Archives: Holly Firmin
Holly Firmin (@farlmengels)
Holly Firmin writes on the history of New Towns, Essex, class and culture.
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The Cultural Logic of the 'Money Saving Expert'
Martin Lewis offers sometimes useful advice—but his interpellation of viewers as consumers, vulnerable to exploitation through a lack of knowledge, dissipates potential for collective action.
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Imagining New New Towns
Post-War New Towns were shaped by the contradictions in social democracy and then the destructive effects of neoliberalism, but New New Towns should be part of imagining new possibilities.
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