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Saloon bar socialism: April 2007

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Thursday, 26 April 2007. Hey Meacher, leave your bid alone. Still, there was an outside chance it would stay civil and we would be able to take at face value Meacher's argument that he was better placed and better experienced to pick up a few more 'soft left' votes than McDonnell, until in the Guardian yesterday. Thursday, 19 April 2007. The role of the left in the trade unions. So why do we need Left unions? 4) Internationa...

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Swimming Pools: Is it just me or is everything.... sometimes actually pretty good?

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There is such thing as society. Thursday, August 03, 2006. Is it just me or is everything. sometimes actually pretty good? Inspired by the best selling book " Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? The Encyclopedia of Modern Life". I like the world view in this book, I liked its take on modern life and the authors are right, there is a hell of a lot of shit out there. But in the same way - not to be complacent - there are many things that are actually pretty good. 7 Simon Day's face. Posted by Essex Woman.

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Swimming Pools: In praise of womanisers and one night stands

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There is such thing as society. Tuesday, August 01, 2006. In praise of womanisers and one night stands. I was in a fake Irish bar with two men, both in their way very attractive. In standard faux fashion the bar was covered with little wooden frames containing dumb sayings and puns. One stated: wanted – one night stands. Apply at the bar. Of course, one night stands (ONS) can lead to relationships but even if they don’t they have a special quality of their own. The experience of a good ONS is a...Yeah I ...

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Saloon bar socialism: Bald men fight over a comb: the Labour deputy leadership contest

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Thursday, 14 June 2007. Bald men fight over a comb: the Labour deputy leadership contest. Not the most inspiring of contests this, and one difficult not to approach with a certain grudging bitterness about the cowardice and control freakery that characterised the leadership coronation. So I went: 1 Cruddas; 2 Harman; 3 Benn; 4 Hain. And that's yer lot. Still undecided but I think I'm going similarly. 15 June 2007 at 10:02.

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Saloon bar socialism: Funding fundamentals

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Monday, 3 December 2007. I don't live in the Westminster Village. Let's have some perspective: compared to the sleaze of the Tory years, and to many of the hideous wrong turns on actual social and economic. Cynics may argue - understandably, to an extent - that the union-Labour link now delivers so little that what's the harm in breaking it alltogether? The other, equally ill-advised, option being given an unwelcome airing a...

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Saloon bar socialism: The medium isn't the message

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Thursday, 2 August 2007. The medium isn't the message. Will people ever calm down about the allegedly world-changing capacity of the internet? Especially as it's leading to a type of journalism that struggles to distinguish between woods and trees. Take this. Story in today's Guardian, or this one. It's taking place on the internet. Well fuck me ragged. The world stops on its axis. The fact that the actual. Journalistic work...

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Saloon bar socialism: Alan Johnston - free at last

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Thursday, 5 July 2007. Alan Johnston - free at last. Nice to return home from a holiday to a piece of uncomplicated good news - the release of BBC Gaza correspondent (and NUJ member) Alan Johnston. There's much to say about this, from a political and journalistic perspective, but in the meantime, great news. Home blogging is killing politics. 6 July 2007 at 17:59. 8 July 2007 at 18:45. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Saloon bar socialism: June 2007

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Thursday, 14 June 2007. Bald men fight over a comb: the Labour deputy leadership contest. Not the most inspiring of contests this, and one difficult not to approach with a certain grudging bitterness about the cowardice and control freakery that characterised the leadership coronation. So I went: 1 Cruddas; 2 Harman; 3 Benn; 4 Hain. And that's yer lot. The damages the council has had to pay aren't likely to burn huge holes i...

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Saloon bar socialism: Saloon bar socialism in NY

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Wednesday, 11 July 2007. Saloon bar socialism in NY. I'm not one for kneejerk anti-Americanism (much overused and misused though that word is) but I never imagined that I'de be out-leftied in a casual pub discussion in the Goddamn United States of America, but in Rocky Sullivan's. Sounds great. Years ago i went to a similar bar in Greenwich Village called the Red Lion. Long closed. 11 July 2007 at 14:01. 13 July 2007 at 14:37.

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Saloon bar socialism: The politics of non-politics

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Musings on life and how to live it, mixing pop and politics, stuff and nonsense. Tuesday, 20 November 2007. The politics of non-politics. So the tack's been different in the late Blair/early Brown era. If you want to get on politically now, the best tactic is simply. Not to mention politics at all. But the politics of non-politics reflects something else - an emotionally brittle, infantilised fear of honest discussion and disagreement, the idea that any difference of opinion constitutes "a damaging split...