Sunday, 21 September 2025

On the storm to come: Right-wing extremism moving centre-stage in British politics.

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‘We Want Our Country Back’ – On Saturday, 6 September, the third Saturday in a row, English nationalists draped in union jack and St George ...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al

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In their major monograph Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emerg...
Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Confronting the Far Right – Contesting the Reform Party!

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In recent local elections on 1 May, the Reform Party of Nigel Farage made huge electoral gains winning hundreds of council seats and overall...
Monday, 14 April 2025

Facilitating genocide – the UK’s role in the Middle East

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In December 2024, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK parliament invited contributions to an enquiry about the Israeli-Palestinian confl...
Monday, 7 April 2025

The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?

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The year began dramatically for Social Europe. On 14 January, Nicholas Emiliou, one of the European Union’s Advocates General, advised the C...
Wednesday, 5 March 2025

The Betrayal of Ukraine

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When the betrayal came, it was swift and brutal. Donald Trump, having barely started his second presidency, phoned up Vladimir Putin, Presid...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025

The Holocaust, Gaza and lessons from history: Genocide runs deep in German society!

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Germany prides itself for the way the country has owned up to past atrocities of the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945 and here in particular th...