Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
political theologian at the ministry for the future
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics, foreign policy, climate change, east asia (korea + japan)
words: Foreign Policy + LiberalCurrents
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Writer about law, lore, and policy.
Liberal constitutionalist. Janeite.
Birmingham/London.
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