Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election
Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
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Who Cares for Communities? Conceptualizing Non-Profit Work as Social Reproduction Through the Case of Food Banks. [PDF]
Mendelin M, Hall RJ.
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Governments, Home Ownership and Low‐Cost Home Ownership Initiatives
Abstract Widening the spectrum of households who can enter home ownership has been a long‐established policy in the UK. This article explores low‐cost home ownership initiatives from the late 1970s onwards and in the context of home ownership more generally. Over the decades, government support for home ownership has shifted from making tax concessions
Peter Williams
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#GentleParenting: Critiquing the "fifth shift" of intensive mothering in the "pandemic afterlives". [PDF]
Holtz-Schramek EV.
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A Critical Appraisal of Labour's AI Agenda
Abstract This article critically evaluates Labour's ambitious AI agenda, situating it within the historical trajectory of UK AI policy and the techno‐solutionist assumptions underpinning current strategies. While Labour frames AI as a transformative tool for economic growth, state efficiency and public service reform, we argue that structural ...
Nathan Critch, Darcy Luke
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Neoliberalism in academia: reflections from a parasitologist. [PDF]
Gasser RB.
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International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
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Mindfulness in Psychosocial Research: An Integrative Literature Review of What is Studied and How. [PDF]
Chachignon P, Le Barbenchon E, Dany L.
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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