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Published in: openDemocracyUKFred Halliday was right: The LSE, Gaddafi money and what is missing from the Woolf ReportFred Halliday has been vindicated in his long battle with the LSE over taking Gaddafi money. But the underlying...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKettled Youth: the emergence of a new politics in Britain
A new polemic pamphlet reflects on the emergence of a new politics in Britain, through the lens of the police tactic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHas England's higher education come to this: “I was personally punched and thrown down the stairs by officers.”
The London police defended the Minister of Higher Education by showing that even universities are to be subject to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew College disaster and the challenge of A.C. Grayling
In a bold new initiative, philosopher-proprietor A.C. Grayling has launched a for-profit university amidst a storm...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew College for the Humanities: Emperor's New Clothes
A team of celebrity academics, led by philosopher AC Grayling, are launching a new British private university,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Radical Manifesto for Higher Education
Our universities are under attack, with the Coalition determined to throw them to the mercy of the market. Support...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMP attacks LSE professor over feminist political theory course
During a Commons debate on Human Trafficking, Denis MacShane MP accused professor Anne Phillips of filling the minds...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA New World in the Shell of the Old: prefigurative politics, direct action, educationOnline networks are increasingly seen as of huge importance for how social movements organise - be it in Wisconsin,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA hundred days of occupation: the "Free Hetherington" at Glasgow UniversityOn February 1st, a building owned by Glasgow University was occupied in protest against attempts to model the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student 'Fight Back' is still going strong
Since the release of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest in February, much has occurred in the British...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLondon Metropolitan University: Crimes against Humanities
The university with the UK's highest proportion of poorer students is being assaulted by its own administration. All...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlack Bloc: aesthetics won't beat the cutsLuke Cooper responds to Jonathan Moses' article on the Black Bloc. He argues that the group's "aesthetic wars" can...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDo the Arts and Humanities matter? Answers from across Britain's universities
At a Cambridge conference on the Higher Education reforms, leading researchers from universities across the UK were...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOn the Alternative Vote, who speaks for history?
After a provocative letter telling Times readers that 'history teaches us to vote no to AV', a response was...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMemorandum to the London School of Economics Council warning it not to accept a grant from the Qaddafi Foundation
Fred Halliday (1946-2010), openDemocracy author and Director-Designate of the LSE Middle East Centre, 2006-2008, did...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA social democracy of the people? A review of Fight Back!A review of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest, published by OurKingdom on February 15 and free to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA way forward for the Humanities?
The Coalition’s plans for higher education rest upon an anachronistic view of learning, which separates the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn a world where education is a commodity, why not subcontract your PhD?
In trading off plagiarism, essay-writing companies undermine basic goods in education, beginning with critical,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Oxford Debate on Higher Education
The complete Oxford Debate on Higher Education, all six articles as featured on openDemocracy.net OurKingdom.
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
