Plastic pollution is now a “hot” topic and seems to be part of everyday public discourse. This has been driven by an increasing media focus on the issue with high-profile…

Brexit politics, in their broadest sense, have dominated conversations about politics in British media, homes and workplaces since campaigning for the 2016 referendum began. The idea that, following the Brexit…

Snobbery, like gossip, is a matter of both public disapproval and private enjoyment.  In a society formally committed to values of equality, few would wish willingly to claim the title…

Whether concerning childhood obesity, eating disorders or a resurgence of rickets, children’s diets remain a topic of concern for nutritionists, school staff, policy makers and parents. Such concerns mean that…

A welcome first for the Government’s re-constituted Social Mobility Commission is the inclusion of a sociologist. Dr Sam Friedman (LSE), a leading figure in the younger generation of mobility researchers,…

In a two part series, Dr Chamion Caballero discusses both the importance of having aspects of black British history recognised more widely as intrinsic parts of British history rather than…

It’s been a tumultuous few years. The 2016-18 roll call of events is familiar to us all: an unexpected vote to leave the EU, the election of the US’s least…

This is a year of race related anniversaries. While it is fifty years since Enoch Powell’s infamous address to the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Association, it is seventy years…