Society & Culture
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Migration and the Climate Crisis
While climate-induced displacement is no new phenomenon, we are currently witnessing the critical role it plays in migration.
- Environment & Climate Change
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Review: Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham, by Jon Bloomfield
Having worked for the city council on urban policy, Jon Bloomfield wants to tell a positive story about Birmingham.
- Immigration
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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Toxic Friends? A Critique of Blue Labour
A critique of Blue Labour in four key areas – class, economy, family and race. What are the alternative ways forward to forge alliances between the working class and new social movement?
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
- Labour Party
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Lebanon Protests: Why a WhatsApp Tax Sparked a Political Movement
There are deeper undercurrents that explain why the protests in Lebanon are happening.
- Political Parties
- Media
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Brexit and Gastronationalism
‘Gastronationalism’ is the idea that there are distinctive and authentic national food cultures that are threatened by the forces of globalisation. It is a myth.
- Sovereignty
- Brexit
- Trade
- Identity Politics
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"Fiction Gets us to Look at Truths That Politics Can't Get at": Interview with Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah reflects on Zimbabwe's socio-political transformation, the influence of Orwell on her writing, and the enduring power of fiction to reveal the truth.
- Media
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Four Things you Should Know About the Suburbs (and the Brexit Vote)
The suburbs are of great psephological significance to the electoral pulse – including the Brexit vote. Yet they have tended to be overlooked.
- Brexit
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Equality
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"The Closest You Can Get to the Truth of What Happened is a Multisided Account": Interview with Norma Percy
Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy.
- Brexit
- Feminism & Gender
- Media
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The Rise of the “Sexually Modern Nativists” in the Far Right
With support for populists at an all-time high, it is crucial that we understand who exactly these parties attract, and why.
- Immigration
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Review: The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism, by Catherine Rottenberg
Catherine Rottenberg’s book engages intensively and critically with texts that demand women ‘do better and work harder’.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
