This page shows a continually updated list of the past month’s twenty most popular blog posts by readership.
- Why improved support for people with mental health conditions can help economic recovery
- Despite common press perceptions, the number of strikes in the UK is far below the European average
- Party funding reforms are overdue in the UK, but they should not be rushed
- UK-China relations: Labour need to communicate a consistent and clear stance toward China, now
- What Grenfell Tower taught us about political leadership
- What do we mean by the “political class” – and are they all the same?
- Is UK economy really as strong as the government says it is?
- The blue passport is the symbol of all that the UK is giving up in the name of Brexit
- Recent demonstrations across the UK are not a sign of rising political participation amongst the young
- Build, build, build? The consequences of deregulating planning
- How to put an end to party funding scandals
- 99 per cent of London is not burning. We should not over-react to the weekend’s riots.
- Interpreting the polls (in one animated GIF)
- Local partnerships are effective in preventing the spread of gangs and gang violence. The government can’t afford not to invest in them.
- Everyday authoritarianism: an anthropology of citizenship and welfare in austerity Britain
- Corbyn, Labour, and the British Left: prospects for realignment after GE2017
- The Wikileaks saga has revealed a souring of the US/UK ‘special relationship’, and this foreign policy distance looks set to stay.
- Ethnic minorities are less likely to find good work than their white British counterparts, even when born and educated in the UK
- The ‘rehabilitation revolution’ in the England and Wales prison system will be slow and uncertain. But small, low-cost measures can lead in the right direction.
- The British Left are desperate for good news – Macron and Schulz will disappoint them