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Sol Campbell, quotas and institutional isms
Sol Campbell recently claimed that he would have to move abroad to get a management position in football because of the inherent racism in the British game. Those of you who aren’t sport fans might be...
View ArticleCharity is politics – only English “common sense” pretends otherwise
The claim by Brooks Newmark that charities should stick to knitting rather than politics was greeted with some rather amusing responses. But it betrayed two deeper elements of English politics. First,...
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1985 – WrestleMania
31 March 1985 – New York City This was the moment that the modern version of professional wrestling – cartoon characters, big venues, loud music, pyrotechnics and Spandex went global. Or, at least,...
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1989 – The Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 November 1989 – Berlin Mauerfall1 is one of two iconic events in my lifetime that might be said to mark the “end” of the twentieth century world.2 I would say it was the most important. The world...
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1992 – The Premier League
15 August 1992 – London, Ipswich, Liverpool, Southampton, Coventry, Leeds and Sheffield The sport of Association Football was invented in 1992 when the Premier League first kicked off at 3pm, 15 August...
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1993 – Maastricht and NAFTA
1 November 1993 – Europe; 8 December 1993 – Washington D.C. 1993 saw the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in Europe, and the formation of the European Union (EU). Over the pond, the North American...
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1994 – The Rwandan Genocide
6 April 1994 – Kigali When a aeroplane carrying the President was shot down over Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, the government responded in brutal fashion. The ruling classes, dominated by an ethnic group...
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1997 – The 1997 General Election
1 May 1997 – United Kingdom TRIGGER WARNING: The images and video associated with this post may be “too nineties” for young children, and may also be unacceptable to other viewers. None of this should...
View Article2002 – The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
My mother once told me of a place, With waterfalls an unicorns flying. Where there was no suffering, no pain. Where there was laughter instead of dying. I always thought she’d made it up, To comfort me...
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2005 – Hurricane Katrina
29 August 2005 – New Orleans It’s been ten years since Katrina tore through the South East of the United States, causing thousands to lose their lives and billions of dollars worth of damage. The...
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2014 – The Russian Annexation of Crimea
18 March 2014 – Crimea This sort of thing wasn’t supposed to happen any more. Europe had found other ways to settle its disputes. Armies just don’t walk into their neighbours and steal their land in...
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Yes, we probably need to better define “neoliberalism”
Well. Twitter seems to be in a bit of a state. That’s not new. But this week’s debate is over whether neoliberalism is really a thing. In the perfect example of how to use academic blogging and social...
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