Volume 32 No.1
Craig Berry, Eunice Goes and Karl Pike
Editorial: The promise and the perils of pragmatic politics (Online version – free to read)
PRAGMATISM AND THE LEFT
Karl Pike
Social democratic ideology: a conversation with Elizabeth Anderson (Online version – free to read)
John Denham
Whither the soft left? (Free to read – COMING SOON)
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Labour and the Lib Dems: co-operation and conflict in Consborough (Free to read – COMING SOON)
STORIES AND NATIONHOOD
Emily Robinson and Jonathan Moss
The politics of feeling
Gerry Hassan
The need for a new story of hope and agency: Labour, Britishness and the British state
BEYOND AUSTERITY
Carlo D’Ippoliti
Eurozone reform: a fiscal framework to rule them all
Anna Coote
Universal basic services and renewing social democracy
REVIEWS
Nick Garland
Liberal after all: Jon Cruddas comes full circle
Matthew Donoghue
Morbid symptoms: centre-left failure and neoliberal resilience in an age of austerity
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