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Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 23:46 - 0 Comments
On the importance of stating the obvious
The Appeals court has confirmed today that it rejected the UK government’s attempts to keep secret, information relating to the torture (or “alleged torture” as the BBC has it) of Binyam Mohamed whilst in US/Pakistani/British custody. What is really interesting is that this is hardly a debate over the facts, pretty much everyone agrees that […]
Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:22 - 0 Comments
Lawson gets it wrong
Mark Lawson, TV critic and commentator on all things culture for both the BBC and the Guardian recently wrote a piece for the latter (published in the Saturday Review, Feb 6th) which anoints Philp Roth, the “greatest” american novelist alive “by default”. Indeed, Lawson says JD Salinger’s death on Jan 27th, following that of Bellow, […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:48 - 0 Comments
Politics 101
On Monday (Feb 7th) the New York Times (aka “The Paper of Record”) published an endearingly (if not intentionally) honest piece about Wall Street’s attempts to stop Obama’s “attacks” on Big Business (yes, dear reader, we too were left wondering “this is attacking???”). Money quote: … industry executives and lobbyists are warning Democrats that if […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:27 - 0 Comments
Ceasefire Blog Launched
Dear readers, We’re delighted to be starting a Ceasefire Blog, this will be our opportunity to provide a more frequent take on the news and events shaping our daily lives and also a way of keeping you informed about the very latest updates regarding the magazine itself. Please feel free to bookmark this page to […]Ceasefire Bites, Features, Politics, Profiles - Monday, December 7, 2009 12:14 - 0 Comments
Chomsky: London lectures and an 81st birthday
Today, Noam Chomsky is 81. A few weeks ago, at his London lecture series - widely anticipated to be his last in the UK - he addressed crowds numbering in their thousands. Musab Younis covered his talks for Ceasefire.
Ideas - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:07 - 1 Comment
Radicalism for beginners
The task of the radical is to take reason to unreasonable lengths. Dominic Fox explains.
Ideas - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:22 - 1 Comment
Should we regulate political research?
Dealing with political research material can get you into a lot of trouble these days. How can access properly be regulated? Murray Goulden has an ingenious solution.Ideas - Monday, July 21, 2008 17:13 - 4 Comments
What is imperialism?
We’ve all heard the word, but what does it mean? Here, Dr. Andrew Robinson looks at the economic and social history of imperialism, examining the work of key thinkers, and asks whether imperialism is still around us.
Ideas - Saturday, April 26, 2008 0:02 - 13 Comments
Q&A: Anarchism
Anarchism is an oft-misunderstood political ideology - it’s not mainstream, it doesn’t seem to have a set of defined principles and to many, the word means ‘chaos’.
