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Pan’s Labyrinth: fantastic exploration of fascism’s horror
Saw it yesterday. See it for yourself.

Blair and the death of society

What’s most fascinating about this lament to socialism perdu is the central thesis:

It is axiomatic, since the death of socialism, that governments must everywhere retreat… Liberalisation, privatisation and global policies of “small government” (except in the areas of defence and law and order) have led to a withdrawal by governments from areas of concern, which, until recently, had been seen as their primary functions.

He’s 180 degrees wrong. In fact, the state is hungrier than it’s ever been. Read More

Liberal Anaemia
While socialists rock, liberals gaze at their navels

The Information Commissioner’s study slams the Children’s Database

The Carnival Of Education #94

Honours have always been sold
Labour comes clean

Linking Arms With the Far Right
Liberty, Liberal Democrats and the BMI

Race and faith: a new agenda