Phil Mullan

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Phil Mullan a core member of the LM network at the Battle of Ideas

Phil Mullan, (DoB 17/08/1955) who formerly used the pseudonym Phil Murphy, is an economist and business manager and is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He has been a member of the RCT and RCP, national organiser of the Irish Freedom Movement (in 1988), a contributor to Living Marxism, Channel Cyberia, the Institute of Ideas and Spiked, , a registrant of the Spiked website, a shareholder of the Academy of Ideas, a trustee of Global Futures and was interviewed for Debating Matters.

Background

Born in Belfast, Mullan moved to Britain 'in the early seventies where he gained a BA in Economics from Kent University. He also holds a CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.'

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Mullan became a leading member of the Revolutionary Communist Tendency and then the Revolutionary Communist Party. He was active on the issue of Ireland addressing a public meeting on 'Ireland: Its revolutionary significance', called by the RCT at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, London on 26 May 1978 and writing in the RCP journal Revolutionary Communist Papers in 1981. He was national organiser of the Irish Freedom Movement (in 1988),

RCP connections airbrushed?

His Battle of Ideas biographical note is rather modest about his long term involvement with the LM network, though it does mention his time at the University of Kent where he came under the spell of Frank Furedi and the Revolutionary Communist Tendency:

Phil Mullan is an economist and business manager. Author of The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population is not a Social Problem, he has researched, written and lectured on economic, demographic and business issues. Research projects have included work for the London East Research Institute at the University of East London and the Tomorrow’s Company business think-tank.

He alternates, and sometimes combines, work as an economist with business management, and currently is working full time as UK Managing Director of Easynet Global Services, the global corporate communication services company. Born in Belfast, Phil moved to Britain in the early seventies where he gained a BA in Economics from Kent University. He also holds a CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.

Affiliations

Company directorships

Cybercafe Limited Appointed 14 October 1996- present | Epping Consulting Limited (Company number 04353349), Director, appointed 15 January 2002. | Easynet LimitedDirector, appointed 1 December 1995, resigned 30 June 1998 | BSkyB LLU Assets Limited, appointed 26 january 1996, resigned 13 January 2006 | Hugo Chaffeur Services Limited, director, appointed 27 March 2000, resigned 2 May 2002. Mullan listed nature of his occupation as 'Internet' | Inset Press Limited, director appointed prior to 2 March 1992, resigned 31 January 1993 | Junius Publications, Director, appointed prior to 2 april 1992, resigned when company dissolved on 25 January 2000 | Delta Bravo Limited, director, appointed 1 June 1999, resigned 20 April 2000.

Charity roles

Global Futures, Chairman (2002-3 at least) and Trustee between 2002-3 and 2010-11 at least.

Publications

• Andrew Clarkson and Phil Murphy 'The Loyalist working class', in World in Recession Revolutionary Communist Papers, No 7 July 1981. p. 27-36.