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Jenni Cauvain, Bruce Stafford and Ruth Lister Emphasis in the Conservatives' narrative on 'welfare' and housing reforms has been on “making [...]

Pauline Jas, Barbara Allen and Alison Gardner The previous government, the Tory-Lib Dem coalition, frequently talked about the need for the [...]

Simon Roberts On 7th May 2015 David Cameron won the general election and formed the first majority Conservative Government for 18 [...]

Bill Dixon The Coalition government of 2010 to 2015 was not afraid of controversy in its approach to crime and justice. [...]

Jodie Pennacchia Education stood out as a controversial policy area for much of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government. Under the leadership [...]

Nick Stevenson Going to a comprehensive school in the 1970s it did not occur to me that there were any alternatives [...]

Tony Fitzpatrick Whether you were a supporter or not the New Labour era was widely associated with preferring pragmatism to principle: [...]

Steve Hanson A few years ago, I was given some books. Among them was a 1946 edition of F.A. Hayek’s The [...]

Matt Carmichael “5 handouts or 6?” I asked my wife. “Perhaps you’d best print off 10 to be safe,” she suggested. [...]

Paul Gilfillan  Since 1999, at least, Scotland has seen the re-territorialisation or re-nationalisation of freedom, and, in the light of the [...]