Fifty Years of British Politics: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the BPG
September 10, 2025
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The United Kingdom seems to confront perpetual crises – inflation, low growth, strains on public finances, challenges of immigration, and rising social unrest. Governments seem incapable of getting a handle on these problems, leading public discourse to become more extreme and the trust and confidence in democratic institutions to erode. Ironically, this characterization of British politics may have been just as appropriate in 1975 as it is in 2025. Yet the UK has transformed vastly in the past fifty years, with radical re-imaginings of its dominant political ideologies, representative institutions, and social compacts with its citizens. Presenters in this short course will reflect on the transformation of the UK and its people, politics, and place in the world since the founding of the British Politics Group in 1975, and will consider what the next 50 years might hold.