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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on December 3, 2008
Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/pa/gsn045
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Editorial

Jocelyn Evans and Steven Fielding

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When we wrote our 2008 editorial, Britain was in a period of political flux, namely the wavering popularity of Gordon Brown, the newly installed Prime Minister. Inspired by Brown's dramatic fall from grace during the autumn of 2007, we reflected on the fraught relationship between politicians and the media, one from which the former rarely comes out well. As this first issue of 2009 goes to press, the Western world is in the tightening grip of a profound economic crisis, one that threatens to develop into a slump on a scale unprecedented since the 1930s. This, at least, is how journalists on both sides of the Atlantic are excitedly reporting the ‘credit crunch’ and its aftermath.

Most who seek to explain this crisis cite as its root the irresponsible . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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