NEW: What makes a good judge?⚖ Ross Cranston’s Judging @lselaw.bsky.social examines this question from the perspective of a judge now retired from the UK bench. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of the UK justice system, writes Daniel Clark @sussex.ac.uk

📝 Read an edited excerpt recently published by @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... #LSEMedia #ProfessorBartCammaerts #MediaTheory #NewBook #Routledge

NEW: Victor Mallet’s Far-Right France @hurstpublishers.bsky.social examines the rise of the far right in France through the successful alliance between Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella and their appeal to rural voters. Review by @laurentwarlouzet.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr 👇

NEW: Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain by @sarahobolt.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social & James Tilley @ox.ac.uk examines the two opposing, enduring political identities forged by the 2016 Brexit Referendum: Leavers & Remainers. Review by @timbale.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social 👇

NEW: Resisting myths of oppression, embracing the human. Elaine Coburn introduces The Emma LaRocque Reader @uoftpress.bsky.social, a collection of writings by the renowned indigenous scholar, author, poet and activist from the Métis community in northeastern Alberta, Canada.

We are looking forward to the official book launch of #Tribal #Politics on Tuesday 5 May from 6pm to 7.30pm in the #LSE Shaw Library! Tickets are limited and are available now: www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

Great book - here's my review, hot off the @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social press!

NEW: Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain by @sarahobolt.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social & James Tilley @ox.ac.uk examines the two opposing, enduring political identities forged by the 2016 Brexit Referendum: Leavers & Remainers. Review by @timbale.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social 👇

"The idea of a ‘free’ internet... has paradoxically fuelled a mainstream business model based on the commodification of users' sociality." #BartCammaerts explores how subcultures were captured by surveillance #capitalism. @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social book extract: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

NEW: From the internet's early countercultural ideals to today’s surveillance capitalism and fluid digital landscape, is the binary of “mainstream” and “alternative” media still meaningful? Read an extract Bart Cammaerts’ Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory @routledgebooks.bsky.social 👇

Global capitalist value chains are exploiting workers and destroying the environment. Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics by Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold reviewed by @abieler.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social

NEW: In our latest bookshop guide @lselibrary.bsky.social 's Chelsea Collison takes us on a tour of the best spots for booklovers in Gainesville, Florida (incl. @thelynxbooks.bsky.social). "A place where DIY culture and political resistance intersect is ripe for good reading material," she writes.

NEW: Global capitalist value chains are exploiting workers and destroying the environment. Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics by Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold @oxunipress.bsky.social reviewed by @abieler.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social

NEW: How India’s nomadic communities fight for land rights and gender justice. Nomadic Indigenous Peoples & the Law by Indrani Sigamany @routledgebooks.bsky.social analyses how these communities navigate land dispossession, gendered injustices & administrative barriers. Review by Prabhat Sharma

NEW: To mark the new translation of her book Seduction @politybooks.bsky.social into Chinese, Rachel O'Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social reflects on how “PUA” culture resonates in China, its roots in neoliberal ideas of masculinity, and how platform algorithms shape our intimate relationships.

Our newsletter is out today 📫 exploring different forms of power – from the rise of the strongman president in the US to the empowerment of women refugees through humanitarian agencies. Plus, a reading list for the new Women's Library centenary exhibition at LSE. Read it here 👉 shorturl.at/WnUsO

For #InternationalWomensDay, @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating the centenary of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social #IWD

NEW: To mark the new translation of her book Seduction @politybooks.bsky.social into Chinese, Rachel O'Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social reflects on how “PUA” culture resonates in China, its roots in neoliberal ideas of masculinity, and how platform algorithms shape our intimate relationships.

Where will the US-Israeli war in Iran end? Our latest newsletter is out now 📬 considering this question and the broader geopolitical history of the Middle East. We also share posts to mark Women's History Month and International Women's Day. Read more 👉 us21.campaign-archive.com?e=4a56edb876...

LSE librarian @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating 100 years of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

Happy World Book Day to all the writers, editors, researchers, publishers, copyeditors, proof-readers, designers and everyone in-between who puts books into the world – and to all of us who love to read them! 📚

NEW: The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith @yale.edu @britishacademy.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social is a 500-year history of the relationship between humans & their environments & a masterful attempt to acknowledge the ecological underpinnings of human freedom. Review by Maximilian Fenner

NEW: A comparative study of how women-focused humanitarian aid agencies in the UK and France approach refugee women's empowerment by Zeynep Kilicoglu @lsegender.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Review by @eolivius.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social ⬇

NEW: How has Islam evolved from its beginnings to now? Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present by John Tolan @princetonupress.bsky.social offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Review by Haider Ali.

NEW: The rise of the strongman president has endangered US democracy. Trajectory of Power by Terry Moe & William Howell @princetonupress.bsky.social charts the expansion of US presidential power during the modern era and its dangerous consequences. @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social

NEW: How important is the art of performance to gaining political power? Performing Power by Marcus Morgan @bristoluni.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of power in politics. Review by Milica Resanovic 👇

Do you know a city, town or region with great bookshops? 📚 We'd love you to contribute to our global bookshop guide series! Email us at [email protected] with the place you'd like to feature. 📷 Photo of Daunt Books, Marylebone, London by mirigifford on Shutterstock

NEW: The Revolutionists by @theguardian.com's @jasonburke2.bsky.social explores a shocking period of transnational political violence in the 1970s. He spoke to LSE Review of Books about the people behind the acts, the rise of leftist and Islamist extremisms, and how these events reverberate today.

NEW: The problem with billionaire power goes far beyond Epstein. Stinking Rich by @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social & The Haves and Have-Yachts by @eosnos.bsky.social @newyorker.com @simonandschuster.bsky.social reveal how billionaires undermine democracy. Review by E. Coburn 👇

NEW ✨How UN peacekeeping camps coexist with urban life Worlding Home: An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC by Maren Larsen reviewed by @sdanielak.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social @unibas.ch @lseid.bsky.social

NEW✨ The politics of beauty in the salons of Bangalore. The Goddess in the Mirror by Tulasi Srinivas @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social is a study of how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in the beauty parlours of urban India. Review by Gunjan Shekhawat 👇

NEW✨ Housing is far more than physical shelter. It shapes and is shaped by the social conditions of its inhabitants, and housing policy should reflect that. Beyond Bricks and Mortar by Anne Power @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social, reviewed by Christiane Tarantino 👇

How do international courts arrive at their decisions? Read an interview with Theresa Squatrito @lseir.bsky.social about her book, Judging under Constraint @universitypress.cambridge.org for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

NEW✨ The hidden history of the Cameroon War and France’s neocolonial hold on Africa. Ewa Majczak @lsemedia.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk reviews The Cameroon War by Thomas Deltombe, @manueldomergue.bsky.social and Jacob Tatsitsa, translated by David Broder @versobooks.bsky.social

ICYMI👀 Our most recent bookshop guide took you around Toronto's snowy streets to find the best booksellers in the city. Read it below, and if you'd like to contribute a bookshop guide to a city you know, please get in touch!

NEW: An interview with Theresa Squatrito @lseir.bsky.social about her book, Judging under Constraint @universitypress.cambridge.org. Making decisions on issues from war crimes to climate change& antitrust cases, "it’s important for us to understand how these courts arrive at their decisions."

NEW✨ The shifting politics of Big Tech – why Elon Musk pivoted to the right and embraced Donald Trump. Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by @jacobsilverman.com @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social reviewed by @martincwwalker.bsky.social

"As media continues to fracture, misinformation will play an ongoing role in politics around the world; this book helps us understand some of the factors that lead people to believe it," Gabriella Levy writes for LSE Review of Books about Seeing is Disbelieving by CMIST's @dmsilverman.bsky.social.

Gramsci, popular mobilisation and the power of collective action. From Subordination to Revolution by John Chalcraft @lsegovernment.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social Review by Jade Orr @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

NEW✨ Is there a better model than DEI initiatives to reduce bias in the workplace? Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi @harvardkennedy.bsky.social #Review by Mais Robinson @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 👇

NEW✨ What makes people believe misinformation in the context of war? Seeing is Disbelieving by Daniel Silverman @cmu.edu @universitypress.cambridge.org explores why people believe misinformation in wartime, and how proximity to conflict shapes belief. Review by @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social ⬇

NEW✨ Gramsci, popular mobilisation and the power of collective action From Subordination to Revolution by John Chalcraft @lsegovernment.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social Read the review by Jade Orr 👉 ow.ly/mRvC50Y4KPE

Matt Goodwin's trajectory, from scholar of the far-right to its 'organic' intellectual to parliamentary candidate, certainly has an ideological component but ultimately can't be understood without factoring in his own material interests. From my review of his book for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social.

The new LSE Research for the World has a reading list on the workings & future of world trade, chosen by @sjrickard.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @thomsampson.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social & researchers @lselaw.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social & more 📚👇

NEW✨ Maximising shareholder profits isn’t good business in the long term. The Corporation in the 21st Century by John Kay @profilebooks.bsky.social (UK) Yale University Press (US) reviewed by Hans Despain @uofmass.bsky.social 👇

NEW✨ Refugees are political agents in their lives, not passive victims. Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible: Practices of the Subject by Amelie Harbisch @routledgebooks.bsky.social reviewed by @isobelclare.bsky.social @yorkstjohn.bsky.social

📢 LSE Public Lecture - Can natural capital be replaced? Dive into the debate on weak vs strong sustainability with Prof Eric Neumayer and explore whether natural capital can truly be substituted by other forms of capital. 🌍 🗓 10 Feb 2026 | 🕡 6.30–8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre & Online 👉 zurl.co/vSltz

GDP is an outdated way to measure economies says @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Read a review of her book The Measure of Progress @princetonupress.bsky.social 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... She will speak @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social tomorrow at 6.30pm – details 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-m...

"If progress has led you to a position more perilous than beneficial, that progress is not sustainable." NEW✨ Jake Scott reviews two books of essays by Slavoj Žižek, Against Progress & Zero Point @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social which mount a provocative critique of liberal progressivism & the Left.

My review of Tyranny of the Minority by Levitsky and Ziblatt was published @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social just over 2 years ago. I think my conclusions have held up rather well. (Sadly.)