post-IKEA and indeed post-furniture
Quiggin is discussing why some things are neo- and others are post-. How do we deal with the current revival of high modernism (see Owen Hatherley’s blog and indeed his career, the proliferating...
View ArticleThe politics of call centres, part one
What is it that makes call centres so uniquely awful as social institutions? This is something I’ve often touched on at Telco 2.0, and also something that’s been unusually salient in my life recently –...
View ArticleThe politics of call centres, part two: sources of failure
So, why did we get here? Back in the mists of time, in the US Bell System, there used to be something called a Business Office, by contrast to a Central Office (i.e. what we call a BT Local Exchange in...
View Articleread this book, if you’ve not read better books
David Harvey’s Brief History of Neoliberalism is a pretty decent survey, if you’re a slightly naive People and Planet-ish student just dipping a toe into the idea that perhaps, maybe, something is...
View ArticleTYR Rewind: slip inside this house and fuel the fire
Birdy! For it is he, back out of the woodwork to tell us that there might be a surge in homelessness, up or rather down to the depths of the 80s. Well, that’s grim, and only surprising in that the...
View ArticleSimple Plan: response from the cutting edge of the online Left!
So I pushed the simple plan on various people. Here’s a scorecard. LabourList: Henry Root-esque NO REPLY. Liberal Conspiracy: Initially, NO REPLY. Badgered, Sunny Hundal said it was in his queue to...
View ArticleRolling back the frontiers of privatisation
The Ed has got everyone’s attention by promising to freeze consumer energy prices. It’s one of those moments, as with hackgate and Syria, when he succeeds in making the prime minister look irrelevant...
View ArticleA little Ralph Miliband blogging
I’ve recently started reading Ralph Miliband’s Socialism in a Sceptical Age. Partly because someone on twitter wants to quote Ralph every time Ed says something, here are a couple of points so far. RM...
View ArticleA bit more Ralph Miliband blogging
I did some Ralph Miliband blogging a couple of weeks ago. Here’s some more, from my back-cover notes. The chapter on “The Politics of Survival” is quite possibly more use as a playbook for the...
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12 links on Bob Crow, and how to get the look
1: Houses have got stupid expensive. You may have noticed Here’s a great chart from James Plunkett of the Resolution Foundation, making the point that it will take you your life to save for a deposit....
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