Press & media

• 'The New Meaning of France’s Anti-Fascism' in Foreign Policy (11 July 2024)
• 'Did Anyone Really Win The French Election?' in The Wire (India) (10 July 2024)
• 'Macron Is Destroying His Democracy to Save It' in Foreign Policy (13 June 2024)
• 'Why Marine Le Pen Always Loses' (co-authored with Michael C. Behrent) in Foreign Policy (20 April 2022)
• 'Entre néolibéralisme et populisme: les élections présidentielles vues du Royaume-Uni' in Esprit (March 2022)
• 'The Real Reason France Is Skeptical of Vaccines' in Foreign Policy (3 February 2021)
• 'Is academic freedom under threat in France?' (co-authored with Tim Peace) in Al-Jazeera (17 November 2020)
• '2020: année zéro?' as part of the series 'Coronavirus: une conversation mondiale' for Le Temps d'un Débat on France Culture (28 May 2020)
• 'Why French left has a problem with Islamophobia' (co-authored with Tim Peace) in Al-Jazeera (17 November 2019)
• 'Brexit: "L'électorat écossais se sent plus européen"', interview for Radio France Internationale (15 March 2017)
• 'A year after Charlie Hebdo, France is still searching for answers' in The Conversation (7 January 2016). Also available in French as 'Un an après Charlie, les Français en quête de renouveau' and in German as 'Ein Jahr nach Charlie Hebdo: Frankreich sucht nach Antworten'
• 'La République toujours en chantier' in Libération (11 March 2015). This is an abridged version of 'Après l'Empire: Les idéaux politiques face aux nouvelles réalités sociales, 1970-2000' in Emmanuel Laurentin (ed.), Histoire d'une République fragile (1905-2015) (Paris: Fayard, 2015)
• 'Fragile France must avoid further division after Paris attacks' in The Conversation (13 January 2015)

I have an occasional column in the Indian daily newspaper The Hindu. These are some of the articles I have written for them in recent years:

• 'An interpretation of the French elections' in The Hindu (30 April 2022)
• 'A fragile French Republic' in The Hindu (4 November 2020)
• 'United colours of the 'yellow vests'' in The Hindu (6 December 2018)
• 'The French connection on and off the pitch' in The Hindu (21 July 2018)
• 'Emmanuel Macron, a triumph for French liberalism' in The Hindu (9 May 2017)
• 'And now there are two' in The Hindu (25 April 2017)
• 'An echo of the French past' in The Hindu (8 April 2017)
• 'Big test at the Elysee Palace' in The Hindu (19 March 2017)
• 'An uphill task for Marine Le Pen' in The Hindu (13 February 2017)
• 'Do not break away, Britain' in The Hindu (21 June 2016)
• 'The warnings from France's far-right' in The Hindu (16 December 2015)
• 'Hope and clarity in Paris' in The Hindu (18 November 2015)

• 'What is going on in French politics?', a discussion of the 2024 French legislative elections with Assa Samaké-Roman for 'Our Friends in Europe', The National newspaper's Europe podcast (24 June 2024)
• Panellist on BBC World Service Weekend to discuss current affairs (1 July 2023)
• Guest appearance on the Times Literary Supplement podcast to talk about Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre's book on actualité politique and the dynamics of political time (28 July 2022)
• Panellist on BBC World Service Weekend to discuss current affairs (4 June 2022)
• Guest appearance on the Bunker Daily podcast with Ros Taylor to talk about the aftermath of the French presidential elections (27 April 2022)
• 'Les divisions françaises sont-elles insurmontables?', panellist on France Culture's debate programme Le temps d'un débat (25 April 2022)
• Guest appearance on the American Prestige podcast with Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison to talk about the 2022 French elections (15 April 2022)
• New Books in French Studies podcast with Roxanne Panchasi on my book France (12 November 2021)
• In spring 2020, I hosted a podcast series in my role as director of the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History. The series, entitled 'CSMCH Showcase', consisted of eight 30-minute episodes, during which I interviewed Centre members about their research. You can listen to the series online at Audiomack or via any podcast app by searching for the 'CSMCH Edinburgh' channel.
• 'Marxism', a discussion of the past and future of Marxist ideas for Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 (2 May 2018)
• 'French writing and politics', a discussion of Sabri Louatah’s novel The Savages, Part 1 for Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 (17 January 2018)
• 'Emmanuel Macron and the future of French politics', an interview for Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 (11 May 2017).
• New Books in French Studies podcast with Roxanne Panchasi on my book A Divided Republic (24 August 2016)
• 'The Big Idea Podcast: After Paris and Islamic State', with Thomas Pierret and Joshua Ralston (1 December 2015)
• 'Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là? Histoire d'une République fragile', panellist on France Culture's history programme La Fabrique de l'Histoire (19 January 2015)

• 'Les fractures françaises', a response to the second round of the French presidential elections as part of a forum for Tocqueville21 (25 April 2022)
• 'No Alarms and No Surprises?', a response to the first round of the French presidential elections as part of a forum for Tocqueville21 (11 April 2022)
• 'Franco-British relations: plus ça change?' in UK In A Changing Europe (22 December 2021)
• 'Who are the gilets jaunes?' in H-Diplo and the International Security Studies Forum (April 2019)
• 'Emmanuel Macron: The Meaning of the Man' in H-Diplo and the International Security Studies Forum (November 2017)
• 'Europe's far-right: the new normal?' in 'Historian's Watch', the blog of History Workshop Journal (20 March 2017)
• 'Why citizenship (still) matters in France' in The Immanent Frame (4 April 2016)
• 'How long can France's state of emergency last?' in European Futures (3 February 2016)
• 'Quelle République après le 13 novembre' in Libération (18 November 2015)
• 'Whose postcolonialism? The French and their colonial past' on the University of Birmingham Modern and Contemporary History blog (5 October 2015)
• 'A crisis is just what France needed. Or is it?' on the Cambridge University Press blog fifteeneightyfour (22 January 2015)
• 'Whose war is it anyway? (with Robert Tombs)' on the Bloomsbury Academic blog (5 February 2014)

• Interview in English with Christophe Premat about my book A Divided Republic at the University of Stockholm (4 November 2019)
  
  
  
• Video of a talk about Hobsbawm and the Communist Party Historians Group at OP Jindal University in Sonipat in India (15 February 2018)
  
  
  
• Vidéo d'une conférence intitulée 'Les trois cultures socialistes depuis les années 1970' pour la table ronde 'Socialisme, temps et culture' à la Fondation Jean Jaurès à Paris (26-27 January 2017)
  
  
  
• Interview en français avec Emmanuel Jousse autour de mon livre A Divided Republic à la Fondation Jean Jaurès à Paris (30 March 2018)
  
  
  

• For a quick introduction to my research on France, see my 'Research in a Nutshell' video or my 2015 Edinburgh Festival lecture on contemporary French politics.