When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.
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No one else could have been called – in the words of Labour’s Michael Foot – a ‘semi-house-trained polecat’.
A small proportion of people can do well on only a few hours of sleep a night. Here’s why that might be.
Catherine Chidgey’s new novel, set in an alternative UK under a version of Thatcher, continues her exploration of murky morality and the legacy of Nazi Germany.
Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world and the West viewed the book.
South Africa’s government of national unity forged after the 2024 elections refutes the claim that there are two antagonistic political camps.
In the second part of our podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we trace the history of class politics over the past century.
Boys who wear suits are ‘men in waiting’, and they are waiting to gain the power that men have as they get older.
Electoral defeat comes for us all in the end.
The “PM and the Pendulum” model has been successfully forecasting British elections since 2005. This year’s predictions suggest UK Conservatives are in for a major drubbing on July 4.
The strike saw different political factions uniting, which eventually led to a more collaborative form of politics in Wales.
Thatcher provided the show with its star turn, but her government’s policies were also influential in bringing the programme to air.
Conspiracy theories about urban planning are born of a national context in which public transport provision is failing
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
Fifty years ago, an under-pressure Tory leader’s battle with a powerful union triggered the introduction of restrictions to the working day.
Data across multiple decades suggests Starmer will benefit from giving the impression that he is shifting to the right.
A teacher reflects on how Section 28 affected her career and the young people she taught.
The show is being rebroadcast for a new generation and is more educational and political than it might have first appeared.
Everyone wants to claim the economic thinker as their own.
From soup and semolina to Jamie’s school dinners: the changing face of school meals in the UK.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Professor in American Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Lecturer in International History, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Lancaster University
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Research Associate, Dept of Anthropology & Development Studies and Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Postgraduate researcher of the Black Lives Matter movement, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Lancaster University
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