Goldsmiths Politics

A very warm welcome to new and returning History, Politics and IR, and PPE students. Wishing you a very successful academic year!

Good luck to all A-level students this week! Looking forward to seeing some of you @GoldsmithsUoL later in the year. Still a few spaces left for Politics/IR in clearing: gold.ac.uk/clearing/polit….

It's been one year since #Labour's landslide victory in the #UK. But it hasn't been an easy ride in power. #Starmer's strategy that won the election has proven less successful in retaining support, writes Simon Griffiths @GoldsmithsPolit @LSEpoliticsblog. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

New blog from Goldsmiths' Dr Simon Griffiths on Labour's first year in government: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Great new blog from Postcolonial politics on Kashmir the rituals of forgetting: postcolonialpolitics.org/an-unquiet-sil…

New Postcolonial Politics blog on Trump's Deportation Theatre, from colleagues linked to the Centre for Postcolonial Politics at Goldsmiths. postcolonialpolitics.org

Great to hear Dr Simon Griffiths talking about the history of the Conservative Party: modernbritishhistory.co.uk/16-the-conserv…

Interesting new take on the 'politics of support' and what it took for Starmer to win election in 2024 from Goldsmiths’ Dr Simon Griffiths: rdcu.be/eartM

Goldsmiths very own Professor Saul Newman has a new book out on anarchism before the law: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-anarc…

Looking forward to our upcoming Politics seminar with Riccardo Baldissone (University of Westminster) on Latour and the compositionist manifesto gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1…

Congratulations to Professor Saul Newman on his latest book on post-anarchism and art: bloomsbury.com/uk/postanarchi…

Fascinating new policy brief by Goldsmiths’ Dr Rachel Ibreck with human rights organisation Defenddefenders: defenddefenders.org/taking-envirom…

Simon Griffiths writes about how the Westminster parliamentary system was transplanted to Asia in 'Eastminster: English bands and sitars' for @Con_Soc consoc.org.uk/eastminster-en…

In our blog this week Dr Simon Griffiths (@GoldsmithsPolit) considers how useful talking about the "Westminster Model" is abroad in 2025. Read it now at: consoc.org.uk/eastminster-en…