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When do strikes work? History shows the conditions need to be right

by Christopher Massey | Sep 22, 2023

This article was originally published August 2022. There has been a significant decline in union-led strike action in the 21st-century UK. But with average public sector pay increasing by 1.5% between March and May 2022 (versus 7.2% in the private sector) and households facing a cost of living...

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David Baddiel is wrong – anyone should be able to play Jews

by Adam Solomons | Sep 3, 2023

Originally published March 2021. David Baddiel’s polemic Jews Don’t Count has proved surprisingly controversial. He seems to have gone out of his way to rile political opponents...

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Martyr in the cathedral

by William Cash | Sep 3, 2023

Originally published February 2021. In a year of ‘special advisers’ falling on swords, the tale of Thomas Becket, martyred on 29 December 1170, can read like an overdramatized...

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Five myths about the partition of British India – and what really happened

by Navtej K Purewal and Eleanor Newbigin | Aug 18, 2023

Originally published March 2023. This August marks 75 years since the partition of the Indian subcontinent. British withdrawal from the region prompted the creation of two new...

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The railway age and the golf boom

by Michael Morrison | Aug 18, 2023

Originally published June 2023. Whenever you ask a golfer what caused the great boom in golf in the 19th century, the most common response by far is “the railways.” But the...

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1936: the abdication of Edward VIII

by David L. Smith | Aug 18, 2023

Originally published in March 2023. A crisis that did more good than harm. The further it recedes into history, the more the abdication of Edward VIII seems like a fairly minor...

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The world of work

by Simon Wallace | Aug 12, 2023

Originally published May 2023. Do not write off the office You may be forgiven for thinking that some people have forgotten how to wear trousers. Headline after headline for the...

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Lessons from the past for portfolio positioning today

by Chris Urwin | Aug 12, 2023

Originally published April 2023. In one of financial history's key observations, Howard Marks warns, "we must never forget about the inevitability of cycles. Ignoring cycles and...

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Not all property recessions are the same

by Martha Peyton | Aug 12, 2023

Originally published February 2021. For investors, the recent decline in retail property performance might suggest opportunity for acquiring property at distressed pricing. The...

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Home is where the heart is…

by Paul Stewart | Aug 6, 2023

And where PRS and PBSA are. Originally published January 2022. Across Europe, residential property is typically an emerging institutional asset class. Although at the national...