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The BBC as ‘social cement’ 23 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
by Tom [The BBC’s first Director-General John Reith thought] broadcasting might bring together all classes of the population. It could prove to be a powerful means of promoting social unity particula...
Killing Happily…LOL/hahahahahaha 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
by Darren Ambrose The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012. UK release June 2013) To even talk of there being possible detrimental effects associated with watching excessive ‘acts’ of film viole...
Priestesses of the Encrucijada/Crossroads 20 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
by Sara C. Motta, Teodora Todorova Sara C. Motta is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Her research focus is the politics of subaltern resistance, with part...
The Gentrification of the Left 19 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
by Mike Wayne, Deirdre O'Neill The post-colonial philosopher Gayatri Spivak once famously asked: ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ Colonialism though is not just about race, it is also about that great unme...
Power & Prejudice: The Politics of Austerity (Part 2) 16 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
by Mark Blyth, Tom Mills Despite its evident failures, austerity remains the dominant political paradigm of our time. In the second of an in-depth two part interview, NLP’s Tom Mills speaks to Mark ...
Power & Prejudice: The Politics of Austerity (Part 1) 14 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
by Mark Blyth, Tom Mills The response of neoliberal governments to the financial crisis of 2007/8 was first to bail out the banks and then to introduce dramatic public spending cuts which it was clai...
The Absent Voices of the Imperial War Museums 13 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
by Shah Jahan The brainchild behind the Imperial War Museum, Sir Alfred Mond, said on its launch in June 1920: ‘The Museum was not conceived as a monument of military glory, but rather as a record of...
Racism and the Politics of Privilege 12 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
by John Holmwood Jake Wallis Simons, a Features writer for the Telegraph, is exercised by prejudice directed against Etonians. A photo-shopped picture of the UK Home Office’s controversial ‘Go Home o...
Campaign by workers at Curzon Cinemas continues 12 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
by Alice This is a guest post from John Brissenden. The Curzon Cinemas workers’ fight for a living wage, for union recognition and against zero-hours contracts highlights not only the increasingly h...
David Cameron in the Age of Pr0n 8 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
by Richard Seymour A young person trawling any pornographic search engine on the internet can be exposed to some shocking material, so I hear. Men with their heads in laundry baskets, sniffing undie...
