Red Tory/Blue Labour
Hi Political Animals -
Our next meeting will be on a topic Andrew suggested a while ago - I hope those who signed up back then can still attend.
This meetup will be light in terms of reading - I will link to a few articles on Philip Blond (Red Tory) and Maurice Glasman (Blue Labour) or upload them under the "Files" section.
See below for an appetiser. Otherwise, just come armed with your opinions on the framework for political discussion in the UK and other places, the "neoliberal consensus", what the difference is between a "Red Tory" and a "One Nation Conservative", etc.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/09/b...
Looking forward to seeing you there -
Ilse
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Nicky George
Our culture dictates that party's will draw together and become indistinguishable. The media is the message and all that. The days of serious political polemic in the mainstream are long gone. For instance; The NOTW hacking srory should be about whether Coulson et al hacked Gordon Browns comunications during the election and after during negotiations with Clegg., No one mentions it, it is non-story
Posted June 26, 2011 at 7:52 PM -
Andrew Crudgington
Interesting article in the current LRB on Glasman and Blue Labour
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n15/david-runciman/socialism-in-...
Posted July 27, 2011 at 1:53 PM | 1 like -
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Ilse Mogensen
I have added a couple of articles on Glasman and Blond under the Files section for the next meetup - enjoy.
Posted January 16 at 6:59 PM -
evangineer
Andrew, that was a great article. Very informative critique of Glasman's ideas.
Worth reading alongside this Prospect article on both Red Tory and Blue Labour:
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/07/red-toryism-and...Posted January 22 at 8:45 PM -
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Stellait worries me that it's turning into Animal Farm; at the end Orwell gives that, more or less, nobody could tell which side each pig was on.
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Akbar ZamirCouldn't make the original proposed date, and noticed the change to 7th March too late - have something else booked now.
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