Tag Archives: complete control
Top 5 doomed literary loves
Perhaps it isn’t in keeping with the spirit of the season, as everyone loves a happy ever after, but sometimes it has to be acknowledged that the really great literature lives elsewhere. With that in mind, and with Valentine’s wishes … Continue reading
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Tyrants destroy their own freedom
Seeking to rebalance the world and make the major changes needed to bring about financial justice are laudable aims, but rarely achieved easily. Those ‘doing quite nicely, thank you’ out of the current system can hardly be expected to hand … Continue reading
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On repeat
Perhaps this should come as little surprise. A new study has discovered that the popularity of far-right groups is on the rise across Europe, even in the parts previously considered too enlightened to go in for that sort of thing, … Continue reading
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Road to nowhere
For all of those readers who aren’t students of the 1930s – and why wouldn’t you be, given that we seem to be hell-bent on recreating it? – all I can say is, well. Be warned, the last time foreign … Continue reading
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‘No pasaran’: Cable Street 1936-2011
Anniversaries always offer good opportunities for the reinterpretation of past events according to modern sensibilities. With each passing year the memories get polished, the myths build and the truth becomes that little less easy to establish. 75 years have gone … Continue reading
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The tip of the iceberg
The News International scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of unelected oligarchies and corporate power in Britain’s democracy, according to a new report by David Beetham of the LSE, arguing that: it serves to distract attention, as the … Continue reading
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Home strange home
I have been back in the UK for eight days and so far I have been unable to listen to any soundbite or speech by any politician all the way through. It is a sad state of affairs for a … Continue reading
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Get angry
I know, it’s the weekend. You want to be relaxing, chilling, letting it all go. But you can’t. You have to read this. And then try to find an answer to the question: why is nobody from Wall Street going … Continue reading
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