21 May, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Media, Politics, The Right
Last week Boris Johnson wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph in which he explicitly called for the appointment of a free-market, pro-business Tory to succeed the outgoing BBC Director-General Mark Thompson. This new Director-General, Johnson said, must change the BBC, which he...
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...
26 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media
This week NLP took part in a publishing experiment - we published one of three versions of a new e-pamphlet by Dan Hind, called Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty. In this article, also co-published on Dan's blog and openDemocracy, Dan explains the attractions of the...
20 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Editor's note: Today we are excited to launch our publication of a new ebook by Dan Hind on the Occupy movement and deliberative politics. In Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, Dan makes a powerful case for the need to generalise the model of public meetings and...
13 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Culture, Media
In an article in early 2011 the Deterritorial Support Group wrote that those judging political activism from afar, detached from real life in city streets, could be “forgiven for thinking that the prime concern of class struggle today is social media”. This judgement could only have been...
02 January, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, Law, Media
Even if you didn’t know much about it, you might consider the head of the official Government inspectorate of prisons an unlikely source for reactionary, authoritarian rhetoric about the UK’s “cushy” and “comfortable” prisons. You’d probably find it still more unlikely if you knew anything about...
12 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Media, Vision/Strategy
Over the next few weeks NLP will present a range of material relating to the most recent edition of Socialist Register - The Crisis and the Left. We kick off with an exclusive presentation of David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive...
04 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Media, Politics
Former Guardian leader writer and regular political columnist Julian Glover recently left the paper to take up a post as speechwriter to David Cameron. Glover would probably be the first to accept that, given the nature of his political views, his departure will not necessarily be lamented by all...
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...
20 October, 2011 // Category: Culture, Disability, Media
Ricky Gervais has, you'll have heard, caused quite a stir on Twitter by using the word "mong" – derived from "mongoloid", offensive slang for a person with Down's Syndrome. Gervais has been reluctant to justify his tweets, and admonished his collaborator Warwick Davis for apologising when he...
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