In this ongoing catalogue of coronavirus-related disorder – extraordinary death tallies, a global lockdown and chaotic financial markets – history re...
Can it just be coincidence that the countries weathering the COVID-19 storm most effectively are run by female leaders? In recent weeks, endless column inches ...
Antisemitism and the Labour party has rarely been out of the UK’s political headlines in the UK since 2016. Yet as we argue in our new article in the Political...
A new world order awaits us on the other side of the pandemic. As we wait out this storm of uncertainty and possibility in our small pockets of isolation, the ...
If a renewed respect for expertise is one result of post-Covid 19 politics then the Labour party, under Keir Starmer, could be in a better position to capitali...
Political scrutiny of the UK’s management of COVID-19 has recently revolvedaround an ambitious target the government set for itself: the goal of carrying out 1...
Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings are declining, as lockdown in Russia continues and coronavirus spreads. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian president h...
The scale of Keir Starmer’s victory in the Labour leadership election suggests a significant shift in opinion has taken place among the party’s grassroots memb...
The contemporary debate in UK higher education about the need to “decolonise the curriculum” stems in large part from the pressure applied by a sustained stude...
The headline measure in the ‘Plan for People’s Jobs and Incomes’, announced by the chancellor on 20 March, was the Job Retention Scheme (JRS), under which the ...
Sir Lawrence David Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies", an...
Sixty years after its publication, Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy remains one of Britain’s most influential, yet widely misunderstood, p...
