Helen Thompson worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Thompson is a Professor of Political Economy and has been at Cambridge since 1994. She is a regular panelist on Talking Politics and a columnist for the New Statesman. She is interested in the political economy of the present predicaments facing western politics including their relationship to geopolitics.
Since 2008 she has worked on questions generated by the 2008 financial crash and the eurozone crisis, including their historical origins in the fallout of the economic and political crises of the 1970s. Her most recent book is Oil And The Western Economic Crisis, published by Palgrave. Her article ‘Inevitability and contingency: the political economy of Brexit,’ won the 2017 prize for best article in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.