What criteria do scholars employ to say that an action or an event is a ritual, and what difference (if any) does it make to its character as well as to its efficacy?

Jeremy Hunt announced an Autumn Statement to tackle inflation, we talked to LSE academic Andy Summers about the tax plan.

Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, visited LSE in December 2022 to speak to students of LSE and other universities about the challenges Ukrainian's are facing as a result of Russia's invasion.

LSE are partners for Evidence Week in Parliament 2022, along with the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST), which is organised by Sense about Science.

This month, LSE iQ asks: Can gaming make us happier?

Celebrating 25 years of the Hellenic Observatory at LSE, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and LSE’s Kevin Featherstone discuss the challenges facing Greece and Europe.

This event formally launches the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy at LSE and picks up on themes in Hayek’s writings and that of many thinkers through the ages.

As part of the European Institute’s 30th Anniversary celebrations, celebrations through which we memorialise our own institutional history, this event will explore the role of memory and memorialisation in European societies in general.

Can poverty be eradicated? If so, why haven't we managed it yet?

This inaugural lecture is timed to tie-in with the publication of Leigh Gardner’s new book, Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980.