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Thoughts from the Grim North: After Brexit
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Wednesday, 3 August 2016. The referendum vote in the U.K. to leave the European Union (EU) forms a coda to the rather pessimistic piece in the last issue of The Thinker. Last June, a majority of English (and Welsh) people stubbornly refused to accept the advice of just the same people who had expected to be followed as usual. In a perceptive article in the London Review of Books.
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Thoughts from the Grim North: July 2010
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Wednesday, 28 July 2010. There seems to me to be three rather separate issues here. Would not Darling have done just this next January? Apparently so according to Mandelson. Academy schools? Was it not a declared ambition of Labour to hasten their formation? Was it not Brown’s declared policy to slash the scale of deficit financing? Or http:/ hegemonics.co.uk. More towards the left, j...
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Thoughts from the Grim North: April 2010
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Friday, 30 April 2010. So what is the likely outcome once the voting dust has settled and the bargaining commences in what are now the smoke-free backrooms? Let me speculate on a third scenario. Well it would have strong similarities with 1931 but, hey, what’s so bad about a good revival? It would of course require political and presentational skills of the highest order but then wher...
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Thoughts from the Grim North: August 2016
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Wednesday, 3 August 2016. The referendum vote in the U.K. to leave the European Union (EU) forms a coda to the rather pessimistic piece in the last issue of The Thinker. Last June, a majority of English (and Welsh) people stubbornly refused to accept the advice of just the same people who had expected to be followed as usual. In a perceptive article in the London Review of Books.
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Thoughts from the Grim North: March 2015
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Sunday, 15 March 2015. Legislation in the direct interests of labour.". Is significant; these men were not themselves forming a new party nor is there any indication that they aspired to this. 8217; It was a ‘ federation of national organizations. 8217;, a loose and ill- defined alliance rather than a coherent party with specific aims. This then is the vessel which will set sail in Ma...
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Thoughts from the Grim North: January 2015
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Saturday, 31 January 2015. New Labour has failed. We need a new political formation which will survive the demise of the Labour Party, argued Andy Pearmain in 2006. Available at http:/ www.hegemonics.co.uk/docs/Gramsci-and-us.pdf). Beneath the bossy spin and the rising, scummy tide of sleaze, what has happened in the 15-odd years since New Times? A nerdy awe of information technology,...
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Thoughts from the Grim North: June 2010
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Friday, 18 June 2010. There were some headline results in the May election which seemed to be good news for the left, Caroline Lucas winning in Brighton and the BNP being wiped out in Barking council being amongst them. Unfortunately the detailed results point in the opposite direction. The election was a disaster not just for Labour but for all the left. So what to do? Perhaps a boos...
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Thoughts from the Grim North: October 2011
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Thursday, 6 October 2011. Is the Green Moment Over? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Is the Green Moment Over? Simple theme. Theme images by Storman.
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Thoughts from the Grim North: June 2011
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Tuesday, 28 June 2011. From Cancun to Durban. First published in the South African magazine The Thinker in April. Can climate change been blamed for all this? Any fund needs money even more, perhaps, than it needs staff to run it and the Conference:. 98 Recognizes that developed country Parties commit, in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation,...
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Thoughts from the Grim North: December 2010
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Thoughts from the Grim North. Formerly known as Must Labour Die? And leaving this unresolved, we revert to idle thoughts. Thursday, 9 December 2010. Hello; Anyone Out There? No, the reason that Labour has got to find its voice rests upon two likely issues over which it soon has to make radical policy decisions. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hello; Anyone Out There? Simple theme. Theme images by Storman.