The Political Quarterly

The 2009 and 2010 annual PQ lectures are available to download as videocasts.

- 2010: Ian Blair - Policing: Continuity, consensus and controversy
The lecture was given on 8 February 2010 and has recently been published as an article in The Political Quarterly. To access the article, click here.

- 2009: Tony Wright - Is there a way forward to bridge the divide between politician and voter?
The lecture was given on 4 March 2009, and was subsequently published as an article in The Political Quarterly. To access the article, click here.

The Political Quarterly, Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny are pleased to invite you to a one-day conference entitled “Reviewing New Labour in Government - Progressive Dilemmas”, taking place on Thursday 9th September, 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. at Church House, Deans Yard, Westminster.

The event will bring together senior political figures, former Ministers, political commentators, academic analysts and senior figures from the policy world and will provide an invaluable opportunity to assess the significance, achievements and legacy of the New Labour administrations. As well as looking backwards, the conference will consider the challenges facing the centre-left in the context of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition, the fiscal deficit and the imperative to reform our political system. Places at this event are limited, so please do let us know if you wish to attend as soon as possible. To reserve a place and for more information, please contact Emma Anderson: emma.anderson@zen.co.uk

Since its foundation in 1930, The Political Quarterly has explored and debated the key issues of the day. It is dedicated to political and social reform and has long acted as a conduit between policy-makers, commentators and academics. The Political Quarterly addresses current issues through serious and thought-provoking journals and monographs, written in clear jargon-free English.

The inaugural Bernard Crick prize for the best paper in The Political Quarterly was awarded to Francesca Klug for her article 'Solidity or Wind?' What's on the Menu for the Bill of Rights Debate?

To read the article online, click here

The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing. There are three annual awards: a Book Prize, a Journalism Prize and a Blog Prize. They are awarded to the book, the journalism and the blogposts which are judged to have best achieved George Orwell’s aim to ‘make political writing into an art’.