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No more reports, please: Lord Leveson and the uses of history
It is clear that Lord Justice Leveson knows his history; more interesting, in many ways, is the way that he is prepared to use it as a rhetorical weapon against his critics. The Executive Summary of...
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‘Don’t throw away our history’? Churchill, Leveson and the ‘freedom of the...
You can always tell that journalists are getting worried about regulation when they start dredging up stirring quotations about the ‘freedom of the press’. There are plenty of famous historical figures...
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Is anyone listening? History and public policy
Can historians influence the public policy-making process? Having recently seen one of my articles cited in the Leveson report, I’d like to say yes. But there are many good reasons to be sceptical....
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No Apologies? The Miners’ Strike and the Battle over the 1980s
After 30 years the recent past becomes History, and the frenzied debates of contemporary journalism give way to the calm impartiality of the scholar. The fog lifts and we can finally see earlier events...
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The Battle of Orgreave, 30 Years On: Stories waiting to be told
Anniversaries help us to remember the past, but they can distort and conceal it too. That much is clear from the commemorations of the ‘Battle of Orgreave’, the violent confrontation between thousands...
View ArticleTremors through time? The ‘Youthquake’, 50 Years On
Are we feeling the tremors of a political ‘youthquake’? This question has been keenly debated since the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 General Election revealed that age has become the key demographic...
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