All this week on fifteeneightyfour we are celebrating the launch of No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 by Matt Worley with music, words, videos and giveaways. Forty years on from the release of the iconic debut album, 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols', No Future recaptures punk's anarchic force as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could reject, revolt and re-invent. Keep checking this space throughout the week to hear more.
Read MoreThe British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to the fall of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his replacement by Winston Churchill. But what were the reasons for failure? In this exclusive article for fifteeneightyfour, Sir John Kiszely, who served in the British Army for forty years, rising to the rank of lieutenant general, explains his personal fascination with the campaign and what it can tell us about more recent wars.
Read MoreSiniša Malešević, author of The Rise of Organised Brutality, explores how organised violence is on the rise and why it has increased throughout the course of human history.
Read MoreOn Monday 5 December 2016, the UK Supreme Court will hear the Government’s appeal from the judgment of the Divisional Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. It is the case of the century on the scope of the foreign affairs treaty prerogative. A unanimous Divisional Court held that […]
Read MoreCheck out our reading list for UK Black History Month!
Read MoreKirsten McKenzie explores a radical new account of the legal, constitutional and administrative transformations that unfolded during the British colonial order of the 1820s.
Read MoreThis week marks the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. Here, author William Cavert casts new light on the possible causes of the disaster.
Read MoreVivien A. Schmidt, co-edtior of Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy, examines one of the motivators behind the Brexit camp: neoliberalism.
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