Orientation and training for new MPs is of vital importance in helping them to make the transition from electoral candidates to elected members. Consider that ...
We are witnessing the most intense wave of public protest in the history of Hong Kong. Why the protests are happening is widely understood: sparked by oppositi...
Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy, who won the Special Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2010 for the documentaries she ha...
There is widespread concern about a crisis of trust in society, government, and the world. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, summed up the mood in a ...
Britain’s new prime minster, Boris Johnson, berates opponents of Brexit for being gloomy pessimists, unwilling to embrace the golden age that automatically awa...
While a lot of recent attention has focussed upon Russian attempts
to influence the
2016 United States presidential election, far less work has addressed their...
In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen led the Front National (FN), to the second and final round, where she was decisively defeated by Emmanu...
Fretting about world population growth has become politically risky over recent decades. Yet numbers are still rising. Today’s ageing baby boomers have experie...
Democracy in Chains first tells the story of the emergence of a branch of economics, or political economy, known as ‘public choice theory’ and most closely asso...
In his classic study of racism and psychiatry, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon made a number of startling and powerful observations. While many of these h...
Considering its conservative past, South Korea is undergoing an unprecedented turn to the left, led by President Moon Jae‐in. Since priority was given to econom...
