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COLLEGE LIFE Out of the Ashes Britain after the Riots David Lammy MP delivers the Inaugural JCR Equal Opportunities Lecture David Lammy MP has represented his constituency, Tottenham, since 2000, when he became the youngest member of the House of Commons. A stint as a Constitutional Affairs Minister was followed by service as Minister for Culture between 2005 and 2007. David later became Higher Education Minister. More recently, David authored a well-reviewed book on the 2011 riots, entitled Out of the Ashes: Britain after the Riots. ‘An explosion of hedonism and nihilism’ was how David labelled the 2011 summer riots. Raised in Broadwater Farm (where Mark Duggan’s August 2011 shooting sparked the riots), and as MP for the constituency which suffered most from the riots, Lammy was uniquely placed to give an explosive account on the state of contemporary equality. He condemned the emergence of a ‘Grand Theft Auto culture that glamorises violence’, as symptomatic of broader social degeneration. This degeneration is linked, David argued, to two fundamental twentieth-century transformations: the post-war social revolution, followed by an economic revolution in the 1980s. The social revolution brought broad equality and liberty centred, in Lammy’s view, on Attlee’s Welfare State and Bevan’s NHS. This equality was, however, undermined by the development of a ‘subversive individualism’. That individualism peaked during the period 1979 (after profound sectionalism during the ‘Winter of Discontent’ left British society deeply divided) to 2008; its most destructive manifestation being the economic crisis of the latter year. For Lammy, the 2011 riots were the product of a socio-cultural disenfranchisement engendered by that second social revolution. David repeatedly asserted that ‘juxtaposition’ was something that deeply interests him. He had witnessed fundamental juxtapositions in his own early years, contrasting his upbringing on a council estate by a Guyanese singlemother, to his admission into the ‘posh’ King’s School, and Harvard. The edge-of-the-seat tone of this inaugural lecture heightened the excitement and optimism generated by David’s ideas. This marks a very successful beginning in what I hope will be a long line of prestigious and engaging speaker events for Catz Equal Opportunities – bringing to light the difficult questions to be asked about contemporary equality, and drawing students into a consideration of how these may be confronted. n Michael Livesey (2011, History) is the JCR Equal Opportunities Representative. 16/OUT OF THE ASHES
COLLEGE LIFE Finals Results 2012: A Golden Year In our fiftieth anniversary edition of The Year, we are delighted to be able to print a strong set of Finals results, which have earned the College’s recent leavers a well-deserved prominence on the University’s Norrington Table. Results achieved by our recent cohort of Finalists saw Catz ranked 10th in the list of Colleges. In our fiftieth anniversary edition of The Year, we are delighted to announce a very strong set of Finals results, which have earned the College’s recent leavers welldeserved prominence on the University’s Norrington Table. Results achieved by our recent cohort of Finalists saw Catz ranked 10th in the list of Oxford Colleges. The Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, said that, ‘I am delighted to see the hard work of our students reflected in a very decent Norrington score. This is particularly creditable for a college with the largest number of students, and is a super achievement in our fiftieth anniversary year. It is pleased too that the news emerged so hard on the heels of the news of the Copley Medal for Sir John Walker (1960, Chemistry), a former JCR President, and an Olympic Gold for Andy Triggs Hodge (2004, Geography), who studied here just seven years ago’. n ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2012/17
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