Alan Finlayson is Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia. His research is particularly concerned with the theory and practice of democratic politics, the study of political ideologies and also with political rhetoric. He is currently Principal Investigator on the research project Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the 'Alt-Right’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Co-Investigator on the research project Our Subversive Voice? The history and politics of English protest music also supported by the AHRC. As part of a project supported by The Leverhulme Trust he developed the website www.britishpoliticalspeech.org.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPowellism, Conservatism and SyriaEnoch Powell highlighted the differences between England's vision of itself and its reality, but has this led...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat is Blue Labour? An Interview with Jonathan RutherfordIn the second of a series of interviews on Blue Labour, Jonathan Rutherford tackles some common misconceptions with...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat is Blue Labour? An Interview with Marc StearsIn the first of a series of interviews on "Blue Labour", Marc Stears argues that the UK Labour party must recover a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShould the left go Blue? Making sense of Maurice GlasmanAs the figurehead of 'Blue Labour', Maurice Glasman is being hailed as an intellectual guru for the Labour Party. In...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCompass' vote on opening out its membership is a sign of the pluralist timesCompass is deciding whether or not to open itself to members of any political party - rather than, as at present,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe philosophical significance of UKUncut
When activists under the banner of UK Uncut protest outside high-street shops on Saturday 18th December they will be...