Am Ende zahlt immer jemand den Preis, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 01.01.2023.
As an Albanian, I know first hand the cruelty and contempt of UK immigration, New Statesman, December-January 2023, pp. 40-44.
The haunting divide between refugee and economic migrant, Financial Times 30.12.2022.
Here is a tortoise I found crossing the Albanian border. It should be that easy for all of us, Guardian 20.12.2022.
We Albanians, are just the latest victims of Britain’s ideological project, The Guardian, 04.11.2022.
I grew up in a paranoid dictatorship, isolating Russia won’t bring Europe peace, The Guardian, 21. 03. 2022
‘I thought there was nothing better than communism’: Lea Ypi on life after a Stalinist regime, The Guardian, 09.10.2021
Stato e mercato tra storia e economia: la questione migratoria, Novecento.org, issue 15, February 2021
Blaming 2020 for our misery obscures the reasons why this year was wretched, The Guardian, 09.12.2020
Why does the right keep pretending the left runs Britain? The Guardian, 12.09.2020
A crisis of the social contract: why we must transform our democracy, New Statesman, 03 July 2020 issue on “Anatomy of a crisis”
By tearing down our statues, Albanians stopped learning from the past, The Guardian, 14.06.2020
Why the right’s new strongmen are winning everywhere, The Guardian, 16.03.2020
Why Brexit won’t mark the end of Britain’s zero sum politics, The Guardian, 30.01.2020
Johnson or Corbyn? Democracy is in trouble when we’re obsessed with leaders, The Guardian, 12.12.2019.
I grew up in Stalinist Albania where voting was pointless, The Guardian, 11.11. 2019
Politics isn’t a “science” and polls are only ever half the story, New Statesman, 31.10.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy and in Social Europe blogs).
The EU praises the “Common Good” but its words ring hollow, The Guardian, 16.10.2019.
Boris Johnson may not be a fascist but he’s certainly started talking like one. The Independent, 30.09.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy Blog)
Why the world needs Immanuel Wallerstein’s radical vision more than ever, New Statesman, 10.09.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy Blog)
A national unity government to block no-deal Brexit would dig the nation’s grave, The Independent, 10.08.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy Blog)
What would Plato think of Boris Johnson? New Statesman, 25.07.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy Blog)
Change UK’s fall from grace was inevitable. Centrism is dead. The Independent, 06.06.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy Blog)
Can “remain and reform” ever be radical? New Statesman, 31.05.2019 (reposted in British Politics and Policy Blog)
The Centre is dead. When will the left wake up? The Independent 27.05.2019 (reposted in LSE British Politics and Policy Blog and in Social Europe Blog)
The left should focus on transforming the EU, rather than leaving it, New Statesman 05.04.2019 (reposted in LSE British Politics and Policy Blog)
Why the Left should unite behind open borders, New Statesman 28.03.2019 (reposted in LSE British Politics and Policy Blog)
Theresa May’s Trumpian statement was reminiscent of a sovereign dictator, New Statesman, 21.03.2019 (reposted in LSE British Politics and Policy Blog)
Why is “millenial socialism” on the rise? Because liberalism is failing, New Statesman, 11.03.2019 (reposted in LSE British Politics and Policy Blog)
Why The Independent Group is the Antithesis of Democracy, New Statesman, 22.02.2019
From Reform to Revolution, The Jacobin, 15.01.2019.
The left-wing case for a second referendum. New Statesman, 05.02.2019.
There is no left-wing case for Brexit: 21st century socialism requires transnational organisation, British Politics and Policy Blog, 22.11.2018.
Capitalism will not give us the will to fight capitalism, what we need is a new International, British Politics and Policy Blog, 27.01.2018.
Celebrate the transformation of the Labour party not the individual that happens to speak for it, Democratic Audit Blog, 11.06.2017
Jeremy Corbyn’s rise shows the true value of political parties, British Politics and Policy Blog, 02.10.2015
L’ascesa di Jeremy Corbyn e il risveglio della sinistra in Gran Bretagna, La Città Futura, 19.09.2015.
“It is true that some divisions are harmful to republics and some are helpful”: On Parties, Factions and the History of a Controversial Distinction, lawlog.blog.wzb.edu, 09.09.2015
Shqiptarët, liria për të lëvizur dhe liria për të qëndruar, Panorama, 10 11. 2010.
Non siamo criminali, riforma ora, Il Manifesto, 23.03.2010.
Çështja K., Panorama, 19.03.2010.
Il fragile cosmopolitismo del vecchio continente, Il Manifesto, 12.03. 2008 (Interview, Claus Offe)
La giustizia globale corre sull’innovazione, Il Manifesto, 10. 01. 2008 (Interview, Thomas Pogge).
Lea Ypi 