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Listening to the Discourse?

As we have been putting together the present issue of this journal, a parliamentary election has taken place in the UK and the New Labour government has achieved an unprecedented but not entirely unanticipated third term in office. However, its success has not been without some cost. Its reduced majority is widely attributed to the unpopularity of the previous two New Labour governments pursuing a style of governance in which a form of ‘occupational deafness’ among its leadership has been much remarked on. Such a condition is not restricted to members of the UK government, but would seem to be quite prevalent in other jurisdictions too. Symptoms include the pursuit of policies for which there is little tangible evidence of either success or widespread support, in the face of a chorus of critics, often representing widely differing interests, aligned in the making of vociferous criticisms concerning the policies themselves and the flimsy evidence on which they are based; the perfunctory acknowledgement of alternative views; and a related unwillingness to take these into account to moderate or develop the government’s approach.