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Volume 95, Issue 3

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Volume 95, Issue 3

This issue features a collection 'Policing the Permacrisis', edited by Ben Bradford, Jon Jackson and Emmeline Taylor, in which academic experts, senior police—both current and former—and commentators offer a diverse set of ideas for changing policing for the better. Other articles include 'Back to the Future? Rishi Sunak's Industrial Strategy' by James Silverwood and Richard Woodward, and 'The Case for a Scottish Clarity Act' by Steph Coulter. There are a host of book reviews, such as a review of 'The Inequality of Wealth' by Liam Byrne, and 'The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence' by Matteo Pasquinelli.

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Responding to the Rachel Reeves Mais Lecture

Giving a statement of economic policy is always fraught with danger for any opposition politician and even more so for a Labour politician in the run up to a general election. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves gave the Mais lecture in March 2024 before Labour came to power. Her speech gave us strong clues as to what kind of Chancellor she would prove to be. In this collection, Dan Corry, Aveek Bhattacharya, Matthew Watson, Aled Davies and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni give their analyses.

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Policing the Permacrisis

A catalogue of crimes committed by serving officers, missed opportunities for reform and a scathing review of the internal culture of the police culminating in the recommendation for a ‘complete overhaul’, might initially leave some with the view that there is little hope. But against the backdrop of what seems like a perpetual cycle of crisis for policing, academic experts, senior police—both current and former—and commentators offers a diverse set of ideas for changing policing for the better.

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