FORA.tv Speaker - Neil Davenport

Neil Davenport is a former music journalist whose work has been published in City Life, Manchester Evening News, Jockey Slut, Metro, Select, 7, Sleaze Nation, Q, Uncut and London Lite. He now writes regularly for the current affairs journal spiked-online on such issues as multiculturalism, music, education, drugs and licensing laws, anti-materialist sceptics and the UK Conservative Party. In September 2007 he has contributed a chapter called 'The Rise and Rise of Credentialism' to The Lecturers Guide to Further Education by Hayes, Turner and Marshall (Open University Press), and is currently researching a book provisionally entitled The 1980s and the Strange Death of Social Aspiration. He currently teaches politics and sociology at the JFS Sixth Form Centre in Harrow, Middlesex, and holds an MSc in Social and Political Theory from the University of London