I suppose we really ought to have a US primaries thread
Most of what we’re seeing in the MSM is just presidential horse-race reporting, of course. Why don’t we see if we can do better?
Tone
I really wanted to write a good review of this book, but this was not the book to do it. Abbott is a conviction politician, no matter how angry certain commenter may be when I say that. He wants power, yes, and he is ruthless in his pursuit of it. But he wants power for a reason, not just for its own sake. I just hope that the debate this book sparked gets people talking about what those reasons are.
Bolt found guilty under Racial Discrimination Act
Age article here.. While the specifics of the legalities are different, my view remains the same as in 2010: Bolt is a an ugly blot on the media landscape, but that doesn’t mean that anything he wrote in those articles [...]
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
A Word about Welfare
Am I the only person who is thoroughly sick of the neoliberals and right-wingers carping on about the evils of the welfare state? It was, after all, they who invented it.
Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’
Cultural disdain is about more than humour. It’s the new politics.
Quick link: Sparrow on the cultural contradictions of the right
I’ve rarely seen the culture wars explained better than by Jeff Sparrow in this piece at The Drum.
Don’t accept the premise
SlutWalk seeks to address the idea that a woman’s behaviour in one sphere of life should have no bearing on how she is judged in other spheres
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Brendan O’Neill’s revealing moment #Qanda #Notw
In his appearance on Q&A last night, editor of Spiked and libertarian gadfly Brendan O’Neill said more than he ought to have. O’Neill is apparently an alumnus of some Trotskyist group or other, and like other leftie turned righties (or [...]
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