Jennie Bristow

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Jennie Bristow in 2003

Jennie Bristow is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. She was reportedly Revolutionary Communist Students candidate for Vice President of the National Union of Students in 1993, while attending the University of Sussex, wrote for Living Marxism/LM from 1994 and was listed as affiliated to Genderwatch (another RCP front) in 1996. She was part of the launch team of and is a shareholder of and the commissioning editor and a writer for, Spiked, is a shareholder of the Academy of Ideas, the parent of the Institute of Ideas, has written for the Institute of Ideas and Novo and edits the Parents With Attitude website.

Bristow runs her own editing consultancy which seems to have mainly done work for other associates of the LM network. The Punctuate! website features testimonials from seven clients. These include three other LM network associates: Tiffany Jenkins, Ellie Lee, senior lecturer in social policy, University of Kent and Helene Guldberg, Managing Editor, spiked and formerly of Living Marxism. One further client testimonial comes from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service the director of which is LM network associate Ann Furedi. Bristow also edits the BPAS journal Abortion Review. Bristow has also worked for her sometime co-author Frank Furedi on his book Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating (Continuum 2009).

Bristow's 2009 book Standing Up To Supernanny contained chapters from LM network associates Helene Guldberg, Ellie Lee, Jane Sandeman and Jan Macvarish. The acnknowledements thanked Claire Fox, Frank Furedi, the Institute of Ideas and Spiked.

Conservative movement connections

Like many associated with the LM network Bristow has worked closely with elements of the Conservative movement. For example, with Frank Furedi she wrote a pamphlet for the conservative think tank Civitas. This project was funded by the conservative Nigel Vinson Charitable Trust, an organisation set up in 1973 by Nigel Vinson the former council member of Aims of Industry and co-founder of the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies. The trust mostly funds conservative think tanks such as the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Institute for Policy Research and Civitas, which in 2009 were the recipients of the three biggest grants. Other organisations to which it gave grants of over £1,000 in 2008 and/or 2009 include: Hampden Trust, Politics and Economics Research Trust (mainly funds the Taxpayers' Alliance), International Policy Network, Foundation for Social and Economic Thinking (charitable arm of Politeia).

Affiliations

Punctuate! | Spiked | Institute of Ideas | Parents With Attitude | Civitas

Publications, Resources, Notes

Publications

2012

• Jennie Bristow, 'How anti-abortionists are upping the ante', Spiked, 19 March 2012.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Divorcing marriage from morality', Spiked, 10 January 2012.

2011

• Jennie Bristow, 'A fresh-faced look at growing old', Spiked, 23 December 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'We don’t need to talk about hating kids', Spiked, 28 October 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Parents should rise up against this neurotrash', Spiked, 19 September 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'These riots were not a product of permissiveness', Spiked, 30 August 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Lib-Con family policy: Maggie meets Mary Poppins', Spiked, 18 July 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The new parenting catfight: Tiger Moms vs Fun Slobs', Spiked, 26 May 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'It is right that society offers ‘Ground E’ abortions', Spiked, 5 May 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Women: equal at work, still unequal at home?', Spiked, 1 April 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'How Britain’s abortion law punishes women', Spiked, 14 February 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'How the vetting frenzy alienates adults from kids', Spiked, 10 February 2011.
• Jennie Bristow, 'An open letter to Nick Clegg', Spiked, 20 January 2011.

2010

• Jennie Bristow, 'Page Three Girls and porn-again feminists', Spiked, 22 November 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A slap in the face to the bourgeoisie', Spiked, 15 October 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Bringing up baby is not an exact science', Spiked, 28 September 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A slap in the face to modern niceties', Spiked, 24 September 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Big Society: there’s more to politics than the PTA', Spiked, 21 July 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Sure Start: a fancy new way to police the family', Spiked, 22 June 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, Turning parents into ‘partners of the state’, Spiked, 28 April 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, The ‘Mumsnet election’ doesn’t get my vote, Spiked, 8 April 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, ‘We’re afraid of our kids, and we’re afraid for them’, Spiked, 3 February 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Turning teachers into objects of suspicion', Spiked, 15 January 2010.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Abortion: the freedom to make tough choices', Spiked, 6 January 2010.

2009

• Jennie Bristow (Ed.) Standing up to Supernanny, London: Societas, 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'It’s not true that children never lie', Spiked, 30 December 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'There’s more to human character than sharing toys', Spiked, 16 November 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why pedagogy is in peril', Spiked, 6 November 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why pedagogy is in peril', Spiked, 30 October 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Population reduction: a war on women’s bodies', Spiked, 6 October 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'There’s more to parenting than egg production', Spiked, 21 September 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why parents should oppose vetting', Spiked, 13 August 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'At last, a serious debate on ‘social evils’, Spiked, 7 August 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The grisly memoirs of a bad mother', Spiked, 3 July 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Bad mother, good book', Spiked, 26 June 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Hands off home education!, Spiked, 15 June 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'One family’s tragedy, not a political indicator', Spiked, 2 June 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 19: Your child’s Body Mass Index is nobody’s business but yours', Spiked, 27 May 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Abortion rates: it’s not the economy, stupid', Spiked, 21 May 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, Trapped in ‘Cyburbia’, Spiked, 24 April 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The tyranny of emotional etiquette', Spiked, 27 March 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Deconstructing dads', Spiked, 27 February 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 18: be sceptical about ‘bad childhood’ reports', Spiked, 17 February 2009.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The making of a modern-day witch hunt, Spiked, 30 January 2009.

2008

• Jennie Bristow, If only it had stayed ‘all in his mind’, Spiked, 29 December 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 17: The kids don’t know it all', Spiked, 15 December 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The truth: why Down’s births have gone up', Spiked, 3 December 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, ‘Just as bad as denying penicillin to a sick man’, Spiked, 21 November 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, ‘Baby P’: don’t turn this tragedy into a policy, Spiked, 12 November 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 16: Strong families need more than money', Spiked, 22 October 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 15: Not everyone you know is a latent paedophile', Spiked, 18 September 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, Rule 14: Nobody needs a ‘Grandparents’ Charter’, Spiked, 9 September 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, Rule 13: You don’t have to love your maternity leave, Spiked, 17 July 2008.
• Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow Licensed to Hug: How child protection policies are poisoning the relationship between the generations and damaging the voluntary sector, London: Civitas, June 2008. 'This publication has been made possible by a grant from the Nigel Lord Vinson Charitable Trust'
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why we need a parents’ liberation movement', Spiked, 27 June 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 12: An ‘action plan’ won’t stop teen drinking', Spiked, 4 June 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Cherie's memoirs 'are not awful' shock!', Spiked, 30 May 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Abortion: 24 reasons to defend 24 weeks', Spiked, 15 May 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 11: Parents are allowed to get drunk on holiday', Spiked, 8 May 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 10: school choice is a myth', Spiked, 10 April 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, Untying the ‘ribbon culture’, Spiked, 28 March 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 9: Concerns about older mothers are based on moralism, not medicine', Spiked, 11 March 2008.
• Jennie Bristow, Rule 8: There’s nothing wrong with ‘electronic babysitting’, Spiked, 22 January 2008.

2007

• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 7: Have a merry Christmas', Spiked, 20 December 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, Rule 6: There is no right way to ‘Bring Up Baby’, Spiked, 8 November 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, After Chick Lit, welcome to ‘baby-sick lit’, Spiked, 26 October 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Abortion: stop hiding behind The Science', Spiked, 22 October 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'This is not eugenics — it is one mum’s tough decision', Spiked, 9 October 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Having children can be good for you — and society', Spiked, 29 August 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 4: Get real about nappies (and dustbins)', Spiked, 23 July 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The return of Mass Observation', Spiked, 29 June 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Investigating the infra-ordinary', Spiked, 21 June 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 3: Pregnancy does not damage your child', Spiked, 29 May 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Scarier than Thatcher the milk snatcher', Spiked, 8 May 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 2: It’s not All About You', Spiked, 11 April 2007.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Rule 1: you and your child have the same interests', Spiked, 19 March 2007.

2004

• Jennie Bristow, "Air Pollution & Human Health: Facts and Fears", Spiked Online, 30 June 2004

2003

• Jennie Bristow, "Vom 11. September bis zum Irakkrieg: Was ist geschehen?", Novo 64/65, 2003.

2002

• Jennie Bristow, Maybe I Do: marriage and commitment in singleton society London: Academy of Ideas, 2002.

2001

• Jennie Bristow, 'Back to the asylum', Spiked, 28 December 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Scared of being Mother', Spiked, 20 December 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Time at the bar', Spiked, 13 December 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Out in the cold', Spiked, 6 December 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Blair's Babes hit puberty', Spiked, 29 November 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Anti-terrorism bill: MPs aren't revolting', Spiked, 20 November 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'We can never be safe - but at least we can be free', Spiked, 15 November 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Fear goes sky-high', Spiked, 13 November 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Potty over Potter', Spiked, 5 November 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Flying high', 30 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The anti-American dream', Spiked, 28 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Good v Evil need not apply', Spiked, 23 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'No laughing matter', Spiked, 19 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The question is: what is the problem?', Spiked, 18 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Apologetic imperialism', Spiked, 12 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Religious hate' should not be a crime', Spiked, 4 October 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'War talk', Spiked, 21 September 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Self-indulgent storytellers', Spiked, 19 September 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Defend liberty - especially now', Spiked, 17 September 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Growing up scared', Spiked, 14 September 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Gay is the new straight', Spiked, 7 September 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why do we love Big Brother?', Spiked, 29 August 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Warts and all', Spiked, 31 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A manifest lack of vision', Spiked, 26 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Forever - or a day?', Spiked, 25 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, The politics of 'Waaah!', Spiked, 24 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Smoking: a matter of choice', Spiked, 18 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Men will be...boys', Spiked, 13 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'e-quality - why hyphenate?', Spiked, 3 July 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Bulger case - neverending story', Spiked, 26 June 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Bulger killers: childhood on trial', Spiked, 21 June 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The work thing', Spiked, 14 June 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'spiked-proposals: Youth apathy', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Spoiling for a fight?', Spiked, 7 June 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Blaspheming through the second term', Spiked, 31 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Baby bondage', Spiked, 25 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The deserted ballot-box', Spiked, 21 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Election 2001 and the Grey Vote: It's the numbers, stupid', Spiked, 21 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'No dreams - and little reality', Spiked, 18 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, Low 'Ambitions for Britain', Spiked, 15 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, '10 things I hate about EU', Spiked, 11 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Blair's other babies', Spiked, 9 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Wake up! The truth about youth apathy', Spiked, 9 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'License to drink - soberly', Spiked, 8 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Corporations in denial', Spiked, 3 May 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Peer groups bad - friends good?', Spiked, 24 April 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Making a drama out of a crisis', Spiked, 12 April 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'On holiday in foot-and-mouth country', Spiked, 5 April 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Supermarkets are - super', Spiked, 29 March 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why the Popstars can't be popstars', Spiked, 27 March 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A spicy read?', Spiked, 26 March 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Safe Spice', Spiked, 26 March 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The Smoking Debate', Spiked, 13 March 2001.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Chick Lit to Smith Lit', Spiked, 8 March 2001.

2000

• Jennie Bristow, 'Jobs for lifestyles', LM 129, p. 38, April 2000.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Beach games', LM 129, p. 23, April 2000.
• Jennie Bristow, 'It has worked at a price', LM 128, p. 36, March 2000.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Blairing out?', LM 128, p. 24, March 2000.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Seattle: the politics of Waaah!', LM 127, p. 29, February 2000.

1999

• Jennie Bristow, 'Slasher chic', LM 126, p. 20, December/January 1999/2000.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Married strife', LM 125, p. 24, November 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Not so endearing', LM 124, p. 10, October 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'No place for a child', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 September 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'So are women equal now?', LM 123, p. 12, September 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Women's fiction: piddling the books', LM 122, p. 40, July/August 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Don't sack Chris Woodhead over sex, say sixth formers', LM 121, p. 8, June 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The People's war?', LM 120, p. 13, May 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Unsafe sex', LM 120, p. 24, May 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Why would a black man defend the Klan?', LM 119, p. 10, April 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'How to be safe but sorry', The Times, 14 March 1999.
• Christina McGill, Margie Woodward and Jennie Bristow, 'Taboos exchange: Equal rights or discrimination for disability?', LM 118, p. 8, March 1999.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Confessional writing: enough said', LM 117, p. 14, February 1999.

1998

• Jennie Bristow, 'Merton gets a tune-up', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 November 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, Kirsten de la Haye, Brendan O'Neill and Justine Brian, 'Lowering higher education', LM 104, October 1998, p. 12.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The nitty gritty of student choice', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 25 September 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, Mark Pendergrast and Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, 'Whatever happened to false memory syndrome?', LM 113, p. 32, September 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'No kidding', LM 113, p. 36, September 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'World beckons the narrow horizoned', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 14 August 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Soft boys and bitchy bastards', LM 112, p. 15, July/August 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Exchanging trust for fear', LM 112, p. 22, July/August 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Making security a cause for concern', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 June 1998.
• Jennie Bristow and Liz Malone, 'Free the Weed - but at a price', LM 110, p. 18, May 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The secret of Mr Blair's success', LM 110, p. 23, May 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'What is it about a university that attracts a student?', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 April 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The 'fat rights' lobby is out to lunch', LM 109, p. 30, April 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Snap judgments that stifle the photographer's art', The Times, 6 March 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Warrior fights for freer speech', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 13 March 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Jerking off', LM 98, March 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Sexual harassment or harmless fun?', LM 108, p. 10, March 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Let them eat cake - and chips and chocolate', LM 107, p. 28, February 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Date rape: are we going too far?', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 January 1998.

1997

• Jennie Bristow, 'The University of Neverneverland', LM 106, p. 12, December 1997/January 1998.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Fire in the forest', LM 105, p. 20, November 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Students don't need any lessons in making friends', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 October 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Northern exposure', LM 104, p. 22, October 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Alcopops: the hidden agenda', LM 104, p. 37, October 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Free Speech Branded', LM 103, September 1997, p. 10.
• Jennie Bristow, 'New Labour starts cleaning up Britain', LM 103, September 1997, p. 12.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Language barriers in the seminar', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 26 September 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Down the drain', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 September 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Shooting is golf with guns', LM 102, p. 11, July/August 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Popping mad about alcopops', LM 102, p. 23, July/August 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Health: A TV would be nice', The Guardian, 8 July 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Safe walking on campus', LM 101, p. 19, June 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A novel way of looking at literature', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 June 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Safe Spice', LM 100, p. 32, May 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Taboos: Teenage sex', LM 99, p. 14, April 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Storm in a melting pot', LM 99, p. 19, April 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A cry for freedom', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 21 February 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A sledgehammer to crack a ridiculous nut', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 February 1997, p. 12.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Who's afraid of Holocaust denial?', LM 97, February 1997.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The Holocaust obsession - trivialising history', LM 97, February 1997.

1996

• Jennie Bristow, 'Stressed out on campus?', Living Marxism, No. 96 - December/January 1996/1997, p. 18.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Body piercing - why?', Living Marxism, No. 95 - November 1996, p. 20.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Artwork sparks porn row', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 22 November 1996.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Taboos: Bingeing on anorexia', Living Marxism, No. 94 - October 1996, p. 10.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Students who can't cut the umbilical cord', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 18 October 1996.
• Jennie Bristow, 'The Guides lose their way', Living Marxism, No. 93 - September 1996, p. 12.
• Jennie Bristow, 'No more 'good' or 'bad' Muslims', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 August 1996.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Who's hiding behind Europe?', Living Marxism, No. 92 - July/August 1996, p. 12.
• Jennie Bristow, 'A case of quantity above quality', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 5 April 1996.
• John O'Leary and Jennie Bristow, 'Union to bar student extremists from office', The Times, 18 March 1996.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Taboos: China's orphans', Living Marxism, No. 88 - March 1996, p. 12.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Porn students face action', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 February 1996.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Stand up for free speech', Living Marxism 86, January 1996
• Jennie Bristow, 'Unwrap the verbal cotton wool', 19 January 1996.

1995

• Jennie Bristow, 'Free speech and 'tolerance', Living Marxism, No. 83 - October 1995, p. 21.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Letter: An explosive move by the West', The Guardian, 31 August 1995.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Teachers and petting do mix', The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 June 1995.
• Jennie Bristow, 'University lecherers', Living Marxism, No. 79 - May 1995, p. 34.

1994

• Jennie Bristow, 'No politics please, we're students', Living Marxism, No. 72 - October 1994, p. 31.
• Jennie Bristow, 'Lesbian cheek', Living Marxism, No. 70 - August 1994.
• Andrew Calcutt and Jennie Bristow, 'Truancy watch', Living Marxism, No. 67 - May 1994, p. 34.

Resources

• Profile "Jennie Bristow", Centre for Parenting Studies website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Contact

Website: http://www.jbristow.co.uk/