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- What the world can learn from the UK's A-level grading fiasco https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/08/26/fk-the-algorithm-what-the-world-can-learn-from-the-uks-a-level-grading-fiasco/ 87 comments
- Has COVID-19 been the making of Open Science? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/10/29/has-covid-19-been-the-making-of-open-science/ 2 comments science
- With US and China tightening regulations, what is EU doing? Here's an interesting overview https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/07/05/what-the-eus-new-mica-regulation-could-mean-for-cryptocurrencies/ 9 comments cryptocurrency
- Regulated cryptocurrency exchanges: sign of a maturing market or a contradiction? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2021/04/17/regulated-cryptocurrency-exchanges-sign-of-a-maturing-market-or-oxymoron/ 4 comments cryptocurrency
- Democratic backsliding as a collaborative project: Understanding the links between Fidesz and Law and Justice https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/02/05/democratic-backsliding-as-a-collaborative-project-understanding-the-links-between-fidesz-and-law-and-justice/ 6 comments europe
- There is no evidence of a COVID-19 baby boom in Europe – but there is of a bust https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/covid19-baby-boom-bust/#author 3 comments europe
- Estimating the economic cost of Turkey's PKK conflict https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/09/29/economic-cost-pkk-conflict-turkey/ 22 comments geopolitics
- Rocks and Hard Places - on being required to do the impossible https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/rocks-and-hard-places/ 24 comments philosophy
- Portugal, Spain and Italy would benefit the most from further EU institutional integration https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2019/08/30/portugal-spain-and-italy-would-benefit-the-most-from-further-eu-institutional-integration/ 36 comments europe
- Why the radical right is no longer the exclusive domain of older, male voters https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2019/09/24/why-the-radical-right-is-no-longer-the-exclusive-domain-of-older-male-voters/ 23 comments europe
- US factories are polluting less, but regulation rollbacks threaten air quality https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/03/02/us-factories-are-polluting-less-but-regulation-rollbacks-threaten-air-quality/ 161 comments science
- Why Romania’s protests have failed to bring about real change http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/09/19/why-romanias-protests-have-failed-to-bring-about-real-change/ 6 comments europe
- Truth and Political Luxury: Julian Baggini on lies, damn lies, and political realities http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/baggini-is-truth-a-political-luxury/ 3 comments philosophy
- You Must Be Joking! | why jokes might sometimes be funnier because they're immoral http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/joking/ 77 comments philosophy
- One year later, has Demonetisation Created a New Digital Divide? http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2017/11/08/one-year-later-has-demonetisation-created-a-new-digital-divide/ 3 comments india
- "Brexit is Britain’s Vietnam: every rational person knows it is not going well, but no one with authority seems able to say so" - Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at the LSE http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/11/23/a-happy-brexit-we-should-rather-brace-ourselves-for-a-dramatic-change-in-our-democratic-freedom-for-the-worse/ 461 comments europe
- LSE BREXIT – For many individuals, the prospect of Brexit has caused genuine suffering - talk of a broad coming together to ‘make Brexit work’ is as unrealistic as it is patronising http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/09/21/for-many-individuals-the-prospect-of-brexit-has-caused-genuine-suffering/ 4 comments europe
- Historical amnesia is undermining European democracy http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/historical-amnesia-is-undermining-european-democracy/?utm_content=buffer239bf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 137 comments geopolitics
- Evidence from Denmark: How EU immigration can benefit the welfare state http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/08/16/evidence-from-denmark-how-eu-immigration-can-benefit-the-welfare-state/ 7 comments europe
- All of a sudden Britain has become the slowest growing of the major western economies http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/08/04/are-the-british-economys-prospects-faltering/ 281 comments europe
- Cracks are beginning to appear in British-Irish relations http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/07/26/cracks-are-beginning-to-appear-in-british-irish-relations/ 184 comments europe
- Gender quotas associated with increased competency in male politicians http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2017/03/13/gender-quotas-and-the-crisis-of-the-mediocre-man/ 7 comments science
- Trump and Brexit: why it’s again NOT the economy, stupid http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/trump-and-brexit-why-its-again-not-the-economy-stupid/ 4 comments politics
- The cost of keeping the Eurozone together probably exceeds the cost of breaking it up - Joseph Stiglitz http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/09/05/interview-joseph-stiglitz-brexit-euro-mistake/ 27 comments europe
- Why the euro area needs new convergence goals and how to choose them http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/01/07/why-the-euro-area-needs-new-convergence-goals-and-how-to-choose-them/ 17 comments europes
- L’état c’est nous: sovereignty is no illusion, and we should retain it http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexitvote/2016/03/10/letat-cest-nous-sovereignty-is-no-illusion-and-we-should-retain-it/ 11 comments europe
- Yanis Varoufakis: “The UK should stay in the EU to fight tooth and nail against the EU’s anti-democratic institutions” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/02/22/yanis-varoufakis-the-uk-should-stay-in-the-eu-to-fight-tooth-and-nail-against-the-eus-anti-democratic-institutions/ 164 comments europe
- Slovakia’s general election: The impact of the refugee crisis is likely to push Robert Fico back to power http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/01/21/slovakias-general-election-the-impact-of-the-refugee-crisis-is-likely-to-push-robert-fico-back-to-power/ 4 comments europes
- Is the UK at the top table in EU negotiations? - "...when it comes to negotiations behind the scenes, before votes take place and before laws are adopted, the data suggest that the UK government is right at the heart of EU policy-making, and certainly at the top table." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/11/16/uk-influence-in-europe-series-is-the-uk-at-the-top-table-in-eu-negotiations/ 3 comments europe
- EUROPP – United by Reformation: Why northern European Euroscepticism is rooted in religious history http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/10/10/united-by-reformation-why-northern-european-euroscepticism-is-rooted-in-religious-history/ 3 comments europe
- Why the refugee quota system is unfair on poorer eastern and southern EU states http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/10/01/why-the-refugee-quota-system-is-unfair-on-poorer-eastern-and-southern-eu-states/ 21 comments europe
- How young Greeks changed their degree choices as the economy crashed http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/08/21/how-young-greeks-changed-their-degree-choices-as-the-economy-crashed/ 22 comments europe
- “We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised the rewards” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/5-minutes-with-mariana-mazzucato/ 62 comments technology
- Living in a Balkan country myself, this is incredibly on point. Ten rules by a 21st-century Machiavelli for the Balkan Prince http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsee/2015/02/07/ten-rules-by-a-21st-century-machiavelli-for-the-balkan-prince/ 9 comments europe
- The EU is often accused of having a ‘democratic deficit’, but what measures would actually improve EU democracy? http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2014/12/16/solving-the-eus-democratic-deficit-would-help-revive-democracy-at-the-national-level/ 16 comments europe
- Why Russia’s ‘strong state’ political system still remains a better option for the country than western-style democracy http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2014/10/21/why-russias-strong-state-political-system-still-remains-a-better-option-for-the-country-than-western-style-democracy/ 32 comments russia
- Right-wing citizens in right-wing countries dislike the EU, but right-wing citizens in left-wing countries support European integration http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2014/10/08/right-wing-citizens-in-right-wing-countries-dislike-the-eu-but-right-wing-citizens-in-left-wing-countries-support-european-integration/ 70 comments europe
- Contrary to popular opinion, Europe has not seen a sharp rise in far-right support since the start of the crisis http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/08/22/contrary-to-popular-opinion-europe-has-not-seen-a-rise-in-far-right-support-since-the-start-of-the-crisis/ 19 comments europe
- Nationalism is now the enemy of the nation because only through the EU can members have genuine sovereignty http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/03/25/five-minutes-with-ulrich-beck-germany-has-created-an-accidental-empire/ 35 comments europe
- Book review of Nigel Warburton's 'A Little History of Philosophy' (2012) (x-post from r/HistoryofIdeas) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2012/11/12/book-review-a-little-history-of-philosophy/ 3 comments philosophy