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LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 19 April 2024 English
The young in the UK, the US and some European countries, according to the World Happiness Report, are less happy today than they were just a few years ago. While …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 18 April 2024 English
The UK’s policymaking style post since Margaret Thatcher’s premiership has become less deliberative, more frenetic, and significantly more centralised and impositional, argue Patrick Diamond and Jeremy Richardson. Tis has led …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 17 April 2024 English
There is a cross-party consensus that the way to tackle the housing crisis is to build more homes. But this approach isn’t working, and does little to address inequality and …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 15 April 2024 English
In the UK, partners or family members are responsible for nearly half of all female homicides. But there is an increasing rate of statement withdrawal from victims in high-risk domestic …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 12 April 2024 English
Ruth Patrick and Sharon Wright highlight the positive lessons that the rest of the UK can learn from Scotland’s more flexible and empathetic approach to social security. As the UK …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 10 April 2024 English
Britons’ trust in public institutions like the judiciary, the BBC and Parliament is in decline. People are instead investing their trust in individuals. But for the sake of a functioning …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 8 April 2024 English
Politics in Britain today seems bereft of ideas. Both the Conservative and Labour parties seem to believe that politics is about technocratic pragmatism, “doing what works”. But effective policymaking has …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 4 April 2024 English
In the past one would expect to find progressive views on homosexuality would be a predictor of progressive attitudes in other areas, like immigration. But a new paradoxical-sounding trend is …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 28 March 2024 English
In her Mais lecture, the Shadow Chancellor diagnosed the UK’s problems of economic stagnation, persistent inequality and the instability that geopolitical shocks and climate change bring. Anna Valero outlines what …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 27 March 2024 English
The constant flux of Government policy makes life very difficult for local authorities housing asylum seekers. Melissa Weihmayer argues that the Government should instead treat councils as helpful partners who …