My Work in the Media

Quoted in the Financial Times

Some of my ideas on the role of education in sorting values across the income scale were developed in this Financial Times piece by John...

Six Points to Understand Italy's Presidential Election, for Le Grand Continent

I wrote a short guide to the intrigues and machinations behind of the Italian Presidential election for the French-language magazine Le...

My Piece on the Scottish Parliamentary Elections for Aspenia Online

I wrote an analysis of the Scottish Parliamentary elections held on 6 May 2021, and their significance for the UK's constitutional...

An Awful Start for UK-EU Relations Post-Brexit; My Piece for Aspenia Online

I have written for Aspenia Online on the politics of resentment that is gripping Brussels and London, as the European Union and the...

Yes, It could Happen Here too

I have written an article for Le Grand Continent, re-published in translation for El Confidencial, which makes a somber but simple point....

Will the UK ever rejoin the EU? My contribution for El Confidencial

The Spanish-language magazine El Confidencial has asked fifteen experts to give their view on the prospect of a 'Bre-entry' in the 2020s,...

Research on Status Quoted in the New York Times

Rob Ford, who wrote with me the paper 'The Status Stratification of the Radical Right: Reconsidering the Occupational Profile of UKIP's...

Italy's Election Day: A preview for the LSE's EUROPP blog

I wrote a preview on the Italian regional elections and constitutional referendum to be held on 20-21 September. You can read it at the...

Electoral Alliances and the 2019 UK General Election

My write-up with Ben Ansell on the effects of potential electoral coalitions on the result of the 2019 General Elections appeared on the...

Geek of The Week - for ITV's Peston

My analysis on the 2019 UK election was featured in the 'Geek of the Week' section on ITV's current affairs programme 'Peston'. You can...