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This summer will be one of the coolest in your lifetime. With better planning for these now normal extreme summers, some heat-related deaths can be prevented.
New PM Andy Burnham cut business rates for pubs and clubs, which was a good start. However, much needs to be done to help businesses operating at night.
Generating hope as he tours the country this summer could be pay off for the prime minister come election time.
Both major parties have had a revolving door of leaders. What is it about modern politics that makes the job so challenging – and are others doing any better?
Wales is pushing for a greater say over broadcasting as the UK’s constitutional balance continues to shift.
It seems hopeful at least that the new prime minister does not have to be persuaded of the value of the arts and culture.
What shapes leaders’ responses to issues of crime and justice is not that toughness wins, but that leniency-gone-wrong loses.
With no clear plan to manage sentencing inflation, one option becomes to release prisoners early.
Social care reform has failed in the UK for 25 years. Four international examples show what a lasting fix actually requires.
The days of long-established relationships between the UK prime minister and the US president are long gone.
Any reforms which aim to make services work for people, not profits, must change who owns social care services.
We have entered what might be called the ‘post-first’ era of minority representation.
Andy Burnham says his government is going to fix it for good. What would that take?
The UK prime minister has described his new government as a circuit breaker – but tipping points may be a better metaphor.
No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.
A week is a very long time in British politics these days.
You can’t gain power without also gaining enemies, as Machiavelli pointed out.
How the political debate has shifted in the last 25 years.
When Burnham was elected as Mayor, he committed to the creation of the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority.
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Reader in Urban Planning, University of Liverpool
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Quantitative British Politics and Co-director of The Elections Centre, University of Exeter
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Associate Tutor in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Teaching Fellow in Strategic and Air Power Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Executive Dean, City St George's, University of London
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125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Birmingham, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Education, University of Manchester
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Honorary Research Fellow in Politics, University of Stirling
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne