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• British

  clegg’s first steps

  01.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Nick Clegg’s first questions to Brown were on fuel bills: a social justice theme, and one which the Lib Dem spin doctors described as being closer to what the person in the street cares about, than Cameron’s ID card questions.
  As far as the response from the press, it looked like a good performance (as aggregated [...]

• British

  nostalgia

  01.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just saw this picture of posters on the wall of the politics classroom at Varndean Sixth Form, where I did my A-Levels, on a “lookback at 2007″ series of photos in the Guardian, and felt a little nostalgic …

• International

  bhutto jr drafted to p.p.p

  01.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So much for an end to dynastic leadership for the Pakistan’s People Party.
  Bilawal, nineteen-year-old son of the late Benazir, has been appointed head of the PPP, although the role will be only nominal until he graduates from Oxford. It is Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir’s widower with a murky and corrupt past, who will actually be [...]

• International

  bhutto assassinated

  12.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shocking news.
  Tariq Ali’s commentary is essential reading: his personal reflections are illuminating. A point he raises is that though in the short term the murder is likely to precipitate yet another crisis in Pakistan, in the long run it may provide a space for an authentic people’s movement to emerge without a dynastic leader who [...]

• British

  clegg: good or bad news?

  12.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am trying to work out whether Nick Clegg’s accession to the Liberal Democrat leadership is a good or a bad thing.
  Certainly, we could do with some good news. There are three major domains in which the New Labour project has disappointed: its willingness to partake in neoconversative killing sprees; its illiberal eagerness to [...]

• Australian, International

  bali: the power of many

  12.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Bali accord is the latest episode in the long running saga of the United States government’s shaky grasp on reality and consequent conflict with the main stream of global opinion. Apologists for America-appeasement should take note: it took the experience of isolation, facing the rest of the world community alone in its intransigence, for [...]

• Politics

  the rebel sell

  12.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just read a great article about the way so-called “subvertising” is no such thing: how it is merely another form of social distinction by consumer choices. Years ago, when I first came across Adbusters, I wrote them a long email arguing along the same lines - that any successes of grass roots consumer action are [...]

• Politics

  what is the world coming to?

  09.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  “Conviction politicians”, cheek by jowl. “Convictable” might be more apt.

• Politics

  conspiracy theorists

  02.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Brilliant article by George Monbiot on gullible conspiracy theorists and the damage they do to real opposition and protest movements.
  On a related note. The use of the word conspiratorial to refer to conspiracy theories or theorists is a lazy perversion of the English language. It should properly be used to refer to conspiracies or conspirators. [...]

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