Tom Oldfield
Tom is a writer and musician based in London. In between these two pursuits, he works as a media and communications consultant at a busy West-London agency. 
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The necessity of humanizing Hitler
Hitler was pure evil, of that there is little doubt, but such an evaluation should be the start of a commentary and attempted understanding of his character, not simply a start and end point in itself. If he is dismissed as such, we are removing the need to chart back through history. We are bypassing the necessity to analyse and see why he came to embody such evil; why his anger was so entrenched by Versailles; why his views and propaganda were so successful; and how he came to be in a position to express European anti-Semitism so violently. In short, if we dehumanise, we are removing the burden to understand and comprehend, and in doing so, amplifying the possibility of it happening again.
The Good Childhood Inquiry in Britain is a flawed piece of misplaced nostalgia
The Good Childhood Inquiry, which shows distressing levels of unhappiness amongst Britain’s young, does not take into account changing moral and cultural paradigms, and is flawed as a result.
British society is riven by misplaced fear, and it’s the media’s fault
The recession, like terrorism, is part of Britain’s new “fear society”, where mass media works to scare people into believing the situation is much worse for them than it probably is.