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Articles by Freddy Foks
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77* - Freddy Foks, 2024
James Obelkevich (2000: 134) was surely right when he argued that the origins of social history proceed from the ‘the basic notion of studying things in their social context’. Yet by declaring that this idea was simply ‘in the air’ during the 1960s, and that ‘it wasn’t necessary to get it from books’, he overlooked the fact that it was from a particular set of books (anthropologists’ books) that many social historians discovered a new way to understand ‘social context’.
The rise and fall of Oliver Letwin: a private life of public power.
As Oliver Letwin, chief architect of Cameron’s Conservatism, falls by the wayside, the Tories have put Labour supporters where they always wanted: shouting up at them from the streets below. The rise and fall of Oliver Letwin reveals what has changed, and precisely what has stayed the same, in British politics since June 23rd. Theresa May’s decision to boot Letwin out as the head of the EU Policy Unit and bring David Davis in dramatizes the high-wire stakes of post-Brexit negotiations.
The constitutional crisis continues and Jeremy Corbyn has now made his great gamble
The UK shadow chancellor has asserted that attempts by MPs to remove Jeremy Corbyn are undemocratic. Bu this requires a very specific understanding of democracy. In a crisis everything moves quickly. The conflict between the politics of nationalism and the politics of Corbynism has deepened as Britain’s unwritten constitution continues to crumble. The stakes for Labour voters in the coming leadership election couldn’t be higher.
My 350 on Brexit: 'I feel like I am living in a country that is suffering a nervous breakdown'
Never can I remember feeling the political situation in my country is so bleak. I am English, and I voted to Remain. I vote Remain not because I am a huge fan of the EU, but because I felt it was the lesser of two evils. The Tory right and the media barons now hold more power than ever, and are in the ascendency marching forward with renewed confidence and a sense of empowerment. It is simply a case of bayoneting the wounded on the political battlefield from their point of view.
‘Mic drops and Twitter burns’: welcome to the 2016 US presidential race
Hillary Clinton’s rebuke to Donald Trump, ‘delete your account’, went viral and launched a wave of think-pieces. What does it tell us about the shallowness in American politics right now? For Edward Snowden, politics is “the art of convincing decent people to forget the lesser of two evils is also evil.” And when it comes to the US election, it’s difficult to disagree.
My 350 on BREXIT: Fear and disappointment confirmed
“I avidly kept my eyes on the news in the hope that things would turn out not to be so bad.” My first reaction was one of fear and disappointment. Fear for the future should all the predictions come true, and disappointment that the truth had not got through. Having come to terms with that, I avidly kept my eyes on the news in the hope that things would turn out not to be so bad. Unfortunately my fears have not only come true, but are in fact worse than I could have imagined.
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