The types of people who gathered daily to watch Neighbours are the same who backed Tony Blair in 1997.
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The Conservative Party isn’t polling too badly, all things considered, so MPs may think it’s time to boot out the prime minister.
Backbenchers are rattling their sabres and a brutal byelection loss has made it all so much worse.
The prime minister’s party has long sought to reconcile political popularity with fiscal constraint.
With so much recent focus on how women are treated, we need to look first at how we use language. And for a long time, it has been used to belittle and silence women.
New changes to employment rules go hand in hand with the recent knocks to Deliveroo and Uber to suggest that a trend is emerging.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
We find low taxes on the rich bring economies little benefit. This suggests there is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.
In this new season of The Crown, Queen Elizabeth has two rivals for centre stage: Margaret Thatcher, played dazzlingly well by Gillian Anderson, and Diana Spencer.
For Judith Collins, centrism is an excuse to do nothing and stand for nothing. This election is the greatest challenge yet for her brand of politics.
Has the British offer of citizenship to Hongkongers violated the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration?
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement was founded 60 years ago. Here’s why it remains as relevant today as in its heyday.
In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
People who support Brexit want different results from the UK’s departure from the EU – and they can’t all get what they want.
The next two years look dangerous for the economy. You wouldn’t know it from UK party manifestos.
The historic sporting rivalry between England and South Africa has often been marred by political protests and controversy.
Robert Mugabe’s years of playing one group off against the other to favour himself finally wore too thin in 2017.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don’t share, writes one historian, is the label ‘liberal.’
Only psychologists could discern how Dumiso Dabengwa maintained his legendary composure, a necessary trait for an intelligence supremo.
The book, Marxism and Freedom was written in 1958. Yet, it remains relevant today.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor in American Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Law and Politics, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in International History, Aberystwyth University
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Research Associate, Dept of Anthropology & Development Studies and Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Murdoch University
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