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		<description><![CDATA[The hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution has been marked by a wave of exhibitions and plays. Last Sunday I went along to a small production of Mayakovsky&#8217;s Bathhouse at the Calder bookshop-cum-theatre, famous as the location of Samuel Beckett&#8217;s publisher and now much involved in participatory theatre. Mayakovsky&#8217;s gifts as a poet were generally [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This Monday, David Cameron announced that the fight against extremism was ‘the struggle of our generation’. Cameron’s assault on ‘extremism’ reminds me of George W. Bush’s war on ‘terror’. Both served the purpose of giving a rather vacuous head of a conservative government a reason to exist. Both used large and dubious abstractions to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[People use the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ in different ways. For me, to be on the left is, loosely, to think that many of the inequalities we live with are both damaging and unnecessary. For those on the left, &#8216;equality of opportunity&#8217; as the right understands it is not enough: inequalities due to luck, ability [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog was started a year so, but it&#8217;s taken all that time to gather my thoughts &#8211; now taking shape as a short book on politics. In any case, the aftermath of an election defeat seems a good time to start enunciating the basis of a better politics for the left. I voted Liberal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Areopagus: a manifesto</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is concerned with philosophy, politics and economics. At the heart of philosophy are the questions: what should we be promoting ? what kinds of human life should we want to see more of ? what ways of life should make us glad when we see people living them ? I call this the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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