politics

Michael Gove’s sniper attack on schools (Once a week news pic)

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
June 22, 2011 – 19:13

Image produced by Shawn Sobers for Once a Week News Pic series.
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Obama visits the UK – (Once a Week News series)

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
May 26, 2011 – 01:11

Obama photo by Pete Souza – copyright remains
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Signs of Times – placards of student protest (The Musical)

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
March 26, 2011 – 04:15

Photographs taken during the first student & lecturer march against the ConDem rise in tuition fees, November 10th 2010. A one stop shop for all your student placard slogan needs.

All photography by me – Shawn Sobers
Music by Musical Youth – original copyright remains
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Islington people attacked by the police. Activist Suzanne Jeffery ...

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
February 22, 2011 – 02:28

Message from my activist colleague Corine Dhondee about the heavy-handed tactics she witnessed by the police when secretly filming protests at the council building. We might look at what is happening in Libya today and say we are lucky and have nothing to complain about, but I feel we must protect the freedoms that we have today, as if we take them for granted and let our freedoms erode and don’t defend them, then tomorrow if they are all gone, it will be too late to complain.

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New on The New Everyday: "The Tea Party Election: Thatcherism ...

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
November 10, 2010 – 09:35

The New Everyday coordinating editor Nick Mirzoeff leads off the latest cluster in the project, focusing on the cultural implications of last Tuesday’s election. Join in the discussion there, by reading, commenting, and adding your own piece!

The Tea Party and The New Everyday

by Nick Mirzoeff — NYU
November 01, 2010 – 07:40

The New Everyday is a MediaCommons project designed to be a reflection space on how everyday life has (and has not) been transformed since the theorizing of the 1980s by Stuart Hall and Michel de Certeau. It’s purpose is to serve as a space of public reflection before (or instead of) the print/refereed publication. You can read more about The New Everyday on the project site.

Hall’s impulse to this project was what he called “The Great Moving Right Show,” or more academically put, Thatcherism’s hegemonic project. It’s easily forgotten now but the analysis of Thatcherism was widely derided at the time, with people on the left insisting that this was simply old fashioned class politics in a slightly dressed up format; that Thatcher was stupid and by extension people were being stupid to vote for her.

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Justice

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
August 04, 2010 – 16:09

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Via Media

by Nandini — NLSIU, Bangalore.
July 17, 2010 – 13:11

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The media hype and crushing reality of UK politics

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
May 07, 2010 – 12:41

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UK Election Campaign: The Movie (secret casting notes)

by Shawn Sobers — University of the West of England / Firstborn Creatives
April 29, 2010 – 02:44

Exactly one week until the good people of England, Scotland and Wales go to the polls, our film got a sudden boost of publicity yesterday when – stranger than fiction – the current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a woman pensioner who confronted him “a bigot”. *

Here is how the plans for the film’s main characters, due to be released next Thursday May 6th (UK election day), are shaping up.

Character synopsis

Jim Carrey plays Gordon Brown ... read more »