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- ‘Attacks on the wealthy authors of “Austerity 2.0” could backfire’, Financial Times, 18 November 2022
- ‘The Damned Disunited. Will the Conservative Party fall apart under Rishi Sunak’, UK in a Changing Europe, 24 October 2022.
- ‘Austerity, Brexit and 44 days in purgatory: the key stages of Tory rule’, Observer, 22 October 2022.
- ‘The Conservatives have come back from oblivion before’, Financial Times, 21 October 2022.
- ‘”Difficult decisions” require the consent of the country’, The Independent, 20 October 2022.
- ‘Make no mistake: Liz Truss’s days are numbered’, El País, 18 October 2022.
- ‘Nationalised ideas factories would make better policy’, Research Professional News, 12 October 2022.
- ‘The new British government and the House of Commons do not represent the country’, Le Monde, 1 October 2022
- ‘Memoirs are made of this’, Encompass, 1 September 2022.
- ‘Wonder who Liz Truss will reward with a job or punish with exile? History can tell us’, Observer, 21 August 2022.
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- ‘Attacks on the wealthy authors of “Austerity 2.0” could backfire’, Financial Times, 18 November 2022
- ‘The Damned Disunited. Will the Conservative Party fall apart under Rishi Sunak’, UK in a Changing Europe, 24 October 2022.
- ‘Austerity, Brexit and 44 days in purgatory: the key stages of Tory rule’, Observer, 22 October 2022.
- ‘The Conservatives have come back from oblivion before’, Financial Times, 21 October 2022.
- ‘”Difficult decisions” require the consent of the country’, The Independent, 20 October 2022.
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Monthly Archives: December 2018
‘Theresa May and the Conservative Will to Power’, New York Times,12 December 2018.
So Prime Minister Theresa May lives to fight another day. She won Wednesday’s vote of no confidence: 200 members of her party stood by her; 117 did not. Indeed, under the Conservative Party’s rules, it will be another year before her … Continue reading
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‘Don’t underestimate Rees-Mogg’s ‘phantom army’ of Brexit fanatics’, Guardian, 21 November 2018
Blackmail,” as countless on-screen villains have observed over the decades, “is such an ugly word.” And, if you want to understand how an ostensibly small group of Tory Euro-fanatics has exercised such a hold over their leaders for so long, … Continue reading
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‘Corbynism is a populism within Labour – but Brexit risks its internal appeal’ (with Jake Watts), LabourList, 20 November 2018
When we think of populism in recent years, we tend to think of the Ukips of the right and the Syrizas of the left. These political forces are united by their binary politics, in which they look out and see … Continue reading
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‘Conservative conference: a party surprisingly united on Brexit, just divided from the rest of the world’, The Conversation, 2 October 2018
In his big speech to the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham on Monday, Brexit secretry Dominic Raab urged fellow Tories to “come together”. I’m not sure he needed to bother. Here in Birmingham the issue’s already one big circle jerk. After all, … Continue reading
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‘Online or offline? A look at the activism of Labour members’, LabourList, 21 September, 2018
As the last general election showed, when it comes to campaigning, boots on the ground can sometimes beat cash in the bank. Labour’s huge advantage over the Tories in terms of membership must surely have counted for something in close … Continue reading
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