Dr Richard Johnson
writer; senior lecturer in politics, Queen Mary University of London; co-author, Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922

Dr Richard Johnson is senior lecturer in politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His two main areas of research are US electoral politics and UK Labour history.

He is the author of numerous academic articles and two books on US politics: The End of the Second Reconstruction: Obama, Trump, and the crisis of civil rights (2020) and US Foreign Policy: domestic roots and international impact (2021). He is co-editor of Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom (with Yuan Yi Zhu, 2023). He is also co-author of Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 (with Mark Garnett & Gavin Hyman, 2024).

He has written widely on US and UK politics for the media, with articles published in New Statesman, Tribune, The Spectator, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Jacobin, The Critic and UnHerd.

He is the co-host of the Since Attlee and Churchill podcast, with Lee David Evans.

Follow Richard on X: @richardmarcj

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