Michael Wayne teaches film and television studies at Brunel University. He is the co-director, with Deirdre O’Neill of the feature length documentary The Condition of the Working Class (2012)
The dominant media have failed to report on the pain, misery and fatalities associated with economic violence: from the devastating effects of the Work Capability Assessments to the increase in foodbanks.
The neoliberal paradigm is economically dead but ideologically still very active especially in the education sector, which has assumed a far more business-like and 'entrepeneurial' value system.