Great new CRISPP Special Issue now out: Articles by the editors, James Johnson, Tom Malleson, Rainer Bauböck, Arash Abizadeh, Sarah Song, Courtney Jung, Simone Chambers, with a reply by Joseph Carens
If you missed the book launch, there's no excuse - you can now watch the video! With thanks to all the great commentators. youtu.be/H_mnwtQRHTw?...
Thanks to Alan Renwick for asking me to do this podcast with him on my latest book Defending the Political Constitution. No need to spend £105 to read it - thanks to Alans's expert questioning I'll talk you through it for free.
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Also to runner up Brian Smith
Congratulations to Patrick Lenta for winning the 2025 CRISPP Essay Prize for the best essay in a normal issue published in Vol 27 (2024)
Details of my book launch are now available - everyone welcome. It will be hybrid for those not in London and recorded.
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You can read a free chapter of Defending the Political Constitution here:
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My new book now out on line with OUP Academic - hard copies available from 22January Defending the Political Constitution url: academic.oup.com/book/61802
Yet more evidence that Labour's immigration policies are not only inhumane they are an electoral disaster www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@benansell.bsky.social provides evidence for what many of us had thought - Reform leaning Labour voters in marginal seats are a Blue Labour myth, by pursuing them with Reform-light policies they are haemorrhaging Labour voters everywhere.
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Max Hegarty, who is studying aerospace engineering, said the proposals also affect students on other courses. He has taken modules in German, and said this enabled him to do an internship in Germany. "So much of our European engineering is based in Germany," he said. "While a lot of people are willing to learn English, not returning that effort to them is not great for that collaboration, for that international co-operation that we need. "Cutting funding for modern languages courses serves only to paralyse our growth as a country."
Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth
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Finally a glimpse of light in the darkness. And wow ehat a speech - pure poetry www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Great to make a flying visit to my old stomping ground
Congratulations to Nadia Urbinati on the award of this year's Serena Medal by the British Academy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medal...
Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King
UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception.
Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here
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The UCL Global Centre for Constitutional Democracy at UCL is delighted to announce an event to launch The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory at UCL on 13 October 2025, 6:05 pm–8:00 pm All welcome.
Details here:
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New Book - Defending the Political Constitution - coming soon ....
Wtf?! Barbaric
It was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇
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I have a new paper out online in @crispp.bsky.social: I argue that a focus on domination can help us better understand a renewed politics of working time - a reduction in work, the right to disconnect, and challenging employer authority over free time.
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Opinion: The past decade was a masterclass in how to misread a nation. If Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to gift Britain to Reform, he needs to prove fast that he can be tough and effective on immigration on.ft.com/47dejup
I discuss its themes - in some ways part of a new book project - with Alan Renwick at: uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/sho...
New article now out and on open access - “Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation” is now published in Volume 27, Issue 3 of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/1369...
Excellent piece
Manu Chao rocking Livorno
