If my experience of the time it takes to read a 1,500 page book is typical, not one of the myriad opinion pieces so far penned on the ideology of Anders Breivik can possibly be based on close textual study of the ideas advanced in his now notorious manifesto. As the rush to blame Islamists for last […]
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The dangerously ignorant Tom Harris
Jul 25th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.What happened in Oslo was horrific beyond belief. On that, there is agreement across all the political divides. However,when it comes to the cause and the consequences, there is little agreement. For many, Tom Harris MP has epitomised the crassness of the right-wing response to the tragedy. As the events unfolded, he waded in with a […]
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AV: changing tactics & the shadow of UKIP
Apr 19th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The Yes campaign is changing tactics. Facing the possibility of defeat, it’s trying to persuade us to be more anti-Tory than anti-Clegg. You can’t blame them because the No campaign decided early on that putting Clegg centre stage was the way to win. Since then, it’s been a nasty and divisive campaign, on both sides. […]
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Banning EDL marches? Or being careful what you wish for
Feb 9th, 2011 by Owen Jones.If you were a genuine democrat at the turn of 1937, you would have been scared. Fascism was on the march across Europe. Italy had fallen first; German Nazism had shut down the world’s greatest labour movement virtually overnight and was upping the persecution of the Jews; and a fascist-backed military coup against Spain’s left-leaning […]
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Ban the EDL from Luton
Feb 4th, 2011 by Andy Newman.Luton MP Kelvin Hopkins, anti-racist activists and faith representatives are calling for a ban on the demonstration planned by the English Defence League (EDL) for Luton this weekend, which is being promoted as their ‘homecoming’. Evidence from previous EDL events is clear; wherever the EDL mobilises, Mosques and other place of worship have been attacked, with […]
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Exorcising the ghost of Pinochet
Oct 17th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.By delicious irony, the local Member of Parliament for the impoverished Atacama region of Chile – which includes the doomed mine of San Jose – is none other Isabel Allende. Allende is the daughter of the late President Salvador Allende, who put a revolver to his head in the final hours of the August 1973 […]
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A Nightmare Scenario
May 12th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.I accept what has rapidly become the conventional Labour wisdom: acceptance of defeat and a period of opposition to reflect on the reasons for it is in Labour’s and, if the coalition comes unstuck before too long, the country’s best interest. The alternative was also not a “progressive alliance” but, as Mark Seddon argued at […]
