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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Partitocracy v. Democracy
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. The post below is an amalgamation of our recent post “A tale of two Normans” and … Continue reading
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Banksters
Editorial note: (1) If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our posts in context. (2) Not all the views expressed in this blog necessarily have the imprimatur of Antigone1984. Sometimes, … Continue reading
A tale of two Normans
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Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Constitutions of Clarendon, David Cameron, Flashman, Jesse Norman, King Henry II, Lucifer, Thomas Backet, turbulent priest
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Downshifting
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Globalisation and the nation state
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Posted in Economics, Europe, USA
Tagged Christopher Meyer, European Union, Evening Standard, nation state, Tony Blair
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Semper aliquid novi
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Tables turned
8 July 2012 We reproduce, without comment, a letter from a reader which appeared in the UK’s Guardian newspaper on 6 July 2012: “Protesters spray Ukrainian riot police with teargas” (Report, 5 July). Can we not have more uplifting stories … Continue reading
Liars
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 7 July 2012 I The London Institute of Applied Research Science (L.I.A.R.S. for short) has … Continue reading
Eurocrats against Grexit
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 July 2012 Economist Jonathan Tepper, in his submission for the Wolfson economics prize, proposes that … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece
Tagged European Union, eurozone, Grexit, Jonathan Tepper, Roger Bootle, United States of Europe, Wolfson Prize
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Identity theft
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 July 2012 FALSE PROPHET What the bourgeosie….produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels, Groucho Marx, Karl Marx
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