Soundings Volume 2025 Issue 89

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Authoritarianism and alternatives

Contents

Editorial: Challenging authoritarian political cultures, pages 4‑15
Dave Featherstone, Jenny Morrison, Ewan Gibbs Free to download

Subverting Nkrumah: The Information Research Department and the practice of neo-colonialism, pages 16‑28
Ben Gowland Free to download
The British state’s authoritarianism has been integral to its international operations and long neo-colonial histories

‘Everyone knew what was happening’: paradoxes of state secrecy and its making, pages 29‑58
Ibtehal Hussain Free to download
British state secrecy continues to reflect the colonial past that shaped it

Race and nation in Wales, pages 59‑75
Neil Evans Free to download
Does Wales have a nationally distinctive approach to race?

Affects of austerity in the third sector, pages 76‑91
Fiona Duncan Free to download
Austere capitalism is a catalyst for worker stress and ill health in third sector spaces

Organising lessons, pages 92‑105
Rosie Hampton Free to download
Dave Featherstone and Jenny Morrison interview Rosie Hampton, Friends of the Earth Scotland Oil and Gas Campaigns Manager and Living Rent Partick member.

The long 1980s reframed, pages 106‑110
Ashwani Sharma Free to download

Review article: Rethinking economic growth, pages 111‑122
David Purdy
Daniel Susskind, Growth: A Reckoning, Allen Lane 2024

Podcasting, political elites and the democratic crisis in the United Kingdom, pages 123‑136
Nancy Geddes-O’Dolan
Political elites have adopted ‘cosy’ careers in podcasting alongside their newfound political ‘frenemies’, further undermining the media’s democratic function

The precarity engine: An alternative, incomplete history of British computing, pages 137‑154
Carl Rowlands
Premonition of a fire

Phil Cohen obituary, pages 155‑158