3. This is not because Britain is poor, but because corporate hawks are allowed to run the most important public service in the country gnawing it from the inside. Private interests of big money will never and can never serve the public. Corporate money can never be common culture to borrow R.W.
2. breaking the almost sealed deal and withdrawing from funding specialty training posts is more than alarming. This is what privatisation from within looks like without changing the juridical form. They are quite literally not only destroying, but turbospeed destroying the NHS.
1. Privatisation from within: There are many things public I fervently support. Public health is on the very top. Reading this combined with what Labour did to junior doctors recently
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It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.
Major discovery: right financing the right. Who do you think liberals finance across the globe and where do you think their money comes from?As Brecht would say:those who laugh just haven't received the terrible news yet. Major limitation of liberalism is that it's unable to think political economy.
Hungarian elections: from Orban 1 to Orban 2. Pitty that the opposition is as abysmal as Orban's regime. In the balkans, we have a proverb: sjaši Kurta, da uzjaše Murta, meaning same difference. That pretty much sums up our current political conjuncture.
Dinosaurs on front lawn after dark
Some kid left his toys out.
Apartheid
In all honesty, these days,I dislike this text even more.It displays incredible incapacity to distance oneself from things and think things through philosophically-unless,of course,we take this as part of his (incoherent) liberalism which has 0 to do with the left.
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Habermas at the Yugoslav Praxis Summer School in Korčula in 1968.Many attendees,Habermas included, later became something other and different. To the point of being unrecognisable. Habermas' late and documented dehumanisation of Palestinians and non-Europeans delegitimised his entire philo project.
One of the impotent advantages of coming from the world which has already fallen apart is that one sees things better and faster. This guy is such and I mean such a déjà vu- but holds so much more power.
May the Gods of Olympus have mercy on us.
3. implicitly accepting that politicians today express themselves publicly in a way that perhaps not even assassins dare to between themselves.
2. "we will massacre them". Neither Hitler nor Stalin ever spoke like that. And yet, not only is this man not indicted and overthrown, but the leaders of the states of the so called western democracies approve of him,
For the first time in history we see a leader of a state which considers itself civilised speak openly as an assassin, speak about the religious leader of the country which it attacked: "we will kill him" and of the population of that country
Agamben is such a banger sice the genocidal campaign in Gaza began.
My translation below (where I, as pupil of say Marc Bloch differ, is that I think Trump is not an exception, but the outcome of US politics tout court)
same, just in reverse order.
Great Britain 2026: virtually everything Palestine-related - even school cookies- becomes an object first of investigation then repression. You know what Freud would say. So do I.
Imagine if we lived in society where medical licences were revoked based on political convictions or frankly, the lack thereof- oh, imagine not, your nightmare is here.
Against Orwell and Kafka in one some sense of justice prevailed Btw, he is my hero.As is Victoria Rose,Graeme Groom and Nick Maynard-all three British surgeons who have volunteered in Gaza.But did they try to revoke their licences? All this just because he is a Palestinian.
Heba (on the left) and a photo of Kamran and his sister (on the right)
Heba Muraisi is in critical condition on day 72 of her hunger strike. She struggling to breathe and suffering uncontrollable muscle spasms.
Kamran Ahmed is on day 65. He is experiencing shrinkage to the muscle of his heart and has been diagnosed with bradycardia.
Came to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Perception might be a matter of character too and I do not think that i am exaggerating when I say that 2026 will probably be worse for us collectively, so I wish us all more unity, more hope, more might and better politics! Cheers!
‘Wherever Pynchon drops his pin, he seems to know the place, and the time, with street-level precision. How does he know that if a detective in Chicago in 1932 pulls a bottle out of his desk drawer it’s going to be Old Log Cabin?’
Daniel Soar marvels at 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵:
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If people who govern us today represent the forces of liberalism, democracy and the concomitant values liberalism prides itself with, then I am one step closer to elite theory every day.
Thrilled to see Giovanni Tonolo publish this serious work and even more thrilled seeing him become one great historian of Africa. Looking forward to being enlightened by his work in the future.
I mean, ultimately chatgtp probably knows the truth to be honest.
And my verdict is: Mamdani should have never met Trump. He could have, should have, could have played the busy new mayor for a while. Now, we have entered deeper into grotesque: Mamdani calling himself a socialist next to the president who doesn't mind being called a fascist.
Ciao Ornella, amica da sempre, per sempre! se ne andò un pezzo di tutti noi 💔
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