Disaffection

The generation gap, not rap, is to blame for the riots

Shiv Malik
/ August 22, 2011 / 8 Comments

Prospect contributor Shiv Malik responds to David Goodhart’s web exclusive article, “The riots, the rappers and the Anglo-Jamaican tragedy” Searching for the root causes of the riots David Goodhart wrote last week: “The ‘hoodie’ culture of disaffection has told young people that their inchoate anger at the ‘power,’ the system,...
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The riots, the rappers and the Anglo-Jamaican tragedy

David Goodhart
/ August 17, 2011 / 19 Comments

Did hip-hop culture play a part in last week's riots? And do you have to come from the inner city to discuss its problems?
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David Cameron’s love-hate relationship with Twitter

Chris Baraniuk
/ August 13, 2011 / 1 Comment

The current government has had a stormy relationship with social media. As leader of the opposition, David Cameron caused a stir with his quip that “too many tweets might make a twat.” But one year later, his party came into office riding a wave of enthusiasm for Facebook and Twitter....
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The riots at the end of history

David Goodhart
/ August 9, 2011 / 40 Comments

I tried to buy the Daily Mail this morning, because a friend had written something about the classes he runs in Peckham to encourage black kids to aim higher at school. I could not find one in the three newsagents I visited. A first sign of the backlash against liberalism?...
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Prospect’s February issue

Bronwen Maddox
/ January 27, 2011 / Leave a comment

They’re back: banners, bull horns, whistles, and threats of strikes. Unions, students and internet activists lost no time in the new year launching themselves at ministers’ plans for cuts—and at ministers. Jeremy Hunt was the target of one boisterous disruption, as 30 students banging drums invaded the culture minister’s talk...
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Foreword: Many protests, one answer

Bronwen Maddox
/ January 26, 2011 / Leave a comment

Fear of the new austerity flickers through Prospect this month, writes Bronwen Maddox
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Looking back on 2010—plus our top 10 articles of the year

Prospect
/ December 31, 2010 / 1 Comment

It was an election year in Britain in the shadow of the financial crash and a giant fiscal deficit; the war in Afghanistan rumbled on inconclusively; the Euro tottered, President Obama stuttered and global power continued to shift eastwards. So it was a year full of news, and more than...
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