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...leadership. Working class understandings and views are much harder to reconstruct because these represent the experiences of the mass of ordinary Clydesiders who left little in the way of sources which historians can access. These are the men and women, skilled and unskilled, Catholics and Protestants, Socialists and Conservatives, internationalists and (Irish, Scottish...

...leadership that do not value them as human beings. Muslims in the West face discrimination, othering and dehumanisation. It may be this sense of being dispensable – in a context of hopelessness, deprivation and rejection – that pushes young people into the embrace of radical movements that promise acceptance, belonging, but above all agency to do something about their...

...leadership challenge demonstrated, a left-wing policy platform does not bring a Labour person close to Corbyn’s ethos. Jeremy Corbyn has shown – admittedly, through a sharply curtailed pre-election tenure – limited interest in providing Labour with a theoretical underpinning. His rhetoric emphasises a moral certainty, based on long-held positions that are more akin...

...leadership, for a sense of direction to be given to a nation faced with uncertainty. This role falls to the sitting prime minister, first and foremost, and as such, Theresa May took to the steps of Downing Street to address the nation directly. Credit where it is due: this is no easy task. After a gruelling couple of days in the election campaign, where the pressure must...