Developing Labour’s message into a compelling narrative
What do recent election results tell us about Labour’s chances of returning to power?
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Reviewing the chances of Labour returning to power
What do recent election results tell us about Labour’s chances of returning to power? This article, the first in a...
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Trump, Facebook, democracy and rights: how to handle free speech in an age of information chaos
Marc Limon writes about Facebook's decision to ban Trump indefinitely from their platform; the Oversight Board warned that social media...
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Vaccine nationalism: is US support for vaccine patent waivers a PR stunt?
Marc Limon discusses the Biden administration's announcement to introduce a global vaccine waiver, which would allow other lower-income countries to...
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Is the BBC the answer to the collapse of civil society?
Civil society is waning, as is trust in democracy. The BBC, though, could be a model to rejuvenating civil society...
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The Benighted Kingdom? What the government’s attack against the right to protest tells us about our democracy
Marc Limon explains the significance of the right to protest. The UK government's attempt to pass a bill which will...
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Strengthening UK-EU relations under a Labour government: building up from a thin deal
Marc Limon explains the areas that the UK government will have to work on in order to ensure a working...
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Facebook’s ‘supreme court’ gears up to consider its decision to bar Donald Trump
Marc Limon looks at the significant decision Facebook's new board will have to make in a few weeks time: should...
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The democratic fightback
Marc Limon provides a more optimistic view of the future of liberal democracy. Its political and civil rights ensure that...
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Biden, the UK and the crisis of liberal democracy
Is democracy in crisis? Marc Limon looks at how and why democracy has been eroded across the globe and considers...
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What will US foreign policy look like under President Joe Biden, and what does it mean for the UK?
What will US foreign policy look like under President Joe Biden, and what does it mean for the UK?
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What would a Biden win mean for US and global democracy?
With the US election tomorrow, Marc Limon discusses what a Biden win would mean for US and global democracy.
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How Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign used AI to suppress the votes of black Americans
On 28 September, Channel 4 News revealed that it had obtained a data cache used by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential...
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A-level furore the tip of the iceberg: how digital technology and artificial intelligence threaten social welfare, social rights and social justice
The scandal around this year’s A-level results, and in particular the application of an algorithm to help predict students’ grades...
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Is digital technology rotting British and American democracy from the inside out?
The rapid evolution and spread of digital technology are already having a major, and in some respects positive, impact on...
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A-Level furore will dissipate; but the underlying injustices in English education will not
The government U-turn will change nothing about the underlying, grossly unequal and grossly unfair nature of the national education system
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Covid-19 has not laid Britain low, it has merely revealed what has long been forsaken
Caused by the UK government’s lacklustre response to the Covid-19 pandemic, there are worrying signs that this unprecedented economic crisis...
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New UK Magnitsky-style human rights sanction regime
An important step forward for accountability
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Covid-19: the Achilles’ heel of the world’s populist leaders
The rise of populist leaders around the world, with their particularly Orwellian brand of post-truth politics, has been one of...
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