Why politics failsDrawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own award winning research on how democracy is more likely to thrive under high inequality, for instance Oxford professor Ben Ansell explains the cul de sac of modern politics and how we can make it better. Understanding these traps helps us escape or avoid them altogether, in ways small to large, ultimately showing how we can all thrive in an imperfect world.

outnumbered some 50-to-1

from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig

Neither side

They were the Celts

And through growing the food of Mauritius

who plots their elopement to Italy

At once darkly comic

lay in radical pragmatism and an ability to harness lofty ideals with meaningful practicality

app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation

The Straits of Treachery is set in Sicily during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars

Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere

Defying her family and the police