Select and Respect
How to create a UK immigration policy that can command public support| Political Calculus
How to create a UK immigration policy that can command public support| Political Calculus
What public opinion tells us and doesn't tell us about British migration policy| Political Calculus
Centre-left incumbents are staying in power by aggressively pushing back on populists, not by aping them| Political Calculus
What if you can't actually hack your way to social status?| Political Calculus
What if we abandoned the social contract for the state of nature?| Political Calculus
Not every court case is lawfare - the mainstream needs to buck up| Political Calculus
Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism| Political Calculus
Are we entering a new era of disruptive politics? How should we feel about it?| Political Calculus
Some rapid thoughts on the political economy of AI| Political Calculus
Labour claim to be 'single-minded' about economic growth. But do they have a theory of it?| Political Calculus
Labour's punting of social care reflects a bigger problem of indecision| Political Calculus
2024 was supposed to be the year where 'democracy will fall off a cliff'. Did it?| benansell.substack.com
A Substack on the connections between politics and the economy from the author of Why Politics Fails. Click to read Political Calculus, by Ben Ansell, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| benansell.substack.com
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters| benansell.substack.com
The local elections look bad for the Conservative Party regardless of what polls you use.| benansell.substack.com
Following up on what divides (politics) and unites (everything else) the British people| benansell.substack.com
A Labour government by 2025 is looking very likely. But Keir Starmer's 'Five Missions', however laudable, could crumble against the very forces that make politics fail.| benansell.substack.com
Does Rishi Sunak's tax return matter? And is there promise for Labour in raising capital gains tax?| benansell.substack.com
Who are the key groups of movable voters in the UK and what do they want?| benansell.substack.com
