Grace Blakeley Explained

Birth Date:26 June 1993
Birth Place:Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
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Notableworks:
  • Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation (2019)
  • The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism (2020)
  • Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom (2024)

Grace Blakeley (born 26 June 1993)[1] is an English economics and politics commentator,[2] [3] columnist, journalist and author. She is a staff writer for Tribune and panelist on TalkTV. She was previously the economics commentator of the New Statesman and has contributed to Novara Media.

Early life

Grace Blakeley was born in Basingstoke in Hampshire, England.[4] She is half Welsh on her father's side.[5] She was privately educated to GCSE level at Lord Wandsworth College,[6] where she captained the girls' rounders team, and later attended the Sixth Form College, Farnborough.[7] She studied philosophy, politics and economics at St Peter's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class honours degree.[7] [8] Blakeley then obtained a master's degree in African studies at St Antony's College, Oxford.[9] After graduating, she worked as a management consultant for KPMG in their Public Sector and Healthcare Practice division.[8] Blakeley then worked as a research fellow for a year at a left-wing think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, in Manchester, specialising in regional economic policy.[8]

Career

Blakeley joined the magazine New Statesman in January 2019 as its economics commentator, writing a fortnightly column and contributing to the website and podcasts.[10] Her articles for the magazine included support for Lexit and a Green New Deal.[11] [12] Her first book, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation, was published by Repeater Books on 10 September 2019.[13] Michael Galant writing for the openDemocracy website, praised the book as a "convincing critique of modern capitalism for socialists and sceptics alike".[14] CapX's Diego Zuluaga commented in his review that it was a "sweeping polemic against the market economy", and felt the author had been selective in how she presented evidence for her arguments.[15]

Blakeley became a staff writer for the democratic socialist magazine Tribune in January 2020.[16] She has sat on the Labour Party's National Policy Forum, which is responsible for policy development.[17]

Blakeley's second book, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism, was published in October 2020.[18] Her next book, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom, was published in 2024.[19]

Political views

Blakeley identifies as a democratic socialist[20] and supports the use of capital controls.[21] She supported Jeremy Corbyn and voted for him in the 2015 and 2016 Labour leadership elections, though she criticised him in 2016 for failing to "challenge the hegemony of neoliberalism" in the way she had imagined he would.[21] [22] Blakeley stated in June 2024 that she left the Labour Party in 2023 over Keir Starmer's public statement during the Israel–Hamas war that Israel had the right to cut off Gaza's power and water.[23] [24]

Blakeley promotes a Green New Deal.[21] [25] Though she has emphasised it as running "counter to a capitalist system", she has argued that "even those who do not identify as socialists" may soon realise that a green industrial revolution is the "only option". She calls for a "fair transition towards a low-carbon economy".[26]

Blakeley is a Eurosceptic, and has branded the European Union as "neoliberal", "neo-colonial" and "run in the interests of financial and corporate elites".[21] [27] In 2019, she wrote an article titled: "Why the left should champion Brexit", where she argued the EU was a barrier to building a socialist economy.[28]

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Notes and References

  1. graceblakeley . Grace Blakeley . 1143865689083654144 . 26 June 2019 . T-W-E-N-T-Y S-I-X 2DAY BITCHEZ And I got to spend it with these beauts.
  2. Web site: Economics for millennials: an interview with Grace Blakeley. Andrés . Lomeña. openDemocracy. 20 February 2020.
  3. Web site: Denvir. Daniel. 2020-03-27. Coronavirus Economics with Grace Blakeley. 2020-09-27. The Dig. en-US.
  4. Famous people from Basingstoke. Basingstoke Gazette. 29 June 2020. 26 July 2020.
  5. Web site: Well I am half welsh... This is going to make my dad extraordinarily happy. Grace Blakeley. Twitter. 26 September 2020. 8 November 2020.
  6. Web site: The Sower 2009. 9 February 2020. The Sower. 16.
  7. Web site: University Admissions 2011. 9 February 2020. Sixth Form College, Farnborough. 3.
  8. Web site: 21 November 2016 . Biography . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190517022121/https://www.ippr.org/about/people/staff/grace-blakeley . 17 May 2019 . 9 February 2020 . Institute for Public Policy Research.
  9. Web site: E-Newsletter: Antonian Books – TT19. 27 June 2019 . St Antony's College, Oxford. 9 February 2020.
  10. News: Grace Blakeley appointed New Statesman economics commentator. New Statesman. 12 November 2018. 9 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20190626172624/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2018/11/grace-blakeley-appointed-new-statesman-economics-commentator. 26 June 2019. live.
  11. News: Why the left should champion Brexit. New Statesman. 16 January 2019. 9 February 2020. Blakeley. Grace. https://web.archive.org/web/20200202034500/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/01/why-left-should-champion-brexit. 2 February 2020. live.
  12. News: Why we need a Green New Deal to solve humanity's greatest challenge. New Statesman. Blakeley. Grace. 2 October 2019. 9 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20191110163917/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/10/why-we-need-green-new-deal-solve-humanity-s-greatest-challenge. 10 November 2019. live.
  13. Web site: Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation. Repeater Books.
  14. Web site: Socialism or barbarism: a review of 'Stolen' by Grace Blakeley. openDemocracy. Galant. Michael. 9 October 2019. 11 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191110164407/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/socialism-or-barbarism-a-review-of-stolen-by-grace-blakeley/. 10 November 2019. live.
  15. Web site: Grace Blakeley's 'Stolen' is a tired invective against market capitalism. CapX. Zuluaga. Diego. 2 September 2019. 11 November 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191206083803/https://capx.co/grace-blakeleys-stolen-is-a-tired-invective-against-market-capitalism/. 6 December 2019. live.
  16. Web site: Grace Blakeley joins the team at Tribune. 9 February 2020. Response Source. Strutt. Andrew. 4 February 2020.
  17. Web site: Grace Blakeley. Labour Party. 9 February 2020.
  18. Web site: The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism . Waterstones . 28 July 2020.
  19. Web site: Vulture Capitalism: Grace Blakeley's new book is smart on what has gone wrong since the 1980s. The Conversation. Conor. O'Kane. 22 April 2024. 18 May 2024.
  20. News: Socialism and the 2020 American Election. The New York Times. Cohen. Roger. 8 March 2019. 9 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20190818113622/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/opinion/socialism-democrats-2020-europe.html. 18 August 2019. live.
  21. Web site: Another Britain Is Possible. Blakeley. Grace. The Express Tribune. 16 January 2019. 9 March 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200201002142/https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/another-britain-is-possible. live. 1 February 2020.
  22. Web site: I campaigned for Corbyn – but he's failed to change the conversation. Left Foot Forward. Blakeley. Grace. 4 July 2016. 9 March 2020.
  23. Grace Blakeley . 12 June 2024 . Green Party Launch Manifesto Of Bold Policies For "Real Change" #NovaraLIVE . 14 June 2024 . Video . 20:36 – 20:45 . YouTube.
  24. Web site: Israel 'has the right' to withhold power and water from Gaza, says Sir Keir Starmer . McShane . Asher . 11 October 2023 . lbc.co.uk . LBC . 14 June 2024.
  25. Web site: Whatever the Brexit outcome, the UK desperately needs a green new deal. 13 February 2019. 9 March 2020. Blakeley. Grace. New Statesman. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190220111154/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/02/whatever-brexit-outcome-uk-desperately-needs-green-new-deal. 20 February 2019.
  26. Web site: Why Britain needs its own Green New Deal. 1 May 2019. 9 March 2020. Blakeley. Grace. New Statesman. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190730114908/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/energy/2019/05/why-britain-needs-its-own-green-new-deal. 30 July 2019.
  27. Web site: Lexit: The left's strategy for Brexit. 23 November 2018. BBC One. 9 March 2020. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190915032853/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spmsm. 15 September 2019.
  28. Web site: Blakeley . Grace . 2019-01-16 . Why the left should champion Brexit . 2024-05-31 . New Statesman . en-US.

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