Diary 2 Apr. Infantilising Palestinians, demonising Israelis a review of Mohammed el-Kurd's Perfect Victims 1 Apr. Why British bosses still love DEI 30 Mar. Israel: an anti-colonial triumph 8th Jan. How the child-abuse inquiry failed grooming-gang victims 2024 15th Oct. David Lammy is mad to have flirted with reparations 5th Sept. Why was Grenfell covered in cladding? Climate targets 27th July Starmer’s performative crackdown on the Corbynites 23 June Hamas is the enemy of the Palestinian People 30 May Starmer's night of the plastic knives 24 May London's Jews are fighting back agains the bigots 2 Mar. The Truth about the Houthis  3 Jan. No, Britain's wealth was not built on Slavery 2023 7 Nov. No, Israel is not a 'colonial settler state' 8 Aug. Against reparations 26 July The taming of the Bash Street Kids 24 May The dark genius of Martin Amis 14 May The treasures of the world belong to us all 18 Apr. The problem with apologising for slavery 4 Apr. How Sadiq Khan is punishing Londoners 6 Mar. No, opposing ULEZ is not 'far right' 1 Mar. Angela Davis' ancestry reveals the folly of reparations 8 Feb. How the press fell for the 'Russiagate' conspiracy 31 Jan. 'Alan Cumming's shallow "anti-Imperialism"' 27 Jan. 'A Brief history of the End of the World' 19 Jan. Book launch for Britain's Empires, at the East Derby Salon 2022 11 Dec.The hidden story of the British Empire 14 September 2022The queen and the colonies: it's complicated 9 September 2022Why Chileans rejected a new 'progressive' constitution 8 July 2022Keir Starmer is still no friend of Brexit  22nd June 2022Carole Cadwalladr’s fake news 14th June 2022How the green agenda fed the Grenfell disaster 14th May 2022How Lutfur Rahman made his comeback 25th March 2022A Jamaican republic is long overdue 9th February 2022The great populist revival 2021 25th October 2021Remainers are still baffled by Brexit 20th September 2021Rwanda: a dictatorship loved by the West 31st August 2021The Covid surveillance state is no model for the future 8th August 2021The self-defeating rage of Owen Jones 2nd August 2021The truth about historic child sex abuse 21st July 2021Dominic Cummings’ delusions of grandeur 31st May 2021History shows us why vaccines must be voluntary 5th May 2021The ugly truth about the Guardian 26th April 2021Opposition to lockdown is on the march 22nd April 2021The British Empire betrayed those who fought for it 15th April 2021How Britain became institutionally anti-racist 1st April 2021The government is glorifying slavery? Oh grow up 17th March 2021Where are the postmodernists when you need them? 5th March 2021Is the opposition on furlough? 4th February 2021We must defend Piers Corbyn’s freedom of speech 2020 2nd December 2020The Corbynite dream is in tatters 24th November 2020Margaret Thatcher was no friend of freedom 18th November 2020Why Labour keeps screwing up on anti-Semitism 11th November 2020An assault on a vindication of woman 23rd September 2020How the country house kept land from the people 8th September 2020The middle-class fantasy of working from home 3rd August 2020No, Putin is not a global mastermind 23rd June 2020Labour has finally admitted it lost the working class 17th June 2020A healthy society does not destroy its monuments 4th June 2020Black lives matter more than lockdown 19th May 2020The Mis-Anthropocene 1st May 2020The Electoral Commission’s campaign against democracy 13th April 2020Corbyn was stabbed in the back… but that’s not why he lost 27th March 2020Why Corbyn failed 19th March 2020Coronavirus is nothing like the Second World War 16th March 2020Why ‘Empire nostalgia’ is declining 18th February 2020Against eugenics 3rd February 2020Christopher Steele: MI5’s very own Walter Mitty 23rd January 2020Debunking the ‘schools don’t teach about empire’ myth 2019 26th November 2019Labour’s housing promise is hot air 20th November 2019Stop apologising for the past 18th November 2019The Brexit Party blinked 14th October 2019Voter ID will damage democracy 25th September 2019The reparations racket 17th September 2019Who’s afraid of the ‘white working class’? 29th July 2019What Brexit and the Olympics really have in common 25th July 2019Tom Watson: time’s up for the paedo-finder general 8th March 2019Voters, not quangos, should pass judgement on Corbyn’s Labour 19th February 2019The culture war over Winston Churchill 15th January 2019Angela Davis deserves her award 2018 8th November 2018War poetry matters 29th August 2018Victim culture eats one of its own 20th August 2018Kofi Annan: frontman for Western meddling 14th June 2018Grenfell and the problem of carbon targets 22nd May 2018Ken Livingstone: undone by his own brand of anti-racism 2nd February 2018How the working class was shut out 2017 1st November 2017JFK and the paranoid style 26th October 2017A music-hall Marx 23rd October 2017Sajid Javid wants to build? He should bulldoze the Green Belt 17th October 2017No, colonialism wasn’t a good thing... 24th August 2017Should Nelson’s column come down? 24th July 2017Dunkirk: a British myth   27 June, talking about democracy, with Catherine Liu  26th June 2017Grenfell: clad in climate-change politics 15th June 2017Grenfell: the lie of London’s urban renaissance 7th June 2017Human rights don’t protect our liberty 24 July: Dunkirk film reviewed 26 June: Explaining the cladding fad On the Grenfell Tower fire, for Spiked 15 June: Victims of the Urban Renaissance 25 May 2017, Book launch - Equal Opportunities Revolution 27 April 2017 Farewell, Baxendale and his Bash St Kids 22 March, a talk at the Liverpool Salon 10 Feb., On the Green Belt 25 Jan 'When is it ok to punch a fascist?' 9 Jan , 'We're Doomed!' on climate alarmism 2016 9 Dec. review of Josie Appleton's Officious 1 Nov On the European Left 4 Oct They Shall Not Pass: the Battle of Cable Street 80 years on 23 Aug Corbyn’s right, it’s time to disband NATO 24 June, interviewed in Pravda 24 June, Workers reject EU, for New Geography 21 June, The European Union has failed, Sheffield History Matters 27 April, for a 100-mile wide London 1 April, review of the film High Rise 5 Feb, reviewing David Aaronovitch's Party Animals 19 Jan, on Council Estates and Housing Bill 2015 25 Nov, Liam O'Ruairc reviews Who's Afraid... 25 Nov, 'Osbourne is right...' for Sp!ked 11 Nov, You Can't reform the EU, for Sp!ked 3 Nov., London book launch, with Kevin Rooney 18 Oct, debating Paul Bew at Battle of Ideas 14 Oct, Irish World on Who's Afraid... 12 October, No, the Suffragettes were not Racist 26 Sept., My book The Aborigines' Protection Society, is 'a stellar job', says the Human Rights Review. 11 June, panel for Bow Arts, and quoted in the Sun 27 May, on slavery, for Worldwrite 2 May, on the Stalinist legacy, for Socialist Project 28 April, on Gentrification in Brixton, and also on council housing 8 April, a talk on CLR James and WWII 30 March, we need 260,000 new homes a year, but the government won't build them 24 March, obituary of Lee Kuan Yew Reviews of The Aborigines' Protection Society in Victorian Studies and The Journal of Human Rights 9 Jan, , obituary for Ulrich Beck 2014 10 Dec, 'The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society', a talk for the history seminar series at Northumbria University 27 Sept, 'What Happened to Agency?' a talk for the Leeds Salon 17 July, How the Tories ignited the paedophile panic 9 July, The sex ring at the heart of the British establishment 19 June, Operation Lollipop - Trolls v Twitter feminists 12 June, On Anti-Homeless Spikes 2 June, a Review of Comics Unmasked at the British Library 20 May, Why no New House-building? 9 May, Reviewing Richard Seymour's book Against Austerity 4 April, Talking about Tony Cliff's contribution, with Tarek Shalaby and Thomas Willis, Platypus Convention, Chicago 31 March 2014 - Leeds Salon 9 March, I am on the front cover of Art Monthly 1 March Interviewed for Dust magazine 2 Feb., The Debate over Intersectionality 31 Jan., Goodbye Chauvinism, on WWI for Review 31 29 Jan.  Further Adventures in Intersectionality on the left's nuttiness 2013 31 Dec., Bash Street Trots - the SWP splitters 27 Nov., Intersectional? Or just Sectarian - an essay 25 Nov.,Why greens love high fuel bills 19 Nov., Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 150 years on for Spiked 13 Nov. My adventures in Liverpool 31 Oct., I am interviewed by Gulf Times on Unpatriotic History... 21 Oct., reviewing Chandler's Freedom vs Necessity in IR 8 Oct., The Energy Crisis, for Spiked 2 Oct., Me and Ian Parker debate Freud and Childhood 1 Oct. Unpatriotic History... reviewed by Ian Birchall for the London Socialist Historians 30 Aug., EU & End of Politics reviewed in Spiked 17 July, Time to face the housing crisis in Spiked 11 July, On domestic violence, in Spiked 1 July, reviewed in Socialist Standard 30 May, launch of EU and End of Politics in London 17 May, 'What Masculinity Crisis?' for Mute 7 May, on UKIP's rise for Sp!ked 22 April, once again on the housing crisis for Sp!ked 21 April 2013, The Aborigines' Protection Society is 'a compelling book, rich in historical detail', says Aboriginal History, and 'Heartfield's book is set to become a foundational text', according to Settler Colonial Studies 1 April, reviewing a biography of Tony Cliff for Platypus April 2013, British Workers & US Civil War reviewed in Theory and Action 26 Mar., with Andrew Simm at the North London Literary Forum A review of The Aborigines' Protection Society in Critical Muslim, March 2013 17 Feb., with Rhian E. Jones at the Oxford Radical Forum 15 Feb., Billy Delta of Greyfriars - on the SWP calamity 14 Feb., Paul Thomas reviews British Workers & US Civil War 29 Jan., me on Places People Live for New Geography 25 Jan., reviewing Kyriakides and Torres on race 19 Jan., Louis Proyect with a generous write up of my Unpatriotic History... 2 Jan. 2013, me on Lincoln and the Cotton workers   2012   12 Dec., my Aborigines' Protection Society reviewed in the Journal of Pacific History 1 Dec., Socialist Standard reviews Unpatriotic History... Nov., Freedom Press on the Unpatriotic History 27-8 Nov., on Unpatriotic History..., in Sheffield - which you can watch on video - and Leeds 11 Nov., talking on Unpatriotic History in Clapham - recordings here 26 Oct., Spiked's review of Unpatriotic History... 17 Oct., Patrick West's review of Unpatriotic History... 2 Oct., on Eric Hobsbawm, for Spiked 16 Aug., review of Unpatriotic History... from the Anti-Capitalist Initiative 24 July, 'London's Olympic Whingers' for New Geography 18 July, Critique of Creativity, reviewed 21 June, Ranciere and Chartist Insurrection reviewed 14 May, on the social cleansing of London, for New Geography The Aborigines' Protection Society reviewed in Arena, April 2012 27 April, my review of Ken McLaughlin's book Surviving Identities 24 Feb. Román Gubern and Paul Hammond’s new book on Bunuel reviewed for Spiked 21 Feb. on the EU's 'Soft Coup' in Greece and Italy, part one and two, for The Current Moment blog 31 Jan., me on Bloody Sunday and the Guardian's coverage 27 Jan., 2012, my review of Lucio Magri's memoir of the Italian Communist Party, for Sp!ked.   2011 4 Dec, on Public Sector Strikes for New Geography 25 Nov, my review of Richard Gott and Jeremy Paxman on Empire history 1 Nov, my Aborigines' history is reviewed as Book of the Month in the Royal Geographical Society's magazine 27 Sept, my chapter in a new book about artist Tony Earnshaw (catch the show at Flower's East) 20 Sept, On the 'Hands orf Our Land campaign for Sp!ked, and Dale Farm sacrificed to Green Belt for Jacobin 13 Sept, in defence of Dale Farm Gypsies, against eviction 11 August, on Police Brutality for Jacobin's blog, and on the left's fantasies of revolutionary rioting on Mute's site 10 August, on Britain's riots, for New Geography 29 July, on the Aborigines' Protection Society, for Spiked 27 July, on NoW phone hacking scandal, for Mute 1 July, my article 'Responsible Imperialism' in Jacobin 10 June, book launch, Kentish Town June 2011, on Governing the Empire, for Spiked May 2011, my contribution to the Intellectual Property review 2 March, my article on Education and the Working Class, and another copy 25 Feb, my review of Lizzie Collingham's book The Taste of War 24 Feb, on Copyright Wars for iNets South West 27 Jan. on Copyright law and the decline of private property for Mute another copy 7 Jan. 2011 My update on Britain's govt. 'Coalition of the Unwilling' in New Geography   2010   Nov. 2010, What happened to the End of the World?, for Jacobin's print ed. two articles on development in London and the South East are in New Geography DEBATE, 5 Oct., 6.30pm: IS LONDON GROWING TOO FAST? James Heartfield, Terry Farrell, David Green, Peter Bishop - at the British Library 1 Sept, the Korean edition of Noblesse Media International put my re-make of Marcel Marien's Certitudes du Fou in their profile of Patrick Hughes 11 June, 'Rebelling against the world', a review of Alex Butterworth's The World that Never Was, for Platypus 9 June, 'Israel and the left's temptations to anti-Semitism', in Mute 28 May, 'Freedom is only a Flag', a review of Millar and Hanley's book on the official IRA for Forth 25 May, 'Why the EU will thrive on Greek Troubles', for Spiked 29 Apr., 'Can Cameron Close the Deal?' for New Geography 19 Apr., 'La Guerra Mondial como Guerra des clases' 17 Apr., my obituary of LAPD's dictatorial police chief Daryl Gates 16 Apr., Forth carries my article on DIRFT 13 Apr., Munira Mirza reviews my The Death of the Subject Explained, in the Journal of Cultural Policy 7 Apr., my World War II article, now on LibCom 5 Apr., my Fiji 1959 oil-strike article copied 26 Mar., my review of Ian MacEwan's Solar 10 Mar., on Richard Hamilton, Waldemar Januszak and the Irish War, for Forth A CRISIS OF UNDER-ACCUMULATION 6 Feb., why Marx's theory of falling profits doesn't help us today 31 Jan., my essay 'Our Exurban Future' at NewGeography 17 Jan., defending Iris Robinson in Forth 11 Jan., my background article on Yemen for Spiked 10 Jan., Julia Svetlichnaja and my article on Russia's 'Sovereign Democracy' idea in the January Radical Philosophy 8 Jan., 2010, A History of Middle Class Dystopias for Forth   2009   30 Dec., My review of the Mute anthology Proud to be Flesh 7 Dec., my article 'Contracting out Authority', in Critique, Vol 37:4, p 683- 690 3 Dec., my article on the New Left Review in Forth 25 Nov., launch of Jon Pugh's What is Radical Politics 9 Nov., my article 'Demobilising the Nation' in International Politics, Nov 2009 30 Oct, some refs to 'State Capitalism in Britain' here, here and here, and another version here 5 Oct. I am in the excellent new Irish journal Forth, on the EU referendum - quoted in Monde Diplomatique 2 Oct., my talk in San Diego on the Green Belt is on film 25 Sept, my 'State Capitalism', now in Mute's print edition 1 September in Art Review 15 July, On Fiji: 'Cloud Coup-Coup Land' for Arena Magazine 25 June, talking to teaching union leaders at SCETT 24 June State Capitalism in Britain, for Mute 19 June, on Rogers vs Charles at newgeography.com 30 May, my review of Militant Modernism in Art Review 26 May, my article 'Turbulent Pacific' in Australia's Arena Journal 24 May, me on Heidgger and Fascism at Mute 15 May, my article 'Der Niedergang der Linken' in Novo Litvinenko press conference found this on 14 May 24 April, in the Evening Standard on Ballard v. Ackroyd; lunch with Diane Atkinson, her Elsie and Mairi go to War is out soon 20 Apr., my obituary of J.G. Ballard 8 Apr., replying to Perry Anderson in LRB on Italy 27 Mar., My debate on climate change at the investment summit Chairing Munira Mirza, the Mayor's cultural advisor at the London South Bank University, 24 Feb 09 19 Feb, protesting for the Third Runway, with the Modern Movement 11 Feb. on Council Housing plans 5 Feb. my review of Nick Cohen's What's Left? 26 Jan. my article against the Dale Farm evictions 12 Dec. my review of feminist memoirs by Lyn Segal, Michele Roberts and Janet Street Porter in the London Literary Journal 10 Dec. on the economy for the Chicago left journal Platypus 5 Dec., my review of The Devil's Whore and I am a footnote in New Left Review 4 Dec., I am reviewed in that august Marxist journal, the Socialist Standard, and a footnotein Nancy Fraser's Spinoza lecture, 'Reframing Justice' (Van Gorcum, 2005, p 40) 21 Nov., J. Svetlichnaja and my article on FSB persecution of Chechens in Moscow, based on interviews with Alexander Litvinenko, published in Critique, Dec. 08 15 Nov., Nick Bell, who did the Protect the Human campaign for Amnesty International, says I am one of the most interesting commentators on design (in Influences, Gerber and Lutz, 2006) 29 Oct., debating eco-capitalism with the Institute of Directors at the Guildhall 21 Oct., Let's Build!' referenced in Dave Clements excellent edited collection, the Future of Community 16 Oct., my letter to the Guardian on their pro-slavery record 5 Oct, my review of Cold War Modernism in Blueprint 272 2 Sept, my 'Manufactured Scarcity' in the latest edition of Mute, and reproduced in Eurozine 1 September, review of Tom Boellstorff's Coming of Age in Second Life, in Art Review 3 August, 'Creativity as Ideology', in Renewal: Journal of Social Democracy, Vol 16, No.2, 2008 25 July, my letter in the Guardian 23 July, Ofcom's ruling on Great Global Warming Swindle 16 July, 'Who demolished the housing industry?' for Spiked 7 July 'don't blame bio-fuel' 1 July 'Feeding Frenzy', a discussion hosted by Mute, 7pm Church House, Fletcher Street E1 27 June, Reviewing Derrida on Culture Wars 16 June, I've been working at Plan with Fanny, Iain, Kevin and Rakhi (not pictured) My letter arguing against peasants is in the Guardian 3 June, on farmers' protests for Spiked 22 May, speaking to the architects in Manchester 20 May, Gordon Brown at NESTA for Mute and Spiked, and pics too 19 May, The End of the City, Burdett and Sudjic reviewed 18 May, Green Capitalism reviewed in Novo 15 May, these South African militants reproduce part of Green Capitalism 8 May, arguing with Tristram Hunt on the Guardian letters page 7 May, Louis Proyect takes issue with Green Capitalism 24 April, debating the CPRE in Bristol 10 April 'Manufactured Scarcity' in Mute 7 April Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con 4 April, my review of Sennett's The Craftsman is in Blueprint 31 March, Green Capitalism reviewed in Fund Strategy 28 March, I am in Dagbladet Information, on Green Capitalism 23 March, on Breakfast TV 22 March, my review of Charles Leadbeater's We-Think in the ArtReview and my letter about Punk is in the Guardian 13 March, Brighton book launch - here's Sean Bell's write up 11 March, London book launch (more pics) 10 March, Spiked's letters on Green Capitalism 4 March, Phil Cunliffe bigs up Green Capitalism 1 March, Frank Furedi takes issue with Green Capitalism 26 Feb., 7.30 talking in Manchester on planning 23 Feb., I am in the new Rising East collection 28 Jan., my obituary of Indonesia's Suharto 25 Jan., my review of Lucy Robinson's Gay men and the Left 7 Jan. my article on Xmas sales and green snobs 2 Jan. 2008, Amazingly, the bumpkins at Arseposten have written to University of Westminster to get them to remove my attack on them, here.   2007   27 Dec., on Putin's Time 'man of the year' award 21 Dec., a book on The End of Politics reviewed, and an obituary of Dave Hallsworth 19 Dec., my Grossman review in German 18 Dec.,  my article Eco-Imperialism at Bali on Spiked 14 Dec., Julie Hearn's excellent paper 'African NGOs, the new compradors' arrives 13 Dec. Graham Hitchen's seminar on Alan Freeman's Creative Industries paper; then CSD's Xmas party with Amanda, Dave, Julia and Tara (more pics)    6 Dec., launch for not just one but two excellent books by Phil Hammond pics 3 Dec., my 'Cornucopian Manifesto' is in J.J. Charlesworth's Fusion Now for Rokeby Gallery 1 Dec., on art investment for the Art Review 16 Nov- 30 Nov, visiting Jon and Janice, Jamie and Nancy, Alex, Nick and Liz in New York: 15 Nov., reviewing Benno Teschke's book on Marx and Sovereignty for Critique, and on Orwell et al for Literary London 14 Nov., speaking at the Soho theatre on Creative hype 15 Nov., reviewing Benno Teschke's book on Marx and Sovereignty for Critique, and on Orwell et al for Literary London 14 Nov., speaking at the Soho theatre on Creative hype 12 Nov., defending the American Dream in San Jose 6 Nov., Fifteen Housing Myths, in Spiked; and I debate housing on Dispatches online 'late night and live' 11 Oct., New Left Reviewed in Mute 8 Oct., Innovation Reading Circle 6 Oct., Metamute on my 'Creative London' 1 Oct., my article The High Price of Britain's Housing Shortage was chosen as the best from the web by the Times' Daniel Finkelstein 21 Sept., Russia-hating blogger Kim Zigfeld cannot believe that Aftenposten has withdrawn its allegations against Julia Svetlichnaja 20 Sept., my review of Oona King and Alastair Campbell's diaries 19 Sept., my article Creative London in Rising East Online 18 Sept., my article GM: where the science does not count 13th Sept., I give a paper on 'non-historic peoples' at the SGIR conference in Turin Aftenposten withdraw the scurrilous allegations made by Hilde Harbo (see left) against Julia Svetlichnaja READ ARSEPOSTEN - NORWAY'S DAILY WIPE 12 Sept., my letter (scroll to end) in the Guardian 11 Sept., farewell Anita Roddick, Green Capitalist 7 Sept., my review of Sukhdev Sandhu's Night Haunts is in Blueprint  3 Sept., reading Umberto Eco's 1963 Encyclopedia of Technology and Jasia Reichardt's Robots 1 Sept., Back from France to hear the sad news that Dave Hallsworth, working class activist, has died 30 August, the excellent journal Mute arrives with articles by Loren Goldner, Suhail Malik and me, on arts funding 13 August-30 August, I will be in France, and not updating 8 August, Phil Cunliffe comes round to talk about Turin conference 31 July, Lynsey Hanley takes issue with my passing reference to her book, and Tom Scott, to my argument 26 July, to the Manifesto Club meeting on CRB checks. Photos 23-6 July meet up with Courtney Hamilton (see his Neo-Jacobin blog), Josie Appleton (Manifesto Club), Kevin McCullagh (Plan) and Art Review's JJ Charlesworth:     23 July, my Spiked article 'Stop Romanticising Council Housing' gets qualified approval at MetaMute 20 July, I am lucky enough to be talking to journalists and editors from Sichuan, in Oxford Also, my review of Rick Kuhn's biography of Henryk Grossman 16 July, a great evening at the Innovation Reading Circle, discussing Elliott and Atkinson's Fantasy Island 12 July, in Leeds for Guy Julier and Liz Moor's Counting Creativity symposium, where I meet my dad's old mate Doug Sandle. Pictures. 11 July, Who's to Blame for Crazy House Prices?   10 July, Jon Fraenkel calls in en route to France, with Laite and Ethan. See his timely book on the Fiji coup and Happy Birthday Electra Svetlichnaja! 21 June, my review of Barbrook, Edgerton, Elliott and Atkinson on technology, old and new 20 June, my reply to the Royal Town Planning Institute, and a rebuttal of Tristram Hunt's Thames Gateway histrionics 14 June, the transition town debate (below) is blogged by Zerochampion,  the Energy Bulletin and Transition Culture; meanwhile Catalyst and CommentisB****cks quote my Margaret Hodge article, and Rob Clowes is very kind about Let's Build   13 June, debate Jeremy Leggett of the transition town movement on Radio 4's You and Yours. 12 June, my attack on Margaret Hodge is re-posted on some anti-racist sites, here and here, and cited by the Thurrock IWCA; 'thin and polemical' says Dominik Zaum in International Affairs, 83: 4, 2007 but sadly he's talking about my chapter in Politics without Sovereignty, not me 8 June, drinks with Alec Turner, whose book on Further Education is out in August, and Ian Abley: 5 June, quoted on housing on the 'From the Heartland' blog.  1 June, sacked spindoctor Martin Sixsmith goes all McCarthyite on me in his Litvinenko book, page 259 22 May, denouncing Margaret Hodge's 'white's first' housing policy 21 May, debating 'heritage Britain' after the Cutty Sark fire on Anita Anand's Five Live Show 19 May, a great day at Audacity's All Planned Out conference (pictures here), and I debate the CPRE on Farming Today 18 May, I am quoted in Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson's book, excerpted in the Guardian 17 May, drinks with Westminster U.'s internationalists Dave Chandler, Phil Hammond and Tara McCormack at the launch of Richard Barbrook's history of Cold War techno-geeks 14 May, our Brighton house price protest makes More4 News, and Sun-Herald columnist Adrian Bolt quotes me on Green Malthusianism, sparking a debate 10 May, my critique of the Optimum Population Trust, and I get a mention in Joel Rosen's brilliant new book The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos. 8 May, my retrospective on Blair's Wars is on Spiked, and SF's Michael Moorcock endorses Let's Build!5 May, The Economist's Johnny Grimond takes issue with me in a pull-out on cities, and so did a former student in her MySpace entry of 26 Nov. 27 April, my review of Channel 4's "The Human Footprint" 24 April, an obituary of Boris Yeltsin 17 April, my paper on the 'Limits of European Economic Unification' is published in Critique, the Journal of Socialist Thought 16 April, on the Moscow protests 15 April, back from France to find Blueprint on the welcome mat, with my article on Creative City policies 4 April, fly out to Perpignan with the kids, back in a week 29 March, out with Phil Hammond (whose next book on PoMo War will be fantastic), Dave Chandler, Chris Bickerton and Phil Cunliffe 26 March, I am on Radio 4's Farming Today, debating Shaun Spiers of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England 22 March, my response to Ann Powers and John Houghton is in the Guardian 21 March, April's Vanity Fair is on the newsstands, and I am quoted in Bryan Burroughs' article on the Litvinenko poisoning March 2007, 'Goodbye Green Belt' in the RIBA Journal 1 March, chaired housing minister Yvette Cooper's contribution to the Regenex Conference, Earl's Court, meanwhile, the RIBA Journal published my article on 60 years of the Town and Country Planning Act 28 Feb., meet up with Robert Bruegmann, author of the excellent Sprawl: A Compact History 20 Feb., my contribution to the debate over the future of the Thames Gateway is posted by BBC Kent 19 Feb., my review of Lynsey Hanley's Estates: an intimate history 16 Feb., talk to Radio 4's Gavin Heard about housing in Britain, for a series he is producing. 15 Feb., 6.30pm, spoke at the Brighton Salon about Let's Build! 13 Feb. Let's Build is 'the latest manifesto for the advocates of untrammelled development', according to the environmentalists' magazine, The Land 8 Feb., 'Bring down the House', my response to reform of the Lords published by Spiked 30 Jan., 2pm, Seminar on Litvinenko case and the New Cold War for CSD, turned surreal, after a gang of new Cold Warriors turned up to illustrate the argument. Read my report 27 Jan., MRZine publish the second of my two articles on Britain and the slave trade, on the anniversary of abolition. 23 Jan., my review of Kevin Yuill's excellent book Richard Nixon and the rise of Affirmative Action Weds. 17 Jan. 2007,  'A United Kingdom of Britain and France' on the revelation that Guy Mollet proposed it to Anthony Eden in 1956 in Spiked.   2006 Tues., 19 Dec., in Cork for the launch of Chris Bickerton, Phil Cunliffe and Alex Gourevitch's new book, Politics without Sovereignty, at the British International Studies Association Conference.  Fri., 7 Dec., 10am, Julia Svetlichaja and I  give a press conference at the University of Westminster after the interview with Alexander Litvinenko we did was published in the Telegraph. Tues. 5 Dec. my article Building School Success about Kay Hartmann and dRMM's work at Hargrave Park School and Kingsdale is published in the RSA Journal. Thurs., 14 Dec., CSD Xmas party. Tues., 12 Dec., Alexander Litvinenko's friend Akhmed Zakhayev tells Russian Newsweek that he has never met me before! Fri., 7 Dec., 10am, Julia Svetlichaja and I will give a press conference about Alexander Litvinenko, at University of Westminster, Board Room, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2UW Tues. 5 Dec. my article Building School Success about Kay Hartmann and dRMMM's work at Hargrave Park School and Kingsdale is published in the RSA Journal. On Saturday, 2 Dec. I met up with Sociologist Brendan Caffrey, whose website Why Work interrogates the protestant ethic, and then later heard last orders with London Lite music reviewer Neil Davenport (see his Midnight Bell blog). On Thursday 30 November, I was Newcastle to speak at the Great Debate with Dominic Coupe of the CPRE, lecturer Zan Gunn, Caspar Hewlett chairing On Saturday 26 November, I was on Channel 4 news after the interview of Alexander Litvinenko I did with Julia Svetlichnaja was published in the Telegraph. On 30 November, I will be in Newcastle to speak at the Great Debate Wednesday, 15 Nov. my review of Bettina Aptheker's memoirs is published by Spiked. Tuesday, 14 Nov. the Democracy Club hosted a debate between me and Nicholas Schoon of the CPRE on my new book, Let's Build. Thursday, 9 Nov. I gave a paper, 'Failed states, safe havens, rogue states, unions and protectorates: alternatives to the sovereign state?' to the CRIPT workshop on international theory conference Theorising the International After the Subject at Goldsmith's College