Populism

Josie Nasmyth-Miller With recent tragic events, such as the Bondi Beach Massacre, which targeted a Hanukkah celebration and the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, it would be easy to add Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, more commonly known as Tommy Robinson, and his ‘Unite for Christ this Christmas’ campaign to...

Good days are coming’, this was the slogan of Narendra Modi, the unabashedly populist maverick who took the Indian subcontinent by storm in 2014. Never before, or since, has the appeal and allure of populist politics been so acutely presented in a single phrase, perfectly encapsulating the vague promises...

The University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre invited Baroness Helena Kennedy QC to give it’s 2019 annual lecture. In light of the current political atmosphere, the chosen topic of  discussion was, ‘Populism and the Assault on Law’.  Baroness Helena Kennedy’s resume is a force to be reckoned with....