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John Gray: the nationalist philosopher stoking ‘culture wars’ fires

“He and his cohort are today’s intellectual agent-provocateurs, laying booby-traps for progressives.“

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 19 Oct 2020

John Gray: the nationalist philosopher stoking ‘culture wars’ fires

Birmingham and the emergence of inter-marriage

The last of four excerpts from the forthcoming ‘Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham’: on the emergence of live and let live.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 11 Jan 2018

Birmingham: educating the kids

The third excerpt from the forthcoming ‘Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham’: on how to get a supplementary school up and running and why.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 10 Jan 2018

Birmingham and doing the work nobody else wants to do

The second of four excerpts from the forthcoming ‘Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham’: on the 3D jobs: dirty, dull or difficult.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 9 Jan 2018

Birmingham: a better city and a stronger economy

The first of four excerpts from the forthcoming ‘Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham’: on the move to white-collar jobs.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 8 Jan 2018

Dangerous road to divisive places

A review of The Road to Somewhere. The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart, London (2017).

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 11 Apr 2017

Responding to Brexit: breaking with neo-liberalism

The last of this series discusses how the damage caused by traditional left and social democratic party embrace of neo-liberal models of globalisation can be repaired, and social democracy reframed.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 7 Mar 2017

Responding to Brexit: breaking with neo-liberalism

The last of this series discusses how the damage caused by traditional left and social democratic party embrace of neo-liberal models of globalisation can be repaired, and social democracy reframed.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 7 Mar 2017

Responding to Brexit: returning to a social market model on migration

In the second part of the series on key inter-related aspects of the upheaval facing European countries and their citizens: how should the EU tackle the issue of internal migration?

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 6 Mar 2017

Responding to Brexit: returning to a social market model on migration

In the second part of the series on key inter-related aspects of the upheaval facing European countries and their citizens: how should the EU tackle the issue of internal migration?

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 6 Mar 2017

Responding to Brexit: taking the political initiative

This three part series considers key inter-related aspects of the current political upheaval facing the citizens and countries of Europe. This first article examines how the European political class should respond.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 5 Mar 2017

Responding to Brexit: taking the political initiative

This three part series considers key inter-related aspects of the current political upheaval facing the citizens and countries of Europe. This first article examines how the European political class should respond.

By Jon Bloomfield

/ 5 Mar 2017