Tanked Up Articles

Adam Harrison with the latest from the wonk world Last month Tanked Up reported that Policy Network would be continuing the long-running ‘southern discomfort’ series of studies into Labour’s electoral (mis)fortunes. The problem is now extremely serious, and Patrick...

Tanked up Adam Harrison with the latest from the wonk world One of the most seminal texts in Labour party history – yet one that is unfortunately not heeded enough – is Southern Discomfort, Giles Radice’s 1992 study of floating voters in southern marginal seats who...

A growing murmur of complaint, in the SW1 postcode inhabited by many thinktanks, is that this is the most inward-looking election of recent times with the outside world never looking or feeling more unstable. This is especially so with the Transatlantic Trade and...

How long before we start hearing calls for devolution to ‘the south’? Perhaps sooner than we think. Labour’s ‘southern discomfort’ is a long-running difficulty which has re-emerged in recent years. But the recent establishment of the Southern Policy Centre, whose...