Mike Wayne

Mike Wayne is a Professor of Media at Brunel University and author of England’s Discontents: Political Cultures and National Identities Pluto Press 2018.

The Right’s New Jerusalem

Are we witnessing the birth pangs of a new English state?

By Mike Wayne

/ 15 Oct 2019

It is liberalism that has helped sow the seeds of illiberalism

Liberalism has lost its way because it has forgotten its own history, and the left seems similarly blindsided.

By Mike Wayne

/ 1 Oct 2018

It is liberalism that has helped sow the seeds of illiberalism

Liberalism has lost its way because it has forgotten its own history, and the left seems similarly blindsided.

By Mike Wayne

/ 1 Oct 2018

Putting class back onto the UK's equality agenda

The directors of a new documentary about class stratification in Britain’s acting profession argue that class needs to be added back into the UK Equality Act.

By Mike Wayne and Deirdre O’Neill

/ 14 Jan 2018

The gentrification of the left

While Labour represent the working class, they have become increasingly alienated by those who represent them in parliament and in the public eye. It's time to be honest about where we come from.

By Mike Wayne and Deirdre O'Neill

/ 22 Aug 2013