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Author Archives: Liam Murray
The Talk Issues Thinktank Roundup
Welcome to this week’s Talk Issues ‘Thinktank Roundup’ – your one-stop review of all the best publications, research, commentary and events from leading UK think tanks. Reports, Publications & Research Compass published their latest ‘Thinkpiece’ by Phil Ramsey entitled “Digital … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, communities, Conservatives, Constitutional Reform, Crime and Public Safety, DEBill, devolution, economy, education, families, Family Policy, Health, Interesting Links, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Local Government, parliament, public spending, Reducing the Deficit, Tax & economy, taxes, Training and Employment, Uncategorized
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The Talk Issues Thinktank Roundup
Welcome to this week’s Talk Issues ‘Thinktank Roundup’ – your one-stop review of all the best publications, research, commentary and events from leading UK think tanks. Not surprisingly in the week of the Queen’s speech various thinktanks responds to their … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits, Big Society, communities, Constitutional Reform, deficit, economy, families, Family Policy, Health, immigration, Interesting Links, Media, public spending, Reducing the Deficit, Scotland, Tax & economy, taxes, Training and Employment, Uncategorized
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Welcome to the Thinktank Roundup
Welcome to the Talk Issues ‘Thinktank Roundup’ – your one-stop review of all the best publications, research, commentary and events from leading UK think tanks. Not surprisingly two themes dominate the output this week – the arrival of the UK’s first coalition … Continue reading
It's a very different election in Scotland
David Cameron didn’t win last night’s final TV debate for Scottish viewers. In fact if Nick Clegg had announced a new compulsory programme of bestiality in primary schools and Gordon Brown had broken down in tears and lay in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Around the country, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Liberal Democrat, London, Media, Nick Clegg, Scotland, Thatcherism, Uncategorized
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We need an informed discussion on our voting system
Whatever the outcome on 6th May it looks like electoral reform will be a major issue in the next few years. In fact there’s only one outcome – a working Conservative majority – under which it’s not immediately on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitutional Reform, election, electoral reform, Liberal Democrats, Localism, Media, Nick Clegg, PR, Uncategorized, Voter info, Voting
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Will voter apathy undermine Cameron’s "big society"?
Amid claims that Conservative strategists have doubts about the resonance of their “big society” theme Henry Irving – PhD student & post grad tutor at Leeds University – finds historical precedents that will both cheer and worry them: “Like his … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, Conservatives, David Cameron, election, Localism, politics, Uncategorized, Voting
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It's all in the tone
Foreign policy is rarely a defining issue in UK general elections and the state of the economy at the moment means this one will be no different. Add the fact that both of the ‘big two’ were effectively on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Defence, EU, Foreign Affairs, International, UN, Uncategorized
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