Politics

On October 7 2013, I officially became an AHRC-funded fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. However, my induction did not take place at the Library’s classical Jefferson Building,

In recent months, the public have been made aware of the Snowden revelations about the extent to which electronic communications have been intercepted, the secret laws that facilitate the programme, the intimidation of those working

I doubt Ronald Reagan had U.K. academics in mind when he railed against welfare dependency, but the partial shutdown of the Federal Government that began yesterday has reminded me of my reliance on the generosity

The world has Munich on its mind, again. In a speech delivered in Paris on 7 September, US Secretary of State John Kerry described the dilemma being faced by the world powers over whether to

Last week the Supreme Court of Madrid ruled that the monument to the International Brigades, the foreign volunteers who travelled to Spain to fight the Francoist forces during the Spanish Civil War, should be removed

Over the last couple of days the blanket coverage of Thatcher’s passing has begun to turn to specific discussions about her feminist legacy or lack thereof. In the first days after the announcement, in press