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💊 Why we need a National Commission on UK electoral reform

September 30, 2026

When the exception becomes the rule in world politics

September 25, 2026

Disability, work and the limits of benefit reform in Britain

September 25, 2026

🧭 The Iceland EU referendum vote changes nothing

September 3, 2026

Turning the EU's South Caucasus moment into a permanent strategy

August 25, 2026
August 18, 2026

The grim future of European migration policy

Agnese Pacciardi At the end of July, over the space of two days, around 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The largest such crossing on record, it became the first real-world test of the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum. Agnese Pacciardi says the crisis resulted in weakened solidarity between member states, rushed deportations, and the neglect of human rights Read more
August 17, 2026

Private education and the limits of uniformity

Pierce Leslie Britain’s debate over private schooling often treats fairness as a choice between a divided system and a common one. Pierce Leslie argues that equality depends on whether funding, capacity and accountability reach the pupils who need them most Read more
August 12, 2026

What Andy Burnham's psychology tells us about his foreign policy

Consuelo Thiers Andy Burnham takes office with little public record on foreign policy. Consuelo Thiers profiles his political personality to offer a interpretation on how he may act on the world stage. She argues that Burnham is likely to be more consultative than his predecessor, but no less determined to shape events his own way Read more
August 6, 2026

Why anti-EU rhetoric persists without an anti-EU public

Zoe Gueli Zoe Gueli argues that in Italy, the anti-Brussels rhetoric of governing right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia survives not because Italians are Eurosceptic, but because its rhetoric functions as a domestic political tool – one that EU institutions are structurally unable to counter Read more
August 5, 2026

The EU's Indo-Pacific problem is not capability, it is perception

Nicholas Ross Smith Four years after launching its Indo-Pacific Strategy, the EU still isn't seen as a serious geopolitical player in the 'region'. Closing this perception gap, not building more capability, argues Nicholas Ross Smith, is Brussels' real challenge Read more

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