Magazine - Great British Politics

Female, feminist and northern: Angela Rayner gives hope the “male, pale and stale” political class is disintegrating

In the House of Commons, the sound of female northern accents has long been subjected to - at best – marginalisation, and - at worse - contempt and scorn. Pat Glass, former Labour MP for ...

Rockstars, big cash, and yogic flying: The story behind the Natural Law party

1994 was a different time. Harry Potter was still three years away from publication, and John Major was Prime Minister. It is also the year of the now famous Natural Law party political ...

Why profitable oil companies are vital for the green energy revolution

It may seem counterintuitive, but the conventional wisdom in the environmental world is that profitable oil, gas and coal majors are good for decarbonisation - boosting R&D funding, and improving ...

Libya: A glimmer of hope

Since the 2011 Arab Spring, Libya – a country of 6.7 million inhabitants, potentially very rich with immense oil reserves – has been beset by violent conflicts between different factions and ...

Exam results were a 'no-win' problem, but the UK and Scottish governments have lost hard

The COVID-19 crisis has had impacts across every aspect of public life in the UK and abroad. Perhaps the most long-lasting impact has been on young people, who have been forced to miss a huge chunk ...

How much do you know about the Labour Party's history? Quiz

The Labour party was founded in 1900. Over that time, the party has changed a lot and grown from a fringe movement to one of the two dominant political parties in British politics. With such a ...

Is Keir Starmer doing enough?

Keir Starmer has now been Labour leader for over four months. As he became leader under lockdown, it hardly feels like it’s been that long – and there are still plenty of relatively unusual ...

Brexit, Australian style: will leaving the EU breathe new life into an old friendship?

When Boris Johnson unveiled his government’s new points-based immigration system in February 2020, designed to deliver Brexit by shifting Britain’s migrant intake “away from a reliance on cheap ...

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