In this paper I focus on the political spatiality of immigration enforcement. In particular, I suggest that in the last two decades a network of immigration enforcement has been layered over existing spatial features of the American landscape. I examine the network of highways and...

The Brexit saga concluded in a predictably dramatic manner. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK was completed at the 11th hour, just days before the end of the transition period. The preceding days bore the hallmarks of discourse that verged between the stage managed...

A new and challenging account of Scotland's position within the United Kingdom. Written by a senior policy adviser to the UK government on devolution policy in the aftermath of the EU referendum, ranging from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

This article provides a new perspective on sovereign finance and money in England from pre-modern to early modern times. Re-reading the literature on sovereign fiscality through the lens of sovereign jurisdictions and religious authority, it describes two distinct forms of sovereign finance: the...

The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on 31 January 2020, following the Brexit referendum of June 2016. One of the central arguments used by "leave" supporters in the run up to the referendum concerned UK sovereignty in the sense of "taking back control" and restoring...

In the historical backdrop to domestic British debates about Brexit has been tension between two contrasting and competing conceptions of the Westminster Parliament's sovereignty. In issue has been whether or how parliamentary sovereignty has been subject to constraint, to limitations of form or...