This summer sees the closing of the Political Economy Research Centre that I helped found in 2014, and led ever since. In this blogpost, I reflect on the 12 year history of the Centre, and our efforts to analyse the times we were living through.
Extract from Unprecedented?
Unprecedented?: How Covid-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy is published this week, co-authored by me and three colleagues in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths. You can read an extract from the book in the new issue of The New Statesman here.
Boris Johnson as PR offensive
Blogpost for PERC, looking at the propaganda and enforced optimism, which are central to the new Conservative Brexit strategy.