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What’s the Good of Public Religion?
Calling for a greater recognition of Britain as a ‘community of communities’.
- Immigration
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A Hapless Government Produces an Unlikely Hero
One of the Truss government's remarkable achievements was to elevate the OBR from dull forecasting body to central pillar of fiscal responsibility.
- Conservative Party
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Truss Got One Thing Right: Politicians Must 'Educate' Voters
Say what you like about Liz Truss; she set a positive example in being open and in depth than politicians usually are when it comes to explaining economic policies to voters.
- Conservative Party
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Can Poverty Really be Abolished?
A strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Rediscovering Kalecki
One of the most-cited articles ever published by The Political Quarterly is a succinct discussion in 1943 by Michal Kalecki about the concept of full employment.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
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The UK's Refugee 'Invasion' is a Brexit-made Policy Failure
Beyond the political rhetoric, the scapegoating and displacement of responsibility, there is another story of a self-made policy failure intimately connected to Brexit.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Why Did it All go Wrong (so Quickly) for Liz Truss?
Liz Truss’s premiership was far shorter and more tumultuous even than other failed takeover leaders. What happened?
- Conservative Party
- Elections & Campaigning
- Parliament
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Libertarian Fallacies #2: Laws are Essentially Coercive
You do not need to spend much time talking to libertarians to know that they think that the law is essentially coercive.
- Conservative Party
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Libertarian Fallacies #3: There’s No Such Thing as Society
Individualism requires some form of collectivism.
- Conservative Party
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Accession or Election
The upper chamber has a higher standard of debate than the lower and enough of its members earn their parliamentary keep to justify their per diem allowances.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty