Why aren’t more people angry about women’s political under-representation? That was the core question posed by Joni Lovenduski in a recent article in Political Quarterly, reporting on a workshop on … Read the rest
Month: November 2012
On Tuesday I’ll be participating in Radio 4’s The State of Welfare. This marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social … Read the rest
David Miliband visited the University of Nottingham to take part in a Q&A session open for all students to ask whatever questions they wanted. @NottsPolitics and the audience tweeted along with the hashtag #UoNMiliband, so here's a selection of the best tweets and photos.
With complex humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters occurring with greater severity and frequency in various parts of the world, questions of humanitarianism – particularly how it should be conceived and … Read the rest
This Thursday I am delivering the John Campbell Annual Lecture for Republic.
During the early years of this century John Campbell helped build up Republic into the prominent and … Read the rest
President Obama has secured another four years in the Whitehouse and the hopes of the Republicans have been dashed. Like elections in most countries, this was not decided by foreign … Read the rest
This is the nineteenth in 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
There are around ten million people with a disability in the UK but only a hand full in the House of Commons.
How … Read the rest
On 12 October 2012, two days before Felix Baumgartner’s free-fall jump from the stratosphere, and with considerably less publicity, a much more … Read the rest
There’s nothing exceptional about large rebellions – or even Commons defeats – like that seen last night in the House of Commons. Every Prime Minister … Read the rest