By Iain Anderson, chair of the John Smith Centre The first weeks of any new premiership are filled with expectation. Never more so than now. For our new Prime Minister,
By Eddie Barnes The warning by former Labour Health Minister Alan Milburn today that Britain is breeding a “lost generation” of young people is absolutely correct. By the end of
By Eddie Barnes There isn’t a vacancy yet but the phoney war to become the UK’s next Prime Minister is well underway. And the John Smith Centre’s UK Youth Poll
This piece written by John Smith Centre Director Eddie Barnes originally appeared as a contribution to Scottish Parliament Election Analysis 2026: The Campaign, Voters and Policies, published by the University
Almost a year ago, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown used the inaugural John Smith Memorial Lecture to warn that our civic infrastructure was breaking down partly due to economic decline
By Eddie Barnes THE John Smith Centre ran a focus group of young people on Wednesday evening, a few hours after the full details of Peter Mandelson’s dealings with the
By Eddie Barnes. The hit Netflix drama Adolescence will undoubtedly go down as the of best TV drama of 2025, and rightly so; the depiction of a 13-year-old boy who
A blog based on a shared playlist created for a UoG Politics Society Pints and Politics event on Music and Politics on October 14. In the 1980s song Waiting for
In May, Gordon Brown used the John Smith Memorial Lecture in London to call for a revival of Britain’s public square. A “vacuum” had opened up in our civic life,
Now that 16- and 17-year-olds across the UK will soon get the vote, what will politicians need to focus on if they’re to win their support? Our UK Youth Poll
Amidst the recent surge of right-wing populism across the West, many are questioning the merits and legitimacy of liberal democracy. A recent UK Youth Poll conducted by the John Smith
This piece was written by Annie Ferguson, the John Smith Centre’s first Mayoral Internship Programme intern. When I stepped through the cloisters of the University of Glasgow for the first
