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The Most Charming 20th Century Man

herbork wrote 1 month ago: “It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. … more →

Tags: Actors, Author, Culture 2, live singing, Motion pictures, Music 2, Song Writing, A Talent To Amuse, Alexander Woollcott

"Seymour and Co.: The Fools on the Hill," by Corey Ansel3 comments

Ross Wolfe wrote 2 months ago: The SWP opposition: Providing a failed post-mortem analysis . IMAGE: Rembrandt’s De anatomisch … more →

Tags: Articles, Guest Post, Writings, Alex Callinicos, Bureaucracy, Cliffites, Corey Ansel, Crisis, International Socialist Organiation

Owen Jones: Just another social Imperialist?

Nu'man Abd al-Wahid wrote 2 months ago: “The greatest peril of Imperialism lies in the state of mind of a nation which has become habituated … more →

Tags: British Imperialism, Labour Party, owen jones

The British Left3 comments

Leon J Williams wrote 4 months ago: By George Volkov The left in Britain numbers at approximately 10,000 people, with the largest “commu … more →

Tags: UK, Coalition, Politics, Workers, Britain, Working Class, unite, Unity, CPGB

The Empire’s Balfour Declaration and the Suez Canal

Nu'man Abd al-Wahid wrote 5 months ago: For the average British pro-Palestinian human rights activist, the Balfour Declaration, published ni … more →

Tags: balfour declaration, British Imperialism, Egypt, Guardian, John Rees, New Statesman, Palestine, Richard Seymour, Suez Canal

Sexist Of The Year 2012: George Galloway

soupyone wrote 5 months ago: The End Violence Against Women Coalition poll has finished, there is a winner, George Galloway! I ho … more →

Tags: a vindication of the rights of woman, Australia, bad sexual etiquette, Bradford, British politics, Ecuador, Extradition, Feminism, feminists

Women And George Galloway

soupyone wrote 7 months ago: This piece in the Guardian reveals that all is not well in Bradford concerning George Galloway: … more →

Tags: Bradford, British politics, George Galloway, misogyny, rape, Respect Party, sexism, unprotected sex, Women's rights

"Plebs" revisited, revisited ...

Malcolm Redfellow wrote 8 months ago: Nick Robinson, on his BBC political blog, reads between the lines of Danny “Ginger Rodent … more →

Tags: BBC, Britain, 'Broken' society, Conservative family values, Conservative Party policy., health, History, Labour Party, Lib Dems

Galloway Refuses To Apologise To Muslim Women3 comments

soupyone wrote 8 months ago: George Galloway is a slick politician and often knows what buttons to press to galvanise his support … more →

Tags: Assange, Australia, Australian politics, bad sexual etiquette, BAILII, British politics, Ecuador, Extradition, Feminism

Salma Yaqoob, George Galloway And Misogyny 1 comment

soupyone wrote 8 months ago: Although I do not normally follow the activities of smaller fringe groupings in Britain the resignat … more →

Tags: Assange, Australia, Australian politics, bad sexual etiquette, BAILII, British politics, Ecuador, Extradition, Feminism

Julian Assange, Rape And The Decline Of The Left1 comment

soupyone wrote 8 months ago: I thank Owen Jones for pointing me towards a hotbed of sexism, misogyny and rape apologists, the Soc … more →

Tags: Assange, Australia, Australian politics, bad sexual etiquette, BAILII, British politics, Colette Browne, Ecuador, Extradition

A famous face

Malcolm Redfellow wrote 10 months ago: Paul Waugh, at PoliticsHome, has a scoop of national proportions: … from today, the PM’s addre … more →

Tags: Harold Wilson, World War 2, London, History, PoliticsHome, Paul Waugh

A weighty wet

Malcolm Redfellow wrote 10 months ago: There are numerous reasons for admiring William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, Provost … more →

Tags: Times, Tories, Britain, David Cameron, Conservative Party policy., History

Coir thief

Malcolm Redfellow wrote 11 months ago: Alexander Pope had a shrewd eye for relationships: I am his majesty’s dog at Kew. Pray, sir, whose d … more →

Tags: Social class, Britain, Eden Project, London, Muswell Hill

S-CIGM.1 comment

Malcolm Redfellow wrote 11 months ago: Fret not, patient reader, this will get all political, partisan and polemical in a paragraph or thre … more →

Tags: Education, Labour Party, Leftist politics, Times, schools, Tories, Guardian, Britain, sleaze

Picture This presents Marc Karlin, Between Times (1993)

marckarlin wrote 1 year ago: Between Times (1993) looks at the fate of the British Left in the wake of Thatcherism. Over a cup of … more →

Tags: Audio, Essay, between times, British Coal, Dan Kidner, Kodwo Eshun, Marc Karlin, Picture This, Steve Sprung

Picture This presents Marc Karlin, Roundtable discussion.

marckarlin wrote 1 year ago: This month Picture This, in association with the research project “In the Spirit of Marc Karlin”, he … more →

Tags: Audio, Essay, Andy Robson, arnolfini, between times, Dan Kidner, E. P. Thompson, For memory, Holly Aylett

Picture This Presents Marc Karlin

marckarlin wrote 1 year ago: Picture This, in association with the research project “In the Spirit of Marc Karlin”, is pleased to … more →

Tags: News, Andy Robson, arnolfini, between times, For memory, Hermione Harris, Holly Aylett, In the Spirit of Marc Karlin, Nightcleaners

Repost: Kenan Malik In The Spiked Review Of Books: 'Twenty Years On: Internalizing The Fatwa'-Salman Rushdie'

chr1 wrote 1 year ago: Full review here. Malik takes issue with some of the British left’s handling of the Salman Rus … more →

Tags: Public Debate, Philosophy, Politics, Immigration, Current Events, Economics, Law, Multiculturalism, Relativism


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