Mark Latham, Michael Costa and the NSW Right’s nuclear push for relevance
Anyone following the alleged scrutiny of the reasons for the Labor Party’s parlous performance in the federal election would have noticed that NSW Labor Right figures – most prominently, Paul Howes – were running a bit of a campaign to [...]
The Irish morass
Perhaps understandably, my comments on the Irish situation Guy Rundle mentioned in an article I re-posted were somewhat lost in the plethora of discussion about WikiLeaks. So it’s worth giving the Irish situation a post of its own. Paul Krugman [...]
Thursday Whimsy
This week’s (belated, apologies) whimsy comes to you courtesy of a Kindle in a ziplock bag.
Rundle on the current conjuncture: the GFC, Wikileaks and the reconfiguration of state power
Something is happening here. But we don’t know what it is. [Apologies to Bob Dylan in "Ballad of a Thin Man".] As is probably well known to regular readers, I’m quite the admirer of Guy Rundle’s writing and analytical skills. [...]
Quick link: Cancún Day One update
Following on from Brian’s post yesterday on the prospects for the Cancún Conference of Parties, better known as the UN Climate Summit, people might be interested in this report from Phillip Ireland who’s over there as a blogger. It’s at [...]
Unethical “ethics is about right and wrong” polemicising?
It’s kinda amusing to juxtapose this statement from Brian Hutt at The Punch: In my naiveté, I had always assumed that the whole point of ethics was to arrive at some sort of judgement about what is right and what [...]
Nick Clegg, progressivism, and New, New Labour
Nick Clegg, latter-day UK Deputy Prime Minister and the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Democrats, is in the thick of some truly interesting times in British politics. Coalition life has been generally smooth for him and his party since the [...]
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