"The European Union is facing an institutional crisis. There is rising xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe, threatening the core values of the EU, such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and respect, for human rights. This threat is not limited to the EU but it also affects Turkey, a country that much needs the EU’s guidance and support on good governance."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/the-eu-turkey-deal-ambiguities-an…/

"The contrast between control and compromise is important, and the lesson it yields sobering. In an ‘interdependent, globalised world’, to recycle the cliché – more-or-less accurate as it happens – the notion of control intervenes as a comforting delusion. It soothes the angst of those who would stop the world in order to get off. But it also appeals to the individual scale, and evokes domestic analogies in which control is seen as something achievable."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/democracy-between-compromise-and-…/

"Critical skills can transform today’s students into responsible citizens and professionals who are willing to adopt or scrutinize (un)ethical codes of conduct, highlighting issues of corporate responsibility and labour rights (just like Brunello Cucinelli). These critical skills can transform them into responsible voters too, ready to scrutinize complicated political issues and shield themselves from demagogy and the rise of figures like Trump."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/the-rise-of-populism-how-western-…/

"A combination of technological advances together with a benevolent international trade and investment environment made economic activity increasingly dispersed globally across production networks. While this has helped to reduce inequalities between countries, it significantly contributed to increase inequality among the population within countries."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispr…/…/the-great-stagnation/

"Internal tensions are best channelled outward, or in the direction of select minority groups. Originality is no strong requirement. In fact, relying on existing symbols and narratives is a plus as they enhance recognisability and serve to produce comfortable and comforting nostalgia." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/fantastic-mr-president-the-hyperr…/

Looking ahead towards the fluctuating negotiating window for Britain’s exit from the EU, the benefits of invoking the Loch Ness monster myth for Scotland is that it may enables us to recall that financial security is a glorious impossibility.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/monsters-in-the-mist-the-elusive…/…

The EU referendum campaign on social media was won by leavers, and clearly...

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"Latent tensions became manifest with the result of the Brexit referendum, etching the battle line that will define the struggles ahead. Those who have embraced and built their lives around our liberal-cosmopolitan global order, and found opportunity in open markets, are now pitted against those who see themselves as excluded..."

"Like the howls of rage from across the Atlantic, the slogan ‘we want our country back’ is only too easy to dismiss if you’re sitting (relatively) comfortably in a sleek office or coffee shop in London, Paris or Oslo. Unfortunately, the ‘stuff to do with culture, belonging and community’ is far too important to be left to the likes of Farage, Johnson and Trump."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/we-want-our-country-back-stop-sne…/

"[A] minority group of politicians garnered support by offering us a rare opportunity to reclaim control of the nation from all those purportedly holding us back. Yet, the politicians’ offer was based on misinformation, designed primarily, it seems, to satisfy their personal ambitions and/or to control the nation themselves."

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispr…/…/04/on-brexit-control/

'...the debate was conducted on the basis of lies, which the Leave campaign now admit to be lies. They admit that the £350million a week sent to Brussels is not exactly right and that the money will not be spent on the NHS. They admit that they will not be able to control immigration and that the famous ‘breaking point’ poster was misleading. Yet there is no way of calling them to account. On the contrary they are the winners.'
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispr…/…/brexit-and-democracy/

'Emotions have been running high in the last months, and the UK media contributed significantly to this. But their toxic role in the referendum has to be seen beyond this specific historical moment.'
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/the-uk-is-reaping-what-the-britis…/