Lecture
Robert Fox
Monday 27.04.2026
Robert Fox
Power and the People: Home and Away
Monday 27.04.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 27 April at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
These days, we see increasing references to populism and populist politics. But do they really point politics and the governance of the world in a different direction? Do the populists really serve the people? And, who are “the people”? This is one of the big mysteries hidden in plain sight with the wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The people of Iran are hard to reach, and hard to fathom—despite all the blandishments of social media. What does social resilience mean in the case of hard-pressed Ukrainian and Russian civil society? Do the populists really give the people what the people want or need? This is the current challenge to major democracies across the world, and they are meeting it in vastly different ways.
Robert Fox
Robert Fox has been a professional reporter, commentator, author, and broadcaster for over 40 years. He has reported from the front in the Falklands conflict of 1982, the Middle East, including Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. After leaving Oxford with an honors degree in history in 1967, he has worked as a staff reporter and correspondent for the BBC and the Daily Telegraph. He is currently defense correspondent for the Evening Standard and broadcasts frequently for the BBC, Sky, and Radio 24 in Italy. Among his books are Eyewitness Falklands (1982), Antarctica and the South Atlantic (1985), and Camera in Conflict(1995). Robert lectures frequently to the British Army and the diplomatic community in London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House.