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Luke Ames Blackaby

Interview: Paul Smith

The Director of the British Council in the USA discusses soft power, nationality and identity

Homelessness: a tragic and misunderstood reality

Luke Ames Blackaby considers the damaging misperceptions surrounding the homeless in Oxford.

The Conservatives and dubious economic narratives

Luke Ames Blackaby examines the Tories’ claim that austerity was the right course for the economy

We should stop describing acts as being extremist

Luke Ames Blackaby argues that using the word ‘extremist’ too hastily risks undermining those acts that are extreme but nevertheless justified