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Month: March 2018

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The Poll Tax ‘Riot’: Thatcher, the Met and its aftermath

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  • New piece in Times Higher Ed on Education (No. 2) Act 1986 and the Tories
    With Gavin Williamson proposing new legislation to compel student unions to maintain free speech on campus, Times Higher Education has published an opinion piece by myself on the attempt by the Thatcher government in 1986 to ban ‘no platforming’ with the Education (No. 2) Act. You can find it here and a longer version on […]
  • Book review: Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right
    This was originally published on my Patreon here. Subscribe and help me continue my research and writing endeavours. Failed Führers is the new book by scholar of British fascism, Graham Macklin, published as part of Routledge’s Fascism and the Far Right series, and is the result of years of meticulous research on the history of […]
  • New journal article on neo-Nazism and border control in Britain and Australia
    I am very excited to announce that my new article, ‘Keeping the Nazi Menace Out: George Lincoln Rockwell and the Border Control System in Australia and Britain in the Early 1960s’, has been published in the journal Social Sciences. This is part of the ARC project, ‘Managing Migrants and Border Control in Britain and Australia, […]
  • The free speech on campus culture war rages on
    This was originally posted on my Patreon page over the weekend. If you enjoy my work and have the means, please subscribe and support my research/writing. In his speech to the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump repeatedly referred to ‘cancel culture’, ‘radical professors’ and ‘speech codes’ as things to be battled in the United States. […] […]
  • Chapter 1 of the ‘No Platform’ book free to download
    For those who are interested in my book, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech, but haven’t picked up a copy yet, you can freely download the (quite lengthy) first chapter of the book from here. Just click on the ‘preview PDF’ button on the right hand side. And you […]
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