Listen to the trailer for a new podcast series from The Conversation Documentaries on the relationship between class and politics in Britain.
Tony Blair found dentistry to be the most difficult aspect of the NHS. Will things be different this time?
Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast to hear Philip Brown and Kirsty Fairclough discuss Manchesterism, the political philosophy of Andy Burnham.
Founded to support Jeremy Corbyn when he became Labour leader, the campaign group has ruffled a few feathers since.
The ease with which a hoaxer was recently able to call the prime minister’s mobile phone, pretending to be the head of GCHQ, highlights a major dilemma for democratic political leaders. Cameron said he…
Should the descendants of slaves receive compensatory payment? This idea has returned to the US since the publication of a major essay in The Atlantic setting out the case for reparations. Here in the…
It’s a lovely word: apprenticeship. It conjures up images of halcyon days gone by, when young men learned their skills from a master craftsman or technician over a lengthy period of time. Apprenticeships…
Class was once a strong indicator of which political party you would support. But since 2001, something quite different has been happening.
Names are already flying, but rushing an appointment would be a big mistake.
Just before Tony Blair became prime minister – what seems a lifetime ago now – several colleagues and I published a research paper looking at the possible scale of rebellion that might face him in government…
