Public Writing

[Note: all posts written in the name of the Campaign for the Public University between 2010-2014 are by John Holmwood. They are not listed separately]

(with Peter Oborne) ‘The Trojan Horse Affair: When ‘facts’ are contested who decides the truth‘, Middle East Eye, February 17, 2023.

UK: Rishi Sunak’s Prevent proposals are truly Orwellian‘, Middle East Eye, August 12, 2022

An alternative to Prevent? How about democracy‘, Middle East Eye, June 13, 2022

Prevent puts UK Muslims under pervasive suspicion. It must go‘, Middle East Eye, February 15, 2022

(with Peter Oborne) ‘Batley cartoon row: as Muslim parents are vindicated, the media is silent‘, Middle East Eye, June 4, 2021

Renewal and Reconstruction in Sociological Theory: The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project’, The Sociological Review Blog, June 2021

UK government’s undermining of EHRC is a threat to democracy, Middle East Eye, November 13, 2020

Ratcheting up the Prevent agenda in schoolsDiscover Society, November 4, 2020

(with Peter Oborne) Trojan Horse, Prevent, Islamophobia: How the EHRC failed British Muslims. Middle East Eye, July 24, 2020.

Viewpoint: White Nation Conservatism (Review of Nick Timothy). Discover Society, May 6, 2020.

Higher Education after Covid-19. Discover Society, April 24, 2020.

Responding to Covid-19, A Failure of Governance? Discover Society, April 02, 2020.

UK Universities and Covid-19, Time for Cooperation not Competititon. Discover Society, March 24, 2020.

(with Therese O’Toole) Focus: An Independent Review of the Prevent Strategy. Discover Society, September 04, 2019.

Fundamental British Values, Religion and Inequalities. Discover Society, September 04, 2019.

Rapid Response: Religion, ‘British Values’ and Equalities Teaching in the Context of Prevent. Discover Society, March 20, 2019.

(with Gurminder K. Bhambra and Sue Scott) Focus: Integrated Communities, a Response to the Government’s Strategy Green Paper. Discover Society, May 01, 2018.

Investigate the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair. Open Democracy, October 2, 2018.

The Birmingham Trojan Horse affair: a very British injustice. Open Democracy, December 13, 2017

Focus: Liberal Anxiety and the Education of Muslim Children – A Tale of Two Schools. Discover Society, December 06, 2017.

Academic Click-Baiting and the Neo-Liberal University. Discover Society, October 04, 2017.

Requiem for the Public University. Discover Society, May 02, 2017.

Schooling ‘British values’: threatening civil liberties and equal opportunities. Open Democracy, July 20, 2015

(with Gurminder K. Bhambra) Capitalist dispossession and new justifications of slavery. Open Democracy, July 3, 2015.

Social Science inc. Open Democracy, March 23, 2015.

Patrimonial capitalism and the end of the liberal university. Open Democracy, August 19, 2014.

Markets, Publics and Education: A Tale of Trojan Horses. Discover Society, July 01, 2014.

When Markets Meet Central Planning. Or, How Russellton became Poppleton. Trade Unions and Global Restructuring, February 26, 2014.

Policy Briefing: Whither Fees and Loans?  Discover Society, February 15, 2014.

The neo-liberal knowledge regime, inequality and social critique. Open Democracy, July 19, 2013.

The history of higher education reform and the coalition’s betrayal. Open Democracy, July 10, 2011.

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