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Michael Kenny

Headshot of Michael Kenny

Michael Kenny is a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research and professor of politics at the University of Sheffield

March 2017

  • An England fan in Paris last year. The St George’s Cross has been rehabilitated partly through football.

    English nationalism is rising: but hard Brexit is not the way to assuage it

    The new sense of England as a nation harks back to the nostalgic power of the unitary state. Freewheeling global trade is not part of that vision

March 2012

  • glassman

    double quotation markLabour's lost liberalism

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny: Now that Blue Labour has come unstuck, the party should reconnect with its orange heritage

September 2011

  • Ed milband speaks

    double quotation markEd Miliband must take his conference audience on a journey

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny
    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny: Miliband must forget the easy tribalism and show where Labour is going after the Blair-Brown era

September 2010

  • double quotation markLabour's three steps back to health

    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny
    Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny: The centre-left must reinterpret social democracy by committing to electoral reform, economic justice and community cohesion

July 2010

  • double quotation markLabour's battle for middle England

    Michael Kenny
    Michael Kenny: In order to recover, Labour needs to engage with national renewal in England, just as it tried to do in Scotland and Wales

February 2010

  • Eliza Carthy

    double quotation markEnglishness: the forbidden identity

    Michael Kenny
    Michael Kenny: Unpleasant nationalism thrives when polite society holds its nose and treats Englishness as a white working-class problem

June 2009

  • A new politics: blueprint for reforming government
    double quotation markA new chapter for the centre-left

    Michael Kenny
    Michael Kenny: New Labour was a product and architect of an era that has gone. It is no longer fit for purpose, but what can replace it?

March 2009

  • double quotation markThe Tories' economic dilemma

    Andrew Gamble and Michael Kenny

    Andrew Gamble and Michael Kenny: Will the Conservatives stick with the ethos that contributed to the recession, or move into unfamiliar redistributive territory?

November 2008

  • Who owns the progressive future?
    double quotation markThe state of the state

    Michael Kenny

    Michael Kenny: The progressive future: Labour's tax turnaround sharpens the focus on a vital debate about what we want from the government

July 2008

  • double quotation markThe trouble with iPod democracy

    Michael Kenny

    Michael Kenny: Holding elections for local leaders with real powers looks like a healthier way to get people to vote than offering prize draws

March 2008

  • double quotation markThe English question

    Richard Hayton and Michael Kenny

    Richard Hayton and Michael Kenny: It's not just a matter of national identity; we need a comprehensive review of how England is governed