Comment on In pictures: Barkingside snowday by Morris Hickey
Nice pictures. Thanks. So there ARE some nice Christmas lights around the borough – not just the boring ones on lamp standards in Barkingside that must have cost all of £3.2s.6d in a car boot sale; nor...
View ArticleComment on In pictures: Barkingside snowday by fleshisgrass
Hi Morris, I have to say I love it when they illuminate the oak and have been missing the lights this year. But yes Barkingside is twinkley today and the snow has made a lot of children very happy. You...
View ArticleComment on Jay Rayner is not a hypocrite about meat by fleshisgrass
You should, he should, I shan’t.
View ArticleComment on World War by fleshisgrass
Yeah, I can’t qualify my claim Snoopy. But a lot of business has been disrupted. I don’t know enough about Wikileaks to pledge allegiance just yet but anti-capitalism straddles right and left, too, so...
View ArticleComment on The Finkler Question by SilverSeason
You give a good summary of the book. I enjoyed it, engaged by Jacobson pinging back and forth between humorous appreciation of Jewish life in England and the real pain of at least some of the ASHamed....
View ArticleComment on “Influential left-wing ideas” (or issues, or initiatives) by Bob
Thanks Flesh – I will read this properly when I get back to regular internet access (currently using all my internet time to hang out with the two statists at ZWord) but first perusal I’m impressed.
View ArticleComment on “Influential left-wing ideas” (or issues, or initiatives) by Sarah AB
I strongly agree with a lot of what you say, am undecided about aspects of the ‘opennness’ point, and must confess to rather carnivorous tastes. ‘Nanny state’ is interesting – I feel simultaneously in...
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Hi Sarah, I liked your points about statism, but given the rise of state capitalism (seems – though I need to investigate – as different from mutualised and cooperative business as standard PLC...
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Bob, thanks. On one-state I understand your motives for talking about it: “Norm’s point about needing “influential ideas for different possible states of affairs” is a very valid one. I think it would...
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I think it must mean that you are acknowledging that Israel is a big, largely misunderstood, idea on the left, and you are introducing a different idea, as a tactic (a provocation perhaps), in a...
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Eek! “Left wing”?!? Left wing, and it’s sibling right wing, are terms that should be confined to football. They have no place in politics. Did you know that when on a boat at night the light to your...
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Fair enough. I know B21 shuns the wings, and maybe I should have linked to your more personal blog – but would you accept that the wings exert an influence? The right can’t espouse the idea of...
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Having writ I think you’re rite. Personal blog it is. Not suitable for the family entertainment that is B21. “but would you accept that the wings exert an influence?” Of course, when they cut inside...
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Forgive me if I am less than lucid, I feel like I have a sack on my head. Influential ideas? Feminism, the critiques of power and hierarchy, not only how influential they have been on improving basic...
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Comment on “Influential left-wing ideas” (or issues, or initiatives) by Weggis
Good new year party was it, Mod? And yes, the University of Life is much underrated.
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Either that or the dreaded flu. Whichever it is, hope you’re fighting fit again soon, Mod. I’m wondering to what extent the critiques of power and hierarchy intersect with Bob’s class analysis. In my...
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[Just too much travelling, age and lack of sleep, better now] I should clarify, what I meant was that in many ways feminism (or so it seemed to me) was distrustful of top-down hierarchies and the...
View ArticleComment on “Influential left-wing ideas” (or issues, or initiatives) by Sarah AB
Modernity – I wonder whether the kind of person who would have been self-educated and working class in the past (like my grandfather who was born to a very poor family in North Wales but ended up doing...
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ahh Sarah, would that it were so simple. To do your A-levels, you’ve really got to do the O-levels and to do them you got to prepare, to engage with education at an early age and in all probability (as...
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