the fifteenth of a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence … Read the rest
Neo-liberal restructuring in Europe has come up against its internal contradictions. It has reached its limits. Germany’s export strategy, based on cuts in wages and working conditions, cannot be replicated … Read the rest
I was invited by the Policy Network to respond to one of their latest publications, A Centre-Left Project for New Times, which maps out how European social democrats … Read the rest