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...political climate away from existing debates about left and right. In this audio Tendayi Bloom asks Geoff Andrews and Richard Heffernan about the ‘populist’ politics of Donald Trump, how that form of politics might unfold within the constraints of the US politics system and about the rise of populism more widely. Select here for a copy of the transcript of this audio...

...change/YouGov survey I commissioned in late August. Look at the horizontal axis running along the bottom of figure 1. In the graph I have controlled for age, education and gender, with errors clustered on states. The average white American support for Trump on a 0-10 scale in the survey is 4.29. You can see the two Trump support lines are higher among those at the highest...

...climate seemingly awash with powerful emotions, Emeritus Professor John Clarke suggests we should take stock of what people do as well as feel...[Two anti-Brexit protestors] How do you feel? Outraged, depressed, abandoned or triumphantly vindicated? Today’s politics seem to be awash with powerful emotions, whether Brexit rage or liberal contempt, Trumpian paranoia or Le...