The Polish government has turned state TV into a virulent propaganda arm for defeating the Liberal challenger at the upcoming election. Pure 1930's-style propaganda on a state channel, with no a… (View Post)

I don't really agree here. I think we're living in an age where not only can social media make or break people's careers, but can exercise enormous control on what is and what is not a… (View Post)

The paragraph that Chomsky, Rushdie and others put their name to yesterday is fairly accurate, I think. "But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response t… (View Post)

I think we're at the moment of a psychological crisis, in the sense of the psychology behind economics, as much as anything else. It had been largely expected that people would start to resume o… (View Post)

It can't be a retread of Blairism, because the social conditions have changed. Probably some innovative coalition of Corbynite radical edges, Wilsonian/Milibandite Labour-Centrism and aspiration… (View Post)