By Robert Merkel on June 11, 2010
For all the grimness of the crime at its center, the Danish whodunit The Killing (which concluded on SBS on Wednesday night) sometimes felt like it was set in some progressive fantasyland, a land where politicians backstab and conspire against [...]
Posted in Feminism, Parenting, Policy | Tagged parental leave, sweden |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, autonomy, bogan politics, Donald Sassoon, end of ideology, Feminism, Geoffrey Barker, ideology, ignorance, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour party, labourism, left, Liberal Democrats, liberation movements, light on the hill, managerialism, mutulalism, New Labour, Nina Power, Nordic democracies, political culture, political economy, political institutions, political sociology, right, Rudd government, social change, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, sweden, Third Way, transformation |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 28, 2009
As a sequel to my post on The Australian‘s series on the left, where I highlighted Guy Rundle’s take, I’m reproducing from today’s Crikey (with permission) his longer sequel to his take beneath the fold. Meantime, the Oz series meanders [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, History, International, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, BLF, Capitalism, CPA, Crikey, Culture, David Hetherington, GFC, global economy, global financial crisis, globalisation, globalism, greens, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Labor, Labor Left, labour movement, Labour parties, left, liberalism, Maoism, Marx, McKenzie Wark, Meidner plan, neo-liberalism, neocons, neoconservatism, new left, Per Capita, political culture, robert manne, social democracy, social markets, social movements, Sociology, Soviet union, Sraffa, sweden, The Australian, the left, Tony Blair, unions |
By Brian on February 16, 2009
I first heard about Sweden changing tack on nuclear energy on Deutsche Welle (via Newsradio) in the context of the implications for Germany. I find what goes on in European politics a bit of a jungle, so I thought I’d [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Nuclear | Tagged Copenhagen, Germany, IPCC, Kyoto, sweden |
By Robert Merkel on February 11, 2009
The first new nuclear plant built in Europe for many years, Finland’s Olkiluoto-3 nuclear reactor, is going to be a financial disaster for somebody. Originally scheduled for completion this year, the latest estimates are that it’ll be finished in 2012. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Europe | Tagged Areva, Center Party, finland, Maud Olofsson, Nuclear, Olkiluoto, Siemens, sweden, TVO |
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