Kevin Carson’s Mutualist blog included an interesting post a little while ago comparing the innovative Pull Economy with the more traditional Push Economy. In his post he quotes this David Bollier article which explains the difference between the two:
Briefly put, a “push economy” – the familiar industry model of mass production – is based on [...]
Every parent of small children must know this fear, for you are never less than a few moments away from it. You are watching the telly with your little one; it is The Fimbles, or The Tweenies, or The Teletubbies, and the simple lives of those simple souls on screen hits a snag. They are [...]
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Justin, at Chicken Yoghurt, suggested that buying yesterday’s Independent would be the finest 70p I ever spent, just for this article by Matthew Norman. Well, I went the whole quid and bought it online (then saved it to a word document if you want me to email you a copy) and I was certainly not [...]
Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Sod the budget; before Radio 4 began their coverage this afternoon they featured a short half-hour programme entitled The Secret Migration, about English people who have moved to Scotland, and I caught the tail end of it. It was quite interesting, as many of Radio 4’s idiosyncratic documentaries often are.
They interviewed Scots, about what they [...]
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“Fuck off Wigan, you fucking pie eating wankers, go and fuck off back to fucking Wigan”, he quipped. I was sat on the top deck of an idling bus after yesterday’s match, waiting for the convoy of Wigan coaches to drive past. A fellow City fan was holding court with a stunning piece of oratory; [...]
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In a typically thought-provoking post a few days ago, Chris Dillow at Stumbling And Mumbling discussed why the “left” regards the market as a “right wing” device. His conclusion was that the left falsely equates markets with business, and that the depression in the 1930’s and the Keynesian methods subsequently employed resulted in socialists abandoning [...]
BBC Three presents… Dog Borstal
Now I really have seen everything.
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In a different time and place, when Sir Menzies Campbell was young and so was I, I was involved in student politics for a while. I was a member of what we now call the Liberal Democrats, although I think the party went through several name changes during my involvement with them.
At that time every [...]
I don’t really know what’s going on. I have traditionally eschewed reality TV programmes, pretty much. I tend to see bits of I’m A Celebrity… when it’s on as Ant and Dec are usually good value, I found myself watching some of the first series of Big Brother while it was still a novelty, and [...]
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