James Pollard Woudhuysen

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James Woudhuysen is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. As James Wood he wrote for the 'theoretical journal' of the Revolutionary Communist Group in 1975 (before the faction led by Frank Furedi was expelled from the RCG in late 1976), was on the editorial board of Revolutionary Communist Papers in 1980 and 1981 and was active in the Revolutionary Communist Tendency (1977-1981) and later the Revolutionary Communist Party (1981-1996). He was appointed, under his own name, as a third director of Junius Publications the RCP publishing house in September of 1984 and gave his occupation as 'Lecturer' and an address in London N1. He declared also a further directorship of a firm called Wordsearch Limited. He resigned from that post in 1990.

James Woudhuysen in 2011

He has written or spoken for the pro-growth Big Potatoes for which he co-authored their manifesto, the East Midlands Salon, the Brighton Salon, the New York Salon,, the Leeds Salon, Culture Wars, the Battle of Ideas, the Institute of Ideas, Novo Argumente, WORLDwrite, for whom he is also a tour guide trainer, and Spiked , of which he is also a shareholder.He is a director of building promoters, Audacity, has joined a Manifesto Club campaign and is the fifth signatory of the statement of Academics for Academic Freedom.

Publications

Pamphlets, Book Chapters & Books

• James Woudhuysen, In defence of the Enlightenment in Jeremy Myerson, ed, Design renaissance: selected papers from the International Design Congress, Glasgow, Scotland 1993.
• James Woudhuysen, Digital Vision: Cult IT, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, February 1999
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Online Campus' in The McDonaldization of Higher Education by Dennis Hayes (Editor) & Robin Wynyard (Editor), Praeger, 2002.
• James Woudhuysen & Ian Abley, Why is construction so backward?, John Wiley & Sons, 4 February 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Education as Entertainment' in The Routledge Guide to Key Debates in Education by Dennis Hayes, Routledge, 2004.
• James Woudhuysen & Joe Kaplinsky, Energise!: A Future for Energy Innovation, Beautiful Books Limited, January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, Big Potatoes: The London manifesto for innovation, 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation, 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Colour, brands and identity in tomorrow’s cities' in Colour in Times by Jan Brand (Author), Anne Van Zwaag (Author), Terra Uitgeverij, 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, Smart Design: rethinking packaging, Springer, 2012.
• Maurice Goldsmith (Editor), Alan Mackay (Editor), James Woudhuysen (Editor), Einstein: The First Hundred Years [Print Replica] Kindle Edition, Pergamon, 2013.

Popular press, Magazines articles (including the next step and Living Marxism/LM) and web publications

1975

• Ashley Heath and James Wood, 'The Labour Party, the EEC and Ireland', Revolutionary Communist: Theoretical Journal of the Revolutionary Communist Group, Issue 2, May 1975: 41-5.

1981

• James Wood, 'The belated rise of French 'Socialism', Prolonging the death agony: The rise, fall and reconstitution of social democracy, Revolutionary Communist Papers No.8., Revolutionary Communist Party, Sept 1981, p. 31.

1986

• James Woudhuysen, 'Naval supremacy still rules the world', The Listener, June 1986.

1987

• James Woudhuysen, 'A licence to print money?', The Listener, 9 April 1987.

1991

• James Woudhuysen, 'Government and City literature', Management Today, May 1991.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Soaring flights of fancy’, Design Week, 14 June 1991.

1998

• James Woudhuysen, 'Review of Lightness by Adriaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte', www.woudhuysen.com, 6 July 1998.

2001

• James Woudhuysen, 'Brands demystified, essay, 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Team players', Spiked, 12 April 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The magic of mobile', Spiked, 9 May 2001.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Rebranding America', Spiked, 26 October 2001.

2002

• James Woudhuysen, 'The real con in WorldCon', Spiked, 19 July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Toy stories', Spiked, 25 July 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Converging on risk aversion', Spiked, 2 August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'If in doubt, brand', Spiked, 14 August 2002.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Playing at democracy', Spiked, 28 November 2002.

2003

• James Woudhuysen, 'Air cares', Spiked, 10 February 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Putting the IT into politics', Spiked, 7 August 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Things to come … Pelican planes', Management Today, September 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The future in 3G', Spiked, 5 September 2003.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Developing IT', Spiked, 17 December 2003.

2004

• James Woudhuysen, 'Time to build a fresh, non-nimby approach to new housing', The Times, 30 January 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why is construction so backward?', Spiked, 12 February 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Construction and transport: Victorian Britain lives on', Spiked, 14 June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brands: don’t buy the hype', Spiked, 25 August 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Blueprint Broadside', Vol. 1, (sponsored by Living Solutions), September 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Metro miserablists', Spiked, 7 October 2004.

2005

• James Woudhuysen, 'Dresden: Don’t apologise - understand', Spiked, 8 February 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Tying WiFi down', Spiked, 13 April 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All eyes on the future', Spiked, 21 June 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Constructive ideas from the East', Spiked, 13 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All’s quiet on the Trafalgar front', Spiked, 21 October 2005.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Stop this ‘urban regeneration’ roadshow', Spiked, 24 November 2005.

2006

• James Woudhuysen, 'ID cards yes, mobile government no', Computing, February 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why don’t women play computer games?', Spiked, 23 March 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Computer games and sex difference', www.woudhuysen.com, April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT holds key to East London regeneration', Computing, 13 April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Blowing up Chernobyl', Spiked, 27 April 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In defence of individual ecofreedom', Spiked, 4 May 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A self-defeating argument for nuclear power', Spiked, 12 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Carbon ration cards', debate on BBC Breakfast, 20 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The folly of carbon swipe cards', Spiked, 25 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Windmills of the mind', Spiked, 31 July 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Beware the New Parochialism', Spiked, 7 August 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Bin Laden and the arithmetic of war', Spiked, 8 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The dangers of Brownfield Brutalism', Spiked, 20 September 2006.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Transport innovation: slowing to a standstill', Spiked, 31 October 2006.

2007

• James Woudhuysen, 'The EU’s post-industrial revolution', Spiked, 11 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gambling addiction: a panic at odds with reality', Spiked, 22 January 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A big stink over contamination', Facilities Management World, 2 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A man-made morality tale', Spiked, 5 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'War and deception in the Netherlands', Spiked, 13 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Nuke the consultation - let’s have a debate!', Spiked, 20 February 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'In praise of big cities', Spiked, 8 March 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Remembering the Moscow Trials', Spiked, 16 April 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns', Spiked, 15 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Take a PEW, hear a sermon', Spiked, 25 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Did Rachel Carson really kill more people than Stalin?', Spiked, 30 May 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is the Red Dragon a green threat?', Spiked, 21 June 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let's fight back against the new Model Army', Spiked, 12 July 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’, Spiked, 24 July 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'This land is our land', Spiked, 8 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'It’s official: the masses are not gullible', Spiked, 16 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let’s research our own R&D record', Spiked, 30 August 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Like it or not, coal is vital to Asia’s growth', Spiked, 12 September 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Sputnik: when American fears went into orbit', Spiked, 4 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why greens don’t want to ‘solve’ climate change', Spiked, 10 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Clausewitz after 9/11', Spiked, 26 October 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Brown's 'get fit' towns: Kim Jong-il would be proud', Spiked, 5 November 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What’s Auntie for, exactly?', The Register, 20 November 2007.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Knocking the wind out of the energy debate', Spiked, 12 December 2007.

2008

• James Woudhuysen, The ‘Regeneration Games’, Battle of Ideas, 31 March 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'London 2012: where’s the Olympic Spirit?', Spiked, 2 April 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West', The Times, 12 July 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Nothing Romantic about environmentalists', Spiked, 16 July 2008.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Global rivalries go green', Spiked, 22 December 2008.

2009

• James Woudhuysen, 'The CFLs are on, but nobody’s home', Spiked, 12 January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The world needs abundant, cheap, clean energy', Spiked, 30 January 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The recession and the Politics of Fumbling', Spiked, 19 March 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?', Spiked, 7 April 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear', Spiked, 30 April 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'An R&D recession', Spiked, 27 May 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Risk-taking, R&D and the recession', Spiked, 15 June 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Gladwell: hero or zero?', Spiked, 26 June 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Let’s go back to the moon — and beyond', Spiked, 29 June 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'What movies tell us about work', Facilities Management World, 2 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The green man’s burden', Spiked, 7 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?', Spiked, 21 July 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New Labour’s power vacuum', Spiked, 19 August 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'State intervention is no substitute for innovation', Spiked, 30 October 2009.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Still no clear policy on nuclear energy', Spiked, 11 November 2009.

2010

• James Woudhuysen, 'Do we need a more venturesome economy?', Spiked, 29 January 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'How the state is a roadblock to progress', Spiked, 11 March 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Letter from India', 11 March 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Budgeting for a dismal no‑‏growth future', Spiked, 30 March 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Whatever happened to innovation?', Spiked, 8 April 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'An engaging tale, packed with myths', Spiked, 28 May 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'An exhausted approach to the energy issue', Spiked, 3 August 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings', Spiked, 12 August 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, ‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned’, Spiked, 27 August 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Battle of Britain: empires at war', Spiked, 24 September 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A very conservative approach to innovation', Spiked, 7 October 2010.
• James Woudhuysen, 'When Churchill starved India', Spiked, 26 November 2010.

2011

• James Woudhuysen, 'Big Pharma, small ambition', Spiked, 21 February 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Budgeting for a dismal no‑‏growth future', Spiked, 30 March 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Yuri Gagarin’s brave, brilliant leap into the dark', Spiked, 12 April 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'One year on: learning the lessons of Deepwater Horizon', Spiked, 28 April 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene', Spiked, 30 August 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Is Britain drowning in too much packaging?', Spiked, 10 October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The end is nigh: is survival all we can hope for?', The Independent, 11 October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears', Battle of Ideas conference, October 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Manias about change', BBC Radio 3, 7 November 2011.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor', Spiked, 7 December 2011.

2012

• James Woudhuysen, 'Making a molehill out of a mountain', Spiked, 17 January 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy', Spiked, 2 February 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Rare earths and not-so-rare tensions', Spiked, 27 March 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Design alone can’t save UK plc', Spiked, 2 July 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Big trouble in the East China Sea', Spiked, 3 September 2012.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The idiocy of the New Catastrophists', Spiked, 22 October 2012.

2013

• James Woudhuysen, '3D printing: neither gimmick nor revolution', Spiked, 12 March 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Big Pharma’s little critics', Spiked, 28 March 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The next killer app: personalised healthcare', Spiked, 26 April 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The right to bear 3D-printed arms', Spiked, 16 May 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'From red peril to green panic', Spiked, 18 June 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The robots are coming - but not fast enough', Spiked, 15 July 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dangerous dogs: not that dangerous', Spiked, 8 August 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'A tax obsession with diminishing returns', Spiked, 3 September 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'High Speed 2: an impoverished debate', Spiked, 16 September 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'R&D: why failure is necessary', Spiked, 1 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Six high-tech industries for 2020 and beyond', Spiked, 10 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Letter from Lebanon: powering up for a brighter future', Spiked, 31 October 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Humanity: alive and well in the fast lane', Spiked, 13 November 2013.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dementia: how health nudging works', Spiked, 12 December 2013.

2014

• James Woudhuysen, US firms and the ‘dash for cash’, Spiked, 2 January 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Obesity busybodies turn down the heat', Spiked, 28 January 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Big Six aren't to blame for high energy prices', Spiked, 11 February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Banning fur is not a political statement', Spiked, 28 February 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Making the case for shale gas and oil', Spiked, 3 April 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Dangerous dogs or feckless owners?', Spiked, 15 May 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'First World War: Mainstream Histories, Liberal Forecasts', speech at Leeds Salon, June 2004.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Seven reasons we should celebrate manufacturing', Spiked, 9 June 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'IT's not the future', Spiked, 11 July 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'People, your TVs are too big!', Spiked, 17 July 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Digital native? There’s no such thing', Spiked, 13 August 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Transport: breaking through the impasse', Spiked, 29 October 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Carbon makes the world go round', Spiked, 25 November 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The robots are not taking over', Spiked, 5 December 2014.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Drones: time to reach for the skies', Spiked, 10 December 2014.

2015

• James Woudhuysen, 'The greening of the ivory towers', Spiked, 25 March 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'UK transport: going nowhere', Spiked, 1 May 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Why Alice is still wonderful', Spiked, 24 July 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Report on Sheffield City Centre', www.woudhuysen.com, 22 September 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Invasion of the sexbots? Get a grip', Spiked, 23 September 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'New wars, new technology', panel discussion at the Battle of Ideas in the Barbican, October 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Cosmonauts: a tribute to Russian grit', Spiked, 15 October 2015.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Don’t believe the eco-hype', Spiked, 17 December 2015.

2016

• James Woudhuysen, 'Child migrants: Britain is far from full', Spiked, 5 February 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'No, Facebook isn’t the British Raj', Spiked, 17 February 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'The Queen’s speech: all talk and no tech', Spiked, 23 May 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Another fracking melodrama', Spiked, 6 June 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Hinkley Point and the fear of nuclear', Spiked, 9 August 2016.
• James Woudhuysen, 'Heathrow’s third runway: delayed, delayed, delayed', Spiked, 15 September 2016.

Contact details

Personal website: "James Woudhuysen"

Facebook: "James Woudhuysen"

Twitter: "jameswoudhuysen"

Profile, "James Woudhuysen", Audacity website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profile, "James Wouhuysen", Big Potatoes website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profile, "James Woudhuysen Brighton Salon website, accessed 29 Dec 2010

Profile, "James Woudhuysen, De Montfort University website, accessed 12 Jan 2011