Tom Sykes

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• 2024

  How liberal conspiracy theories can be just as destructive as their extremist counterparts

  Sykes, T. & Harper, S., 8 Jan 2024, The Conversation.

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• Indonesia’s dark role in the Rohingya massacre: a legal case at the ICJ has exposed the role of Indonesian arms sales that were crucial to enabling Myanmar to kill thousands of civilians, reports Tom Sykes

  Sykes, T., 27 Feb 2024, Morning Star, p. 14 1 p.

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• Starmer, war and the weight of history: Why Labour has never been a party of peace

  Sykes, T., 30 Aug 2024, Counterfire.

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• We will fight them on the centre ground, we will never remember: the Second World War, psychocultural repression and liberal configurations of modern British identity

  Sykes, T., 16 May 2024, In: Social Identities. 30, 1, p. 35-49

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• ‘Whose story is it, anyway?’: Perception, representation and identity in textual and visual reportage of English seaside towns

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 1 Jun 2024, In: Social Identities. 30, 1, p. 50-68 18 p.

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• 2023

  Cacique clichés: Duterte, despotism and liberal orientalist journalism

  Sykes, T., 1 Jun 2023, In: Media Asia. 50, 3, p. 458-465

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• Conspiracy Theories Left, Right and... Centre: political disinformation and liberal media discourse

  Harper, S. & Sykes, T., 2 Nov 2023, In: New Formations. 2023, 109, p. 110-128 19 p.

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• In our image but not quite: desire, capital and flawed simulation in twentieth century western writing on Manila

  Sykes, T., 8 Apr 2023, (Accepted for publication) In: The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture .

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• Postcard from Manila

  Sykes, T., 2 Dec 2023, Private Eye, p. 21 1 p.

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• St Patrick's Wars

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 2 Oct 2023, The London Magazine, p. 14-20.

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• THE EAST: A Couple of Clactons

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 28 Sept 2023, Panorama.

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• 2022

  Arming a dictator, Britain provided a weapons pipeline to Marcos Sr.

  Sykes, T., 26 May 2022, Southeast Asia Globe.

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  • philippines 100%
  • people 100%
  • pipelines 100%
  • weapons 100%

• Can Vlad the Imperialist Take Our Playbook Further?

  Sykes, T., 18 Mar 2022, The Daily Squib.

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• Erinsborough, Hayling Island

  Sykes, T., 28 Nov 2022, Star & Crescent.

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  • Islands 66%
  • Age 66%
  • islands 66%
  • Island 66%

• Letter from Manila

  Sykes, T., 8 Dec 2022, Private Eye, 1580, p. 21 1 p.

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• Our men in Manila

  Sykes, T., 6 May 2022, Declassified UK.

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  • philippines 100%
  • Martial Law 50%
  • Journalists 50%
  • Drugs 50%

• Stephen Morgan’s voting record: war crimes, ‘Spycops’, Brexit and other discrepancies

  Sykes, T., 28 Mar 2022, Star & Crescent.

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  • labor 66%
  • Record 33%
  • Leadership 33%
  • War 33%

• The past is disappearing and the future is bleak

  Sykes, T., 27 May 2022, Morning Star.

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  • Dictatorship 100%
  • Leave 100%
  • Society 100%
• 2021

  An artist and a writer visited the English seaside during the pandemic – this is what they found

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 17 Nov 2021, The Conversation.

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• An honest picture of the Philippines includes Western abuses

  Sykes, T., 7 Apr 2021, Morning Star, p. 24 1 p.

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  • Philippines 100%
  • philippines 100%
  • Colonialism 50%
  • War 50%
  • Journalists 50%

• Arming the Philippines: It's a Duterte Job, but does Britain have to do it?

  Sykes, T., 1 Jul 2021, Daily Maverick.

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  • philippines 100%
  • Philippines 100%
  • united kingdom 50%
  • people 50%
  • investment 50%

• A writer and an illustrator visit the seaside

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 26 Nov 2021, The Independent.

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• Coast of waste: a shocking story of plastics around Portsmouth

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 25 Sept 2021, The News, p. 1-3 3 p.

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• Defence exports: strong-arms

  Sykes, T., 14 May 2021, Private Eye, 1547, p. 40 1 p.

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  • united kingdom 100%
  • Indonesian Language 66%
  • Groups 66%
  • philippines 66%
  • exports 66%

• Postcard from Manila

  Sykes, T., 5 Apr 2021, Private Eye, 1544, p. 22 1 p.

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  • philippines 100%
  • range 100%
  • indicators 100%
  • asia 100%
  • Asia 100%

• Postcard from Manila

  Sykes, T., 10 Dec 2021, Private Eye, 1562, p. 22 1 p.

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  • production companies 50%
  • President 50%

• Senior bombing rooms: arms companies funding British universities

  Sykes, T., 1 Sept 2021, Morning Star, p. 22 1 p.

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  • universities 100%
  • Budget Contributions 66%
  • united kingdom 66%
  • British universities 66%
  • Women 66%

• The human life exchange rate mechanism: liberal rights, double binds, the West, & the rest

  Sykes, T., 20 May 2021, The Fifth Estate, 409, p. 42 1 p.

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• The making of a supranational stereotype: Western literary constructions of the Chinese in Manila and beyond

  Sykes, T., 25 Jan 2021, (Early online) In: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 21 p.

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  • china 100%
  • Chinese 83%
  • philippines 25%
  • Middle Class 16%
  • Soft Power 16%
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• This is Tory England

  Sykes, T. & Netter, L., 9 Dec 2021, Morning Star, p. 21 1 p.

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• ‘I go to countries I was brought up to fear'

  Sykes, T., 27 Feb 2021, The Telegraph, p. 13 1 p.

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  • planets 100%
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• 2020

  Coping with COVID: helping disadvantaged local women through tough times

  Sykes, T., 6 May 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • women 100%
  • Project 66%
  • Nongovernmental Organizations 33%
  • Universities 33%
  • Self Esteem 33%

• How Britain’s most powerful institutions are hijacking social justice rhetoric

  Sykes, T., Harper, S. & Alford, M., 24 Sept 2020, Morning Star.

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• How much do Black lives matter to the British military? An interview with Joe Glenton Part I

  Sykes, T., 10 Aug 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • united kingdom 100%
  • Service Industries 66%
  • Interviews 66%
  • Military 66%
  • Journalist 33%

• New Aspex of art: how Portsmouth’s favourite gallery is reinventing itself during COVID-19

  Sykes, T., 13 Jul 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • Social Participation 100%
  • Art 100%
  • Portsmouth 100%
  • covid-19 100%
  • Managers 50%

• Postcard from Manila

  Sykes, T., 19 Jun 2020, Private Eye, 1524.

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• Romancing the drone: an interview with Joe Glenton Part II

  Sykes, T., 12 Aug 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • drone 100%
  • united kingdom 50%

• The fake news we should really fear

  Alford, M., Sykes, T. & Harper, S., 5 Nov 2020, Cold Type, 215, p. 18-20 3 p.

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  • Fear 100%
  • Narrative 100%
  • Planets 50%
  • News Flow 50%
  • Theory 50%

• The Portsmouth activist priest standing up for Filipinos during COVID-19

  Sykes, T., 2 Sept 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • Portsmouth 100%
  • covid-19 100%
  • Contemporary 50%
  • founding 50%
  • realm 50%

• What are the local tech solutions to the COVID lockdown and after?

  Sykes, T., 26 May 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • Innovation 100%
  • Economics 100%
  • Employees 50%
  • Universities 50%
  • Research 50%

• ‘People are being effectively murdered': Cllr Claire Udy on COVID-19 in Portsmouth (Part I)

  Sykes, T., 20 May 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • people 100%
  • covid-19 100%
  • death 50%
  • cities 50%
  • Home Care 50%

• ‘Risking their lives when they get back to work’: Cllr Claire Udy on COVID-19 in Portsmouth (Part 2)

  Sykes, T., 22 May 2020, Star & Crescent.

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  • Police 50%
  • City Council 50%
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  • Interviews 50%
• 2019

  Call of Duterte: western reporting on the Philippines' totalitarian drift

  Sykes, T., 1 Dec 2019, The Fifth Estate, 55, 1, p. 46-47 2 p.

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  • Western 100%
  • Philippines 100%
  • philippines 100%
  • Imperialism 100%
  • Vocabularies 50%
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• Dispatch from Tokyo

  Sykes, T., 28 Jun 2019, Private Eye, 1499.

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• Donald Trump: Beat Poet

  Gruner, O. & Sykes, T., 15 Feb 2019, Star & Crescent.

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  • Academic Teaching Personnel 100%
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  • Americas 100%
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• Language, gender and orientalist rhetoric in American fiction and travel writing on the US conquest and colonization of the Philippines (1898–1929)

  Sykes, T., 1 Jan 2019, In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 55, 1, p. 80-93 14 p.

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  • Philippines 100%
  • War 50%
  • Colonization 50%
  • Rhetoric 50%
  • Orientalists 50%
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• Microdose for England

  Gruner, O., McCabe, D. & Sykes, T., 2 Jul 2019, Star & Crescent.

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• Postcard from Manila

  Sykes, T., 9 Aug 2019, Private Eye, 1502, p. 20 1 p.

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  • Political Power 100%
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• Q&A: Gene Alcantara

  Sykes, T., 9 Jan 2019, Monocle, 120, p. 31 1 p.

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  • Genes 100%
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  • Interviews 100%
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• “History is repeating itself”: a Duterte resistor speaks

  Sykes, T., 4 Feb 2019, Red Pepper.

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