The “PM and the Pendulum” model has been successfully forecasting British elections since 2005. This year’s predictions suggest UK Conservatives are in for a major drubbing on July 4.
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Articles on Margaret Thatcher
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The strike saw different political factions uniting, which eventually led to a more collaborative form of politics in Wales.
Thatcher provided the show with its star turn, but her government’s policies were also influential in bringing the programme to air.
Conspiracy theories about urban planning are born of a national context in which public transport provision is failing
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
Fifty years ago, an under-pressure Tory leader’s battle with a powerful union triggered the introduction of restrictions to the working day.
Data across multiple decades suggests Starmer will benefit from giving the impression that he is shifting to the right.
A teacher reflects on how Section 28 affected her career and the young people she taught.
The show is being rebroadcast for a new generation and is more educational and political than it might have first appeared.
Everyone wants to claim the economic thinker as their own.
From soup and semolina to Jamie’s school dinners: the changing face of school meals in the UK.
Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well.
As the ball that Maradona’s fist helped on its way to the back of the net – with some divine help – goes up for auction, a scholar of soccer explains why that goal means so much.
The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Too much has changed, economically and politically, since 1979.
On September 16 1992 the state fought the markets, and the markets won.
Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.
The word ‘neoliberal’ gets thrown around a lot, often with differing and even contradictory meanings. Here, a political economist explains the origins and evolution of this complex concept.
The UK prime minister tendered his resignation after a slew of resignations by former allies in his government.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor in American Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Law and Politics, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in International History, Aberystwyth University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Research Associate, Dept of Anthropology & Development Studies and Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Murdoch University
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Associate Tutor, University of Surrey
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