30/10/2022
It's a big job to open some of the displays at the museum so to avoid making more work for ourselves we're not going to update this rouges gallery of neoliberal prime ministers until the current one has been in the job for a while longer.
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22/10/2022
Museum closed this weekend. Open as usual next week.
12/10/2022
The museum will be closed for the next two weekends, still open Thurs-Fri.
07/10/2022
Museums are there to educate us, to broaden our vistas of the world. But can some help us to change the world for the better? We invite two radical museums, the Migration Museum and the Museum of Neoliberalism, to discuss their visions, ethos and logistics of making a place that makes a difference.
🗓 Wednesday 9 November, 7.30pm
📍 Conway Hall – 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL + online
🔗 Info & tickets: bit.ly/MuseumsCH
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
01/10/2022
Museum is closed this weekend, open again on Thursday.
19/09/2022
Everyone who visits the Museum of Neoliberalism today gets a free sticker. Open until 7pm. No need to book.
14/09/2022
The Museum of Neoliberalism will be open this coming Bank Holiday Monday (19th). Escape the madness of central London to discover the madness of our economic system.
Book your free timeslot here: www.museumofneoliberalism.com
01/09/2022
Chile’s Proposed New Constitution Could Be a Nail in the Coffin of Neoliberalism | Novara Media
"Under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, Chile became a petri-dish for neoliberalism, in which economic deregulation and privatisation went alongside brutal repression of the left and the labour movement. When the dictatorship ended, the economic model persisted, as did the constitution enshrining it. This week, voters will have the opportunity to either approve a new constitution – securing a progressive future – or reject it, instead keeping the 1980 draft, a hark back to an authoritarian past."
This Sunday, Chile will vote on a new, progressive constitution that would replace a relic of its authoritarian past. But amid a sustained campaign of misinformation, everything is at stake.
27/08/2022
These are energy bills many Britons simply can’t afford. Some will pay with their lives | Aditya Chakrabortty
"Even as hardened ideology breaks against reality, the “sensibles” are playing dumb; the centrists are the ones acting extreme."
This price hike threatens to create a whole new class of poor, and it is clear our wretched politics will do nothing to protect them, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
20/07/2022
Sorry if anyone's found it tricky booking at the museum lately, we've been closed on several weekends due to taking the Hell Bus (royaldutchhell.com) to various events.
THIS WEEKEND will be 100% OPEN, but for the next two weeks we're only open on Thursday and Friday, and the week after (11th-14th Aug) only on the Friday.
Normal service will be resumed eventually!
Book a visit at museumofneoliberalism.com
07/06/2022
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The Museum of Neoliberalism will be on reduced hours through June, open on Fridays only. Booking can be made here: www.museumofneoliberalism.com
21/05/2022
Review of the Hell Bus today from a four-year-old girl: "That was a good exhibition and I hate Shell."
The Hell Bus is open for free every weekend at the Museum of Neoloberalism until the 5th June. Booking link in bio.
20/05/2022
The Hell Bus by Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives (as seen on Channel 4's Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant) is entering the last few weeks on display at the museum. It's open for the next three weekends.
Book a free visit online at museumofneoliberalism.com
14/05/2022
Museum is closed today
23/04/2022
Inside the museum of neoliberalism - Prospect Magazine
"In displaying the objects of neoliberalism, the new south London museum allows us to imagine a better alternative"
In displaying the objects of neoliberalism, the new south London museum allows us to imagine a better alternative
22/04/2022
Happy Earth Day from Shell!
The Hell Bus and the horrid exhibition inside it will be open this weekend at the Museum of Neoliberalism.
Book your free visit here: www.museumofneoliberalism.com
14/04/2022
The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | The Ghosts Of Mont Pelerin: London's Museum Of Neoliberalism
Interview in The Quietus with co-curator Darren Cullen (aka Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives) about the Museum of Neoliberalism and the Hell Bus exhibition (here until 4th June)
Countries throughout the former Soviet Union have their museums dedicated to the horrors of the old communist regimes. But only Lewisham has a Museum of Neoliberalism. Amah-Rose Abrams investigates
06/01/2022
MUSEUM OF NEOLIBERALISM
The museum is open this weekend but closed next weekend (14th-16th). If you're visiting please book in advance at http://museumofneoliberalism.com and please wear a mask :)
This exhibit would not be possible without the generous help of Justin Carroll, Yousef Sabry, Matt Wood, Barney Trattles, Danny McConnell, Matt Redman, David Jones, Weronika Reps, Hogre, Mostafa Al Masry, David Jones, Tessa Piggott, David Harvie, Vyvian Raoul, Ali Forbes, Roseanna Ware, Susana Santa...
23/12/2021
Noam Chomsky exposes the truth about neoliberalism 🔥
Noam Chomsky exposes the truth about neoliberalism 🔥
19/12/2021
Leftist Gabriel Boric, a millennial president for a new Chile
"If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism in Latin America, it will also be its grave," - Gabriel Boric
Incredible news from Chile in the presidential election.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211219-leftist-gabriel-boric-a-millennial-president-for-a-new-chile
Leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric, 35, on Sunday became Chile's youngest-ever president on promises of installing a "welfare state" in one of the world's most unequal countries.
19/12/2021
Leftist Gabriel Boric, a millennial president for a new Chile
"If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism in Latin America, it will also be its grave," - Gabriel Boric
Incredible news from Chile in the presidential election.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211219-leftist-gabriel-boric-a-millennial-president-for-a-new-chile
Leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric, 35, on Sunday became Chile's youngest-ever president on promises of installing a "welfare state" in one of the world's most unequal countries.
17/12/2021
Due to the omicron wave we'll be closing for the rest of the year. Will reappraise the situation in January. Sorry if you were planning to visit!
02/12/2021
MUSEUM OF NEOLIBERALISM
Museum is open this Saturday until 5pm but closed this Sunday.
Book free tickets here: http://www.museumofneoliberalism.com
This exhibit would not be possible without the generous help of Justin Carroll, Yousef Sabry, Matt Wood, Barney Trattles, Danny McConnell, Matt Redman, David Jones, Weronika Reps, Hogre, Mostafa Al Masry, David Jones, Tessa Piggott, David Harvie, Vyvian Raoul, Ali Forbes, Roseanna Ware, Susana Santa...
25/10/2021
Neoliberal recapture of the Labour Party continues
14/10/2021
www.museumofneoliberalism.com
The museum will be closed this weekend, and over the next few weeks opening times will be sporadic due to an ongoing project related to COP26 (more details about that at royaldutchhell.com).
The best way to ensure you'll be able to visit is to book a free ticket online www.museumofneoliberalism.com
Thanks!
23/09/2021
Leegate Centre SE12
Just before the pandemic hit our fellow tenants in the Leegate Centre got together to make this short video promoting the fact that small businesses do still exist and thrive in Leegate despite decades of neglect by various developer landlords.
https://youtu.be/oTjGp7DH0IU
Video of some of the shops in the Leegate Centre SE12. Free Car Park located behind the Car Wash.Filmed and Edited by BlankSpaceFilms...
15/09/2021
Museum will be closed this Sunday.
05/09/2021
Museum now reopen!
We'll be open every day this coming week 11am-7pm as part of Open House Festival and Antiuniversity Now. From the 12th onwards we're back to regular opening hours Thurs-Sun 11am-7pm.
Book a free ticket at museumofneoliberalism.com
09/08/2021
The museum will be reopening from the 3rd September and will be open every day 11am-7pm until the 12th September as part of Open House Festival and Antiuniversity Now.
After that we will be open Thurs-Sun 11am-7pm.
Visits are available by booking only to help maintain social distancing in the small space of the museum. You can book a free ticket for your party here: www.museumofneoliberalsim.com (One booking covers a group of up to 12)
Visitors are required to wear masks to protect both those visiting and working in the space, (unless medically exempt), thank you.
13/05/2021
Keir Starmer’s Televised Meltdown Was Decades in the Making
"Blair was ultimately able to articulate his vision in such lucid terms not because he was a vastly superior politician — though he was — but because it gave real expression to the zeitgeist of the late 1990s. In 1997, the neoliberal consensus (whatever else you might say about it) was still relatively new and untested in its post-Thatcherite incarnation, and there remained plenty for the apparatchiks of New Labour to do when it came to sweeping away the old order. If the neoliberal center today seems unable to communicate any substantive vision beyond the inane language of focus groups, a major reason is that the project that originally animated it has, by and large, already succeeded.
Blair’s revolution has come and gone, and with it a world where anything about its core tenets could be recognized as dynamic or modern. With neoliberalism now firmly embedded as the lingua franca of British politics, there remains little for its present-day adherents on the center right and center left to do beyond try to put lipstick on the proverbial pig of an order to which they have already surrendered. (The only other course available is to fall back on old slogans, reflexes, and habits — a fact that explains why the Starmer leadership has found its few moments of genuine energy in fighting or smearing the Left.) To this end, they debate empty catchphrases and microscopic differences of policy, trading in vague narratives about how British capitalism might be rebranded to seem ever so slightly less cruel."
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-bbc-meltdown-labour-election-hartlepool
After last week’s calamitous election for the Labour Party, party leader Keir Starmer was asked to explain his “vision” for Britain. His humiliating inability to answer the question was a window into the hollowness of Britain’s center.
19/03/2021
Police Spies Told a Minister Where Left-Wing Trade Unionists Go on Holiday
"A minister in Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s has revealed that UK intelligence services used to brief him on where trade unionists would go on holiday.
"The remarks are being seen as confirmation of a long-held suspicion that undercover police spying on trade unionists was sanctioned by the government."
Politicians and campaigners say that the remarks confirm the long-held suspicion that police spying was sanctioned by the top levels of government.
17/03/2021
ScotRail to be brought into public ownership next year, minister reveals
ScotRail to be brought into public ownership next year, minister reveals
SCOTLAND'S rail services will be brought into public ownership from next year, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has said.
10/03/2021
The Last Neoliberal
"Elected on a promise to modernise France, Emmanuel Macron has revealed what the political centre looks like in practice – a war on workers, authoritarian demagogy and a further emboldening of the far-right."
Elected on a promise to modernise France, Emmanuel Macron has revealed what the political centre looks like in practice – a war on workers, authoritarian demagogy and a further emboldening of the far-right.
19/02/2021
The Museum of Neoliberalism has been closed for almost a year but we still hope to reopen once it's safe.
Until then you can help chip in towards our ongoing rent costs by getting some merch, including an exceedingly 70s pleather bookmark, a Blair Xmas card, or a postcard of Delta's infamous anti-union ad.
Available here: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/museum-of-neoliberalism-merchandise
06/02/2021
Workers Share Amazon's Shocking Anti-Union Tactics
Workers Share Amazon's Shocking Anti-Union Tactics
06/12/2020
How Thatcher Unleashed the NHS Outsourcing Wave
"In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power aiming to build a free-market Britain. One of her first ambitions was NHS reform – and she set in motion the outsourcing machine that still undermines the health service today."
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power aiming to build a free-market Britain. One of her first ambitions was NHS reform – and she set in motion many of the process that still undermine the health service today.
11/11/2020
The US was lucky to get Trump – Biden may pave the way for a more competent autocrat | George Monbiot
"Neoliberalism has been neatly described by William Davies, a professor at Goldsmiths College, as “the disenchantment of politics by economics”. It sees politics as an ineffective or illegitimate means of social improvement. Decision-making should be transferred to “the market”, a euphemism for the power of money. Through buying and selling, we establish a natural hierarchy of winners and losers. Any attempt to interfere in the discovery of this natural order – such as taxing the rich, redistributing wealth and regulating business – will inhibit social progress.
Neoliberalism disenchants politics by sucking the power out of people’s votes. When governments abandon their ambition to change social outcomes or deliver social justice, politics become irrelevant to people’s lives. It is perceived as the chatter of a remote elite. Disenchantment becomes disempowerment.
Before neoliberalism triggered the financial crash of 2008, its doctrines were treated as orthodoxy across the political spectrum. Obama had a chance to break from this cage, to confront the powers that “the market” disguised and the social divisions it caused. But he chose not to take it. Grace and decency alone cannot defeat structural injustice.
Trump stormed into the political vacuum. Chaotic and unscrupulous, in some respects he offended the neoliberal consensus, ripping up trade agreements, while in others he reinforced it. But the important point is that he was a monster the consensus created. His success was a product of the fake unity and fake healing of elite political agreement. When mainstream politics offered only humiliation and frustration, people turned to a virulent, demagogic anti-politics."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/11/us-trump-biden-president-elect
The president-elect must be willing to fight big money and redistribute wealth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
23/10/2020
UK to outsource £28M deportation service
UK to outsource £28M deportation service
Home Office wants to contract private companies to help returnees reintegrate in their home countries.
12/10/2020
Water Privatisation Has Been a Disaster – It’s Time to Take it Back into Public Hands
Water Privatisation Has Been a Disaster – It’s Time to Take it Back into Public Hands
Last week's 24 hour drought in East London wasn't an isolated incident – across England and Wales, water privatisation has led to insufficient maintenance, poor service and high bills. It's time the take our water back from the profiteers.
02/10/2020
How Neoliberal Reforms Led to the Student Covid Crisis
"By undermining the public funding base of our universities and turning students into consumers, successive governments lay the foundations for the student covid crisis – but it's young people who pay the costs."
By undermining the public funding base of our universities and turning students into consumers, successive governments lay the foundations for the Covid crisis – but it's young people who pay the costs.
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I was interviewed by The Quietus about the Museum of Neoliberalism and the Hell Bus (which is on display here at the museum until 4th June)
Me and the Hell Bus on Joe Lycett's Channel 4 documentary about Shell's greenwash advertising.
The Hell Bus is currently free to visit at the Museum of Neoliberalism every weekend until 4th of June. Book a free timeslot at museumofneoliberalism.com
Watch the full documentary here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/joe-lycett-vs-the-oil-giant/
Massive thanks to Joe and his team for getting me involved in the show.
The Hell Bus is currently free to visit at the Museum of Neoliberalism every weekend until 4th of June. Book a free timeslot at museumofneoliberalism.com
Watch the full documentary here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/joe-lycett-vs-the-oil-giant/
Massive thanks to Joe and his team for getting me involved in the show.
The Hell Bus will be officially opening at the back of the Museum of Neoliberalism this Friday and then will be open on weekends until June, (after which I will need to find it a new home). You're all welcome to the event on Friday and if you'd like to see the bus/museum on a regular weekend you can book a free timeslot at www.museumofneoliberalism.com
I highly recommend booking in advance when visiting the museum/bus on regular days as I'm not always here and sometimes open late/close early if there's no bookings at that time. Please also remember the Hell Bus will only be open on Saturdays and Sundays.
Address: Museum of Neoliberalism, 16 Eltham Road, London SE12 8TF
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/609738027139408
I highly recommend booking in advance when visiting the museum/bus on regular days as I'm not always here and sometimes open late/close early if there's no bookings at that time. Please also remember the Hell Bus will only be open on Saturdays and Sundays.
Address: Museum of Neoliberalism, 16 Eltham Road, London SE12 8TF
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/609738027139408
WAR gallery's new incarnation as the Museum of Neoliberalism sees its first proper event since the start of the pandemic. This Friday is the launch party for the Hell Bus anti-Shell greenwashing exhibition by Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives at the museum, 6pm-11pm. After that the bus will be available to view every weekend until June *weekends only* by making a free booking at www.museumofneoliberalism.com
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Any idea when the museum will be re-opening? :)
Genuine bottle of Amazon employee urine and an employee product scanner at the Museum of Neoliberalism. I was promoted to post these after seeing Amazon claiming it was a myth via their relentlessly embarrassing AmazonNews twitter account.
As you can see in the last slide they're claiming this despite the fact there are leaked memos from Amazon managers complaining about bottles of urine and bags of s**t being found in warehouses.
I should point out, in case it's not obvious, that this isnt about workers being gross, its about workers having little choice but to do things like this due to the terrible working conditions and high pressure work targets that are enforced by Amazon.
I co-curated the museum with Gavin Grindon and this display has since been updated with a miniature working conveyor belt generously built for us by the brilliant Tim Hunkin at Novelty Automation. He's also built his own a satirical Amazon machine which is well worth checking out.
The museum is currently closed but will hopefully open later this year when we stop having to worry about this pandemic which you might have heard about
More photos and videos of the museum online at www.museumofneoliberalism.com
As you can see in the last slide they're claiming this despite the fact there are leaked memos from Amazon managers complaining about bottles of urine and bags of s**t being found in warehouses.
I should point out, in case it's not obvious, that this isnt about workers being gross, its about workers having little choice but to do things like this due to the terrible working conditions and high pressure work targets that are enforced by Amazon.
I co-curated the museum with Gavin Grindon and this display has since been updated with a miniature working conveyor belt generously built for us by the brilliant Tim Hunkin at Novelty Automation. He's also built his own a satirical Amazon machine which is well worth checking out.
The museum is currently closed but will hopefully open later this year when we stop having to worry about this pandemic which you might have heard about
More photos and videos of the museum online at www.museumofneoliberalism.com
I was just going through the crowdfunder we did last year for the Museum of Neoliberalism and realised that this actual Blair family xmas card from 2014 that I ripped-off, printed up and offered as a backer reward, made up over 1/3 of all the donated funds to launch the museum.
There's a sense of satisfaction in knowing that pirating Tony Blair's intellectual copyright allowed the creation of a Museum of Neoliberalism.
The museum itself is staying closed until the coronavirus infection rate comes down further. We don't want to add to the problem. Your grandma is more important than a museum visit.
The museum was co-curated by Gavin Grindon and myself, and was only possible thanks to our crowdfunder backers, The World Transformed, and a legion of incredible volunteers who are all credited at museumofneoliberalism.com - which is also where you'll eventually be able to book tickets again.
Poster photograph by Lorianna Claudia Manzo
There's a sense of satisfaction in knowing that pirating Tony Blair's intellectual copyright allowed the creation of a Museum of Neoliberalism.
The museum itself is staying closed until the coronavirus infection rate comes down further. We don't want to add to the problem. Your grandma is more important than a museum visit.
The museum was co-curated by Gavin Grindon and myself, and was only possible thanks to our crowdfunder backers, The World Transformed, and a legion of incredible volunteers who are all credited at museumofneoliberalism.com - which is also where you'll eventually be able to book tickets again.
Poster photograph by Lorianna Claudia Manzo
Added a banner outside my studio/Museum of Neoliberalism (it's closed and I'm the only one here) - please don't go out this weekend. Stay home and help beat this thing.
Been debating if I should temporarily cover the 'tories out' sign to avoid confusion, as tories need to stay in too.
**khome
Been debating if I should temporarily cover the 'tories out' sign to avoid confusion, as tories need to stay in too.
**khome
Really interesting: Should be made mandatory for schools, colleges and universities!
Too bad you didn't have the "Ban the Queen" as a postcard motive...
I didn't want to disturb you, so I didn't ask any questions, but I'd love to have your views on Brexit & Labour... Last month's "Le Monde Diplomatique" had an interesting take on why some Labour counties in the North voted for the Tories: Some working-class voters said they hated the Tories, but they were they only ones that would respect their leave choice... Of course, I've also heard of "Lexit" as an anti neo-liberalism approach, but, as a Canadian living in Germany, Brexit still seems to have somewhat of a xenophobic aftertaste...
Too bad you didn't have the "Ban the Queen" as a postcard motive...
I didn't want to disturb you, so I didn't ask any questions, but I'd love to have your views on Brexit & Labour... Last month's "Le Monde Diplomatique" had an interesting take on why some Labour counties in the North voted for the Tories: Some working-class voters said they hated the Tories, but they were they only ones that would respect their leave choice... Of course, I've also heard of "Lexit" as an anti neo-liberalism approach, but, as a Canadian living in Germany, Brexit still seems to have somewhat of a xenophobic aftertaste...
If you haven't been to the Museum of Neoliberalism (train station: Lee; add: 6 Eltham Road, SE12) why not pop in today? Otherwise, here's an excellent review of the place by Hettie O'Brien for the New Statesman to whet your appetite.
Published 13 January 2020
Published 13 January 2020
Hornby Virgin Train set boxes on display at the Museum of Neoliberalism
I co-curated the museum with Gavin Grindon and it is open every Thurs-Sunday, just book a free ticket at museumofneoliberalism.com
I co-curated the museum with Gavin Grindon and it is open every Thurs-Sunday, just book a free ticket at museumofneoliberalism.com
「ネオリベ」博物館の登場。
I did an interview with i-D about my work and the Museum of Neoliberalism I co-curated with Gavin Grindon.
Detail of the Amazon fulfilment centre diorama at the Museum of Neoliberalism which is open for the foreseeable future every Thursday through Sunday, book free tickets at museumofneoliberalism.com
Massive thanks to Tim Hunkin of Novelty Automation for generously building us this miniature conveyor belt, its the most reliable piece of technology in the museum.
Massive thanks to Tim Hunkin of Novelty Automation for generously building us this miniature conveyor belt, its the most reliable piece of technology in the museum.
This weekend I took time off from frantic Museum of Neoliberalism construction to attend the Veterans For Peace UK Annual General Meeting, which was particularly poignant this year as founding member Ben Griffin is retiring from the organisation.
I first met Ben back at the launch of my Join the Army comic in 2013 and I'm proud to say we've been good friends ever since. He was instrumental in getting our Action Man: Battlefield Casualties film collaboration produced, which is my favourite project to this day, and as a parting gift I gave him this Action Man-sized VFPUK hoodie.
Ben has been an absolute powerhouse of a campaigner, he leaves Veterans For Peace UK as a vital & growing voice for peace, having started it from scratch 8 years ago.
I'm very proud of the work I've done with VFPUK and it wouldn't have been possible without Ben's passion, insight, and courage.
Massive thanks to Hannah Logic for sewing the hoodie for me on such short notice!
I first met Ben back at the launch of my Join the Army comic in 2013 and I'm proud to say we've been good friends ever since. He was instrumental in getting our Action Man: Battlefield Casualties film collaboration produced, which is my favourite project to this day, and as a parting gift I gave him this Action Man-sized VFPUK hoodie.
Ben has been an absolute powerhouse of a campaigner, he leaves Veterans For Peace UK as a vital & growing voice for peace, having started it from scratch 8 years ago.
I'm very proud of the work I've done with VFPUK and it wouldn't have been possible without Ben's passion, insight, and courage.
Massive thanks to Hannah Logic for sewing the hoodie for me on such short notice!