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Shouldn't it be located in Germany then?I support Israel’s right to exist. Do you?
Let’s not forget why Israel was felt to be necessary.
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Shouldn't it be located in Germany then?I support Israel’s right to exist. Do you?
Let’s not forget why Israel was felt to be necessary.
Probably shouldn't have taken the first photo on a tram.
Most buses, outside of peak hours, are virtually empty. London's roads are clogged up with, mostly, empty buses chugging out diesel fumes.
A lot of local buses are or have been converted to electric or gas.Most buses, outside of peak hours, are virtually empty. London's roads are clogged up with, mostly, empty buses chugging out diesel fumes.
Couldn't agree more, add into the mix a load of empty buses lumbering about and you have the London traffic problem.Transport cuts have mostly taken place in rural areas and small towns. Londons roads are mostly clogged up with black taxis and ubers taking coke fiends to poncey cocktail bars and coke dealers speeding off every time they see a cop
Exactly, you cannot get a bus if you live out side of a city virtually.Transport cuts have mostly taken place in rural areas and small towns. Londons roads are mostly clogged up with black taxis and ubers taking coke fiends to poncey cocktail bars and coke dealers speeding off every time they see a cop
The declining quality and increased cost ofExactly, you cannot get a bus if you live out side of a city virtually.
If you want to work in anything other than a 9-5 in a major town or city, then you arent using public transport.
Where i live if i had to resort to jobs i could do by using public transport, i would be looking at a minimum £15k loss of earnings, PLUS the extortionate cost of public transport.
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I have, not sure what that has to do with anything though?I bet you’ve never heard of Hobson until today.
I'm not one to defend him on this broader issue, but Imperialism is a standard text which most students of empire will have encountered during undergraduate studies, it was highly influential in its own time and is important for understanding how empire has been understood in history. Of course, as a product of its time there are elements which reflect the antisemitic sentiments which prevailed in polite society at that time, and nobody would deny that Hobson was an antisemite. But that would apply to a whole lot of authors from that period. So I'd be interested to read what Corbyn actually wrote in this forward. There's nothing necessarily wrong with writing a forward for such a work, but it's important to acknowledge the less savory elements. Though given Corbyn's blindness on this topic, I suspect he didn't.Tweet
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Will people still defend this man?
Well yes, that and a lot of other stuff is pretty much why he's not gonna get (and probably doesn't deserve) the benefit of the doubt from most people on this.Tweet
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Nor should he get the benefit of the doubt. The man is a racist and is the reason I cancelled my Labour Party membership.Well yes, that and a lot of other stuff is pretty much why he's not gonna get (and probably doesn't deserve) the benefit of the doubt from most people on this.
Surely the problem here though is the wider context which surrounds Corbyn's previous statements and actions concerning anti-semitism?Tweet
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Ceausescu was successful for a while at milking the idea that he was independent. Didn’t the Queen give him a gong on a state visit? Although holding those views in 2019 is fairly alarming.
He was mildly independent compared to the rest of the Warsaw Pact shills but that independence isn't exactly a quality to celebrate or revere when he used it to essentially crush and oppress the Romanian people to a greater degree than even the Soviet leaders of the time. Western leaders for a while fawned over him due to him not being under the Soviet sphere of influence to quite the same extent but then we've always been willing to turn a blind eye to the actions of brutal and abhorrent leaders when it suits us. Anyway, a bizarre response either way.Ceausescu was successful for a while at milking the idea that he was independent. Didn’t the Queen give him a gong on a state visit? Although holding those views in 2019 is fairly alarming.
Surely the problem here though is the wider context which surrounds Corbyn's previous statements and actions concerning anti-semitism?
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I accept the book might be a classic, and I accept that the author's racism might both be a product of its time and isn't necessarily a reason to dismiss his whole analysis. BUT if you are writing an 8 page endorsement in 2011 and are a noted anti racist campaigner (apparently) then you have to ask why he didn't call out all the troublesome racist bits where the Jews were running the world, pulling the levers of imperial conflict etc - you know, the antisemitic classics. As ever with Corbyn, this noted anti racism campaigner either didn't see the racism, or he doesn't see antisemitism as racism, or he didn't think antisemitism matters, or he's just not very bright.I'm not one to defend him on this broader issue, but Imperialism is a standard text which most students of empire will have encountered during undergraduate studies, it was highly influential in its own time and is important for understanding how empire has been understood in history. Of course, as a product of its time there are elements which reflect the antisemitic sentiments which prevailed in polite society at that time, and nobody would deny that Hobson was an antisemite. But that would apply to a whole lot of authors from that period. So I'd be interested to read what Corbyn actually wrote in this forward. There's nothing necessarily wrong with writing a forward for such a work, but it's important to acknowledge the less savory elements. Though given Corbyn's blindness on this topic, I suspect he didn't.
It is manufactured outrage but I’d take Solomon Hughes (“writer”) more seriously if he knew when to use “it’s” and “its”.Tweet
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It would be far easier for the people who are morally outraged about this(Such a bizarre standard they are setting for Corbyn), to openly say they don't like Corbyn or todays Labour Party(Which is perfectly fine), rather than constantly trying to bring up ''gotcha'' moments and looking like tits in doing so. They should get off social media and join the Lib Dems because to put in the kindest way possible their fixation on Corbyn is clearly not helping them.
He is a bit racist though. I know you lot don't like to be reminded of it because you don't want to think it might be true.Tweet
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It would be far easier for the people who are morally outraged about this(Such a bizarre standard they are setting for Corbyn), to openly say they don't like Corbyn or todays Labour Party(Which is perfectly fine), rather than constantly trying to bring up ''gotcha'' moments and looking like tits in doing so. They should get off social media and join the Lib Dems because to put in the kindest way possible their fixation on Corbyn is clearly not helping them.
Twitter word limitIt is manufactured outrage but I’d take Solomon Hughes (“writer”) more seriously if he knew when to use “it’s” and “its”.
http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Spokesman/PDF/130Corbyn.pdfI'm not one to defend him on this broader issue, but Imperialism is a standard text which most students of empire will have encountered during undergraduate studies, it was highly influential in its own time and is important for understanding how empire has been understood in history. Of course, as a product of its time there are elements which reflect the antisemitic sentiments which prevailed in polite society at that time, and nobody would deny that Hobson was an antisemite. But that would apply to a whole lot of authors from that period. So I'd be interested to read what Corbyn actually wrote in this forward. There's nothing necessarily wrong with writing a forward for such a work, but it's important to acknowledge the less savory elements. Though given Corbyn's blindness on this topic, I suspect he didn't.
He used “it’s history” instead of “its history”, so more characters. I see he’s from Private Eye so probably keyboard autosuggestion (or liquid lunch).Twitter word limit
He used “it’s history” instead of “its history”, so more characters. I see he’s from Private Eye so probably keyboard autosuggestion (or liquid lunch).
Honestly I read through Imperialism not all that long ago (maybe four years) and I don’t recall noticing the antisemitic elements to it at the time. Obviously reading the relevant excerpts today it seems I must have just missed them for whatever reason, but it does suggest to me that the antisemitic elements weren’t absolutely central to Hobson’s thesis. On the other hand they’re obviously relevant in terms of understanding both the world in which Hobson operated and how a section of the left tends to understand the nature of imperialism and capitalism.BUT if you are writing an 8 page endorsement in 2011 and are a noted anti racist campaigner (apparently) then you have to ask why he didn't call out all the troublesome racist bits where the Jews were running the world, pulling the levers of imperial conflict etc - you know, the antisemitic classics
Daniel Finkelstein's view, on twitter, is that it is central: "He establishes early on that finance houses are controlled by Jews. After that he explains in the entire book that finance houses control the world. It’s his central thrust. It isn’t negligible....What you could more easily argue is that he could have made the argument without antisemitism. I think that would be a fair point and he came to realise it himself. But here he didn’t."If I was writing a forward for that book, I would of course have to discuss Churchill’s blatant racism, as it’s absolutely fundamental to his understanding of the British Empire and its approach to its various subject peoples, including those in the Sudan. On the other hand, a forward written for Churchill’s writings on WW2 could perhaps get away without discussing that side of the man. So I guess the question is, to what extent is antisemitism absolutely fundamental to Hobson’s understanding of imperialism?
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He is a bit racist though. I know you lot don't like to be reminded of it because you don't want to think it might be true.
Daniel Finkelstein's view, on twitter,
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rather than constantly trying to bring up ''gotcha'' moments and looking like tits in doing so. They should get off social media and join the Lib Dems because to put in the kindest way possible their fixation on Corbyn is clearly not helping them.
Good for you Elvis.Nor should he get the benefit of the doubt. The man is a racist and is the reason I cancelled my Labour Party membership.
Confirms for me that he's not that bright. Definitely more of an activist than a thinker (nothing wrong with that btw).
If the ''outrage'' was because he failed to talk about the antisemitic elements in the book I think they would have had a point(Although again its a bizarre standard to hold people to)but they lost it over Corbyn simply doing what many others have done before.Confirms for me that he's not that bright. Definitely more of an activist than a thinker (nothing wrong with that btw).
A bit of helpful advice for you actually. You might want to read that finkelstein piece on Churchill mate - he gets explicitly called out by him for being a racist. Run along now.
I don't think you get the point the guy is making.A bit of helpful advice for you actually. You might want to read that finkelstein piece on Churchill mate - he gets explicitly called out by him for being a racist. Run along now.