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…

There are so many facets to Brexit that any single account will be problematical and possibly overtaken by events. It is evident that Brexit is not a stable phenomenon, but…

Many things about Brexit remain unclear, but two things seem certain. Brexit exemplifies a global trend of nationalist and populist culture and people with a migration background will probably have to…

Academics, politicians, journalists, and even many leave-voters themselves shared in a collective surprise when the 52% voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum. Now three years on from…

In many ways, Brexit represents the most profound break with European identity, one that is not only politically, legally and economically significant but emotionally so as well. It evokes deep…

How, and in what ways, can a focus on cities tell us something about recent developments in the governance of displaced migration? A number of sociological answers to this question…