Carmen Lau Clayton (University of Leeds) In both research and popular accounts of Chinese families, children are often perceived as being [...]
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Is a ‘Great Gay Migration’ from Indonesia underway?
Wisnu Adihartono (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille) “… (Crying in front of me) … My parents didn’t want [...]
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Losing Culture or Finding Superdiversity?
Les Back (Goldsmiths University of London) David Goodhart’s book The British Dream (2014) is a good example of the impending sense [...]
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General Election 2015: Who spoke for poor youth in the campaign?
Anthony Ruddy (Teesside University) Another UK general election is imminent and all the usual political machinations are taking place. The media [...]
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Neoliberal Democracy and Alternative Democracies
Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham) The current election has shaped up to be a fairly depressing spectacle. After the discussion about [...]
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Focus: Whither the Two Party System?
John Curtice (University of Strathclyde/ NatCen Social Research) It is not so long ago that Britain was regarded as a model [...]
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Viewpoint: Malcolm X, Smethwick and BME Politics
John Narayan (University of Warwick) and Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University) 1965 has crucial lessons to teach us in 2015 when [...]
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Policy Briefing: Political Rhetoric, Corporate Responsibility and Contested Bodies
Geof Rayner (Independent Researcher) Some decades ago, in a statement which further reinforced his reputation for economic dryness and right-wing ideological [...]
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On the Frontline: Weaponised higher education?
Liz Morrish (Nottingham Trent University) In his Times Higher editorial in early February, John Gill wrote that higher education has been [...]
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Immigration and the cost of broken promises
James Hampshire (University of Sussex) Political scientists studying voting behaviour have long debated the relative importance for re-election of candidates’ records [...]
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