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Obama, class politics and the debt ceiling crisis
The tortuous negotiations over the US sovereign debt ceiling probably feature in our minds as a threat to our economic well being. Or for American politics junkies, the maneouvring could be uppermost. It’s worth putting the negotiations in a different perspective.
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Inequality and social well-being
From Understanding Society authors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, income inequalities as such are a source of a variety of social problems in any society. They find that there is a strong negative relationship between income inequalities and social well-being, [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a beautifully edited fan video montage of Hollywood dance scenes. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Tipping points, politics, NotW and the longer view
As the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks prepare to appear before the House of Commons, we may have reached a tipping point where the noise machine’s days are numbered.
Quick link: air pollution and infant mortality
Harry Clarke links to a statistical study of the effects of air pollution on infant mortality in California. While some pollutants have been reduced to levels at which it is no longer possible to detect any effect on infant mortality, [...]
Qanda, faith and reason, Fred Nile and ethics classes
Fred Nile today is threatening to torpedo Barry O’Farrell’s public sector wages squeeze if ethics classes aren’t abolished. I can’t even begin to list the ironies. But I’ll try.
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Culture
- Weekly Whimsy
July 20, 2011 (16 responses) - Qanda, faith and reason, Fred Nile and ethics classes
July 19, 2011 (151 responses) - Hairspray the Musical: Cultural politics of the 60s, now, and race
July 18, 2011 (31 responses)
Law
- By request: Rupert’s Voicemail Adventures
July 9, 2011 (55 responses) - Banning: what is it good for?
June 28, 2011 (63 responses) - A few links on artistic transformation, copyright and “fair use”
June 24, 2011 (24 responses)
Life
- Obama, class politics and the debt ceiling crisis
July 20, 2011 (30 responses) - Inequality and social well-being
July 20, 2011 (11 responses) - Weekly Whimsy
July 20, 2011 (16 responses)
Media
- Tipping points, politics, NotW and the longer view
July 19, 2011 (51 responses) - Qanda, faith and reason, Fred Nile and ethics classes
July 19, 2011 (151 responses) - Spotlight the Spin
July 18, 2011 (52 responses)
Politics
- Summing up the Baillieu government
July 21, 2011 (4 responses) - Obama, class politics and the debt ceiling crisis
July 20, 2011 (30 responses) - Inequality and social well-being
July 20, 2011 (11 responses)
Religion
- Qanda, faith and reason, Fred Nile and ethics classes
July 19, 2011 (151 responses) - It’s the 98th Tour de France
July 4, 2011 (59 responses) - Are you rapture ready?
May 20, 2011 (125 responses)
Science
- Quick link: air pollution and infant mortality
July 19, 2011 (28 responses) - Climate clippings 35
July 15, 2011 (34 responses) - It’s simple, really
July 13, 2011 (122 responses)
Sociology
- Inequality and social well-being
July 20, 2011 (11 responses) - Qanda, faith and reason, Fred Nile and ethics classes
July 19, 2011 (151 responses) - Health and hospital reform: just “cute sounding schemes?”
July 19, 2011 (67 responses)
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