Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
Sunday, January 12, 2020

The situation is not entirely normal in Northern Ireland.

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Sligo, Irish Republic ... 1985. " Parliament Buildings , often referred to as Stormont because of its location in the Stormont Est...
Friday, December 13, 2019

UK election 2019: Is the scene set for a return to Scottish independence?

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Thursday's UK election brought a huge majority to the Tories amid Labour's cataclysmic defeat, which makes Brexit a prospective f...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Even without Trump's one-percenters and Boris's Brexiteers, "Neoliberalism has reached its Brezhnev phase."

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Because the way out from detrimental neoliberalism isn't more of the same. What we are finding with Neoliberalism Economicus is t...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

In the UK, it's not Brexit: "It’s a much deeper crisis. An existential crisis.”

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"What Brexit has shown again is our inability to think anew about what the state and the economy are for, to sketch out what a diffe...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

"The stakes are high in the Brexit impasse precisely because the working class has not been cowed by academic disapproval, editorial condemnation, or managerial contempt."

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Over at The Economist , which currently is editorializing on behalf of a second Brexit referendum, a " great rescrambling of Britain...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

THE BEER BEAT: "Why Brexit could mean a pricier pint of Guinness."

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Sligo, 1985. It's worth remembering that the distance from Dublin to Belfast is a scant hundred miles, less than the drive from New...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Post-trutherism: "We have become passive consumers of bullshit."

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Three new books, each with a variation on a theme of George Orwell: “The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a s...
Saturday, May 06, 2017

Grexit to Brexit, "Yanis Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time."

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Our plans to seek exile in Cornwall have been muddied by Brexit, and Yanis Varoufakis is keeping me informed about it. The six Brexit ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

"Sleaford Mods have taken charge of Britain after staging a coup against the government."

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Their relevance escalates as the election draws near. Keeping Dry Under Storm Clouds: An Interview with Sleaford Mods , by Dan Derks (...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Sleaford Mods: "Our shows are a bit like resistance in motion."

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Brexshit: Also, view parts  1/3  and  2/3 . Henceforth, the duo known as Sleaford Mods has been a very British phenomenon. Since last y...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Superlative current events panel discussion: "Brexit: An unorthodox view," with Yanis Varoufakis, Srećko Horvat and Elif Shafak.

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I consider this absolutely essential viewing for anyone interested in learning numerous themes (generally) specific to the UK and the EU,...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

"Quite simply, progressives must discover progress."

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Woe is us -- what are we to do when we keep repeating the same act and it keeps turning out the same way? Here's how: Just stop it. ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

"Gets pulled apart and bust": Sleaford Mods on the occasion of Christmas.

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A review of the band's new EP at Pitchfork . A full-length release is due in 2017, and this is cause for joy in my world. Meanwhile...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Two side of precisely the same economic elitism, so let's choose our own path of internet radicalization.

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As the right wing pageantry grinds to its oafish conclusion in Cleveland, with the duopoly's brethren preparing for its own spectac...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Brexit: "The British establishment ... asked the nation to pat them on the back. The invitation to a punch in the face was too good to miss."

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Either you "get" it or you don't. But what are these "Augean stables" referred to by the author? In Greek mytho...
Friday, July 01, 2016

Marohn: "Our words and actions are making it impossible for us to listen to each other. Not only does this hurt our communities, it is making us ripe for exploitation."

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At times, the best course of action is cutting to the chase. However, you'll want to click through and read Marohn's views on the...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

CounterPunch: "The Neoliberal Prison: Brexit Hysteria and the Liberal Mind."

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Thanks to Bluegill for the prompt. CounterPunch is a monthly magazine published in the United States that covers politics in a manner...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

"The Reaction to Brexit Is the Reason Brexit Happened."

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A writer for the New York Times visits Sunderland .  ... when the decision to pull out of the European Union sent markets into a tailspi...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Brexit, final -- for now: "We will leave the EU but remain within the neoliberal system."

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A brief breakdown of the  referendum, from City Lab . The divide is more than geographical, however. As this exit poll makes clear, yo...

Coming full circle, from the Berlin Wall to Brexit.

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Al Jourgensen was there at the very inception of the New World Order. It goes to show that we all should listen to more Ministry. Above...
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