The history of Britain's vote to exit from the European Union, known as Brexit, is not a tale of populist resentment toward globalization. It is a top-down story of leaders and elite ideology.
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Articles on Margaret Thatcher
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From the early 1980s, local governments in the UK began renaming streets, housing estates and community centres after Mandela as an act of protest.
As Chequers places host to a crucial Brexit cabinet meeting, a look back at how British prime ministers repeatedly fell in love with their country home.
More homes, more homes, more homes. What about less elbow room instead?
Women played and integral role in the year-long struggle – despite a culture that expected them to stay at home.
Google's proposals for a high-tech development on Toronto's lakefront is a radical departure from the principles that have guided city planning in Canada for decades.
Should the teacher be a sage on the stage or a guide on the side? Neither, it seems.
"The Magnificent Seven" was a slice of daily life, a class struggle song framed by the sound of funk and the emergent hip-hop in New York.
From outright celebration, through charity to explicit political salvos – is there such a thing as the 'ultimate' Christmas pop song?
Latest releases suggest police collaborated on statements and benefitted from the Thatcher government's desire not to hold an inquiry.
National Archive files reveal how the PM offered preferential treatment to a breakaway union in a bid to weaken its rivals.
An exclusive interview with Norman Tebbit on Thatcher, Brexit, Theresa May's potential successors ... and a certain former chancellor.
The notion of an society organised on merit has held Britain in its sway for decades.
Twenty years on from the handover of the British Crown colony, the people of Hong Kong are increasingly experiencing the vicissitudes of communism.
For all their defiant talk of 'business as usual', savvy leaders know that any good response to a crisis is also an emotional performance.
A scholar considers the limits of 'running government like a business.'
The crisis confronting neoliberal capitalism suggests that its internal contradictions are now undermining its very foundations. What can we expect from a post-neoliberal world?
The unique parliamentarian who coined the West Lothian question.
What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
To get Nelson Mandela released and save Namibia's independence elections, Thatcher proposed a massive aid programme.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in American Politics, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Lecturer in International History, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, University of Sussex
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Head of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University
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Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
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