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Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure Cooker Politics: How Inequality and Neoliberal Capture Broke First Past the Post

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By Bob Rhodes, Frances Griffin Foley, Stuart Donald
| It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast
For too long, Britain’s ills have been treated like an inevitability. We have no idea how we got here and if we only put our mind to it we can figure it out. But to solve the problem requires true understanding of how the problem came about. This follow up paper to The Temper Trap, authored by Stuart Donald, is the first of its kind to make a direct link between the levels of inequality seen in Britain today and our first-past-the-post voting system.
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Fla. lawmakers must use care on state preemption bills | Opinion

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By Bob Rhodes
| Florida Times-Union Verified
Bob Rhodes Guest columnist Feb. 4, 2026, 5:06 a.m. ET In Florida, the intergovernmental power pendulum has swung dramatically toward the state. Once again, numerous bills in Tallahassee have been filed to preempt local government authority following the track of several prior legislative sessions. Once again, many bills are also drawing heated debate and controversy Preemption bills would enact state law to override or ban local government from regulating certain issues.
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'Marketised social care has failed. It’s time to rebuild local, democratic social services'

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By Bob Rhodes
| LabourList
The imposition of the market on Social Services has been an abject failure, economically and societally. As Michael J. Sandel observed in 2012, “The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong”.
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