As we wait the publication of the latest figures on immigration – likely to show marked further increases in net migration – we might wonder about the link to the EU referendum. Nigel Farage has already been doing just that this morning. It’s widely noted that a key part of UKIP’s success in recent years […]
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In these dog days of summer, there’s not much happening in the world of EU politics. Except the on-going debates on the third Greek bailout, arguments about managing asylum applicants and immigrants and the simmering British renegotiation. And the third of these is very much the least, certainly in Continental terms. To date, the renegotiation […]
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It’s the time of year when thoughts turn to A-level results and to final decisions about which university to pick. To help with that, the annual survey of student satisfaction releases its results to the world today. For the second time in its short history, Surrey Politics has topped the subject list, with a 100% […]
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You’ll be thrilled to read that I’ve just come back from a lovely holiday in Southern Croatia, where I did little more than swim, sleep and eat nice things. Two weeks of proper getting away from it. But the academic mind never quite turns off. And now, back home and after a quick filleting of […]
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“Being at the receiving end, I can only write poetry” – survey respondent, Pakistan. It matters what stories we tell. They reveal how we order our thinking. We use them to justify our actions, and also to make sense of the actions of others and how they affect us. In the study of international intervention, […]
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A version of this post appeared on the Britain for New Europe website: Think about your significant other. Now think about the costs and benefits of your relationship with them. If you think about in purely financial terms, then you’ve probably run up some costs purely because of that relationship – that film they wanted […]
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