Winners and Losers from Rising Wages and Falling Ones.
The three months before June had marked an annual rise of 5.2% in average regular pay, as measured in real …
Tag Archives: Marxism
A Marxist Interpretation of the Taliban’s Victory.
I have not so far encountered a Marxist or a neo-Marxist interpretation of the Taliban’s recent victory that has satisfactorily …
A Marxist Reading of the Lockdown.
In the UK, there cannot be many people left now who in their heart of hearts think that the lockdown …
YouTube Review: GB News.
A lot of yodelling has issued from every mountaintop recently on the subject of GB News, this right-leaning, television-news channel …
The Fallacy of IndyRef2.
Sometimes it is worth returning to original assumptions – assumptions that have remained undisturbed for a long time – just …
Indyref 2: A Road To Nowhere.
The route to a second Scottish independence referendum all looks like a big spaghetti pie at the moment. Pro-independence politicians …
Keeping “Keeping Safe” Safe.
To everybody’s horror, the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is exhibiting all the signs of being a wonderful success. The Office …
More Lockdown, More Thanatos.
What explains this eerie life after death that the lockdown lately finds itself in? If, back in November, we had …
Aristocrats in Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
[The following is left over from my series on Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris. It should be read as …
Surveillance in Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris.
Eugène Sue’s crime novel, The Mysteries of Paris, was originally serialised in the Journal des Débats between 1842 and 1843. …
Abolish Restaurants or Eradicate Kitchens?
There is a chap in the Drouth today, a Glaswegian artist named Hussein Mitha, who is calling for the abolition …
Book Review: The Arcades Project.
Walter Benjamin had collated The Arcades Project [Das Passagenwerk] between 1927 and 1940. It is very much a book that …
Chewing On Jackson Carlaw.
“I can’t help but wonder what part sharing this may have played in today’s events.” This is Andrew Tickell, the …
How to Defeat the Scottish Nationalists (Warning: Contains Traces of Machiavellianism).
Could Nicola Sturgeon’s own carelessness have already sown the seeds of her eventual knockout defeat? Here is her in January …
Reading Eugène Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris in light of The One Thousand and One Nights.
Eugène Sue’s serialised crime novel The Mysteries of Paris (1842-3) begins with a device that had been treasured by contributors …
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