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The Brexit-Trump Syndrome: it's the economics, stupid
For decades, investment has been falling, living standards have declined, and inequality has risen. What the Brexit and Trump campaigns shared was that they exploited ...more

Refugees and integration in the UK: the role of gender
The population of refugees in the UK is growing, yet our understanding of the process of integration is limited. Jenny Phillimore and Sin Yi Cheung break ...more

Book Review: The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman
In The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, Gabriel Zucman makes a provocative argument about the large-scale evasion of taxes as well ...more

The political and legal headaches caused by Brexit have only just begun
If the recent high court ruling on Brexit is upheld, then MPs in the UK Parliament will have to approve the decision to trigger Article ...more

British politics in the Age of Uncertainty: the link between old, new, and anti-politics
Party leaders - from Tony Blair to David Cameron - have promised a new way of doing politics when campaigning for election, yet failed to ...more

Brexit and the Gordian knot of the UK productivity puzzle
Economic uncertainty following the EU referendum, as well as additional political uncertainty stemming from the recent High Court decision to allow Parliament to vote on ...more

Interview with Gareth Stedman Jones: Myth and reality in Karl Marx
In Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, Gareth Stedman Jones historicises and deconstructs one of the most mythologised figures of the past 100 years. He discusses ...more

Explaining the pro-Corbyn surge in Labour's membership
In the course of a year and a half, Labour Party membership has increased massively. The number of full members has moved from 190,000 in ...more

Who speaks in a referendum? Scotland's Indyref TV news coverage
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum saw unprecedented political engagement on a scale rarely seen of late in the UK. But, ask Alenka Jelen-Sanchez and Marina Dekavalla, was ...more

Why changes to the social construction of celebrity can explain Trump
Politicians increasingly appear on television shows in roles we wouldn't ordinarily expect - dancing, cooking, firing prospective employees. Jack Corbett, Matt Wood and Matt Flinders, ...more



