Equity-Focused Liberalism: Eighty-Four Slides And Counting
Equity-Focused Liberalism: Eighty-Four Slides And Counting | EDI Is A Verb, Outcomes By Demographic Are A Hobby
Category: Governance
Media and Agenda Setting: How the Press, Broadcasting, and Social Media Determine What British Politics Is Actually About
Media and Agenda Setting: How the Press, Broadcasting, and Social Media Determine What British Politics Is Actually About | Maxwell McCombs, the News Cycle, Framing Effects, Lobby Journalism, Front Pages as Policy Drivers, and the Political Consequences of Information Environments Nobody Designed
The British Relationship With Europe: The Divorce That Is Being Quietly Renegotiated While Nobody Calls It That
The British Relationship With Europe: The Divorce That Is Being Quietly Renegotiated While Nobody Calls It That | Brexit’s Consequences, the EU Reset, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, Youth Mobility, Horizon, the Single Market Gap, and the Political Economy of Not Quite Going Back
Left-Keynesian Interventionism: GDP Responds To Feelings
Left-Keynesian Interventionism: GDP Responds To Feelings | The Multiplier Is The Magic Word, Bond Yields Are Just Moods
Fiscal Moderation: Slightly Higher Tax On Someone Else
Fiscal Moderation: Slightly Higher Tax On Someone Else | Bond Yields Are Just Moods, OBR Is Mostly Right
The British Prison System: Rehabilitation Theatre, Overcrowding Reality, and the Sentence After the Sentence
The British Prison System: Rehabilitation Theatre, Overcrowding Reality, and the Sentence After the Sentence | Reoffending Rates, Prison Population Records, Early Release, Probation Privatisation Failure, and the Criminal Justice System’s Most Expensive Failure
Law London Now the Ancient Heart of the Nation’s Justice
Law London Now the Ancient Heart of the Nation’s Justice | Historic courts and chambers uphold centuries of legal tradition
Election Results as “Not Ideal”
Labour Officials Describe Election Results as “Not Ideal” While Quietly Googling Jobs in Brussels Five Observations From the Calmest Possible Framing of a Disaster Labour officials now use the phrase “not ideal” the way ship captains describe iceberg collisions — technically accurate, professionally understated, and leaving out quite a lot of the relevant detail. Several Downing Street aides reportedly updated passports before updating polling strategy, which does suggest a certain…
Reactionary Libertarianism: 1776 In Spirit, In Shoes
Reactionary Libertarianism: 1776 In Spirit, In Shoes | Anything Since 1791 Is Structurally A Draft
New Infrastructure Plan
British Government Announces Bold New Infrastructure Plan Involving More Cones and Fewer Roads Five Observations on Britain’s Roadworks Eternity Britain now has enough traffic cones to build a second nation entirely out of disappointment. Roadworks in the UK continue longer than some medieval wars. Drivers increasingly suspect construction crews disappear at night like folklore spirits. Local councils proudly unveil pothole repairs that survive approximately one rainstorm. One Birmingham commuter reportedly…
Parliament Declares Itself a “Startup Ecosystem”: Westminster Embraces “Disruptive Governance” Model
Parliament Declares Itself a “Startup Ecosystem”: Westminster Embraces “Disruptive Governance” Model | MPs Rebrand Legislative Dysfunction as “Agile Policy Development”
Modern Progressive Left: Posting From The Bath
Modern Progressive Left: Posting From The Bath | Mental Health Is Infrastructure, Capitalism Is A Vibe
Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Foreign Office, the National Security Council, and the Structures That Determine How Britain Acts in the World
Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Foreign Office, the National Security Council, and the Structures That Determine How Britain Acts in the World | The FCDO, the Role of the Foreign Secretary, the NSC, the Intelligence Agencies, and the Gap Between Declared Strategy and Actual Decision-Making
The British Internet: Digital Rights, Online Harms, Platform Power, and the Governance of a Network Nobody Designed for Governance
The British Internet: Digital Rights, Online Harms, Platform Power, and the Governance of a Network Nobody Designed for Governance | Section 230 Equivalents, Age Verification, Encrypted Messaging Battles, UK GDPR, Data Sovereignty Post-Brexit, and the Permanent Tension Between Safety and Freedom Online
The British Empire’s Long Shadow: Post-Colonial Migration, the Windrush Generation, and the Ongoing Negotiation Between History and Identity
The British Empire’s Long Shadow: Post-Colonial Migration, the Windrush Generation, and the Ongoing Negotiation Between History and Identity | Caribbean Migration, South Asian Settlement, the Hostile Environment, Institutional Racism, and the Britain That Its History Made Without Acknowledging It
Centre-Right Populism: Common Sense In A Suit
Centre-Right Populism: Common Sense In A Suit | From The Kitchen Table, Via GB News, To The Nation
Rise of Identity Politics and the British Culture Wars: From Statues to Safe Spaces, From Pronouns to the Premier League Taking the Knee
Rise of Identity Politics and the British Culture Wars: From Statues to Safe Spaces, From Pronouns to the Premier League Taking the Knee | How an American Academic Concept Crossed the Atlantic, Became a British Political Strategy, Generated More Heat Than Light, and Refused to Resolve Itself Into Anything More Useful
Constituency Boundaries and Gerrymandering: How Britain Redraws Its Political Map
Constituency Boundaries and Gerrymandering: How Britain Redraws Its Political Map | The Boundary Commissions, Periodic Reviews, The 2023 Boundary Review, Malapportionment, Safe Seats, and the Difference Between Gerrymandering and the Mere Appearance of It
Slight Centre-Right Lean: The Spectator In Airports
Slight Centre-Right Lean: The Spectator In Airports | Capitalism Is Fine, The Hedge Needs A Word
Nordic Model Maximalism: Make Britain Sweden
Nordic Model Maximalism: Make Britain Sweden | Colder, Taller, And All Friends From School
Council Installs New CCTV Camera
Council Installs New CCTV Camera To Monitor Existing CCTV Camera Theft Five Observations From Britain’s Proudly Self-Defeating Surveillance State Britain now uses surveillance technology mainly to monitor previous surveillance failures, which is either a bold strategy or the world’s most expensive lesson in recursion. One council reportedly lost three security cameras while reviewing footage from stolen security cameras, achieving a kind of bureaucratic ouroboros that philosophers will study for years.…
Right-Wing Authoritarian Lite: A Firm Chair, A Firmer Tea
Right-Wing Authoritarian Lite: A Firm Chair, A Firmer Tea | A Little Discipline Never Hurt Anyone
Prime Ministers’ Questions: A Thirty-Minute Weekly Demonstration That Parliament Works Exactly as Well as You Suspected
Prime Ministers’ Questions: A Thirty-Minute Weekly Demonstration That Parliament Works Exactly as Well as You Suspected | The History, Format, and Performative Function of Britain’s Most Watched Least Informative Political Event, and Why Nobody Has Managed to Make It Better
World Leaders Celebrate Historic Breakthrough
World Leaders Celebrate Historic Breakthrough In International Cooperation By Agreeing To Blame Someone Else LONDON (PRAT.UK DATELINE) — Delegates at this year’s G7 summit have declared a historic moment of multilateral solidarity after all seven member nations reached unanimous agreement on a joint communiqué affirming, in language described as “unusually frank for a G7 document,” that responsibility for the current state of global affairs lies primarily with parties not represented at…
Fiscal Conservatism: Public Debt As Original Sin
Fiscal Conservatism: Public Debt As Original Sin | There Is No Magic Money Tree, Except For Him
The British Senior Civil Service: Permanent Secretaries, SpAds, the Blob, and the Art of Outlasting Your Minister
The British Senior Civil Service: Permanent Secretaries, SpAds, the Blob, and the Art of Outlasting Your Minister | Whitehall’s Most Permanent Residents, the Tension Between Political Direction and Institutional Memory, and Why Every New Government Discovers the Civil Service Is Both Indispensable and Infuriating
Managerial Technocracy: Thirty-Seven Slides And An Appendix
Managerial Technocracy: Thirty-Seven Slides And An Appendix | Politics Is Unstructured User Research
BBC Launches Budget Cuts
BBC Launches Budget Cuts by Replacing Four Reporters With One Man Whispering “It’s Complicated” BBC executives unveiled a sweeping new cost-saving initiative this week after confirming that several political reporting teams would be consolidated into “one exhausted correspondent standing outside Westminster looking spiritually defeated.” The restructuring comes amid continuing financial pressure on the BBC, licence fee debates, and the terrifying realization that half the nation now gets its news from…
Welfare Capitalism: A Workplace Creche And A Cycle Scheme
Welfare Capitalism: A Workplace Creche And A Cycle Scheme | Capitalism Plus Tea Is Just Civilisation
Progressive Redistributionism: The Next Decimal Point
Progressive Redistributionism: The Next Decimal Point | The Wealthy Pay Slightly More, Every Year, Until They Cheer Up