29 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last week NLP attended the launch of a new book, Public Service on the Brink – a timely edited collection describing the denigration of the public service ethos over the last three decades. Tom Mills spoke to one of the book’s contributors, the PCS’s General Secretary Mark Serwotka, about the...
28 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Media, Racism
Stephen Harper is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests span political and social issues in British television, critical theory and cultural geopolitics. He has written academic articles on a wide range of subjects including British...
14 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the second of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the relationship between...
12 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the first of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the early development of...
26 January, 2012 // Category:
Like so many movements for equality and social justice, the student protest movement in the UK and the occupy movement in the US have come up against the capitalist state in its most immediate and repressive form: the police. Robert Reiner is professor of criminology at the London School of...
16 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Book Review, Culture, Europe, History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, The Right
The Crisis of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age by Alana Lentin and Titley, Zed Books, 2011, 284 pp. Defending Multiculturalism: A Guide for the Movement by Hassan Mahamdallie (ed.), Bookmarks, 231 pp. In 2011 David Cameron brought neo-Powellite racism to the heart of Government. ...
10 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, Religion, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the second of a two-part interview he discusses his book...
08 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the first of a two-part interview he discusses the book with...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
13 October, 2011 // Category:
Stephen Devereux is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton. He is the author of Theories of Famine and editor of The New Famines: Why famines persist in an era of globalisation. He spoke to Tom Mills about the current situation in Somalia and the broader food...
03 October, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Activists and scholars campaigning for a more democratic and humane media face a daunting task. Outnumbered and outgunned by corporate lawyers and lobbyists, we must of course use our limited time and resources wisely and pick our fights carefully. Mindful of this reality, I have great sympathy...
26 July, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Media, Politics, Racism
In his classic text The Sociological Imagination, C Wright Mills observed that ‘men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction… the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live.’ [1] He argued that the job of...
17 June, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics, Racism
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has spent his academic life mapping the social, political and medical geographies of Britain, concentrating on inequality and differences in life chances. He is the author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality...
14 June, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has spent his academic life mapping the social, political and medical geographies of Britain, concentrating on inequality and differences in life chances. He is the author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality...
04 June, 2011 // Category: International, Media, Politics
Greg Philo is Research Director of the Glasgow Media Group and co-author with Mike Berry of More Bad News From Israel, a new edition of their seminal study Bad News From Israel. The book further examines the portrayal of the Israel-Palestine conflict in British television news and its impact on...
24 May, 2011 // Category: Culture, Media, Racism, Religion
Racism against Muslims, or Islamophobia, is an urgent problem that needs to be addressed. It has been on the rise in Europe and the United States for years, but several recent developments are of particular concern. In France, a law came into force last month banning the full face veil, which...
10 May, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Richard Jackson is Professor in International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth. He has written, co-authored and edited of a number of books on terrorism including the recently published Terrorism: A Critical Introduction. In an interview with NLP’s Tom Mills he talks about the ‘War on...
07 April, 2011 // Category: Media
Since the publication of the Hutton Report even liberal journalists like John Kampfner have argued that the BBC has been guilty of ‘muzzling journalism and deliberately avoiding giving offence to the Government and the Establishment’. This is certainly true and it has been powerfully...
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