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The UN’s drug war demagoguery 6 Sep 2010 | 08:06 am
Antonio Maria Costa is a man with such good fortune that he has a job which shouldn’t exist. Whilst there may be a place for a United Nations and occasions when global agreements are appropriate, the...
Hobson’s Choice 31 Aug 2010 | 06:14 am
Or ‘In Which I Defend Conservatives from Theo Hobson‘: On Any Questions recently, someone asked the panellists whether they intended to cut down on their meat consumption, for environmental reasons. ...
Liberal ‘Fetishes’ 27 Aug 2010 | 04:24 am
Being such a well-versed connoisseur of hip hop, I do have a love for the way words sound. When spoken, ‘fetish’ has this wonderfully illicit, forbidden quality which works well as a description for t...
The ‘Good Man’ Marshall and the ‘Scoundrel’ Shady 26 Aug 2010 | 03:29 am
“Half the shit I say – I just make it up to make you mad So kiss my white naked ass!” - Eminem, ‘Criminal‘ By the late 1960s, The Beatles’ creativity had reached such absurd proportions that they w...
Confessions of a Community Organiser 22 Aug 2010 | 08:16 pm
From The Labour Party Just weeks after my endorsement, I knew there was more to be done. As someone with a zeal for Progressive Politics – I voted Lib Dem in ‘05 because of The War and in 2010 when t...
Selected Reading (09/08/10) 10 Aug 2010 | 10:44 am
I’ll finally be moving my stuff down to London this weekend, so I’m afraid you may have to make do with a few more of these… Mr Civil Libertarian offers his take on libertarianism. BenSix argues tha...
Selected Reading (06/08/10) 6 Aug 2010 | 10:59 pm
Am traipsing around the North East until Saturday, so these will have to do ’til then: Paperback Rioter has a good guest post on the Church of England’s long overdue ordination of women bishops. Geo...
The ‘Social’ in Social Housing 5 Aug 2010 | 09:52 am
There are plenty of reasons why people who could afford to leave social housing opt not to do so. The most obvious, of course, is cost; even if you did have the resources to find yourself private acc...
What’s missing from the debate on welfare reform? 3 Aug 2010 | 01:18 am
It’s worth recognising that the New Conservative rhetoric on welfare is somewhat different from that which has gone before. For over two decades it was a mainstream belief that the blame for welfare d...
The demise of northern liberalism? 1 Aug 2010 | 08:07 am
(Image by incurable_hippie) When Irving Patnick reputedly described Sheffield as the ‘People’s Republic of South Yorkshire’, he may have been referring as much to his own isolation as he was the radi...
