This week, Eugenie and Henry don their historian caps and chat all things history: whether we can learn anything from it, how to improve its teaching in schools and their top history book recommendations. iTunes Link
Social Policy gives us a range of means in which to assess deprivation. Some measures focus on social capital; others on economic capital. In Canada, Pierre Bourdieu inspired its public measure to combine both. The trouble for researchers now lies in deciding what indicators are most telling, from the sea of data available. There are tens of thousands of public datasets that…
This year’s Labour Party conference in Brighton was probably the most significant since Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Leader in 2015. We saw, arguably for the first time, a significant portion of the pro-Corbyn membership asserting themselves and promoting radical positions that made the leadership uncomfortable. These are the early signs of a Corbynism that is able to act without first looking to…
Julia and Ciaran sit down with Jasper to explain the ongoing reselection battles in Labour and why they haven’t led to the mass deselection of Corbynsceptic MPs. Plus, Jasper is joined by TSR writer/editor Morgan to discuss why we should all be writing diaries. iTunes Produced by Jasper Cresdee-Hyde.
Late on the night of the 26th of March 2015. Jeremy Paxman looked at Ed Miliband with steely eyes: ‘They see you as a North London Geek’. It was a defining moment of the election. It followed years of criticism in which Ed Miliband was othered and represented as alien to mainstream British society. We saw it just as well on British…
In the first of our two-part tech special, Jasper, Lines and Peter discuss how the internet has influenced the ideological thinking of one another and broader political movements. Plus, Joe, Julia and Beth talk about the democratising power of social media and the internet as a form of direct democracy. In the second of our two-part tech special, we tackle when to…
The Chair of @youngfabians & LGBT+ Officer for @OpenLabour: @Charlottelvn90 speaking about the mental health of LGBT+ people and also speaking out against transphobia at #LabourConference2019 “Labour stands for everyone, and everyone has the right to be who they are.” pic.twitter.com/3AvKBz0RpS — Paul L. McGowan 🏳️🌈 (@PaulLMcGowan) September 25, 2019 If you’ve been to Labour Party Conference, you’ll know standing at the…
It’s a truth universally acknowledged – if rarely stated – amongst limpid-eyed indie kids everywhere that it would probably have, on balance, been best if Morrissey had died some time in the early 90s. Anywhere between the 1988 release of Viva Hate and his infamous union-flag draped Finsbury Park appearance in 1992 would have been fine. That way the strange, sad figure…