Diary

10 March, Spiked's letters on Green Capitalism
4 March, Phil Cunliffe bigs up Green Capitalism
1 March, Frank Furedi takes issue with Green Capitalism

26 Feb., 7.30 talking in Manchester on planning
23 Feb., I am in the new Rising East collection
28 Jan., my obituary of Indonesia's Suharto
25 Jan., my review of Lucy Robinson's Gay men and the Left
7 Jan. my article on Xmas sales and green snobs
2 Jan. 2008, Amazingly, the bumpkins at Arseposten have written to University of Westminster to get them to remove my attack on them, here.
27 Dec., on Putin's Time 'man of the year' award
21 Dec., a book on The End of Politics reviewed, and an obituary of Dave Hallsworth
19 Dec., my Grossman review in German
18 Dec.,  my article Eco-Imperialism at Bali on Spiked
14 Dec., Julie Hearn's excellent paper 'African NGOs, the new compradors' arrives
13 Dec. Graham Hitchen's seminar on Alan Freeman's Creative Industries paper; then CSD's Xmas party with Amanda, Dave, Julia and Tara (more pics)
  
6 Dec., launch for not just one but two excellent books by Phil Hammond pics
3 Dec., my 'Cornucopian Manifesto' is in J.J. Charlesworth's Fusion Now for Rokeby Gallery
1 Dec., on art investment for the Art Review
16 Nov- 30 Nov, visiting Jon and Janice, Jamie and Nancy, Alex, Nick and Liz in New York:

15 Nov., reviewing Benno Teschke's book on Marx and Sovereignty for Critique, and on Orwell et al for Literary London

14 Nov., speaking at the Soho theatre on Creative hype

15 Nov., reviewing Benno Teschke's book on Marx and Sovereignty for Critique, and on Orwell et al for Literary London
14 Nov., speaking at the Soho theatre on Creative hype

12 Nov., defending the American Dream in San Jose
6 Nov., Fifteen Housing Myths, in Spiked; and I debate housing on Dispatches online 'late night and live'
11 Oct., New Left Reviewed in Mute

8 Oct., Innovation Reading Circle
6 Oct., Metamute on my 'Creative London'
1 Oct., my article The High Price of Britain's Housing Shortage was chosen as the best from the web by the Times' Daniel Finkelstein
21 Sept., Russia-hating blogger Kim Zigfeld cannot believe that Aftenposten has withdrawn its allegations against Julia Svetlichnaja
20 Sept., my review of Oona King and Alastair Campbell's diaries
19 Sept., my article Creative London in Rising East Online
18 Sept., my article GM: where the science does not count

13th Sept., I give a paper on 'non-historic peoples' at the SGIR conference in Turin
Aftenposten withdraw the scurrilous allegations made by Hilde Harbo (see left) against Julia Svetlichnaja
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12 Sept., my letter (scroll to end) in the Guardian
11 Sept., farewell Anita Roddick, Green Capitalist
7 Sept., my review of Sukhdev Sandhu's Night Haunts is in Blueprint 
3 Sept., reading Umberto Eco's 1963 Encyclopedia of Technology and Jasia Reichardt's Robots
1 Sept., Back from France to hear the sad news that Dave Hallsworth, working class activist, has died
30 August, the excellent journal Mute arrives with articles by Loren Goldner, Suhail Malik and me, on arts funding
13 August-30 August, I will be in France, and not updating
8 August, Phil Cunliffe comes round to talk about Turin conference
31 July, Lynsey Hanley takes issue with my passing reference to her book, and Tom Scott, to my argument
26 July, to the Manifesto Club meeting on CRB checks. Photos
23-6 July meet up with Courtney Hamilton (see his Neo-Jacobin blog), Josie Appleton (Manifesto Club), Kevin McCullagh (Plan) and Art Review's JJ Charlesworth:

23 July, my Spiked article 'Stop Romanticising Council Housing' gets qualified approval at MetaMute
20 July, I am lucky enough to be talking to journalists and editors from Sichuan, in Oxford

Also, my review of Rick Kuhn's biography of Henryk Grossman
16 July, a great evening at the Innovation Reading Circle, discussing Elliott and Atkinson's Fantasy Island
12 July, in Leeds for Guy Julier and Liz Moor's Counting Creativity symposium, where I meet my dad's old mate Doug Sandle. Pictures.
11 July, Who's to Blame for Crazy House Prices?  
10 July, Jon Fraenkel calls in en route to France, with Laite and Ethan. See his timely book on the Fiji coup and Happy Birthday Electra Svetlichnaja!
21 June, my review of Barbrook, Edgerton, Elliott and Atkinson on technology, old and new
20 June, my reply to the Royal Town Planning Institute, and a rebuttal of Tristram Hunt's Thames Gateway histrionics
14 June, the transition town debate (below) is blogged by Zerochampion,  the Energy Bulletin and Transition Culture; meanwhile Catalyst and CommentisB****cks quote my Margaret Hodge article, and Rob Clowes is very kind about Let's Build

13 June, debate Jeremy Leggett of the transition town movement on Radio 4's You and Yours.
12 June, my attack on Margaret Hodge is re-posted on some anti-racist sites, here and here, and cited by the Thurrock IWCA; 'thin and polemical' says Dominik Zaum in International Affairs, 83: 4, 2007 but sadly he's talking about my chapter in Politics without Sovereignty, not me
8 June, drinks with Alec Turner, whose book on Further Education is out in August, and Ian Abley:

5 June, quoted on housing on the 'From the Heartland' blog. 
1 June, sacked spindoctor Martin Sixsmith goes all McCarthyite on me in his Litvinenko book, page 259
22 May, denouncing Margaret Hodge's 'white's first' housing policy

21 May, debating 'heritage Britain' after the Cutty Sark fire on Anita Anand's Five Live Show
19 May, a great day at Audacity's All Planned Out conference (pictures here), and I debate the CPRE on Farming Today
18 May, I am quoted in Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson's book, excerpted in the Guardian
17 May, drinks with Westminster U.'s internationalists Dave Chandler, Phil Hammond and Tara McCormack at the launch of Richard Barbrook's history of Cold War techno-geeks

14 May, our Brighton house price protest makes More4 News, and Sun-Herald columnist Adrian Bolt quotes me on Green Malthusianism, sparking a debate
10 May, my critique of the Optimum Population Trust, and I get a mention in Joel Rosen's brilliant new book The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos.
8 May, my retrospective on Blair's Wars is on Spiked, and SF's Michael Moorcock endorses Let's Build!5 May, The Economist's Johnny Grimond takes issue with me in a pull-out on cities, and so did a former student in her MySpace entry of 26 Nov.
27 April, my review of Channel 4's "The Human Footprint"
24 April, an obituary of Boris Yeltsin
17 April, my paper on the 'Limits of European Economic Unification' is published in Critique, the Journal of Socialist Thought
16 April, on the Moscow protests
15 April, back from France to find Blueprint on the welcome mat, with my article on Creative City policies
4 April, fly out to Perpignan with the kids, back in a week
29 March, out with Phil Hammond (whose next book on PoMo War will be fantastic), Dave Chandler, Chris Bickerton and Phil Cunliffe
26 March, I am on Radio 4's Farming Today, debating Shaun Spiers of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England
22 March, my response to Ann Powers and John Houghton is in the Guardian
21 March, April's Vanity Fair is on the newsstands, and I am quoted in Bryan Burroughs' article on the Litvinenko poisoning
March 2007, 'Goodbye Green Belt' in the RIBA Journal

1 March, chaired housing minister Yvette Cooper's contribution to the Regenex Conference, Earl's Court, meanwhile, the RIBA Journal published my article on 60 years of the Town and Country Planning Act
28 Feb., meet up with Robert Bruegmann, author of the excellent Sprawl: A Compact History
20 Feb., my contribution to the debate over the future of the Thames Gateway is posted by BBC Kent
19 Feb., my review of Lynsey Hanley's Estates: an intimate history
16 Feb., talk to Radio 4's Gavin Heard about housing in Britain, for a series he is producing.

15 Feb., 6.30pm, spoke at the Brighton Salon about Let's Build!
13 Feb. Let's Build is 'the latest manifesto for the advocates of untrammelled development', according to the environmentalists' magazine, The Land
8 Feb., 'Bring down the House', my response to reform of the Lords published by Spiked
30 Jan., 2pm, Seminar on Litvinenko case and the New Cold War for CSD, turned surreal, after a gang of new Cold Warriors turned up to illustrate the argument. Read my report
27 Jan., MRZine publish the second of my two articles on Britain and the slave trade, on the anniversary of abolition.
23 Jan., my review of Kevin Yuill's excellent book Richard Nixon and the rise of Affirmative Action
Weds. 17 Jan. 2007,  'A United Kingdom of Britain and France' on the revelation that Guy Mollet proposed it to Anthony Eden in 1956 in Spiked.

Tues., 19 Dec., in Cork for the launch of Chris Bickerton, Phil Cunliffe and Alex Gourevitch's new book, Politics without Sovereignty, at the British International Studies Association Conference. 
Fri., 7 Dec., 10am, Julia Svetlichaja and I  give a press conference at the University of Westminster after the interview with Alexander Litvinenko we did was published in the Telegraph.
Tues. 5 Dec. my article Building School Success about Kay Hartmann and dRMM's work at Hargrave Park School and Kingsdale is published in the RSA Journal.

Thurs., 14 Dec., CSD Xmas party.

Tues., 12 Dec., Alexander Litvinenko's friend Akhmed Zakhayev tells Russian Newsweek that he has never met me before!

Fri., 7 Dec., 10am, Julia Svetlichaja and I will give a press conference about Alexander Litvinenko, at University of Westminster, Board Room, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2UW
Tues. 5 Dec. my article Building School Success about Kay Hartmann and dRMMM's work at Hargrave Park School and Kingsdale is published in the RSA Journal.
On Saturday, 2 Dec. I met up with Sociologist Brendan Caffrey, whose website Why Work interrogates the protestant ethic, and then later heard last orders with London Lite music reviewer Neil Davenport (see his Midnight Bell blog).
On Thursday 30 November, I was Newcastle to speak at the Great Debate with Dominic Coupe of the CPRE, lecturer Zan Gunn, Caspar Hewlett chairing

On Saturday 26 November, I was on Channel 4 news after the interview of Alexander Litvinenko I did with Julia Svetlichnaja was published in the Telegraph.
On 30 November, I will be in Newcastle to speak at the Great Debate
Wednesday, 15 Nov. my review of Bettina Aptheker's memoirs is published by Spiked.

Tuesday, 14 Nov. the Democracy Club hosted a debate between me and Nicholas Schoon of the CPRE on my new book, Let's Build.
Thursday, 9 Nov. I gave a paper, 'Failed states, safe havens, rogue states, unions and protectorates: alternatives to the sovereign state?' to the CRIPT workshop on international theory conference Theorising the International After the Subject at Goldsmith's College
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