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Marx out of 10 for Page 3′s apologists? | Notes From A Small Planet — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:51:37 +0000

[...] Oddly, it was from writers on the left that one heard the loudest rebuttal of the submission from Object and “Turn Your Back on Page 3”. Roy Greenslade was quick to question the veracity of their evidence in the Evening Standard, while Brendan O’Neil launched a telling broadside against the “bevy of feminists” and their “shrill chorus” on this website. [...]

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Marx out of 10 for Page 3′s apologists? | Notes From A Small Planet — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:51:27 +0000

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Comment on Will we see Clegg’s new economic tone? Expect more of the same by daibhidhdeux

daibhidhdeux — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:50:58 +0000

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Comment on In Defence of Mrs Merkel by daibhidhdeux

daibhidhdeux — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:49:48 +0000

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Comment on A nationalism like no other… by Stevie

Stevie — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:52:40 +0000

The label that probably defines most Scottish nationalists best is the word of French origin, ‘independetist’.

It hasn’t really caught on — perhaps because it ends with dentist. But I often refer to myself in that way

Comment on A nationalism like no other… by Stevie

Stevie — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:50:03 +0000

At the moment in Scotland there are Scot nats and Brit nats (yes, there are people who are neither — but do they even vote? I don’t know)

The British nationalists :

1) Choose to call themselves British first rather than Scottish, or ‘Scottish too’..
2) The UK parliament is the parliament they believe should take all the important decisions and the Scottish parliament is really just localised organisation (or at least that’s what they hoped and that’s all Labour managed to do with it)
3) Are proud of Britain ‘punching above its weight’ on the international stage, having a seat on the UN security council — the fact that they need nukes and generally follow the lead of the US in ‘foreign policy’ into bloody warfare costing literally hundreds of thousands of lives is the price one pays for trying to keep up the illusion of having once been a great empire and nothing really has changed.
4) flag waving for an already existing country is that unhealthy bullish nationlism that manifests itself in its ugly hero-worshipping of figureheads and parading big ceremonial events.

I am a Scot nat, not especially the patriotic kind who blindly follows a waving flag — the patriot has been used for centuries as cannon fodder and can be harmless or gormless or used.

I want Scotland to be the kind of society that reflects the character of the Scots: caring, sharing, willing — enterprising of nature, open to the world, inclusive.

If it’s a NO vote then that kind of society will be crushed as the block grant is devasted because it will follow the public sector cuts in England and that process will begin the day after a NO vote.

I hope the Scots vote YES, I really do… I am afraid for those less fortunate in society if it’s not a YES.

Comment on Politicians should be wary of vested interests in the economic debate by Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:37:55 +0000

im not convinced anything is inevitable per se. it is time that a politician steps up and makes the case for this crash being a crisis of neo-liberal free markets going tits up rather than as a state debt crisis (which came only after the recession). i cant remember who wrote it, but one academic rightly said that alternatives to neoliberalism will have to be forged politically just as neoliberalism came after keynesianism. i think it can be done

Comment on Politicians should be wary of vested interests in the economic debate by daibhidhdeux

daibhidhdeux — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:24:01 +0000

Is it, perhaps, too late for what you advocate in that England (Wales and NI) have already been set on a trajectory by the business forces you describe, as well as their political enforcers, of London as a neo-Venetian “principality”, if not republic, with the rest of the English provinces and rump Celtic appendages as a feeder hinterland to the neoLibCon maw of the “capital”?

Comment on Politicians should be wary of vested interests in the economic debate by daibhidhdeux

daibhidhdeux — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:12:40 +0000

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Comment on Are Israel’s days numbered? by Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:27 +0000

im not pro israel, i just dont see a blog that seems to advocate its destruction as a good one.

‘all forms of racism wherever they occur must be opposed’ – i agree – that is why i dont see why i should support hamas given the quotes from above.

you say that ‘The rhetoric for the two state solution has not been matched by the actions of Israeli politicians’. palestinian politicians have scarcely accepted the rhetoric, let alone action for a peaceful settlement.