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Private education and the limits of uniformity

August 17, 2026

My love, my car: inside right-wing transport policy

August 3, 2026

Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness

July 23, 2026

Why US-Africa bilateral health deals are inherently unfair

April 14, 2026

It's not finance, it's your pensions

February 6, 2026
December 17, 2025

🎈 When do citizens tolerate democratic violations? Lessons from Hungary’s pandemic emergency 

Zsófia Papp Zsófia Papp and Godfred Bonnah Nkansah show that during Covid-19, Hungarians judged the quality of democracy less by procedural norms and more by government performance. Their findings reveal when citizens in backsliding regimes accept violations of democratic standards – and when they refuse to compromise  Read more
November 28, 2025

The failure of social housing in the UK and the abandonment of the the poor

Will Edmonds Will Edmonds argues that the UK’s targeted, means-tested social housing is permitted by a culture that criminalises poverty, and has enabled tragedies like the Grenfell fire. A look through the history of UK public housing shows that the government should adopt a humane, universalist approach Read more
November 5, 2025

The EU’s AI gamble with healthcare

Jason Tucker The promise of revolutionary advances in healthcare is not a mainstay of the EU’s artificial intelligence policies. Jason Tucker explores how the outcomes of the EU’s instrumentalisation of healthcare in the AI race doesn't look good for the waning political legitimacy of the EU Read more
November 3, 2025

Can UN high-level meetings on health deliver real change?

Frank Tu Ngo Every September, world leaders gather at the UN high-level meetings to confront the most pressing global health crises. In 2024, the spotlight fell on antimicrobial resistance – a silent pandemic threatening to make infections increasingly difficult to treat. But, asks Frank Tu Ngo, will the 2024 meeting lead to real change? Read more
October 8, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

Clare Daniel Abortion rights advocates in hostile environments face difficult choices. Clare Daniel, Anna Mitchell Mahoney and Grace Riley’s research in Louisiana shows how traditional advocacy approaches fail to sway legislators, while attempts to communicate across differences risk long-term consequences. Gender scholarship must contend with the dilemma of sacrificing broader goals for smaller, immediate impacts in increasingly constrained political landscapes Read more

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