An analysis of George Osborne’s devolution agenda and all-academies school policy in the budget he presented last week as a form of “market-fostering subsidiarity.” Four legs good, two legs bad! — was the catchy maxim which first summarised the...
Doreen Massey died four days ago at her home in Kilburn. Even before her close friends and family could decide on how to announce her death, the social media were bursting with wishes for her peaceful rest: hundreds of mini memorials of 140 characters dedicated to a...
I came late to riot grrrl. It was 2004 and there was a rush on tickets in Brisbane to see a band called Le Tigre. It seemed like every lesbian in the city was going. “What kind of music is it?” I asked my then girlfriend. “They’re girls”, she answered, “they shout a...
Financial risk is a common term nowadays. It affects our life. It is the main reason of our existence since the start of the contagion risk. It was in 2008 that one of the biggest financial institutions collapsed in America: Lehman Brothers. Since that moment...
In the first flurry of publicity around the present referendum on the UK’s EU membership, the expected statement regarding the securing of UK sovereignty has not, perhaps surprisingly, been forthcoming. Instead we have been treated to rebuttals of Gove on the role of...
‘There has never been so much talk about politics as there is now! ‘And so little about life…’ (A conversation with friends, in the ‘year of change’) How might we understand the fundamental nature of the political management of this economic crisis? I think we can...
