Articles by Jean Seaton

Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster. She is the Director of the Orwell Foundation and a member of Political Quarterly's editorial board.
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Marquand and MacDonald
Marquand's book avoids the legitimate criticisms of MacDonald, but is still a brilliant explanation of a remarkable man.
- Labour Party
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Restating the Obvious: A Case for Political and Critical Education
The ability to reason, challenge, and express — in speech and writing — is not a luxury. It is a civic necessity.
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Progressive Politics
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Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?
Good quality information is a public utility: the rich and powerful will always have access to what they need to know, but poor people do not. Indeed, increasing inequalities in access to decent information underlie other more obvious inequalities.
- Media
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In Times Like These, What is the Future of the BBC?
Why we need a reformed and bigger BBC putting information engineering in the public interest at the centre of a new vision for the UK.
- Covid-19
- Media