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Wild and whirling words: Decline of the left, part 2: Timidity
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I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Thursday, 30 April 2015. Decline of the left, part 2: Timidity. The first post in this series. Asked why some on the modern left behave as badly, and as bigotedly, as those they oppose. This tendency towards self-serving schismatism can be seen in the way the largely technocratic difference between UK political parties is overstated,. So this hyperbolical, and rather self-serving, moral distinction seems to be the cause of the inflated sense of justification, which...
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Wild and whirling words: Decline of the left, part 3: Moral hazards
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I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Wednesday, 13 May 2015. Decline of the left, part 3: Moral hazards. In the previous post. In which the Author. Responds to his Criticks. First, however, a response to some of the feedback I have received so far, and more importantly thanks to all who have given that feedback. As an aside, I’d say too that the reaction of many left-wingers to the Labour defeat in GE2015 vindicates much that I have been saying. However perhaps my expectation of better things from the...
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Wild and whirling words: Death 2: Bin Laden
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I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Friday, 14 February 2014. Death 2: Bin Laden. A violent loser, and a mutt.'. One death I’ve been thinking about is that of barely-remembered Osama Bin Laden, and in turn the wider policy of extra-judicial killing. This was no Iwo Jima, Mr President. This was no Iwo Jima, Mr President.'. I mean, the killing of Bin Laden wasn't - this picture was. Iwo Jima, obviously. Read the above bit before you read this caption, it'll make more sense). And, frankly, I think in so...
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Wild and whirling words: Against critical theory
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I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Tuesday, 17 June 2014. This post was previously titled: Philosophy to the rescue? A credo, or something like it. It’s time I stopped prevaricating and laid out some basic beliefs. So this one’s about what I think is wrong with the humanities (and therefore us graduates schooled in it), why I think philosophy could be a remedy, and why I have misgivings about my own remedy. I'm avoiding giving examples for brevity's sake, but will provide if challenged. Update.
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Wild and whirling words: Decline of the left, part 4: Ferguson, Baltimore, and race
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I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Monday, 1 June 2015. Decline of the left, part 4: Ferguson, Baltimore, and race. Since the previous post in this series. It has become ever clearer that left-wing commentators are wise to the failings of the left that I have been describing. This article by Owen Jones. As well as this one. From now on, then, ‘modern left’ will refer quite specifically to the identity-political left ). Test case no.3: the Ferguson disturbances. Are also relevant, though I’ll f...
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Wild and whirling words: Decline of the modern left. Part 1
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I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Friday, 24 April 2015. Decline of the modern left. Part 1. Modern left-wing arguments are all too often bad: they are weak, and they are bad-tempered. Why is this? Why are so many left-wing people making such poor, self-defeating arguments despite being overwhelmingly intelligent and well educated? And why, furthermore, with such rancour that the once reliable notion of the ‘nice’ left and ‘nasty’ right is increasingly obsolete? No society can call itself decent th...
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Eyes and Ears: September 2008
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Whatever I'm reading, listening to, looking at, or sometimes just remembering fondly. Maybe even whatever it is I'm creating! The blog once known as 'Stephen's Arts Blog'. Tuesday, 30 September 2008. Work in progress: Suffolk coast. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Blogs I Think You'll Enjoy. 60 Going On 16. Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise. Andrew King: Downed Robin. Anne Holloway: Keeping the Laundry at Bay. Babooshka: Ramsey Daily Photo. Books Do Furnish A Room. Jane Henry: Maniac Mum.
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Eyes and Ears: June 2008
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Whatever I'm reading, listening to, looking at, or sometimes just remembering fondly. Maybe even whatever it is I'm creating! The blog once known as 'Stephen's Arts Blog'. Sunday, 15 June 2008. I'm replicating a post from the blog written by Clare Sudbery for Bookarazzi (via Elizabeth Baines's FictionBitch in my case). With apologies, I've not been able to copy the links yet, due to problems with Blogger. I'll sort as soon as I am able. Orion Publishing Group (Orion, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Gollancz).
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Eyes and Ears: May 2008
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Whatever I'm reading, listening to, looking at, or sometimes just remembering fondly. Maybe even whatever it is I'm creating! The blog once known as 'Stephen's Arts Blog'. Friday, 30 May 2008. It's been and gone for another year, and it's not something that I've watched for a considerable while now seeing as how my household is television-less. Maybe it's on the wireless too? It's disappointing that the UK never applies itself seriously to finding an act that really lives down to our expectations of Euro...
