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Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The United Kingdom's emergence as a public sector pioneer in the four‐day working week debate presents a striking paradox. A post‐Thatcher liberal market economy hostile to statutory working‐time reform might be expected to resist government‐sponsored working‐time reduction in the public sector.
Joan Sanchis, Raúl de Arriba
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From Protest to Pluralist? The Green Party of England and Wales after a Decade of Political Upheaval
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2026 English local elections marked the strongest ever performance of the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW). This article places that success in the context of a decade of political upheaval and research into the party. It argues that the GPEW has grown by layering successive issue publics—anti‐austerity, Brexit and Gaza—onto an ...
James Dennison
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Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2017 There have been many complaints that the BBC coverage of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn has been partial and biased. This paper is part of an interdisciplinary project on the television representation of Jeremy Corbyn that brings together scholars in the ...
Roberta Piazza, Paul Lashmar
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A Corpus Study of Brexit Political Discourse: Exploring Modality through Lexical Modals
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American StudiesThis paper aims to analyse the lexical modals used in the political speeches given by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn during the final months of the Brexit process.
Encarnación Almazán Ruiz +1 more
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Literary Theory after Populism
Anglica. An International Journal of English StudiesThe article proposes three theses on the status of literary and critical theory after the populist incursions of the “long 2016.” First: that an already-ailing “theory” failed to distinguish itself from professional class anti-populism during the ...
James A. Smith
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Selecting the labour leader: from the electoral college to closed primaries
QOE-IJES, 2018 The article aims at assessing the functioning and characteristics of the most recent systems employed by the British Labour Party for selecting its leader. To this end I compared five leadership races: the huge success of Tony Blair in 1994 in the newly
Giulia Vicentini
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 9, September 2026.Abstract Turbidity currents are increasingly recognised as a key mechanism for transporting sediment into the deep ocean, yet their structure, behavior, and long‐term impact in Antarctic submarine canyons remain poorly understood owing to a lack of direct observations.
Corbyn Johannes +5 more
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Conference Conversations: Monique Charles on Corbyn and Grime [PDF]
, 2017 Yesterday Renewal co-hosted an event with The Corbyn Effect at Momentum’s conference, The World Transformed, in Brighton. One of the speakers, Monique Charles, recently completed a PhD on grime music.
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Party Democracy in a Fractured System
IPPR Progressive Review, Volume 33, Issue 1-2, Autumn 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the fragmentation of Britain's party system as a crisis of party democracy, and argues that electoral reform is necessary to return to a point where parties can still do the representative work on which democratic government depends. The mass‐party model and class cleavages that once underpinned stable party government have
Chris Bick
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Revue Française de Civilisation BritanniqueThis article analyses the Corbyn programme as an “observatory of social relations” between actors from across the British Left. We adopt a conception of party programmes inspired by French political sociology, as the product of the link between ...
Nicolas Jara-Joly
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