Political ideologies

Dr David Moon, Lecturer,  Dept of Politics, Languages & International Studies Insofar as the debate surrounding the EU referendum has noticed differing perspectives between the constituent nations that form the UK, it has almost entirely involved comparisons of Scotland and...

The day after a Budget is usually a difficult one for any Chancellor, but this year, George Osborne has been subject to sustained and withering scrutiny, most notably on the failure to meet his fiscal targets and the shunting around...

I wrote this short blog for The Staggers this week on the future of the left, with particular reference to European social democracy: "There are plenty of grounds for pessimism about the left’s prospects and they are well rehearsed.  Across...

As the Labour Party wrestles over whether to honour or disown its New Labour past, Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has been busy assembling the architecture of a Blairite central government. Trudeau’s youth, good looks and self-declared “sunny ways”...

At the end of last year, Spanish voters delivered a major, some would say fatal, blow to the country’s two party system.  The combined vote share of the two mainstream parties, the conservative People’s Party and the centre-left Socialist Workers’...