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Fire and Fury: UEA staff and students react

February 6, 2018February 15, 2018 by Editor

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Michael Wolff's book 'Fire and Fury', which provides an inside story of Donald Trump's Whitehouse, set headlines around the world when it was published. A range of bombshell claims were made about how policy was made, Trump's approach to the Presidency and Donald Trump himself. A fierce debate followed. The…

The Trump Guide to Digging Yourself Out of a Hole

October 27, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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A satirical take on the way Trump handles PR crises in the style of Machiavelli's The Prince. We all do it from time to time, or maybe more often than that. We dig ourselves into a hole. Well folks, here’s how to handle it. First, don’t even think about stopping…

Jeremy Corbyn’s route to Number 10: a few hurdles that need clearing

September 25, 2017February 15, 2018 by Editor

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As the Labour Party Conference takes place this week, Toby James considers whether Jeremy Cobyn is heading for Number 10. Jeremy Corbyn entered the 2016 Labour party conference freshly re-elected as leader. The jubilant support for him at the leadership election was met in equal share with bemusement in other…

Theresa May’s “enough is enough” speech – a thinly veiled call for assimilation which undermines the British values she praises

June 5, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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In her speech on responding to recent terrorist attacks, following the London Bridge attack on 3 June, the Prime Minister framed the threat posed by Islamist terrorism as one coming from outside the UK, by linking this threat to current military operations in Iraq and Syria and by invoking the…

The 2017 General Election is “mission impossible for Labour”, says UEA’s Chris Hanretty

April 21, 2017June 14, 2017 by Admin

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Dr Chris Hanretty, a reader at the School of Politics in the University of East Anglia, England, looks at the grim prospects (if polls can be believed) facing Labour, the official opposition, in the upcoming UK general election.

‘Speech! Speech! : The Campaign Rhetoric of Theresa May

April 18, 2017June 14, 2017 by Editor

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As the country prepares for an unexpected barrage of campaign rhetoric Professor Alan Finlayson analyses Theresa May's opening shot and speculates on what might come next. Theresa May’s surprise speech announcing a General Election, is rhetorically rather clever. She uses language to position herself favorably in the campaign to come.…

Do Brexit and Trump show that we’re living in a computer simulation?

March 14, 2017February 15, 2018 by Editor

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Michael Frazer, from the University of East Anglia considers whether the world is just an illusion after all. Recent political events have turned the world upside down. The UK voting for Brexit and the US electing Donald Trump as president were unthinkable 18 months ago. In fact, they’re so extraordinary…

Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera, and the politics of popular music in Venezuela

March 7, 2017 by Editor

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Primera's tomb // lubrio/flickr, CC BY-SA Hazel Marsh, University of East Anglia on Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera, and the politics of popular music in Venezuela. In February 1992, a Venezuelan colonel called Hugo Chávez, together with other officers from a movement that had formed within the military, led an unsuccessful…

Populism, Popularity and Political Leadership

February 16, 2017June 14, 2017 by Editor

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Is a stance against the political, economic and cultural ‘elites’ a sufficient condition for populism? After the electoral successes of Syriza and Podemos in Greece and Spain respectively, and the disturbing ascendancy of right-wing populist parties across Europe (and of course the US), social-democratic and left parties are in search…

Does Protest Make a Difference?

February 10, 2017 by Editor

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Prof Alan Finlayson from the UEA, Dr Rupert Read from the Green Party and David Moreland from UKIP discussed the anti-Trump protests on This Week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKurJmOWOE

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