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webmasterAngus Kennedy

Angus Kennedy

Angus Kennedy is the web master for the Battle of Ideas and Culture Wars websites. Angus is a Battle of Ideas committee member, has written for spiked, and reviewed for Culture Wars. He is is particularly interested in new forms of political language, especially when they advance further erosions of our liberties and display an increasing contempt for our ability to live without interference or regulation. Environmentalism and public health campaigns to protect us from ourselves are contemporary cases in point. Angus believes that we should be free to say what we want and are quite capable of taking responsibility for what we do: words and deeds can still change the world. He wants a politics for adults: not patronising lectures and bans.

Angus has a degree in Classics from Oxford, in Linguistics from the University of London and an M. Phil. in Artificial Intelligence from Dundee University. He has always been interested in language, literature and questions of reading and meaning. His professional background is in IT consultancy and software process improvement. His immodest ambition is to be widely-read and well-travelled.

Recent articles

Selected appearances

  • 5 May 2008. Angus spoke to Duncan Barkes on City Talk 105.9 about swearing: is there anything we shouldn't be allowed to say? Listen to the recording here:

    Selected articles

  • 29 May 2008, Dis me please, Culture Wars
  • 13 April 2008, Reading public critical, Culture Wars
  • 7 April 2008, 'The Apprentice': arrogantly brilliant TV, spiked
  • 10 March 2008, Chinese workers? Let them pick up litter, spiked
  • 6 March 2008, A Hodge-podge approach to high culture, spiked
  • 15 February 2008, Say no to counterknowledge, Culture Wars
  • 11 February 2008, Tying us up with even more red tape, spiked
  • 21 January 2008, How public houses enforce public order, spiked
  • 3 January 2008, Petitions: a shrunken view of democracy, spiked
  • 5 December 2008, Brown’s got a brand new bag, spiked