STICERD Public Events and Lectures
The Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy
Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy
The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay
Stephen Davies (John Locke Political Institute)
Wednesday 04 March 2026 18:30 - 20:00
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About this event
The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere.
Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about 'populism' or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends. We are transitioning, he argues, from an era where the key political division was over the economic structure of society to one where the primary division is between a vision rooted in national identity and sovereignty, and an essentially post-national cosmopolitanism. This change upends the ideological and electoral alliances that have structured our political systems for decades.
No-one who wishes to truly understand the crises currently roiling the political status quo can afford to miss this stunning panoramic analysis of how this process works and how it is playing out across the world, from the USA and Germany to Argentina and India, and beyond.
This event features Dr Steve Davies and his new book "The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay".
About the speaker
Stephen Davies is Senior Academic Fellow at the John Locke Institute. From 1979 to 2009 he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was then Head of Education at the Institute for Economic Affairs. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph.
For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.