In conversation with Donna Haraway and pragmatist sociology, I suggest that the demand of the day is to become more situationally aware but for different – even emancipatory – political purposes. To illustrate all this, I draw on a range of examples from those that are more liberal (Forensic...
After being elected in 1997 Paul Clark was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Irvine of Lairg, the Lord Chancellor, then Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Falconer of Thoroton in the Department for Transport and later the Home Office. Clark was finally promoted to the Whips’ office bet...
But if Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., had his way, Trump would be stripped of Secret Service protection. The Trump nemesis is the lead author of theDISGRACED Former Protectees Act(or, more fully, the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted...
Eventually, the conservative wing of the AFL would cause that labor federation to give up ownership of May Day and instead to preserve Labor Day in September as a more conventional American celebration. Around the world, though, both socialists and communists treat May Day as workers’ celebratio...
“These millennial digital liberal outlets like theIntercept, BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post,so many of them—they think that if you’re a conservative, you’re not really a journalist,”the 54-year-old Greenwald intoned (a tad weirdly, because most of his targets are in their late forties...
Justin Trudeau's expansion of state power over media and technology has troubling similarities to Russia, China and Iran
’Footnote63 Thatcher mobilised Powell’s combination of economic liberalism and political nationalism in the service of the New Right’s ‘authoritarian populism.’Footnote64 This enabled Thatcher to position the conservative party on the side of the people (racialized as ‘white’ and threatened by...
In sum, the tone of conservative and liberal politicians might not differ after all. But even if there is a difference in negativity bias and tone, we don’t know if it is innate or can be strategically adapted to the goals of the politician. We thus also pose a contrasting hypothesis:...
The BBC would be a state broadcaster if it was not involved in such rows from time to time. They were normal, even a sign of hope. At any rate, both Labour and Conservative Prime Ministers (e. g. Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher), fol- lowing dissatisfaction with BBC reporting (of...
But President Joe Biden’s campaign and its allies are betting that other voters won’t be so quick to forgive Vance for his anti-abortion stances and advocacy for a conservative agenda. Biden’s campaign has a