Getting Real About Growth
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When growth may no longer mean jobs, we might ask: are any of our political parties facing reality?
Global Avarice, by Alison Caddick
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If the money relation sits at the heart of capitalism, how does its present, twenty-first-century form, digitised and ultra-globalised, break asunder the assumptions and ethics of a given world?
Voter Volatility, by Alison Caddick
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Casting a shadow on the received categories of Left and Right
Ethics & Politics at Christmas Time, by Alison Caddick
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We can see again an implicit framework that the major parties share, albeit from different sides … for at least many of the younger generations it is surely a danse macabre, of figures of an old world that retain only slight purchase on the key issues and forms of the present.
Going in Hard, by Alison Caddick
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It is a classic situation of a war government gathering support on the home front by creating divisions and binding loyalties, and of a shallow media setting up feared figures then knocking them over in preemptive ways in what we are expected to see as civilised media behaviour.
Subjectivity, Surrogacy and Entitlement, by Alison Caddick
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Entitlement, like normativity, sits upon unspoken cultural commitments, and perhaps even forms of otherness that have been or will be turned into utility
Iraq and Our Democracy by Alison Caddick
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If the non-response to the marches against the Iraq war in 2003 confirmed a disabling political cynicism in many people, today we witness the political fruits of two decades of aggression in the Middle East and its fallout.