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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Politics
The ethics of organ transplantation
- 16 January 2008
- 3 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
Life & Society
Football, amnesia and England
- 19 November 2007
- 4 comments
In a departure from his usual commentary on philosophy and politics Martin O'Neill focuses on the sloppy thinking around football
Politics
The curious business of taxation
- 12 November 2007
- 10 comments
Wages have stagnated, corporations contribute less to Treasury coffers as their profits grow ever vaster. What has gone wrong with taxation?
Philosophy
Policing and its consequences
- 05 November 2007
- 12 comments
Proponents of 'hard-headed' policing lose sight of the moral difference between what is done to us and what we collectively decide to do
Politics
The doublethink of 'democracy'
- 29 October 2007
- 3 comments
If The Sun took the democratic rights of the Brits seriously it would campaign for Murdoch's influence to be extirpated from British political life
Politics
Chewing the fat
- 22 October 2007
- 5 comments
How it is important to avoid fatuous pronouncements about obesity if one wants to have a sensible discussion, even Alan Johnson...
Politics
In defence of hypocrisy
- 16 October 2007
In this week's look at the philosophy behind the politics Martin O'Neill examines the importance of insincerity, theft of policy and hypocrisy
Politics
Death and taxes
- 08 October 2007
- 11 comments
Political philosopher Martin O'Neill looks at the thinking behind a political issue of the day. In his first article he unpicks death duties
