Different takes ...

09/08/2011

These two posts from Social Europe Journal are worth a read. George Irwin bemoans the lack of progressive political leadership, while Zygmunt Baumann examines the concept of 'defective consumers' in the context of the London riots.

Seperately, Paul Krugman summarises the 'power of a stupid narrative' in 84 words here.

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