I summarize my understanding of democracy: the theory which predicts when elections peacefully manage conflicts and the empirical evidence regarding the co

What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain

The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of analysis in European studies. Part of...

His insistence on financial deregulation brought the economy to its knees

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The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Comparative European Politics - The study of European politics has taken a crisis-oriented turn. Yet despite a proliferation of new empirical research, crisis remains undertheorised as a unit of...

The abundance agenda offers an important provocation to progressives, asking them to think big about the possibilities for growth and economic renewal. Developed in the context of the United States, ...

Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis.

Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The critical minerals story is another way in which Europe’s green transition is a loser in the geoeconomic turn

Although the financial crisis facing the United Kingdom's universities is by now well known, the detailed reasons behind it have been less prominent in public and political debate. It is true that fr...