stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Honestly, I despair sometimes. Over at Dave's blog he states : In the interim, it looks to my outside eyes that the organised womens’ movement has all but collapsed. As this blog frequently laments, the British far left is in a bad way. But at least it is still just about visible. Feminism seems to have gone entirely subterranean. What can have happened to all those deeply earnest young...
Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Two interesting posts reached the blogosphere over the past day or so, from HarpyMarx and Dave Osler. Dave laments the passing away of what he recognised, in his days as a young Trot, as feminism. “These days, feminism – if it means anything at all – seems to mean raunch culture on the one hand [...]
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Early tomorrow morning, I shall be awake and walking down to the local Royal Mail depot to support the postmen and CWU in their dispute. As Dave Osler points out , the issue has gone far beyond the mere question of who is right and who is wrong over the specific issues of modernisation. The question is now whether or not Royal Mail has the unmitigated right to do what it wants with its...
Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Early tomorrow morning, I shall be awake and walking down to the local Royal Mail depot to support the postmen and CWU in their dispute. As Dave Osler points out, the issue has gone far beyond the mere question of who is right and who is wrong over the specific issues of modernisation. The question [...]
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... Lewisham? See also Uncarved 'Granny Smith Doesn't Matter Anymore' ; Stroppyblog ; David Semple and Dave Osler at Liberal Conspiracy.
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
... Maybe I'll give this bloke a go." Possibly they will be holding their nose (as Marxist Dave Osler so amusingly keeps saying while voting for a largely right-wing, authoritarian Labour Party) - but they will listen to a politician who at least sounds like he's in touch with what real people are thinking. The out-of-touch, focus-group-driven, Westminster-bubbled "Red"...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Following my recently popular Top 10 Tory ‘out of touch’ gaffes , I thought I would follow it up with a focus on the golden boy David Cameron. So here is an incomplete list: 10. Not knowing how many houses he’s got , only a while after John McCain made the same mistake. 9. Being photographed by Dave Osler. 8. Getting embroiled in a doctored photo fiasco in relation to some now embarrassing...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Patrick Harrington, the veteran neo Nazi, is selling a two month old edition of the pretend Communist Party of Great Britain’s newspaper, the equally pretend Weekly Worker, on ebay. His price is a mere £1.75. No markup for those who fancy paying the ’solidarity price”! The edition contains an article by our comrade, Dave Osler: Ideological pigeonholes Dave...
The Bickerstaffe Record (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
... houses he’s got , only a while after John McCain made the same mistake. 9. Being photographed by Dave Osler . 8. Getting embroiled in a doctored photo fiasco in relation to some now embarrassing pictures of him being an arrogant-looking git at university. 7. Pretending he’s all green on his bike, when it’s total bollox . 6. Pretending he’s all green, in the Arctic , having flown there...
Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... over when they are justifiable. Continuing on a theme of expulsions from socialist organisations, Dave Osler discussed the case of the American SWP back in the 1930’s, an incident in which Trotsky himself was persuaded to intervene, ultimately supporting the expulsion of a ‘petit-bourgeois’ element. Liam MacUaid took a different angle, reposting an old article about the nature of...
D-Notice (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
... a cardiologist who's being sued for criticising a drugs company in a medical journal, and also the Dave Osler case against Johanna Kaschke ], Ben Goldacre and Singh himself. The meeting was featured on last night's Newsnight (starting at 37:40) and we can be seen quite clearly at the back of room next to the blackboard [I'm the one on the left]. As for today's hearing, Simon managed...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
... actively pre-moderate all such comments. There’s a basic issue of fairness here. Why should I ( or Dave Osler , for that matter) face the rap, and a phenomenally expensive and time consuming High Court action, as a result of material posted to my blog by a visitor with my express knowledge, particularly if I then behave entirely responsibly by removing the allegedly defamatory material...
