Martin O'Neill

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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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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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...

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

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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