In Spain, left and right stand far apart, questioning each other’s legitimacy to govern as the extreme right gains. Secessionist forces in Catalonia challenge t...
For the past fifty years, public opinion research has converged on a common result: that “the public,” as one political scientist puts it, “is overwhelmingly ig...
Angela Merkel’s retirement, long overdue, left Germany suffering from bureaucratic sclerosis and declining infrastructure. Policy failures of the Merkel era are...
Do you have a background in politics/economics/social policy? Can you turn longform academic writing into sparkling, concise blogs? Are you passionate about hel...
On 9 December 1968, as tensions were rising in the province between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists, the former Ulster Unionist Prime Minister of...
Dear Conservative MPs
In response to Boris Johnson’s Fixed Penalty Notice from the Metropolitan Police, most of you have apparently decided to support his co...
The three books under review here are well-informed studies that between them cover the dominant features of China today—the party's monolithic and (in its own ...
3 November 2002 is election day in Turkey. Nearly 80 per cent of voters turn out to elect all 550 seats of the Grand National Assembly, and they do so in an ina...
Immigration policy under Conservative rule over the last decade has been underpinned by a seemingly simple mandate to reduce immigration. Yet, ideologically the...
On 16 February 2022, roughly a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, the attention of the ‘EU bubble’ was elsewhere – in Luxembourg, to be precise. There, the Eur...
In recent years, something profound has been happening to the concept of social mobility. With the concept being reconsidered on both sides of the political spe...
Geopolitics has returned to Europe in a devastating and destructive fashion. Most obviously, there is Russia’s armed attack on Ukraine. But it has also returned...
