How the Violence of the Past Affects Gun Violence Today While our headlines have been dominated by El Paso and Dayton, 26 other Americans were killed by gun violence on…

Since the 2001 urban disturbances in the north of England, inter-ethnic relations have been a key policy concern for UK governments. Voluntary sector programmes aimed at building harmonious relations between…

The question of what nationalism is, is one that seems obvious, or at least we can all recognize it when it’s in full motion. The question, though, of when nationalism…

Why can’t I play in their garden? This is a question my daughter Eleanor asks me every time we visit her nanny.  Nanny, you see lives in a mixed tenure…

Being vegan seems to not only be on the rise in recent years but is almost becoming a fashion trend with more and more people moving towards a vegan lifestyle,…

UPDATE:  The baby has been born, it’s a boy and he has been named. In this article, published before the birth, sociologist Jane Pilcher made a sociologically informed prediction that…

It’s the 80km/h speed limit on country side roads and the ‘carbon tax’ raising the price of the diesel fuel that triggered the French ‘Yellow Vests’ protest last November, in…

Discussion of the UK’s negotiations to leave the European Union has evolved around the British side’s problems of extrication. Rather less has been revealed about how the process has affected…

Voices from sociology have been extremely muted in the public debate about Europe and Britain’s place in it. Commentaries are dominated by politics, economics and law. Important sociological contributions on…