Category Archives: The Left

To cheer up Legal Eagle

April 13, 2009 – 10:43 pm

One of Russia’s most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.
The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin’s coat. No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive [...]

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Well, Brendan O’Neill is still a Marxist, even if the rest of Spiked have abandoned ship

February 5, 2009 – 9:15 am

This evening, the Oxford Libertarian Society hosted Spiked Online’s Brendan O’Neill to speak on the topic ‘Why Environmentalism is the Enemy of Liberty‘.
I think that O’Neill scored some good hits on the green movement: picking out the strong strains of misanthropy, paternalism and privilege attached to much environmental debate (and, it has to be said, [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Environment, Politics, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments (80)

Cowards’ Castle: Wayne Swan is an arsehat

September 24, 2008 – 4:11 am

Regular commenter fatfingers draws my attention to this little expectoration from within Cowards’ Castle’s protective walls.
Memo to Wayne: the first vote I cast - in 1989 - was for the ALP. I stopped voting Labor in 1996 because I got the distinct impression that Labor viewed me and my kind with contempt. Having Kevin Rudd [...]

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Legal Eagle On Rage

August 24, 2008 – 8:47 am

I think my response and reading of Germaine Greer’s piece On Rage has emanated from my own feelings about rage. So I thought I might explore rage myself.
Sometimes, rage can be a productive emotion. For example, when I lived in the UK, the school I attended initially told my mother that they thought I was [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Feminism, Human/Civil rights, Personal, Philosophy, Racism, Society | Comments (32)

What has happened to Greer’s feminism?

August 16, 2008 – 9:52 pm

I read Tracee Hutchison’s critique of Germaine Greer, and although I often don’t agree with Hutchison, this time, I think she’s spot on in her criticisms of Greer. In Greer’s essay On Rage, she says:
In considering the desperate condition of Australian Aboriginal people after 200 years of abuse physical and mental, we should not be [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Children, Feminism, History, Human/Civil rights, Racism | Comments (125)

Snobbery and class

August 7, 2008 – 1:04 pm

The first time I became aware of class as a concept was when I moved to the UK. I had been a student at my independent girls’ school for precisely three days when I heard some girls in my class talking about “townies”. “What’s a townie?” I asked, all innocence.
A barrage of explanations came out, [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Education, England, Media, Society | Comments (33)

Selling out feminism for multiculturalism

November 3, 2006 – 8:38 pm

The New Left:

I’m going for political suicide here but I’m willing to stand up with anybody else in this country who happens to agree with Sheik Hilali’s sentiments.
Not because of any emotional or religious point of view but from sheer logic. While men who want to assault women exist, there will be women who [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Feminism | Comments (168)