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What now for Labour?

27 September 2016

We are living in uncertain times. The tectonic plates underpinning politics are shifting dramatically. When Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that the 'end of history' had arrived in 1992, you would have been forgiven to think he was onto something: global capitalism...

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Assimilation and the immigration debate

26 September 2016

Immigration has proven one of the hardest issues for Britain’s main parties to address, and UKIP has been the beneficiary. But, according to my YouGov/Birkbeck/Policy Exchange survey data, many UKIP voters will change their views on immigration if politicians can...

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How do we engage more young people in their local communities?

26 September 2016

In recent decades it’s became increasingly common for a person to spend their youth split between two or three communities. In the past, it was considered normal for a child to be born, educated and employed in the same city,...

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Voice of experience

23 September 2016

As the longest serving opposition leader in British political history, Neil Kinnock has plenty of lessons to share. He talks to Mary Riddell about Labour's leadership battle and his predictions for the party's future. It is easy to imagine that Neil...

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French lessons

23 September 2016

Marie-Noelle Loewe argues that the birth of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche movement in France holds lessons for the moderate left here Sometimes, history does indeed repeat itself. So September 2016 has felt a lot like September last year: waiting for the...

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Resowing the seeds

23 September 2016

The 1993 film Groundhog Day, which has just been turned into a West End musical, is the story of a man who re-lives the same day again and again, and finds that it is torture. Could this be the fate...

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