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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.

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UK Politics
The ethics of organ transplantation
16 January 2008

Libertarian paternalism allows individuals' well-being to be helped without impacting on freedom of

UK Politics
Labour's friends in the north
03 December 2007

The Labour funding scandal prompts Martin O'Neill to recall the T. Dan Smith case

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Euro 2008 and the economy
27 November 2007

Martin O'Neill unpicks claims that England's defeat to Croatia will cost the economy somewhere betwe

Sport
Football, amnesia and England
19 November 2007

In a departure from his usual commentary on philosophy and politics Martin O'Neill focuses on the sl

UK Politics
The curious business of taxation
12 November 2007

Wages have stagnated, corporations contribute less to Treasury coffers as their profits grow ever va

UK Politics
Policing and its consequences
05 November 2007

Proponents of 'hard-headed' policing lose sight of the moral difference between what is done to us a

UK Politics
The doublethink of 'democracy'
29 October 2007

If The Sun took the democratic rights of the Brits seriously it would campaign for Murdoch's influen

UK Politics
Chewing the fat
22 October 2007

How it is important to avoid fatuous pronouncements about obesity if one wants to have a sensible di

UK 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

UK Politics
Death and taxes
08 October 2007

Political philosopher Martin O'Neill looks at the thinking behind a political issue of the day. In h

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