by Emma Mendoza | May 14, 2025 | James Madison University
Britons are feeling nostalgic for empire. In response to a 2019 YouGov survey asking Britons to indicate whether countries that were formerly colonized by Britain were better off for being colonial possessions, the plurality of respondents – 33% – answered yes. The...
by Sofia Samoilova | Apr 17, 2025 | Tartu University
On October 10th, 2024 I ordered the freshly released Boris Johnson memoir, Unleashed (Croft,2024). None of my relatives or friends from the UK, nor any of my classmates, paid any attention to this book—except for me, just because it was placed on bookshelves the same...
by Lisle Jamieson | Dec 22, 2022 | Skidmore College
Can Britain’s trailblazing new prime minister be more than a wolf in sleek clothing? On October 24th, following the historically short-lived reign of Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak became the third Conservative in as many months to take up residence at 10 Downing...
by Konner Lee | Oct 16, 2022 | Boston University
According to Jan-Werner Müller, the idea of Populism can be identified as an impossibleconcept as there are a multitude of differentiating viewpoints of what populism constitutes. Inrecent times, Britain’s governmental structure has increasingly leaned toward...