Michael Gardiner is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at The University of Warwick. His books include The Return of England (2012) and The Constitution of English Literature (2013).
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC and British brandingThe corporation’s claims to the public and to neutrality are crucial for the British state and its power across the globe.
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Published in: HomeNeoliberalism, child of the Keynesian stateThe desire to see neoliberalism as the ’70s ruination of an earlier public consensus, is a desire to which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Golden Country: the organic myth of the British constitutionThe nostalgic appeal to ‘the spirit of 45’ is embedded in a long myth of ‘public services’ propagated by the culture...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSovereignty and the national question
The British media's sidelining of Scotland and its referendum is part of a history in which questions of nationality...
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Published in: ourBeebNationalise the BBCThroughout its history, the stature of the BBC has depended upon an active suppression of nationality - silencing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Last Great British Summer for EnglandThe desperate construction of cultural Britishness observable in this summer's Jubilee and Olympics is just another...