Peter Hill

Peter Hill is a D. Phil. student at Oxford University working on Arabic literature. He is an editor of and regular contributor to the Oxford Left Review.

My 350 on BREXIT: Leave politicians have nothing to offer communities who voted out of Europe

"They are in fact among the keenest to destroy these institutions and make Britain ever more subservient to the City of London."

By Peter Hill

/ 29 Jun 2016

Selective sovereignty: UKIP and the independence of Britain

UKIP’s election manifesto is a confused document with a remarkably limited understanding of its two key terms: sovereignty and independence.

By Peter Hill

/ 30 Apr 2015

The left and the devil we don't know

The indendence referendum gives the people of Scotland the chance to act, to show the world that it's possible for ordinary people to stand up to the establishment. Let's hope that they do so.

By Peter Hill

/ 12 Sep 2014

The other global divide

What if London is drawing closer to New York and Dubai, but further away from Gloucestershire? Or still more specifically: the stylish bits of London closer to fashionable Manhattan, but further from Hackney and Brixton?

By Peter Hill

/ 6 Mar 2013

Patriots in the decent sense: rediscovering English nationalism

English nationalism has long been trapped between American-led globalisation and small-minded nostalgia. Can England rediscover its identity in its rich local, regional and radical movements?

By Peter Hill

/ 13 Apr 2012

Worlds apart: Fight Back! and The Purple Book compared

Two anthologies emanating from the broadly defined British left have wildly different conceptions of progress and democracy. One celebrates protest while the other refuses to stray from the narrow confines of existing political debate.

By Peter Hill

/ 13 Dec 2011