Regional development conference announced
The New Statesman event will tackle regional development in an age of “levelling-up”
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Why is the government planning to scrap English Votes for English Laws?
Boris Johnson is promoting a monolithic idea of Britishness that, evidence suggests, is shared by fewer and fewer people across the…
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The return of the Celts
Why a reawakening of national identities could spell the end of the United Kingdom.
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Why has Edwin Poots resigned as DUP leader after 20 days?
It was a leadership doomed before it began. But the agreement on Irish language legislation was seen as a capitulation to…
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Why Whitehall doesn’t always know best
Levelling up can't be a top-down process. Westminster has to empower local authorities and realise centralised design and control will…
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Boris Johnson’s “muscular unionism” will only drive Scotland further towards independence
The instruction to British diplomats to stop referring to the UK as a union of four nations is a symptom…
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Labour will never win again if it can’t acknowledge, let alone answer, the English Question
The old New Labour narrative that England is not a nation, only a set of would-be regions, is damaging the party.
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I’m starting to think everything I thought about the Conservatives and housing was wrong
Any housing strategy based on the idea that some homes will lose value is not a good one for the…
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