Blogs and pods

25/03/2025: Professor Sarah Irwin  and Dr Lone Sorensen carried out a small pilot research project examining public views of the cost of living crisis and climate policies. 

14/01/2025: Lone Sorensen examines the political contestation of the UK's Net Zero Strategy, highlighting growing climate scepticism among political leaders and the need to address climate change as a cultural issue to maintain public support.

04/07/2024: Lone Sorensen joins The Conversation's team of experts to comment on Reform UK's progress on election night.

01/07/2024: As the headlines about alleged racism in Reform UK pile up, party leader Nigel Farage has stepped up his own campaign to paint the media as undemocratic. Lone Sorensen discusses his anti-media populist rhetoric in the lead-up to the UK general election.

20/06/2024: Lone Sorensen pairs up with Professor John Whale to discuss poetry and post-truth in the context of climate change. The outcome is John Whale's poem Jizz, which engages with the problem of truth within the context of environmental idealism.

19/06/2024: Lone Sorensen is interviewed by Prof. Ben Ansell for the What's Wrong with Democracy podcast. With populists rising to power around the world, Ben wants to know why, and how they flourish. Could establishment politicians learn a thing or two from populists about how to communicate? Do populists offer real solutions to voters’ problems? Do they ever actually deliver on their promises?

31/05/2024: Lone Sorensen argues that we should pay close attention to political communication in the study of populism. Particularly important is how populist ideology and performance interact in the creation of meaning, how populists adapt their communications to various media, and how they talk about political communication as a democratic deficit

31/05/2018: This essay discusses the populist claim to authenticity in the context of post-truth scholarship.