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Marxists v Feminists on education
Marxism and Education: Education and Social Class, London, 25 October
2006
Whilst the intention of this conference was to discuss the relationship
between education and social class, it was clear very soon that the
real issue up for discussion was whether Marxists or feminists had the
greatest claim to represent the Left.
Charlynne Pullen
The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick
Societies Healthier Professor
Richard Wilkinson at Café Scientifique, Nottingham, 13 November
2006
If inequality was a major contributor to obesity, heart disease and
the rest, surely fixating on peoples' individual eating habits was at
best a palliative, and at worst increasing the problem, by victimising
and alienating the groups that most need help.
Robin Walsh
When did 'radicalisation' become a dirty
word? Political Islam in Tooting
and in the media
I was aware that Hizb ut-Tahrir have an aura of controversy, but to
my mind being banned by students' unions and authoritarian Middle Eastern
regimes is not necessarily an indication of malevolence.
Dolan Cummings
Leadership in communities
Conference for smaller housing associations, London, 31 October 2006
Poverty does not emanate from the intellectual failings of tenants,
but from the historic failure to develop the material base of localities
affected by long-standing economic decline.
Dave Clements
What has happened to investigative journalism?
Tessa Mayes, Goodenough College Port Talk, 10 October 2006
In a time of political conformism, Mayes is rightly pushing for a more
'critical' journalism - one which seeks to expose contradictions in
a system. Exposing the breaking of a rule should serve as the 'political
moment' - an opportunity to explore the fundamental political dynamics
at work.
Alex Hochuli
Politics and Science: How their Interplay
Creates Public Policy the New
School, New York, 9-10 February 2006
Interrogating the role of policy in the key areas of energy, the environment
and public health, the event was a welcome departure from some of the
more hysterically minded junk-science infused ‘debates’ that
pass for serious discussion.
Alan Miller
Save the planet, don't see the world?
spiked seminar, London, 23 May 2006
What
the debate showed is that for many people who see themselves as politically
radical, often thinking of themselves as anti-capitalist and on the
side of making a better, more equal world, the idea of social justice
has become fatally uncoupled from the idea of progress.
Shirley Dent
'The Threat Posed by Iran has been Greatly
Exaggerated'
Intelligence Squared debate, London, 25
April 2006
Perhaps
the underlying problem here, on both sides of the debate, is the attempt
to claim a political consensus on the basis of narrow scientific or
economic expertise.
Philip Cunliffe
'Dealing with global warming should be
one of the top priorities for humanity'
Intelligence Squared debate, London, 9
February 2006
Perhaps
the underlying problem here, on both sides of the debate, is the attempt
to claim a political consensus on the basis of narrow scientific or
economic expertise.
Sandy Starr
'If Britain wants decent and efficient
public services, it should hand over to the private sector'
The Economist/Stockholm Network debate, London, 9 February 2006
Throwing
up our hands in despair at failing services is understandable. But I
fail to see how adding yet more fragmentation and disjointment to that
already inflicted by two decades of market reform will remedy the situation.
Dave Clements
'The Time to Quit Iraq is Now'
Intelligence
Squared debate, London, 17 January 2006
The
'squatters' fall back on the claims that they impute into a phantom
Iraqi state, producing the strange sight of a dummy ventriloquising
the ventriloquist.
Philip Cunliffe
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