The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

Andy Burnham’s first major policy announcement as Prime Minister was a commitment to ‘end rough sleeping’. No timeframe was given, and we are still awaiting policy details beyond the initial funding f...

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Andy Burnham might be more charismatic than Keir Starmer but the problems he is inheriting go beyond personality. Can he really make a difference?

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03 Renewal 33.1_Jones & Foley03 Renewal 33.1_Jones & Foley.pdf82 KBdownload-circle Andy Burnham has been mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. Prior to this, he was the Labour MP for Leigh betwee...

Introduction The Employment Rights Act of 2025 will be a significant part of this Labour government’s legacy. It is an outlier to the supposed ideological vacuum of ‘Starmerism’: a genuine social dem...

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History shows there have been more short-lived Labour governments than long-lasting ones. The party must secure a clear, progressive legacy, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Join us for an event to launch Dr Georgios Giannakopoulos' new book.

British Politics - The current political moment in Britain is characterised by disaffection, affective polarisation, and populist mobilisation of these (dis)affections. How best to research these...

A war is being fought around an island-colony we half-remember

Between 2016 and 2019, a unique coalition assembled within British politics. Combining Corbynite campaigners and Conservative Cabinet ministers, celebrities and grassroots activists, seasoned politica...

Imagining Tomorrow investigates how prediction has shaped our world in politics, urban planning, environmental science, literature, art, and culture. Based on the British Academy-funded projects ‘Get...

Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future.

Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.  It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...

Labour should make more of a fuss of these long overdue reforms

In recent years, the American researcher (and committed social media poster) Will Stancil has emerged as one of the most prominent and vociferous critics of materialist theories of politics, and of th...