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Creating a more equal society will require understanding and generosity, hope, perseverance, but above all kindness
Drawing on multiple sources of evidence, Danny Dorling suggests causal links with depleting mental health in the young, the increased use of anti-depressent drugs, and high rates of infant deaths than in similar affluent countries, sketching a narrative of the insidious potential social consequences for our society in a hundred years’ time. Similar Posts
The Europe Jeremy Corbyn wants is very different from the one David Cameron seeks
As Labour’s In campaign gets underway, Isabelle Hertner asks what we can expect from a leader who, despite voting to leave the EEC in 1975 and deploring the austerity demanded of Greece by fellow EU states, has backed a Remain vote. Similar Posts
Understanding Cameron’s renegotiations: the ‘ever-closer union’ problem
Roger Liddle explains why removing the UK’s commitment to “ever-closer union” is so important to the PM as he renegotiates the UK-EU relationship. But if he does succeed in getting rid of it, how much would really change? Similar PostsGoing, Going, Gone: How Safe is David Cameron?Most populist radical right parties across Europe are not […]
Book Review: The Reject: Community, Politics and Religion after the Subject by Irving Goh
In The Reject: Community, Politics and Religion after the Subject, Irving Goh draws upon and discusses a wide variety of twentieth-century French thinkers in order to elucidate ‘the reject’ as not only a crucial figure of thought for the contemporary world, but also as traceable throughout the course of philosophical histories. Outlining the relationship between Goh’s […]
Can non-Western democracy help to foster political transformation?
Democratic renewal is urgently needed everywhere, and in that process all societies can learn from each other, argues the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Democracy and Rule of Law program’s head Richard Youngs. Similar Posts
The Labour Party has become more pro-European as time has progressed
The Labour Party in the UK has a traditionally complicated relationship with European integration, with the party having difficulty in reconciling itself with the pro-federalist vision that its sister parties have adopted. Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos traces the evolution of Labour’s current position on the issue, and argues that the drift has been towards seeing EU membership […]
The UK government’s drone strikes against its own citizens bring it into line with US policy in this area
The UK Government recently caused controversy when it authorised drone strikes in Syria against two of its own nationals – Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin. Unmanned drones have played an increasing role in the West’s military activities in the Middle East. Chris Fuller argues that the move brings UK policy into line with US policy […]
If he handles his leadership well, Jeremy Corbyn could become the successful rebel head of an anti-establishment party
Jeremy Corbyn was recently announced as the Leader of the Labour Party, surprising everybody in beating established candidates such as Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper, despite having never held a frontbench role. His critics suppose that his status as an outsider, somewhat outside the mainstream of his parliamentary party, may mean that he has a […]
Select Committee pre-appointment hearings have helped rebalance the relationship between the government and parliament – but have also created unintended consequences
The Labour government of 1997-2010 introduced pre-appointment hearings for some ministerial appointments, formalising a de facto system which had been developing gradually. Felicity Matthews shares research which shows that these hearings have created a new balance between the executive and parliament to an extent, but that there have been unintended consequences such as ‘scrutiny creep’ and […]
Attempts to dissuade potential migrants from coming to the UK are ineffective gimmickry
The UK has been criticised for its anti-humanitarian stance when it comes to the migrants camp in Calais, where conditions are appallingly bad. Defenders of the migrants point to the horrendous conditions from which many of them have fled, yet the Government’s rhetoric has been unfailingly caustic. However, the attempts – fences and security cameras […]
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