Category: Politics
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Sexism in Sport | The Imbalance of Power
Superb coverage and analysis in The Guardian today over the sacking of Andy Gray – the Sky Sports football pundit who was recorded making disgusting remarks ‘off-air’ about a female match official and lewd ‘banter’ with a female co-presenter. It’s clear that he and Richard Keys were both disliked within the production team, and someone…
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Why I’m Done with Ian McEwan. And Why You Should be too.
I’m perfectly sure he won’t give a crap, but I’m certain I’ll feel better for it – I’m done with Ian McEwan. He’s a gifted writer, no mistake about that, and I’ve genuinely enjoyed some of his books. But then Saturday was just…too knowing. Too aware of its own cleverness. A bit showy. But whatever,…
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Martin Luther King | Love for the Other is Dangerous and Political
Although mathematically it turns out that this should be your worst day of the year, given that it’s Martin Luther King day in the US, I hope there’s some level of goodness in it that defeats the equations. I was reminded by Jay Bakker today that MLK once said, “I have decided to stick with…
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Developing Peace: TAZ, Empathy and Radical Listening
Was great to meet up with Kevin Corcoran again last night, who’s got another group of students from Calvin College in the US over in London and Belfast to explore issues of peace and reconciliation. I made some notes for a talk I gave to them which I thought I’d upload here. Please – these…
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Ridiculous Sentence for Edward Woollard
Been meaning to post on this all day, but I’m disgusted by the 32 month sentence that has been handed down to Edward Woollard – the 18 year old student protester who threw a fire extinguisher off Tory party HQ. Let’s be clear: what he did was awful. It could have killed someone. It was…
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Becoming Conscious of the ‘Other Other’ [3]
Other Other [1] | Other Other [2] In the previous two posts I’ve been trying to tease out some of the issues being engaging ‘the other’ – especially the problem of there being ‘other others’ who we may not have considered when we act. One response to the exponentially expanding series of others is to…