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Calamitous May, Innovative Polling, and the Young Vote: On The 2017 General Election

Amid the uncertainty of a hung parliament, what can hardly be overstated about the 2017 general election result is just how much of a disaster it represents for Theresa May. Having called an unnecessary election believing herself in a position of barely-precedented strength - despite repeatedly vowing no snap election, with her spokesman reiterating the point less than a month...

Higher Education and Research Bill Hurried Through Parliament

Given that the government's own representative, Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Boris and the Minister of State for Universities and Science, described it as 'the most significant legislative reform of the sector for twenty-five years', you would be forgiven for presuming that the Higher Education and Research Bill just passed by parliament at least possessed some semblance of...

Conservative Party Conference Condemns Foreign Workers and Human Rights

Blithe or rabid comparisons to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are never hard to come by in any walk of life, but when they're not confined to internet forums and Twitter, recently in British politics they have been as much a preserve of the right. Take for instance the New Labour fanatic and prominent party donor Michael Foster, who...