Elliot Murphy

Elliot Murphy is a writer and activist based in the UK. His book On the Mind and Freedom is published by Lulu.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 0:00 - 2 Comments

Analysis | What Thatcher Did

As debate intensifies around reactions to Margaret Thatcher's death, Ceasefire's Elliot Murphy presents a damning portrait of her political record at home and abroad.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:40 - 2 Comments

Books | Review | ‘Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens’ by Richard Seymour

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Elliot Murphy reviews Richard Seymour's "enjoyable and relentless attack" on Christopher Hitchens,one of the most influential and controversial polemicists of the past three decades.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, February 3, 2013 0:00 - 0 Comments

Books | ‘The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes’ by Jonathan Rose

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As the marketisation of universities accelerates, maintaining forms of education which value the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself has become a crucial and necessary challenge. Elliot Murphy revisits a classic study by Jonathan Rose that explores the pre-war culture of self-education amongst the British working classes.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, November 10, 2012 0:00 - 5 Comments

Analysis | A future in the balance: why the G8 must be stopped

As Britain prepares to host next year's G8 summit, grassroots movements are stepping up their opposition. Elliot Murphy argues the capitalist orthodoxies enshrined by the world's richest countries are unsustainable and unethical.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:09 - 2 Comments

Analysis | ‘Keeping the peace’ in Somalia

David Cameron opens the Somalia conference in London, 23 Feb 2012 . (Photograph: Matt Dunham/AFP/Getty Images)

Elliot Murphy provides an unsettling account of the latest developments in Somalia, and warns against Western calls for foreign intervention.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:08 - 3 Comments

Analysis | Britain, Oman and “Our kind of guy”

David Cameron meets with Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said at his palace in Muscat; 24 February 2011 (Photo: PA)

Sultan Qaboos, Oman's ruler since 1970, is the world's longest surviving autocrat and Britain's closest ally in the Gulf. Elliot Murphy takes a look at the history and politics behind a very discreet, and troubling, relationship.