Martin O'Neill
Martin O’Neill is a political philosopher, based at the Centre for Political Theory in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. He has previously taught at Cambridge and Harvard, and is writing a book on Corporations and Social Justice.
Articles by martin o'neill
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UK Politics
42 days
- 09 June 2008
- 2 comments
If reducing liberties through extending pre-charge detention does not help the police, ruins innocent lives, and alienates minority communities, there is no gain
UK Politics
Disfigured by class
- 30 April 2008
- 25 comments
The very fact that Boris Johnson could appear to be a plausible candidate for Mayor of London shows us that our society is still disfigured by problems of social class, argues Martin O'Neill
Economy
When it pays to be crazy
- 25 March 2008
- 4 comments
In the irrational, out-of-control world of the financial markets, acting rationally loses money rather than making it
Life & Society
Echoes of Enoch Powell
- 10 March 2008
- 24 comments
Rivers of Blood, multiculturalism and the BBC - Martin O'Neill on a film that's part of the BBC's White Season
UK Politics
The politics of leisure
- 25 February 2008
- 2 comments
In 1193 a chronicler warned London on May Day was overrun with drunken “stage-players, druggists, lustful persons [and] extortionists”. More fun than Brown's British Day...
Books
Trouble brewing
- 21 February 2008
- 1 comment
Starbucked: a Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce and Culture
Taylor Clark Sceptre, 336pp, £12.99
Life & Society
Attack on secularism
- 09 February 2008
- 24 comments
Rowan Williams' comments on sharia law are dangerous nonsense, and insult Brtain's Muslims, argues Martin O'Neill
Politics
The ethics of organ transplantation
- 16 January 2008
- 2 comments
Libertarian paternalism allows individuals' well-being to be helped without impacting on freedom of choice, writes Martin O'Neill
UK Politics
Labour's friends in the north
- 03 December 2007
- 2 comments
The Labour funding scandal prompts Martin O'Neill to recall the T. Dan Smith case
Life & Society
Euro 2008 and the economy
- 27 November 2007
- 6 comments
Martin O'Neill unpicks claims that England's defeat to Croatia will cost the economy somewhere between £1bn and £2bn
