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Contesting Common Sense: Stuart Hall’s Challenge to the Left
The death of Stuart Hall (cultural theorist and political philosopher), much like his life and work, has got me thinking.We live in an age where to look beyond the appearance of things is to be...
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Speaking with Ghosts: Morality, Ideology, Politics
In the unfashionable world of theory it is fashionable to talk of ideology as that which structures our reality rather than that which masks ‘True’ reality. As we have broken from Marx and Marxism so...
View ArticleAgainst Democracy and Morality
Recently I wrote a post where I experimented with a different style of writing. It was highly sarcastic and floated between satire and serious criticism. I am not convinced this experiment worked (but...
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Labour’s 2015 Manifesto – What should be in it?
Housing obviously, not least give buy-to-let landlords a kick. Some of them achieve an annual return of 16 percent. Rail: as mentioned in another thread, millions of commuters, packed into shoddy...
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Blurred Lines: How the Front National has usurped the language of the left
The European election results in France last month sent a sharp, icy chill of horror down the spine of EU technocrats in Brussels and Strasbourg. Sheltered and insulated to a certain extent by the EU...
View ArticleIsrael and Palestine – what should Israel do?
Let’s be clear here, and it is about time that truth were spoken with bluntness to the people of Israel.
View ArticleBlair & ISIS — two sides of the same coin
Why has no British journalist writing in the mainstream press yet pointed out that ISIS is a creation of Tony Blair? Amid the agonising about British ISIS-affiliated Muslims decapitating their...
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The Politics of Energy
An article in the Guardian today quotes the boss of Npower, Paul Massara, blaming Labour’s election policy of a price freeze as the reason why the company won’t pass reductions in wholesale gas prices...
View ArticleAgainst Feminism
Coming out the other side of a criss The dust is beginning to settle regarding one of the key intellectual ruptures of our epoch – the ‘Crisis of Marxism’. There are a number of strands to the debates...
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Indyref: A tale of two countries
The surrealist remake of “Birds of a Feather” didn’t cut much mustard with BBC4 executives… This independence thing is at serious risk of leaving a nasty aftertaste in the mouth. I went to Tesco at...
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