William Davies

I joined James Butler and Patrick Maguire to discuss the transition of power in British politics, for the LRB On Politics Podcast.

An online early piece for the next issue of London Review of Books, on the economic constraints that will confront Andy Burnham as Prime Minister.

I have a Guardian Long Read on a surprising topic: my dog, and the struggle to train it.

I’ve written for The New York Times about the mainstreaming of Far Right ideas, policies and narratives.

This summer sees the closing of the Political Economy Research Centre that I helped found in 2014, and led ever since.

I’ve reviewed Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been helping to coordinate members of the Economy & Society Editorial Board to produce a set of reflections on the changing face of ‘the state’.

Reflections on Britain’s Gorton & Denton by-election, and the fracturing of party politics in Britain, published in London Review of Books.

I discussed the success of the Right online for the New Economics Foundation podcast, following my London Review of Books article about Farageist Tiktok

A new essay in The Ideas Letter on how the politics of the face has grown more fractious, in context of smartphones, face-covering bans, facial recognition algorithms, ICE agents and protest culture.