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...
04 May, 2012 // Category: Europe, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The first round of the French Presidential elections has raised important lessons for the democratic left – about both organisation and ideas. The media is talking about how well the far right did. But the socialist left did well too. More than one in ten electors voted for the Front de Gauche....
30 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last month New Left Project published an edition of Dan Hind's new pamphlet, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, which makes a powerful case for generalising the model of public meetings and discussion popularised by the Occupy movement, to empower 'the 99%' to reclaim...
29 April, 2012 // Category: China, International, Politics
Wang Kang, a sixty-something, well connected man about Chongqing, calls himself a buyi, a term loosely meaning ‘unaffiliated scholar.’ Mr Wang’s scholarship consists of a low level but productive multimedia career, one which has seen him apparently gain widespread familiarity with the city’s...
27 April, 2012 // Category: Education, Politics
I have worked all my life in education, as a teacher, head teacher and governor, in all sorts of schools, grammar, comprehensive and secondary modern – even a few years in a private school in New York. Being asked to contribute to Public Service on the Brink forced me to try to make better sense...
26 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Politics
Development officer, community mobilizer, public defender – the Ugandan MP wears many caps. This situation applies across much of sub-Saharan Africa, where acting as representative on a national assembly may rank only second among an MP’s chief concerns. This article takes a closer look at the...
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...
22 March, 2012 // Category: Economy, Politics
We know by now that George Osborne is a species of economic illiterate. Cutting government spending in a weak economy makes the economy weaker, not stronger. Demand falls, meaning firms sell less. If firms sell less, they cut wages and make redundancies. A vicious circle is established. And firms...
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...
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...
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