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The Social Review Podcast Episode 34: The Winner Takes-it-Dáil

Jasper sits down with Morgan and Kirsten Kurt-Elli to discuss Ireland’s recent general election. Is the Sinn Fein surge a result of political rehabilitation or changes in the Irish electorate? Why did Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael fail? And are female leaders the key to electoral success for left-wing parties? iTunes Link

Realities 12th February 2020

The Social Review Podcast Episode 33: Talking Tax with Anneliese Dodds MP

Morgan & David sit down with Anneliese Dodds MP, Shadow Minister for the Treasury, to talk tax: how the tax code can be reformed, how Labour should market its tax policies, why she’s backing Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership, and the most punk rock thing she’s ever done. iTunes Link

Column, Realities 11th February 2020

Steamed Hamms 1: Hope, mourning, and the soft left

This is the first in a new series of monthly columns on The Social Review. My aim is to post one at the beginning of each month, though this may vary depending on time and other work constraints. As always, The Social Review is open to any and all offers from wealthy benefactors. Mourn and Organise I was grieving on December 13th.…

Realities 8th February 2020

Time for Real Change? Ireland’s General Election

Not to come across all Dominic Cummings, but to my view: to understand politics in the Republic of Ireland, you need to know your history. Not the Civil War, not 1916, not De Valera or any of the things that British Irish_Politics_Understanders generally log on to pop off about. You need to know about a man named Noel Browne, and the collapse…

Domestic Policy, History and Strategy, Realities 6th February 2020

Metro Mayors and the Battle for England’s Cities

Now that resounding Conservative victory has been followed by leadership elections, the opposition’s focus has naturally shifted to the next general election. But this government has a free hand to tip the electoral scales, through boundary reform and voter ID legislation, while Labour must match some of history’s greatest landslides just to govern alone. Faced with the very real possibility of a…

Culture, Realities 3rd February 2020

Testing to Destruction

Penny Jackson is a Prospect member who recently won a compensation claim against the Ministry of Defence for disability discrimination. You can read more about the background to the case here – but we are pleased to feature Penny telling her story in her own words here on The Social Review. Her writing can also be found at https://autisticsjw.blogspot.com/ The process started some…