[PDF file]: […] He lays into billionaire Mike Ashley. His firm, Sports Direct, is notorious for its use of zero hours contracts and shows us all what a fullyrealised neo- liberal Britain would look like with employees from the university to the warehouse reduced to a new servile status. ‘Greedy bosses such as Ashley’, Skinner writes, ‘are […]
[…] Trump’s Attorney General William Barr who poo-poohed it: nothing to see here, folks, move along. Banyan quotes a slew of American writers and intellectuals, many on the liberal left, who accepted Barr’s summary of the report without actually reading the report itself. Banyan notes this very odd incident as . . . a unique […]
[…] announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and Reform have all said that they want to work acrossparty on this, and those talks will begin next month.75 It makes obvious political sense […]
[PDF file]: […] announcement that travel restrictions would be eased for US Americans (Cuba has never forbidden US citizens with valid visa documents to enter the country) sent waves through liberal and leftish America.1 5 Yet in the ‘fine print’ the State Department also explained ‘there is no plan to change US policy’. Mr Obama no longer […]
[PDF file]: […] the tone set by the country’s terrorist-in-chief. George Bush Sr and George W Bush as well as William Clinton were integral parts of the Reagan tradition – liberal fantasies to the contrary not withstanding. In 2008, the ultimate synthetic president was elected, Barack Obama, a man with no publicly traceable political history, whose entire […]
[PDF file]: […] sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to Baldwin, Starmer certainly succeeded in breaking ‘a few of those bleeding liberal hearts’ while he was DPP, with his ‘left-wing critics’ claiming that he had ‘turned into a willing accomplice of a Tory-led government and an instrument of […]
[…] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]
[PDF file]: […] founded in Geneva in 1936, which has long been staunchly Zionist. . . . Reflecting the private sector orientation of much contemporary Zionist activism in the neo liberal era, the Global Coalition for Israel’s key architects called it ‘a public-private partnership’. The World Jewish Congress described it as ‘a cooperative and collaborative global approach […]
[…] sneering condescension towards Starmer’s critics and Eagleton’s forensic indictment of Starmer’s trajectory is stark. According to Baldwin, Starmer certainly succeeded in breaking ‘a few of those bleeding liberal hearts’ while he was DPP, with his ‘left-wing critics’ claiming that he had ‘turned into a willing accomplice of a Tory-led government and an instrument of […]
[…] and held by the majority of the population.14 GDI is the perfect expression of what John Gray recently described: Suspending freedom of expression for the sake of liberal values may seem a paradox, but it is not illogical. For latter-day hyper-liberals, free speech is useful only so long as it advances a progressive project. […]
