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It's coming up to that time of year again. The timetable for Marxism 2012 is up on the website. You'll see that I'm speaking on ' Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in the Liberal Tradition ' on Friday 6th June. There'll be time later to explain what that's all about. As for other speakers, well ... I mean, do you need another reason to go?
by Jonathan Todd Earlier this week on Tuesday, the Young Fabians demonstrated their capacity to work for solutions to the most pressing of problems by holding their jobs summit in the week in which the ONS announced youth unemployment has topped 1.4 million – the highest since records began. The discussion roved from the big, macro picture to very particular concerns.
Uncut « Labour Uncut
New Statesman - The Staggers
The PM was not amused by the Speaker's address to the Queen. Here's the look of contempt David Cameron gave John Bercow as the Commons Speaker introduced the Queen at Westminster Hall. In a strikingly political speech that praised the advancement of equal rights for women, ethnic minorities and gay people, Bercow declared, to Cameron's evident bemusement, "You have become, to many of us, a kaleidoscope Queen of a kaleidoscope country in a kaleidoscope Commonwealth."
at 9:40 am, 18th March 28 Comments contribution by Nindy Purba When gay marriage is finally allowed, western society will crumble into a cesspit of depravity. It will open up a Pandora’s box of evil and the devil will rule, metaphorically of course, over humanity.
Liberal Conspiracy
5 April 2012 5 April 2012 4 April 2012 Adam Shatz The life of Claude Lanzmann, Claude Lanzmann declares at the beginning of his memoir, has been ‘a rich, multifaceted and unique story’. Self-flattery is characteristically Lanzmannian, but its truth in this case can hardly be denied. He has lived on a grand scale.
London Review of Books