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Books • Busybody State • Public space

Officious – Rise of the Busybody State

25-11-201615-09-2017
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A new book by Manifesto Club director Josie Appleton. Published by Zero Books. In Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic procedures for their own sake: the…

Books • Leafleting bans

Leafleting: A Liberty Lost?

28-06-201127-07-2015
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Over the past few years it has become almost impossible to hand out leaflets in many UK town and city centres. Using powers contained in the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, local authorities have introduced leafleting zones within which people must…

Books • Monitoring kids

The Myth of Racist Kids

28-10-200923-05-2022
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The Myth of Racist Kids – anti-racism policy and the regulation of school life, is the latest Manifesto Club publication, by film-maker and anti-racism campaigner Adrian Hart. Hart’s investigation shows how schools are under pressure to search out and report ‘racist’ incidents,…

Books • Public space

Attention Please: Manifesto Club photobook

30-06-200923-05-2022
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Attention Please is a photobook of unnecessary, absurd and patronising safety warnings in public space, submitted to us by members of the public over 2008-9. The collection contains submissions from all over the world, and also from individuals including the Turner prize-winning…

Books • EU

EU Phrasebook: 27 Ways to Say, ‘No Doesn’t Really Mean No’

02-12-200823-05-2022
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The Manifesto Club has published a ‘Phrasebook’ to mock the anti-democratic EU. Four times, European voters have said ‘No’ to European Union treaties: in Ireland on 7 June 2001 (Nice Treaty), France and Holland on 29 May and 1 June 2005 (European…

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