My Boring Podcast
I contributed a talk to the BBC Boring Podcast on the translation of warning messages in Kinder Surprise Eggs. Yes really. Listen and enjoy here.…
-
-
Essay on media images of Jews
I’m very excited to see this article published: A long essay by me about images of Jews – Haredi Jews in particular – , in which I track down (sort of) the men in one of the most ubiquitous examples. …
-
Recent publications
Labour’s far left must tame itself to root out antisemitism in The Guardian, 23 April 2018
Sorry, British Non-Jews: You Don’t Get To Decide Who The Good Jews Are in The Forward, 3 April 2018
Factsheet on Branches of Judaism…
Tags: publications, Recent changes, writing
-
My critique of Gilad Atzmon
Cloaked In Pretensions, Gilad Atzmon’s Anti-Semitism Soldiers On in The Forward, 10 December 2017
[And see Atzmons’s response here]…
-
New essay by me on dangerous and devilish sounds
Listening to the devil’s sounds in Boundless, December 2017
…
-
What going to a Metallica concert with my daughter taught me about modern infrastructure
-
Towards an Exhausted Sociology
Towards an Exhausted Sociology, in Sociological Review blog, 25 October 2017…
-
Videos of two recent lectures – now online
Beyond Transgression: Breaking Metal’s Boundaries at ‘Boundaries and Ties: The Place of Metal Music in Communities’, University of Victoria, 9 June 2017 View talk here
Antisemitism and divisions over Israel in diaspora Jewish communities : the exploitation of Jewish difference, …
-
My response to the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s 2017 ‘Barometer’
In mid-August 2017, the Campaign Against Antisemitism published their latest Antisemitism Barometer In an article in the Jewish Chronicle I raised some questions and concerns about the survey. Gideon Falter replied to my article here and I responded further here…
Tags: Anti-semitism, Jewish community, publications, writing
-
A conversation with Dougald Hine on the Labour Party
A crack in history? A conversation between two recent Labour Party recruits in Open Democracy, 31 August 2017…