The Importance of Disappointment

Extract from Paul Foot's The Vote in today's Guardian: "The socialist who joins nothing and links with nobody is the most use...

Despite being prohibited under the 1999 Constitution and the Penal Code, many people remain in various forms of slavery. People are born int...

Readers looking for examples of the downside of inflated self-esteem should examine the career of Robert Kilroy-Silk. Eclectech treat the l...

After all these years, I'm sorry to say, my recommendation is this: Forget about self-esteem and concentrate more on self-control and se...

Can't say I share all its underlying assumptions but there is a lively post on the EU and immigration at Europhobia .

The Guardian today: The government is to close the door on low-skilled migrants from the developing world who come to Britain legally unde...

Dead Men Left is rightly angry about the familiar way in which pre-election debate on migration in Britain is shaping up. The main parties ...

Today is the sixtieth aniversary of Bob Marley's birth. There is extensive written and audio material available via the BBC website. I...

Apparently, according to Lt. Gen. James Mattis , a career US infantry officer who is now in charge of developing better ways to train and eq...

See MSF-USA: Special Report: The 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Crises of 2004

Afronetizen at personal democracy answers: I finally figured it out: A progressive is a white liberal with a broadband connection. ...

Following my earlier posts here , here , and here questioning Gordon Brown's assertion that Britain should be proud of its colonial pas...

I am obviously too stuck in the old politics to understand fully how knitting can be a form of activism. Thanks to near near future , howeve...

The Paris Review have just put 300 author interviews from the past 50 years on the web. Their archive is full of high-brow gems but I'l...