James Heartfield


James Heartfield is a British writer and lecturer. He has published widely on international politics, empire, art, and design. He wrote The Aborigines' Protection Society, 1837-1909 and An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War. His Ph.D. thesis was published as The European Union and the End of Politics, by ZER0 in 2013.

Life

Heartfield has written for ArtReview, Spiked Online, and The Times Education Supplement.
Heartfield has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, talking and writing on the illusions of the knowledge economy. In the 1980s he was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Nick Bell named Heartfield as "one of the most important commentators on design". In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja he interviewed the Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko. The interviews were published after Litvinenko's death.

Politics

In April 2019, Heartfield announced that he was standing as a candidate for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom. He was fourth on the party list for Yorkshire and the Humber and did not gain a seat.
In August 2019, he announced that he would be standing as a Brexit Party candidate in Islington North, the constituency of Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. He later stood down and was replaced by Yosef David.

Personal life

He lives in north London and is married with two daughters, Holly and Daisy.

Publications