# Liam Stanley

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Britain Alone: How a decade of conflict remade the nation

In the last episode of this series of the Mile End Institute Podcast, our Deputy Director, Dr Karl Pike, talks to Dr Liam Stanley from the University of Sheffield about his new book, Britain Alone: How a decade of conflict remade the nation, which was published by Manchester University Press earlie…

Diverse Dreams: Episode 1 - All Dreamers Are Equal?

Hosted by Tiago Cordeiro, this episode explores the history and current challenges of Canadian Paralympic athletes. Olivia Meier, a bronze medalist in Para badminton at the 2023 Parapan American Games, and Liam Stanley, a former soccer player turned Para athletics silver medalist, share their journ…

Diverse Dreams: Episode 2 - The Cheapest Dreamers?

Hosted by Tiago Cordeiro and Eva Miranda, this episode explores how Canadian society supports its para-athletes, emphasizing the financial and training disparities they face. Canada has hosted numerous major sporting events, but Paralympic athletes still struggle with limited funding and resources.…

Diverse Dreams: Episode 4 - Inspiring Dreams

In Episode 4 of "Diverse Dreams," Tiago Cordeiro and Eva Maia Miranda celebrate the stories of para-athletes. They highlight the legacy of Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, who raised millions for cancer and spinal cord research through their incredible journeys. The episode also features personal account…

New Thinking: What is Political Economy?

Political economists are inspired to understanding the major challenges that face our society today: climate breakdown and global environmental change, workers' rights across global supply chains, the intensification of war, the rise of the far-right, public health crises and so much more. But what…

Introducing 'SPERI Presents...'

This introductory episode of SPERI Presents… gives listeners a taste of political economy as a discipline and SPERI as an institute while setting the scene for series to come. Dr Remi Edwards is joined by current SPERI co-director Professor Andrew Hindmoor and SPERI affiliates Dr Natalie Langford a…

Britain in an age of crisis 2001-2025

The period of the last 25 years in Britain has been one of continual crisis and disaster, from the Iraq War to the financial crisis to Brexit and covid. Britain has been transformed by these disasters and now is a smaller, poorer and more isolated country, perhaps permanently so. In his book Britai…

Rationing, austerity and nostalgia

In this episode of Explaining History, Nick explores how nostalgia has become a toxic force in British politics. Drawing on Liam Stanley’s Britain Alone, we examine how the "Blitz Spirit" and memories of WWII rationing have been cynically weaponized to justify modern austerity. Why do politicians s…

Austerity Never Ended – The Cultural Politics of Thrift in Modern Britain

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we examine the enduring legacy of austerity – a policy that officially ran from 2010 to 2024, but whose cultural and political effects are still very much with us. The Labour government has made token gestures toward rolling back austerity – endin…

Britain Alone – The Hostile Environment and the Remaking of Britishness

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the transformation of British society since Brexit – a story of the weaponisation of immigration, the erosion of the NHS, and the narrowing of who counts as "British." Drawing on Liam Stanley's excellent book, Britain Alone, we examine h…