Aaron Ackerley

In recent years, debates about ‘free speech’ have become ever-present in politics and the media, central to what has been called a ‘culture war’. Responding to this situation, a recent volume that assembles a diverse

There’s only one Rupert” announced Donald Trump in June 2017. He was responding to an introduction given for him by the media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The two men have a relationship stretching back decades, and

“It is, of course, disconcerting, perhaps even surprising, for those who expect anti-Semites to fit a certain character type, and to emerge from a certain place on the extreme right-wing of the ideological spectrum, to

The role of opaquely-funded, right-wing think tanks, pressure groups, and lobby groups in the Brexit saga has been foregrounded recently. This is partially due to the surprisingly central role the Jacob Rees-Mogg-fronted European Research Group

It is widely acknowledged that the financial system plays a central role in modern economies and that the actions of financiers can have negative effects on wider society, exemplified by the ‘banker-bashing’ that followed the

Oxford dictionaries have just announced their 2016 word of the year: ‘Post-truth’. This is apt, given the ever expanding chorus of voices announcing the onset of the ‘post-truth age’. While we were hardly in an