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Tough on Crime? The Conservatives Are No Longer the Party of ‘Law and Order’
Johnson has proposed authoritarian measures that fail to achieve true progress on improving justice and people's safety, argues Sian Norris

Constitutional Culture Wars: Johnson’s Next Divide-and-Rule Campaign?
AV Deggar considers how the Vote Leave coalition may react to emboldened separatist forces in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Thatcherism Revived: Johnson’s ‘Right to Buy’ Plan is a Desperate Political Ploy
Thomas Perrett unpicks why the Conservative Party is considering rebooting the long-discredited housing policy

Auctioning Off Democracy
The Conservative Party’s cash-for-access culture is one of the neglected scandals of modern British politics, says Iain Overton

Boris Johnson's Real Brexit Betrayal Was to Abandon the Single Market
The Conservatives promised to keep the UK wedded to its biggest international market after Brexit, but have instead left us in ruinous isolation, reports Adam Bienkov

British Politics is Now Awash with Money and Social Media – Do We Care?
Former Labour MP Ian Lucas explores how digital campaigning and Big Tech has driven a coach and horses through the UK’s historically robust electoral rules

Just Imagine if the EU was Behaving as the UK Is
Chris Grey poses a thought experiment around the Government's plans to scrap part of the Northern Ireland Protocol

Werleman’s Worldview: How the Extremist Great Replacement Theory Went Mainstream
CJ Werleman says Fox News has become the media arm for white domestic terrorism and would-be right-wing terrorists around the world