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Rhian E. Jones
Verified
Co-Editor, Red Pepper (UK)
London
Beats
Biography
Writer, critic and blogger on politics, music, pop culture and radical history. Grew up in South Wales and now based in London. Author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender (zer0, 2013); Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest (University of Wales Press, 2015); Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible (Repeater, 2017); and editor of Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Repeater, 2017). Blogs at Velvet Coalmine: www.rhianejones.com
City Hall and CourtsPublic Safety
Fashion, health, politics
Content
By Rhian E. Jones Verified| Red Pepper (UK) Verified Like many things enabled in the idealistic early days of Web 2.0, the opportunity for public responses to mainstream journalism via the comments section wasn’t a bad idea to begin with. But under the particular business model of left-leaning newspapers like the one where I worked in the 2010s, comment sections became a battleground in the emerging ‘culture war’. Let’s start with the headlines.
By Rhian E. Jones Verified| History Today Verified A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers, infuriated by increased charges on road travel that made their working lives and finances even more burdensome, took matters into their own hands by destroying tollhouses, gates, and bars in what became known as the Rebecca riots.
By Rhian E. Jones Verified| History Today Verified Ahead of a possible Labour victory in Britain’s next general election, three new histories published on the centenary of the party’s first government provide a useful opportunity for reflection and perspective. Peter Clark’s brisk and personable The Men of 1924 devotes roughly half its length to Labour’s early years, as the party transformed itself ‘from pressure group to government in waiting’.
Company Info
Red Pepper (UK)
London, England, United Kingdom
+44 20 7281 7024