Quick link: Sparrow on the cultural contradictions of the right
I’ve rarely seen the culture wars explained better than by Jeff Sparrow in this piece at The Drum. Sparrow looks at the contradictions between the market agenda of neo-liberalism and the moralistic...
View ArticleMust read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’
Perhaps because I was a middle class kid going to a largely working class high school, or maybe because I joined the ALP as a uni student in 1986 when presenting as working class still accorded...
View ArticleA Word about Welfare
I was working on a longer post about the nature of the economic trap we find ourselves in, but the rhetoric following the rioting in England has forced a response from me. Forgive me if what follows...
View ArticleWhat We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did: Daily Mail publishes good article, well camouflaged...
View ArticleWhat We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did: Aboriginal DNA dates Australian arrival – “DNA...
View ArticleBolt found guilty under Racial Discrimination Act
Age article here.. While the specifics of the legalities are different, my view remains the same as in 2010: Bolt is a an ugly blot on the media landscape, but that doesn’t mean that anything he wrote...
View ArticleTone
I was recently sent a review copy of Tony Abbott: A Man’s Man, by Susan Mitchell. As Abbott both fascinates and terrifies me, I was really quite pleased to have the chance to read it. Sadly, I didn’t...
View ArticleI suppose we really ought to have a US primaries thread
I probably think that because I’m going away for the weekend for a conference and am over-excited about a change of scene. Most of what we’re seeing in the MSM is just presidential-pundit horse-race...
View ArticleAbbott’s Horror Movie
A thread set aside for dooming and glooming over various announcements from our government-elect.
View Article44/28 Watch: Week 1
44/28 = Australia’s 44th Parliament and 28th Prime Minister. Share your reactions to the latest news from/about the Abbott government.
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