Tag: Nick Pearce
Debates around the relationship between senior civil servants and ministers are likely to evolve rather than settle
Sir Jeremy Heywood’s guidance to civil servants working for Brexit ministers, indicating that they cannot provide advice and support that could be used to campaign against the government’s agreed position, has been met with fury from the Vote Leave camp. Nick Pearce writes that the issue of the relationship between senior civil servants and Ministers is unlikely […]
The Eurosceptic invocation of the ‘Anglosphere’ rests on ideological, not sound geopolitical, foundations
The UK’s referendum on our continued membership of the European Union is set to take place later this year, following the Prime Minister’s now concluded renegotiation of our terms of membership. Nick Pearce looks at the Eurosceptic camp’s invocation of the notion of the Anglosphere as an alternative to a pan-European polity, and finds the […]
Unless they can reinvent themselves for the populist age, the (political) party may well be over
In Spain and across much of the rest of Europe, non-mainstream – and often populist – political parties of different stripes are prospering as mainstream parties struggle to find the right language to justify their existence. Nick Pearce argues that as voters desert mainstream parties, it is social democratic parties that face the biggest challenge […]
Painting in primary colours: political populism and the muted mainstream
Has the rise of radical populist parties across Europe led to the opening up of a gap between what is feasible politically and good governance? Nick Pearce argues that understanding our current political situation is helped by the work of Max Weber and Peter Mair, but that the challenge of squaring this dilemma looks difficult […]
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