Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Lifestyle & Society

Waiting for the lights to go out
We've taken the past 200 years of prosperity for granted. Humanity's progress is stalling, we are facing a new era of decay, and nobody is clever enough to fix it. Is the future really that black, asks Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard, The Times, 16 October 2005

The Overpraised American
Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism revisited
Christine Rosen, Policy Review, October 2005

Safeguarding Children: Early Intervention and Surveillance in a Late Modern Society

This new text by a recognized authority offers a clear, invigorating and theoretically sophisticated commentary on child abuse and child welfare policy

Nigel Parton, Palgrave Macmillan, 20 September 2005

Speech on improving parenting
Given two years ago at a community centre in Watford, this speech outlines parents' culpability in the era of 'anti-social behaviour'
Tony Blair, 10 Downing Street, 1 September 2005

The legacy of 'radical social work'
How contemporary social work theory nurtured the new authoritarianism.
Ken McLaughlin, spiked, 24 August 2005

Brandenburg

Rainald Grebe, YouTube, 2005

A licence to bash the masses
The only debate over Britain's licensing laws is about how to keep pissed proles in their place.
Brendan O’Neill, spiked, 11 August 2005

The price of multiculturalism
What the responses to the killing of Anthony Walker in Liverpool and the failed bombings in London reveal about contemporary Britain.
Michael Fitzpatrick, spiked, 5 August 2005

Beyond a Boundary

Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?'

C.L.R. James, Yellow Jersey Press, 7 July 2005

Football Hooliganism

Three fallacies provide themes which run through the book: the notion that football hooliganism is new, that it is a uniquely football problem, and that it is an English phenomenon.

Peter Marsh, Willan Publishing, 1 July 2005


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