Elliot Murphy
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
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
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
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”
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.





