Politics Professor, University of Oxford.
How liberal democracies respond to extremism and illiberalism. Liberal democracy and its others.
Washington DC, Oxford, Rome.
More info: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
Giovanni Capoccia
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IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today!
These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable.
Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
It's odd to think: after two world wars, an archipelago of death camps, slaughter of Jews, Roma, gays and disabled, what we really need is a re-armed, reunited Germany.
And yet...
The most corrupt president in history:
Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
This is excellent. One thing I'd add is that, almost entirely independently of what Farage does or says, there's a segment of voters who will think let's give him a chance/ he'd be a change/, and they could well have a decisive impact at the next GE given party fragmentation + FPTP.
“Rayner endured months of scrutiny over her living and tax arrangements. But when it emerged that Farage’s partner had bought an £885k house for cash, much of Fleet Street ignored it,” writes Alan Rusbridger
To read them all now, check out @lawfaremedia.org:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
I'm shocked and so deeply saddened that my colleague and friend, Ran Hirschl, passed away. A towering figure in law and politics, he was so supportive of junior faculty like me, and had so much intellectual firepower to go. I'll miss him so much 😢 www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...
The scale of Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Daniel Trilling
Michael E. Kanell
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog, reviewing @sarahobolt.bsky.social & James Tilley's new book "Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided Britain":
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/book... (this is an additional post to the normal fortnightly posts, which continue as usual next week)
The British media is obsessed with Zack Polanski, but raises barely a squeak over huge donations to Reform
Post-war era officially over.
www.ft.com/content/c1ba...
Prospect Magazine
Tommaso Pavone
Eric Columbus
Chris Grey
Trump is a problem for Farage. But given around a quarter of Britons still want him as PM, clearly not an insurmountable one.
This piece tried to understand why - despite Trump and the failure that is Brexit - he still appeals to a significant minority of voters.
open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...
It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website.
Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that.
And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.
A defence strategy sets the right direction for dealing with the Russian threat
www.ft.com
Brendan Nyhan
Giovanni Capoccia
Now Trump’s war on Iran has descended into catastrophic farce, the Reform leader is trying to distance himself from the demented man in the White House. That won’t be so easy
The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.
