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Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education? - Impact of Social Sciences Professor Tommy J. Curry advocates for how this evidence-based approach to the university’s colonial legacies can be a model for institutional renewal.

💥New: Can the Edinburgh Race Review be a model to decolonise UK higher education?

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#HigherEd #AcademicSky #BlackHistoryMonth

The right to complain can’t solve the housing crisis | British Politics and Policy at LSE Awaab's Law gives tenants of social housing new powers against neglectful landlords, but amidst a housing crisis, those powers will have limited effect.

A new law gives social housing tenants in England powers against neglectful landlords.

But Elizabeth Storer @qmul.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social Nikita Simpson & Suad Duale @soasuni.bsky.social warn that it has limited powers amidst a deep housing crisis @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons | British Politics and Policy at LSE International comparisons when it comes to parliamentary debate about the Tobacco and Vapes Bill needs further scrutiny.

International comparisons are often made in UK parliamentary debates on the #TobaccoAndVapesBill – but not all are helpful.

This 🆕 @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social blog unpacks what the evidence really shows about NZ, Australia & Sweden.

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#TobaccoControl #TobaccoEndgame

Bred to rule: What a £180,000 private tutor job reveals about the education arms race What does the explosion in private tutoring mean for educational inequalities - with huge sums offered for a private tutor to help babies prepare for Eton?

What does a £180,000 job ad for a private tutor *for a baby* reveal about the global education arms race?

Lee Elliot Major assesses the issue and considers what can be done to level the playing field. Could tutoring – ironically – be part of the solution? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons | British Politics and Policy at LSE International comparisons when it comes to parliamentary debate about the Tobacco and Vapes Bill needs further scrutiny.

💡New! The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons

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Tracing the trend of using terror laws against non-violent protesters | British Politics and Policy at LSE The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is part of a history of labelling civil disobedience organisations as "extremist" and "radical".

The UK's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been widely criticised as a government overreach.

Nathan Whetton @lselaw.bsky.social traces the history of labelling civil disobedience as “extremist”, “radical” & threats to “national security” @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

The right to complain can’t solve the housing crisis | British Politics and Policy at LSE Awaab's Law gives tenants of social housing new powers against neglectful landlords, but amidst a housing crisis, those powers will have limited effect.

💡New! Awaab's Law and the right to complain can’t solve the housing crisis

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How the third sector became the first line of support | British Politics and Policy at LSE David Cameron's idea of the Big Society has been abandoned, but given local government funding cuts, the third sector continues to support many communities.

How the third sector became the first line of support

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Do incidents of Westminster “sleaze” damage trust in politicians? | British Politics and Policy at LSE Trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every event of corruption will contribute to that trend.

💡New! Nick Clarke and Will Jennings remind us that trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every single event of perceived corruption will further contribute to that trend.

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Do incidents of Westminster “sleaze” damage trust in politicians? | British Politics and Policy at LSE Trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every event of corruption will contribute to that trend.

New blogpost on trust in politicians and Westminster 'sleaze'.

With @drjennings.bsky.social, @massobsarchive.bsky.social, @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

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How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? - Impact of Social Sciences New research finds the arm's length bodies that underpin UK research run the risk of politicisation unless they are put on a firmer footing.

How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? Answer - not at all. A Reform government could do the worst of Trump2 in a couple of weeks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Do incidents of Westminster “sleaze” damage trust in politicians? | British Politics and Policy at LSE Trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every event of corruption will contribute to that trend.

💡New! Nick Clarke and Will Jennings remind us that trust in politicians has never been high, and even though the global trend is towards people trusting governments less, not every single event of perceived corruption will further contribute to that trend.

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Tracing the trend of using terror laws against non-violent protesters | British Politics and Policy at LSE The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is part of a history of labelling civil disobedience organisations as "extremist" and "radical".

💡New! Tracing the trend of using terror laws against non-violent protesters

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Work, welfare and debt in precarious times | British Politics and Policy at LSE The conditions the state places on those receiving welfare are too rigid to reflect the malleable circumstances of people's work and private lives.

💡New! Work, welfare and debt in precarious times. How people can end up in enormous amounts of debt to the state when – many times wrongly – it decides welfare beneficiaries violated some of those rigid conditions.

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We need a liberalism for our time | British Politics and Policy at LSE Cass Sunstein argues that the appeal of postliberalism needs to be answered with a renewed defence of liberal values like the rule of law, pluralism and freedom.

Tonight at LSE, Cass Sunstein will be in conversation with Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social about his book On liberalism: in defence of freedom. Read his interview with @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social about the postliberal critique of liberalism and more.

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What we can learn from tracking research funding flows from North to South - Impact of Social Sciences How tracking global development research funding flows could provide valuable insights into key questions facing the international development sector.

💥New: What we can learn from tracking research funding flows from North to South

✍️Francesco Obino

#ResearchFunding #DevelopmentResearch #ResearchEquity

New research shows how better pay and training could rescue social care in England - LSE Business Review Low pay, job insecurity and post-Brexit recruitment challenges are plaguing the adult social care sector in England. With rising demand and chronic underfunding, work conditions are only getting…

Low pay, job insecurity and post-Brexit recruitment challenges plague the adult social care sector in England.

Better pay and training may be the answer.

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Climate litigation is surging amid faltering politics and diplomacy - LSE Business Review Climate litigation is leading the fight against climate change. Courts are shaping climate policy, enforcing human rights and challenging corporations.

As politics falters, litigation is leading in the fight against climate change.

Courts are shaping climate policy, enforcing human rights and challenging corporations.

Joana Setzer Tiffanie Chan @granthamlse.bsky.social

The UK’s mandatory digital ID scheme is repeating the EU’s mistakes The UK's BritCard mandatory digital ID scheme is ignoring the lessons the EU learned from its own digital identity system, the EU Digital Identity Wallet.

The UK’s mandatory digital ID scheme risks repeating the same mistakes the EU made with its Digital Identity Wallet.

The key lesson from the EU experience is that identity infrastructure should be built to serve citizens, not to police them.

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Trump, Gaza and the US political maelstrom - EUROPP Donald Trump's success at brokering a peace deal in Gaza has done little to dampen his appetite for waging war against his domestic political opponents.

Donald Trump's success at brokering a peace deal in Gaza has done little to dampen his appetite for waging war against his domestic political opponents.

✍ Robert H Wade @lseid.bsky.social
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We need a liberalism for our time | British Politics and Policy at LSE Cass Sunstein argues that the appeal of postliberalism needs to be answered with a renewed defence of liberal values like the rule of law, pluralism and freedom.

💡New! Cass Sunstein: We need a liberalism for our time

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Beyond economic growth – the case for researching alternatives | British Politics and Policy at LSE As the ESRC moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, we need to defend the legitimacy and societal relevance of degrowth thinking.

💡New! As the ESRC, the UK’s leading social science funder, moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, ImogenHamilton-Jones and Catarina Heeckt defend the academic legitimacy and societal relevance of post-growth thinking.

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Beyond economic growth – the case for researching alternatives | British Politics and Policy at LSE As the ESRC moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, we need to defend the legitimacy and societal relevance of degrowth thinking.

💡New! As the ESRC, the UK’s leading social science funder, moves to deprioritise research on economic models beyond growth, ImogenHamilton-Jones and Catarina Heeckt defend the academic legitimacy and societal relevance of post-growth thinking.

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The Broadwater Farm riots, 40 years on | British Politics and Policy at LSE The Broadwater Farm riots were at the forefront of racial justice struggle in Britain. Sharon Grant's testimony reminds us of the social and political context to the events.

On 6 October 1985, the Broadwater Farm riots in north London were at the forefront of the struggle for racial justice in Britain.

Forty years on, Roxana Willis @lselaw.bsky.social recounts the social & political context of the event through the testimony of Sharon Grant @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

The Broadwater Farm riots, 40 years on | British Politics and Policy at LSE The Broadwater Farm riots were at the forefront of racial justice struggle in Britain. Sharon Grant's testimony reminds us of the social and political context to the events.

💡New! The Broadwater Farm riots in north London were at the forefront of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Forty years on, Roxana Willis of @lselaw.bsky.social recounts the social and political context to the events through the testimony of Sharon Grant.

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Transhumanism is quietly influencing UK tech policy | British Politics and Policy at LSE As the UK aims to be a leader in AI and frontier tech, ideas rooted in transhumanism are starting to influence national policy, often without public debate.

As the UK positions itself as a leader in #AI and frontier #tech, ideas rooted in how technology can integrate with the human body – #transhumanism – are starting to influence national policy, often without public debate.

More accountability is needed – Laurence Radford @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

#Islamophobia in Western Europe is driven by nativism and authoritarianism, not religiosity.

@kai-arzheimer.com @powimz.bsky.social for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social