'Why are you making this about race?'This question is repeated daily in public and in the
media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a …

My mother and father travelled from Egypt to Britain in 1977, moving from London to Exeter,
a city in the southwest of England, in 1978. My father tells me that when they arrived in …

In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that 'imperial nostalgia'motivated the Leave
vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important …

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided? Britain was once the leading economy
in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In A Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author …

Populist political agents from the right of the political spectrum tell visceral stories of
insecurity—from countries overrun by criminal migrants to warnings of impending economic …

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker
sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes …

How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump's United States
of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to answer these kinds of questions …

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent
years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting …

In recent years, there has been increased interest in, and work towards, decolonising the
curriculum in higher education institutions in the UK. There are various initiatives to review …

The possible impacts of contextual effects on political behaviour have long been studied and
analysed by political scientists and geographers. We review previous relevant literature and …