Helene Guldberg

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Helene Guldberg in a photo from the website of Audacity the LM network pro-development think tank

Helene Guldberg in a photo from Amazon.co.uk

Helene Gold (Helene Guldberg) as RCP candidate in the Glasgow Hillhead constituency in the 1992 General Election as featured in Break out of the grey: Election manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Helene Guldberg (DoB 23.10.1965) is a teacher and an associate of the libertarian anti-environmental LM network, having been co-publisher of Living Marxism and co-founder and (current) Managing Editor of Spiked. On occasion in writing for Living Marxism she used the pseudonym Helene Gold. Guldberg studied psychology as a mature student at Edinburgh University sitting her finals in 1989. In 1996 she recalled 'I remember walking out into a lovely summer's day in 1989, after sweating over my final psychology examination at the University of Edinburgh, and thinking "Thank God, that's the last I'll see or hear of Chris Brand!"--the lecturer who set part of the exam, and whose ideas I had fought against in many a seminar over the previous four years.'

'After working as a primary school teacher for a few years', Guldberg obtained a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Manchester in 1999.' From 1993 Guldberg contributed to the RCP magazine Living Marxism, occasionally using the 'party name' Helene Gold. In 1997 she was appointed director and secretary of Informinc (LM) Limited, and became the publisher of LM the successor to Living Marxism In 2000 she was 'co-founder and Managing Editor of spiked-online, the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the UK.' By 2007 she was teaching 'a post-graduate course in child development (as part of an MA in Education) with the Open University, and an undergraduate course in child development at Centres for Academic Programs Abroad (CAPA) and the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES).' She remains a director of Spiked limited, together with Frank Furedi.

Affiliations

• Spiked
• Living Marxism

Company Directorships

• Spiked, Director, appointed 19.9.2000; Secretary, Appointed 12.12.2005
• Journalism Education Limited, Director and Secretary, Appointed 19.12.2007
• Informinc (LM) Limited, Director and Secretary appointed 29.01.1997, Dissolved 21.04.2004

Helene Guldberg, Reclaiming Childhood

Publications

Books

Just Another Ape?, by Helene Guldberg

• Helene Guldberg Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear,London: Routledge, January 2009.
• Helene Guldberg, Just Another Ape?, Societas, September 2010.

Journal articles, book chapters, research reports and pamphlets

• Helene Guldberg 'Child Protection and the Precautionary Principle' in Julian Morris (Ed.) (2000) Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle, Butterworth Heinemann.
• Helene Guldberg 'Design Tokenism and Global Warming' in Ian Abley and James Heartfield (eds) (2001) Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age , Wiley & Sons.
• Helene Guldberg 'Information Technology: Prospects and Barriers' in Dolan Cummings (2002) The Internet: Brave New World?, Hodder and Stoughton.

Popular press, magazines articles and web publications

1993

• Helene Gold, 'Who killed Cambodia?', Living Marxism, No. 57 - July 1993, p. 28.

1995

• Helene Guldberg, 'The Marxist Review of Books', Living Marxism, No. 76 - February 1995, p. 43.
• Helene Guldberg and Stuart Derbyshire, 'Futures: No Natural Born Killers', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June 1995, p. 38.
• Helene Guldberg and Stuart Derbyshire, 'Futures: No Natural Born Killers', Living Marxism, No. 80 - June 1995, p. 38.

1996

• Helene Guldberg, 'Why ban racist Brand?', Living Marxism, No. 91 - June 1996, p. 20.

1997

• Helene Guldberg, 'Futures: Do deer suffer like us?', LM 101, p. 34, June 1997.

1998

• Helene Guldberg, 'Brought to book', LM 107, p. 22, February 1998.
• Helene Guldberg and Claire Fox, 'Appeal in Defence of Free Speech', LM 108, p. 24, March 1998.
• Claire Fox and Helene Guldberg, 'Free Speech Wars festival', LM 109, p. 19, April 1998.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Mapplethorpe: obscene allegations', LM 110, p. 31, May 1998.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Fay Weldon: 'Tony Blair is like a little girlie', LM 112, p. 18, July/August 1998.

1999

• Helene Guldberg, 'Ape rights and wrongs', LM 119, p. 20, April 1999.

2000

• Helene Guldberg, 'Free speech on trial', LM 127, p. 16, February 2000.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Embryo research - let it grow', Spiked, 20 December 2000.

2001

• Helene Guldberg, 'Global warming: Mr Blair's hot air', Spiked, 8 March 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The great ape debate', Spiked, 29 March 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Eco-evangelism', Spiked, 26 April 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Muay Thai in Koh Samui', Spiked, 11 May 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Just another expert?', Spiked, 22 May 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Child safety has its own dangers', Spiked, 19 June 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Animal research - money isn't everything', Spiked, 3 July 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Libel law: free speech on trial', Spiked, 20 July 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Are the kids all right?', Spiked, 25 October 2001.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Qualifying free speech', Spiked, 12 November 2001.

2002

• Helene Guldberg, ‘This is a case of table pounding’, Spiked, 24 January 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Global warming: rating the debate', Spiked, 22 February 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'From ABC to ICT', Spiked, 2 March 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Mush! Mush!', Spiked, 4 April 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Heavy petting', Spiked, 1 May 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'I have not jumped off the modernity boat', Spiked, 22 May 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Historical imagination', Spiked, 12 June 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Taking Stock', Spiked, 25 June 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Positing the positive', Spiked, 11 July 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Vivisection: testing the debate', Spiked, 25 July 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Of lice and men', Spiked, 22 August 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Alive and kicking', Spiked, 10 September 2002.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Libel online', Spiked, 13 December 2002.

2003

• Helene Guldberg, 'The Lomborg Inquisition', Spiked, 16 January 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The missed lesson of the Climbie inquiry', Spiked, 31 January 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Norway bombs away', Spiked, 19 February 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Panic Attack', Spiked, 14 May 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Scaring into space', Spiked, 22 May 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Challenging the precautionary principle', Spiked, 1 July 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Little girl lost (not)', Spiked, 10 July 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Leave those kids alone ', Spiked, 9 September 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'After Anna', Spiked, 18 September 2003.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Dishonouring scientists', Spiked, 23 December 2003.

2004

• Helene Guldberg, 'Bodily harm', Spiked, 16 January 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Monkeying around', Spiked, 27 January 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Why humans are superior to apes', Spiked, 24 February 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'MMR, autism and politics', Spiked, 23 June 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The day-care scare', Spiked, 13 July 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Class divisions', Spiked, 21 July 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Keep taking the tablets', Spiked, 30 July 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Pre-emptive policing', Spiked, 19 August 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Taking the debate to Europe', Spiked, 3 September 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Greener than thou', Spiked, 16 September 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, The myth of ‘infant determinism’, Spiked, 5 October 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Boy in a non-plastic bubble?', Spiked, 5 November 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Stop apologising for animal experiments', Spiked, 26 November 2004.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Galloway 1, free speech 0', Spiked, 3 December 2004.

2005

• Helene Guldberg, 'Who will stand up for animal experiments?', Spiked, 14 February 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Free speech in the dock', Spiked, 17 February 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'All in the hormones?', Spiked, 8 April 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, How can we halt the ‘march of unreason’?, Spiked, 9 May 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The ethical case for animal research', Spiked, 25 May 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Tagging three-year-olds for life', Spiked, 14 June 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Why Roman picked London for his libel trial', Spiked, 25 July 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Singer on ‘speciesism’: a specious argument', Spiked, 29 July 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Scientific research: the sky’s the limit', Spiked, 21 September 2005.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Man is more than a beast', Spiked, 3 November 2005.

2006

• Helene Guldberg, ‘This is like a badly written Greek tragedy’, Spiked, 16 January 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Chemical stories can make you blind', Spiked, 30 January 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Stop celebrating Tourette’s', Spiked, 26 May 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, ‘Animals are less valuable than human beings’, Spiked, 2 June 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Stop weeping over whaling', Spiked, 22 June 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Don’t tinker with the libel laws – scrap them', Spiked, 6 July 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'A hairy moment for free speech', Spiked, 8 August 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Should childhood come with a health warning?', Spiked, 14 September 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Publish, and you can still be damned', Spiked, 13 October 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, ‘There’s no such thing as “stress”’, Spiked, 20 October 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Back to skool', Spiked, 17 November 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Down with the Supernanny State', Spiked, 23 November 2006.
• Helene Guldberg, 'A hard cell', Spiked, 28 December 2006.

2007

• Helene Guldberg, 'A tick-box attitude to toddlers', Spiked, 19 March 2007.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Are children being held hostage by parental fears?', Spiked, 11 June 2007.
• Helene Guldberg, 'A childish panic about the next generation', Spiked, 24 August 2007.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The myth of stressed and depressed schoolkids', Spiked, 16 October 2007.
• Helene Guldberg, 'A playground tumble can do you good', Spiked, 14 November 2007.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Humanity, thou art sick', Spiked, 21 December 2007.

2008

• Helene Guldberg, 'Shooting down the feminist Thought Police?', Spiked, 3 January 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Humanity, thou art sick', Spiked, 18 January 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Heart disease: we need medicine not moralism', Spiked, 28 February 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, 'No defender of liberty should use the libel laws', Spiked, 26 June 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, Don’t blame parents for ‘cotton-wool kids’, Spiked, 6 August 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The shame of Salman Rushdie’s secular fatwa', Spiked, 27 August 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Don’t outlaw boisterous banter in the playground', Spiked, 17 November 2008.
• Helene Guldberg, ‘Autistic children are now seen as a burden’, Spiked, 29 December 2008.

2009

• Helene Guldberg, 'The mother of all interventions', Spiked, 2 February 2009.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Chimps are like humans? Stop monkeying around', Spiked, 19 March 2009.
• Helene Guldberg, 'It’s time to move beyond the nature/nurture divide', Spiked, 24 April 2009.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Restating the case for human uniqueness', Spiked, 26 June 2009.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Restating the case for human uniqueness', Spiked, 24 July 2009.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Bullying the public', Spiked, 29 July 2009.

2010

• Helene Guldberg, 'Racialising the playground', Spiked, 26 February 2010.
• Helene Guldberg, 'This isn’t racism. It’s just kids being kids', Spiked, 12 March 2010.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Monkeys mourning? Don’t make me laugh', Spiked, 29 April 2010.
• Helene Guldberg, Sorry, but it can be GOOD for children to be bullied, Daily Mail Last updated at 8:30 AM on 27th May 2010.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Set children free — by trusting adults', Spiked, 8 July 2010.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Orang-utans are not remotely like humans', Spiked, 19 August 2010.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Animals are useless, unless humans make use of them', Spiked, 3 November 20010.

2011

• Helene Guldberg, 'The chasm that separates great apes from humans', Spiked, 28 January 2011.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The chasm between great apes and people', Spiked, 11 February 2011.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Animals don’t have morality, people do', Spiked, 17 June 2011.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Anti-bullying campaigns: doing more harm than good?', Spiked, 24 November 2011.

2012

• Helene Guldberg, 'Ignore these pedlars of panic – the kids are all right', Spiked, 16 January 2012.
• Helene Guldberg, 'The National Trust’s imagination deficit', Spiked, 19 April 2012.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Switch off the junk science, not the TV', Spiked, 17 October 2012.

2013

• Helene Guldberg, 'Does watching TV give you cancer? Of course not', Spiked, 10 January 2013
• Helene Guldberg, 'What’s worse than bullying? Anti-bullying intervention, Spiked, 10 May 2013.
• Helene Guldberg, ‘This manual is, frankly, a disaster for children’, Spiked, 7 June 2013.
• Helene Guldberg, The deterministic myth of the ‘early years’, Spiked, 31 July 2013.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Giving sibling rivalry a bad name', Spiked, 4 November 2013.

2014

• Helene Guldberg, The dangerous myth of today’s ‘toxic’ childhood, Spiked, 23 January 2014.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Early childhood maketh not the man', Spiked, 24 March 2014.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Saving normal in a world gone mad', Spiked, 11 July 2014.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Tommy the chimp is just an animal, not a prisoner', Spiked, 21 October 2014.

2015

• Helene Guldberg, 'The myth of England’s miserable kids', Spiked, 21 August 2015.
• Helene Guldberg, 'Tick-box policy won’t raise free-range kids', Spiked, 16 October 2015

2016

• Helene Guldberg, 'What do Leave voters really think?', Spiked, 6 July 2016.
• Helene Guldberg, Sex, politics and censorship, Spiked, 28 October 2016.

2017

• Helene Guldberg, Kershaw’s lesson from the 1930s, Spiked, 28 February 2017.

Resources, References and Contact

Contact

• Website www.heleneguldberg.com