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Matthew Flinders

New Statesman

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Starmer overlooks the negativity bias that makes Farage’s tactics so potent

Starmer overlooks the negativity bias that makes Farage’s tactics so potent

Keir Starmer’s attempt to offer a positive vision at the Labour conference simply underlined long-term concerns about his leadership style.

06.10.2025 10

The Conversation

Matthew Flinders

The new politics of blame: why Donald Trump craves your rage – and three ways to resist the game

The Nobel prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom once wrote about “the danger of self-evident truths” within academic research, warning that they...

10.09.2024 6

The Conversation

Matthew Flinders

Grenfell report: the risk of holding everyone to account is no one actually gets the blame

Former prime minister Theresa May announced a public inquiry into the Grenfell fire just 24 hours after the tragedy in June 2017. That the project...

06.09.2024 3

The Conversation

Matthew Flinders