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The surveillance scandal rumbles on. Following last week’s dramatic revelations about the scale of National Security Agency surveillance, media attention has now turned to Britain’s … Read the rest
This week the House of Commons held a debate to mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War. The motion, in backbench business committee time, was introduced by Caroline Lucas, … Read the rest
Past months have seen a steady flow of remakes of classic British political TV series. For example, House of Cards has been adapted into a US political drama. I recently … Read the rest
Exultant reactions to Margaret Thatcher’s death – which took various forms from street parties and burning effigies, to a concerted internet effort to get the song ‘Ding Dong the Witch … Read the rest
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On 10th June, David Cameron gave a speech to DP World at London Gateway in Essex. The speech was wide-ranging, covering globalisation, Britain’s place … Read the rest
The release of The Spirit of ’45, Ken Loach’s paean to the reforms of Clement Attlee’s Labour government, combined with the Conservative/Liberal Democrat rhetoric of national consensus in the … Read the rest
In 1913 G.B. Samuelson and Will Barker got together to make an unprecedented British moving picture. The longest and most prestigious cinema project attempted to date, this superfilm of the … Read the rest
This Saturday I’ll be presenting Very British Dystopias on Radio Four as part of its Archive Hour series.
The documentary is partly based on work I’ve done for this forthcoming … Read the rest
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Following on from our league table of Politics departments on Twitter, we have drawn up a list of Politics academics that are also using Twitter.
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Fifty years ago today, John Profumo, a war minister in Harold Macmillan’s Government resigned when he admitted to having lied over his affair with Christine Keeler, … Read the rest