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...centre? In essence, the two groups represent the two choices open to campaigners. They could focus on mobilising decided eurosceptics or seek to convince undecided people to vote for a Brexit. Farage is the poster-boy of the eurosceptic movement in the UK (and beyond). He speaks truth to power, says it like it is and all the rest. As a communicator and as a personality,...

...centre of the country – and then to the south and the borders with Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. On March 6, there was a terrorist attack on the restaurant La Terrasse in Bamako, in the south-west of the country. Five people were killed and nine were injured. On June 10, there was an attack by armed men on Malian security forces in the town of Misseni, near the border...

...centre, using a car bomb and suicide vests. That this is an apparent suicide bombing shows some form of complexity. Recent attacks in the UK have been relatively crude, low-tech incidents involving knives and vehicles. In 2010, Labour MP Stephen Timms was stabbed by a radicalised woman, and fusilier Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Michael Adebolajo and Michael...

...centres, where Edinburgh and Glasgow both recorded Remain votes higher than the national average. Only in Moray, where just over 50% voted remain, was the outcome relatively close. What are the implications of this for our understanding of the UK as a shared political space – a genuinely united kingdom bringing together an increasingly disparate set of nations,...