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New Issue Out Now (opens the original)
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Political Quarterly. In our opening commentary, Deborah Mabbett reflects that good policy making is often a tedious process. Other articles include Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen and John Bartle on Labour’s ‘Red–Green’ electoral threat; Eda Bektas and Korhan Mühürcüoğlu on the paradox of power in Turkey; and Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka on Labour’s home-building plans. Book reviews include Stephen Coleman’s assessment of Matthew Goodwin’s latest book, Suicide
"These are Real People who Found Themselves in This Nightmare of Indefinite Duration": Interview with Eric Lewis (opens the original)
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Eric Lewis is an international human rights lawyer and partner at Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss who has represented over 70 Guantanamo Bay detainees over two decades. In his new book, Leaving Guantanamo: How One Country Brought its Men Home from the Forever Prison, Lewis tells the personal stories of some of the ordinary people who ended up detained as terrorists in an offshore enclave without access to lawyers, courts or their own families – as well as the compelling story of the legal and po
Should Labour Have Changed Its Leader? (opens the original)
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Keir Starmer’s resignation as Prime Minister had an air of inevitability about it towards the end. It reflects a recent development in British politics, which is the rapid growth in the number of prime ministers who have been in office since the Brexit referendum of 2016. Prime ministers are increasingly as insecure as Premier League football managers. Table 1 lists these in the successive decades since 1985. It has gone from two prime ministers in the decades 1985–1995 and 1995–2005 to a total
In Defence of Quiet Politics (opens the original)
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From Our Archive: Could Citizenship Education Combat Political Apathy? (opens the original)
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