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Margaret Thatcher and neo-liberal sovereignty
As a footnote to my post on Margaret Thatcher, I wanted to draw attention to some responses to the special sitting of Parliament and the state funeral in her memory. A number of Labour MPs boycotted...
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Towards a sociological concept of neo-liberalism I
Who’s afraid of neo-liberalism? Writing last year, Terry Flew inveighs against neo-liberalism as a shibboleth in academic discourse, signalling a distaste for markets but vague in meaning. Flew appears...
View ArticleGuest post by Guy Rundle: After Thatcher: A tryptych
Guy Rundle writes: I’ve been told that Australians are Thatchered-out. Spare a thought for us over here. This has become something other than obsessive mourning: the wall-to-wall coverage is a sort of...
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European ETS
Last week when the European Parliament voted down a proposal to prop up the EU Emissions Trading System’s languishing carbon price by postponing the sale of 900 million emission allowances until the...
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Love thy neighbour
On the weekends NewsRadio at times plays programs from Deutsche Welle. This story about a survey of attitudes of Europeans giving their opinions on each other, on Europe and on themselves intrigued me....
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Rethinking asylum seeker policy in the wake of Kevin Rudd’s “PNG Solution” #1
I used to joke that every time I went interstate, weird stuff started happening in politics. Now, I think I can confidently declare that it gets even weirder when I go overseas. I flew back into...
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#Syria roundtable
A Syrian man who lives in Beirut, holds up a placard during a vigil in front the UN headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP / Hussein Malla via CTV News) Dedicated thread for...
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Merkel rules OK
I thought we might take a look at the outcome of the German elections on Sunday, partly because of how the results played out in the electoral system and partly because Angela Merkel is one of the more...
View ArticleA hegemon in decline
Immanuel Wallerstein has argued since 1980 that the United States peaked as a hegemonic power around 1970. He says the decline was slow at first but became precipitate during the presidency of George...
View ArticleIndonesian spying affair
Indonesia has recalled it’s ambassador after leaked documents reveal Australia spied on president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife, amongst others. Dr Natalegawa: “It’s impossible for an...
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