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| Tuesday 5 April 2011 |
The other Libyan war looks like a stalemate, too
None of the international players competing for influence in this crisis has the will to run an air war, never mind re-colonise Libya.
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| Tuesday 29 March 2011 |
The phoney war of Oxford Street
The clashes at Saturday’s protests against public spending cuts were neither an orgy of political violence nor a riot of police brutality.
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| Tuesday 22 March 2011 |
War without ends, yet without opposition, either
Cynics and half-hearted critics are no match for the half-cocked war on Libya. Time to invoke the principle of anti-intervention.
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| Tuesday 15 March 2011 |
Why a no-fly zone means no freedom for Libyans
Those looking to the West to intervene against Gaddafi degrade the name of internationalism and deny Libyans the right to control their fate.
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| Monday 7 March 2011 |
Who still believes the West can bomb Libya to freedom?
Not the Libyan rebels, and not really the rattled Western leaders either. Liberal interventionists remain the last cheerleaders for imperialism.
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| Wednesday 23 February 2011 |
Overdue end to the old world order
The Arab uprisings shocked us all – but perhaps the even bigger surprise is that these empty regimes have taken so long to crumble.
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| Wednesday 16 February 2011 |
‘Big Society’: catchphrase for an age of small politics
UK prime minister David Cameron’s bs Big Society ‘mission’ can carry on because neither government nor opposition has any bigger ideas.
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| Tuesday 8 February 2011 |
A kick in the NADS for democracy
Meet the all-party Western lobby to halt the Egyptian uprising: the New Authoritarian Democrats.
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| Friday 4 February 2011 |
Pinkie is peerless, so why update his story?
A new film version shifts Brighton Rock, Graham Greene’s classic gangster story, from the 1930s to the Swinging Sixties. Bad move.
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| Tuesday 1 February 2011 |
Tommy Sheridan: hoist with the left’s own petard
The imprisonment of Scottish socialist Sheridan is a disgrace to justice – and a sign of the danger of having illusions in the state.
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| Friday 28 January 2011 |
Brighton Rock: still peerless after all these years
A new film version moves Graham Greene’s gangster story from the 1930s to the Swinging Sixties. But Pinkie Brown, anti-hero of Greene’s dark masterwork, does not need ‘updating’.
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| Monday 17 January 2011 |
New Labour: the new Lib Dems?
Confusion over the meaning of Labour’s victory in Oldham confirms the need for some new signposts to the muddled UK political map.
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| Wednesday 12 January 2011 |
It’s no surprise to see a police agent go green
The bizarre tale of PC Mark Kennedy reveals some unflattering home truths about both the British state and the eco-protest movement.
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| Wednesday 5 January 2011 |
Can the police solve a murder on Facebook?
The media circus surrounding the Joanna Yeates case reveals what can happen when a murder inquiry gets mixed up with a PR campaign.
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| Tuesday 21 December 2010 |
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
Reviving the motto of the old Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci provides a starting point for tackling the crisis of politics today.
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| Wednesday 15 December 2010 |
When the state and anarchists fought gun battles in London
The centenary of the Siege of Sidney Street is a reminder of a rather different age of radicalism.
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| Wednesday 8 December 2010 |
Nick Clegg is not a traitor!
After all, before you can betray a principle you first need to have one. The Clegg generation of politicians are conformists without a cause.
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| Wednesday 1 December 2010 |
Neither the FA nor the BBC
In the war of the World Cup between the England bid elite and Panorama, neither team of self-righteous Soccerists seems supportable.
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| Monday 22 November 2010 |
The return of the Banana Republic of Ireland?
Not really. Ireland’s economic crisis appears more like the prime example of the travails of Western capitalism.
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| Wednesday 17 November 2010 |
Burma: power to which people?
Aung San Suu Kyi has finally been released, but the Burmese people will not be freed by her international fan-club of statesmen and celebs.
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