2017 News

Dr Javier Sajuria, Sebastian Pinera wins presidential run-off in Chile
18 December 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Strictly Come Dancing and racial prejudice
14 December 2017

Professor Tim Bale, May picks Brexiteer to replace scandal-hit aid minister
9 December 2017

Dr Lisa Tilley, Scholars and the debate about colonial rule
8 December 2017

Dr Sophie Harman, Hundreds of thousands of poor people detained in hospitals
6 December 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Hard Brexit looks inevitable unless there is a large shift in public opinion to stay
5 December 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Our colonial history and guilt over empire
2 December 2017

Prof Rainbow Murray, Trump has raised an ultra-nationalist British group out of obscurity
29 November 2017

Dr Javier Sajuria, Chile stock market drops after Piñera falls short in presidential poll
27 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, On Brexit, Labour is about to take a big gulp from a poisoned chalice
27 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Abuse campaign targeted Tories
26 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Budget 2017: Should Philip Hammond remain chancellor of the exchequer?
23 November 2017

Dr Javier Sajuria, Chile just went to the polls and transformed its legislature
21 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Historical budgets serve as warning to Philip Hammond
20 November 2017

Dr Lee Jones, US, EU talk tough on Cambodia
18 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Sex, slang, steak: views that show remainers and leavers are worlds apart
14 November 2017

Professor Rainbow Murray, Is It Too Late for Boris Johnson to Say Sorry?
14 November 2017

Professor Rainbow Murray, Theresa May's 'Profoundly weak, surprisingly stable' leadership
11 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Theresa May's troubled government struggles with inappropriate conduct
10 November 2017

Donald Trump not welcome to speak in Parliament, says John Bercow
10 November 2017

Dr Sarah Wolff, Is the Franco-German engine floundering?
8 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Blunders by May's top ministers put her on spot
6 November 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Sex harassment storm rattles UK political elites
2 November 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Universities pressured to cut Myanmar ties over Rohingya crisis
2 November 2017

Professor Tim Bale, My secret plan to turn students against Brexit
26 October 2017

Dr Lee Jones, MP accused of McCarthyite behaviour over Brexit university list
24 October 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Universities deplore ‘McCarthyism’ as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit
24 October 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Should universities be fined for failing to uphold free speech?
22 October 2017

Professor Rainbow Murray, Emmanuel Macron tries to rebrand
19 October 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Why Dominic Grieve is the UK’s most important man on Brexit
19 October 2017

Dr Lee Jones, A better political economy of the Rohingya crisis
13 October 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Tories face ‘trouncing’ in town hall elections with 53 per cent backing Labour
13 October 2017

Dr Javier Sajuria, Londoners identify as citizens of city first before 'British', 'English' or 'European'
10 October 2017

Dr Daniel Kato, Triangulation is the not-so-new black
10 October 2017

Dr Lee Jones, The latest on the Rohingya Crisis
10 October 2017

Professor Tim Bale and Dr Monica Poletti. Revealed: the typical political party member
9 October 2017

Professor Tim Bale, On day Britain’s leader needed things to go right, nothing did
6 October 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Londoners are out of touch with Mayor and local government
6 October 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Seven in 10 grassroots Tories are men
5 October 2017

Dr Monica Poletti, A prankster, a coughing fit and a restless party undermine May's 'last chance' speech and give Boris a boost
4 October 2017

Professor Tim Bale, How the Tory party can solve its membership crisis, in three easy steps
3 October 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Londoners support Sadiq Khan over Uber ban and handling of Grenfell
1 October 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Political parties: Who joins them these days?
29 September 2017

Dr Stijn van Kessel, Brexit doesn’t loom large in populist radical right parties’ campaigns
28 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Labour in Brighton: it’s not a cult, it’s too big for that now
27 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale, The Tory temperament means a U-turn on Europe is always possible
26 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale, EU hopes for clarity on Brexit payments
21 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Saving capitalism - and the Conservatives
21 September 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Will the splintering of France's National Front help or harm it?
21 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale, To me, golliwogs are racist – but a tearoom tangle and a new poll shows Britain disagrees
20 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Will Boris Johnson be the next Prime Minister
19 September 2017

Dr Bryan Mabee, Armed forces are no place for 16-year-olds
12 September 2017

Conservative Party members overwhelmingly old and male, YouGov study reveals
8 September 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Theresa May’s case for claiming a majority that she doesn’t have
8 September 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, French voters may be souring on Macron, but he’s all they’ve got
7 September 2017

Professor Rainbow Murray, Macron: the honeymoon's over
25 August 2017

Dr Lee Jones, The trial of Yingluck Shinawatra
25 August 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Sanctions are counterproductive
17 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, A new centrist pro-EU party can be a catalyst even if it flops
14 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Blue on blue: the 10 greatest Tory feuds
14 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, The crisis in Conservatism
8 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Big majority of Labour members 'want UK to stay in single market'
8 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, What chance for a new 'centre ground' party in the UK?
8 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Taxes and foxes: why certain issues have the power to turn a political campaign
7 August 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Tory members turn to David Davis in battle to succeed Theresa May
22 July 2017

Dr Patrick Diamond, One year on, Theresa May keeps fragile grip on her job as British Prime Minister
18 July 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Theresa May gains Conservative support to sack ministers
17 July 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Think you know who will be the next PM? Think again . . . and again
11 July 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Theresa May has a plan to win back support in the UK
8 July 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Emmanuel Macron's State of the Union
3 July 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Tory humiliation down to campaign length and cult of May – Norman Tebbit Q&A
29 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, The Tories' deal with the DUP papers over the cracks, but it can't work miracles
26 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Is the UK in dis-May?
19 June 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Macron's majority
19 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Tory MPs will not let Theresa May betray Brexit
15 June 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Macron won, May nil
14 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Majority of every worker group voted for Labour over Tories except retired, election poll finds
13 June 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, President Macron expected landslide victory in the French parliamentary election after the first round of voting
12 June 2017

Dr Sofa Gradin, Is there really a crisis around identity politics on the left?
12 June 2017

Karl Pike, Corbyn’s outsider triumph resonates with Labour’s history-and its internal battles
12 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Forget culture wars, the election was about power, cash and opportunity
11 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Conservatives lose their majority in British Parliament amid calls for May to resign
9 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Why Theresa May could be damaged even if she wins the election
7 June 2017

Professor Phillip Cowley, Heckling and hair of the dog: Election campaigns never used to be this boring
7 June 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, The Liberal Democrats bet on a Brexit election. It hasn't paid off
6 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Jeremy Corbyn: the outsider hoping to become Britain's PM
5 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, For Britain’s Labour Party, a Mild Defeat May Be Worst of All
3 June 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Sadiq Khan would beat Theresa May if he was party leader
2 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Ukip seems to be facing a pretty bleak future
1 June 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Jeremy Corbyn in shock surge as Labour leader now more popular than Theresa May in London
1 June 2017

Professor Tim Bale, The rise of Tory attack ads on Facebook
31 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Greens can thrive as a party on the margins
31 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, The Lib Dem fightback may fall flat
30 May 2017

Dr Eleanor Brooks, Health in the 2017 country specific recommendations
29 May 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Transforming the Republic
29 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?
22 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, May hammers home her catchy refrain
22 May 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Sexual assault case against Julian Assange is dropped
22 May 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, With Brigitte Macron will France have a first lady
22 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Corbyn fights to stay Labour leader with UK vote a long shot
17 May 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Theresa May ducks questions about Chancellor's future amid rumours of rift
17 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Do manifestos matter?
16 May 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, New Prime Minister elected as President Emmanuel Macron’s latest move
15 May 2017

Professor Philip Cowley and Professor Tim Bale, Black and ethnic minority voters explain why they won’t back Theresa May
13 May 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Marion Marechal-Le Pen quits politics after aunt’s election loss
12 May 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Should university lecturers report their students to counter-terror police?
11 May 2017

Dr Patrick Diamond, A beginner’s guide to election manifestos – and why they really matter
11 May 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, What’s next for Marine Le Pen and France’s far right?
10 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Will Jeremy Corbyn stay on as Labour leader if the party loses the General Election?
9 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, After an enormous victory in local elections, should the Tories fear voter complacency in the General?
8 May 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Newly elected French President has his work cut out
8 May 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, France's new president Emmanuel Macron
8 May 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, French election: protest vote for ‘nobody’ was highest in half a century
8 May 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Everything you need to know about France's new president
8 May 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Macron wins French election: what now?
8 May 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, How the Conservatives are using local ads to get around election spending rules
5 May 2017

Dr Sarah Wolff, France is proud of its secularism. But religion could shape who wins Sunday
5 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Why Tory Remainers will grit their teeth and vote for May anyway
4 May 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, These local elections make a national point: voting should be compulsory
4 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Labour's fate was sealed in 2015 when voters turned against Jeremy Corbyn
3 May 2017

Professor Tim Bale, After a hard left turn under Corbyn, Britain’s Labour Party on course for historic defeat
30 April 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Conservative tax policy and Labour’s approach to Brexit
30 April 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Labour's biggest nightmare is UKIP voters switching to Tory
26 April 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, May says she's not complacent as campaign rolls into labour backyard
25 April 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Lib Dems to field candidate against Commons Speaker John Bercow
25 April 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Ben Goldacre lends support as grassroots tactical voting drive to oust Tories grows
24 April 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Paris shootings and the impact on the French Presidential Elections
21 April 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, EU gets tough on resident rights and what the EU owes
21 April 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Paris attack puts security at the top of the agenda two days before French election
21 April 2017

Dr Monica Poletti, Who will campaign in the UK 2017 snap election?
21 April 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, What do French women think of Marine Le Pen?
21 April 2017

Dr Sarah Wolff, Does France Need to Change?
20 April 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Do snap elections actually deliver bigger majorities?
19 April 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, How Being a Woman Helped Marine Le Pen
19 April 2017

Dr Lee Jones, The West pre-judged the outcome of the Syria gas attack investigation with strike
19 April 2017

Dr Sarah Wolff, Immigration, a consensual issue in the French presidential campaign?
18 April 2017

Dr Jeffery Webber, The rise and fall of Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’
10 April 2017

Professor Tim Bale, A Conservative secret weapon at the last election – the non-members who worked for victory
8 April 2017

Dr Christopher Phillips, Trump’s strike is more of the same in Syria
7 April 2017

Dr Sarah Wolff, Political Islam in Morocco: a royal affair
6 April 2017

Dr Lee Jones, Met Police’s Saudi war crimes probe ‘embarrassing’ for PM
4 April 2017

Dr Lee Jones, latest on Gibraltar, Brexit and North Korea
3 April 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Put Le Pen and Macron to one side – it’s the June legislative elections that will decide how France is governed
31 March 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Jeremy Corbyn so unpopular in London that even Labour supporters think he is doing badly
31 March 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Brexit will make Londoners and their city poorer, poll reveals
30 March 2017

Dr Lasse Thomassen, Left-wing politicians in Europe are co-opting “populism”
22 March 2017

Dr Jeffery Webber, Profits, coercion, and resistance in Latin America
21 March 2017

Professor Tim Bale, The Conservatives who threatened to vote UKIP. All mouth and no trousers.
19 March 2017

Professor Michael Kenny, English nationalism is rising: but hard Brexit is not the way to assuage it
18 March 2017

Professor Tim Bale, May faces fresh Brexit hurdles despite clearing parliament
14 March 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, Hammond Accused of Breaking Tory Pledge With Budget Tax Increase
8 March 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Will Alain Juppe enter the 2017 French presidential election race?
6 March 2017

Dr Paul Copeland, How three decades of negative press sunk the Remain campaign
3 March 2017

Dr Christopher Phillips, Eyes Bigger than Stomachs: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Syria
2 March 2017

Dr Sophie Harman, How Can A Woman Survive Ebola And Then Die In Childbirth?
2 March 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Should Ukip just dissolve itself?
1 March 2017

Dr Patrick Diamond, Don’t blame Jeremy Corbyn over Labour’s lack of vision on Europe, Tony Blair is just as much to blame
26 February 2017

Professor Tim Bale, They are out of touch and under threat
26 February 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Britons to debate Trump visit
19 February 2017

Dr Sophie Harman wins award at QMUL’s Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2017
14 February 2017

Dr Daniel Kato, LSE US Centre
9 February 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Divided French left on verge of ‘collective failure’
9 February 2017

Professor Tim Bale, As Labour Party splits over leaving the EU intensify, can the party survive Brexit?
6 February 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, on the French presidential elections
4 February 2017

Dr Françoise Boucek, Could machete attack affect France’s presidential election?
3 February 2017

Dr Daniel Kato, The Imperial Presidency 3.0
31 January 2017

Dr Rainbow Murray, Le Pen lacks support for majority of electorate
30 January 2017

Professor Philip Cowley, The hurdles in the way of Brexit
30 January 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Theresa May says invitation to Trump still stands
30 January 2017

Professor Tim Bale, When Theresa meets Donald: A geopolitical odd couple with big implications for the West
25 January 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Trump's White House invite creates diplomatic dilemma for Theresa May
23 January 2017

Dr Daniel Kato, Obama: the black (and blue) president
20 January 2017

Professor Michael Kenny, The empire strikes back
20 January 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Theresa May to prepare country for complete split from European Union
16 January 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Brexitology: Divining Britain’s Plan to Leave the EU
11 January 2017

Dr Peter Allen, How to break into a career in politics
9 January 2017

Dr Christopher Phillips, Syria was never America's to lose
6 January 2017

Professor Tim Bale, Is the Labour party in terminal decline?
5 January 2017