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  • The UK’s 2025 Local Elections – Time To Rethink Devolution?

    Many commentators have dubbed the recent Local Elections in the UK as a watershed moment. Reform UK and Liberal Democrats beat the two traditional main parties, the Labour Party and the Conservatives, to first and second place with both taking control of several county councils and unitary authorities. Meanwhile, of the 6 Mayoral elections, Reform UK took impressive…

    Michael Kane

  • Labour’s Hollow Victory And Overcoming The Lesser Of Two Evils

    The UK General Election took place this summer, with Labour celebrating a historic landslide victory, achieving the largest majority in the House of Commons since Tony Blair’s famous victory in 1997. However, the election was historic for another reason; the turnout of all voting-age adults in the UK was only 52%, which is the lowest since…

    lukepower99

  • Votes At 16: Unnecessary And Illogical?

    Keir Starmer’s Labour party has been derided by some for its lack of ambition when it comes to delivering social and economic change; while some have doubted this, it is harder to question their lack of ambition when it comes to altering the UK’s constitutional settlement.  Their manifesto specifically details that they will: remove all hereditary peers from the House of Lords; implement…

    Michael Kane

  • Should We Rethink Our Relationship With Voting? None Of The Above Voting: Apathy And Autonomy

    The United Kingdom recently stepped into it’s 4th General Election Campaign in nearly 10 years as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shockingly took the UK to the polls. Nonetheless, the issue that pervades this piece is not the rigmarothic and stale party-political conversations that may dominate media discussion of the election: whether Sunak should have called the…

    Michael Kane