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  • 22 Jan 2025
    Yaron Matras

    Britain’s cities are multilingual, but utopian visions of equality are being cancelled

    It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language is the language of the world” and Boris Johnson complained that there were “too many people in our cities who […]

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  • 16 Dec 2024
    Paul Chilton

    Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

    “Demagoguery and the decline of democracy” This is the subtitle of my new book with CUP. But it might just as well be a headline on 5 November 2024 when Donald Trump was voted 47th president of the United States. There is wide consensus that his choice of far-right cronies to his government is a […]

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  • 30 Nov 2016
    Campbell McLachlan

    Brexit and the Foreign Affairs Prerogative

    On Monday 5 December 2016, the UK Supreme Court will hear the Government’s appeal from the judgment of the Divisional Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. It is the case of the century on the scope of the foreign affairs treaty prerogative. A unanimous Divisional Court held that […]

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