Dominic Standish

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Dominic Standish

Dominic Standish is a US employed academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He has written for Living Marxism/LM and Spiked, spoken at the Battle of Ideas and contributed to the Institute of Ideas. In 2008 Standish completed a PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent, where the LM network guru Frank Furedi is based.

Education

• Ph.D in the sociology of risk at the University of Kent, UK
• Master of Arts (MA) in Education, Work and Training from Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent, UK
• Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from Westminster College, University of Oxford, UK
• BA Honours Degree in Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management and Sociology from the University of Kent, UK

Affiliations

International Policy Network, contributed a chapter to the Exxon funded think tank IPN's publication Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change, edited by Kendra Okonski,

Publications

• Dominic Standish, 'Poland after Walesa', Living Marxism, No. 86 - January 1996, p. 28.
• Dominic Standish, 'Stan Bowles: confessions of a footballer', Living Marxism, No. 96 - December/January 1996/7, p. 16.
• Laura Ceccato and Dominic Standish, 'Secrets of the confessional', LM 110, May 1998.
• Dominic Standish, 'From Abortion on Demand to Its Criminalization: The Case of Poland In the 1990s Chapter 7 in ‘Abortion Law and Politics Today,’ Ed. Ellie Lee, Macmillan Press, 1998.
• Dominic Standish, 'Vatican on its knees', LM 126, p. 12, December/January 1999.
• Dominic Standish, 'Italy's banners', LM 129, p. 11, April 2000.
• Dominic Standish, 'Flying to the foot-and-mouth capital', Spiked, 26 April 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Italy's unfashionable elections', 15 May 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Politics: A Disengaging Affair', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 18 May 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Lazio's banners', Spiked, 14 June 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Mixing Up Crime and Immigration', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 18 June 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'The Genoa Tales', Spiked, 24 July 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Putting Police Actions on Trial', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 26 July 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Verwandelt die Wahl Berlusconis Italien zur “Bananenrepublik”?', Novo, No. 53, July-August 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'The Italian gaffe', Spiked, 2 October 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'The Road to Damascus', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 18 October 2001.
• Dominic Standish, 'Challenging Pension Reforms', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 2-3 February 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'Mummy's Boy', Spiked, 9 April 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'A general lack of nerve', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 15 April 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'A cry to be heard', Spiked, 18 April 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'Where are Le Pen friends now?', Spiked, 23 April 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'No far-right turn', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 3 May 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'A blame of two halves', Spiked, 20 June 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'Big projects, small minds', Spiked, 17 July 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'Playing at politics', Spiked, 14 August 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'With the ring-a-ring o’ roses, democracy is falling down', Italy Daily section of the International Herald Tribune, 19-20 October 2002.
• Dominic Standish, 'Barriers to barriers: why environmental precaution has delayed mobile floodgates to protect Venice' in Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change, edited by Kendra Okonski London:Profile Books, 2003.
• Dominic Standish, 'No peace in the piazza', Spiked, 18 February 2003.
• Dominic Standish, 'When il capo met kapo', Spiked, 10 July 2003.
• Dominic Standish, 'Behind the lines of the general strike', Spiked, 30 October 2003.
• Dominic Standish, 'Kyoto COP out', Spiked, 18 December 2003.
• Dominic Standish, 'Greenpolice?', Spiked, 14 May 2004.
• Dominic Standish, 'No beating about the Bush', Spiked, 8 June 2004.
• Dominic Standish, 'Careless Whimper', Tech Central Station Daily, 6 August 2004.
• Dominic Standish, 'Infertile democracy', Spiked 16 June 2005.
• Dominic Standish, 'Were Londoners told the truth?', Spiked, 14 July 2005.
• Dominic Standish, 'No-go Italy', Spiked, 28 March 2006.
• Dominic Standish, 'Prodi v Berlusconi: Italy’s ugliest election?', Spiked, 11 April 2006.
• Dominic Standish, 'Has the bella game gone brutta?', Spiked, 7 June 2006.
• Dominic Standish, 'Why we should save Venice', Spiked, 15 June 2006.
• Dominic Standish, 'Death in Venice', Spiked, 31 July 2007.
• Dominic Francis Standish, Venice and the politics of environmental risk, PhD Thesis, University of Kent Library Catalogue, Published: 2008.
• Dominic Standish, 'Pantomime politics, Italian-style', Spiked, 30 January 2008.
• Dominic Standish, 'Playing politics with abortion', Spiked, 22 February 2008.
• Dominic Standish, Why Berlusconi beat the ‘Italian Obama’, Spiked, 16 April 2008.
• Dominic Standish, 'The death of Venice is greatly exaggerated', Spiked, 8 December 2008.
• Dominic Standish, 'People are not to blame for earthquakes', Spiked, 16 April 2009.
• Dominic Standish, 'Democracy takes a beating in Italy', Spiked, 17 December 2009.
• Dominic Standish, 'Is it arrivederci to nuclear power in Italy?', Spiked, 16 May 2011.
• Dominic Standish, 'Riding the waves of a cruise crash', Spiked, 23 January 2012.
• Dominic Standish, 'Venice: a shifting metaphor for the human condition', Spiked, 27 January 2012.
• Dominic Standish, 'The storm that blew away rationalism', Spiked, 19 November 2012.
• Dominic Standish, 'Italy: why the EU is panicked by populism', Spiked, 4 March 2013.
• Dominic Standish, '‘I don’t believe in role models’', Spiked, 11 July 2013.
• Dominic Standish, 'Book Review: Mick Hume, There is No Such Thing As a Free Press…and we need one more than ever.', Theory in Action, 31 January 2014.
• Dominic Standish, 'Matteo Renzi and Italy’s coup d’état', Spiked, 20 February 2014.

Resources

Profile: Dominic Standish Battle of Ideas

Website: http://www.dominicstandish.org/

Twitter: domstandish