“BUILDING SOCIAL capital will not be easy, but it is the key to making democracy work,” wrote Robert Putnam, an American political scientist, in 1993. He found that places where people trust and ...

The anti-immigrant riots that erupted this week in cities across the UK represent the most concerted efforts since the 1930s to develop a fascist movement in Britain. Seizing on the murder of three ...

Britons tend to see the world through the monocle of social class. For Matthew Goodwin, an expert on the radical right, the riots that have sullied Britain are fired by popular anger against “a new ...

Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics is supported by the National Centre for Social Research. Even in the 21st century, social class is a part of being British. We talk of ...

John Curtice currently receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The outcome of last year’s general election left an important question hanging in the air. Could the UK’s ...

Britain's political class is betraying the country by keeping us in the European Convention of Human Rights and leaving the UK "powerless" to deport criminals, protect veterans and control immigration ...