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Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

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Spanky Longhorn said:
your cruiskeen one?
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Chapman once became immersed in the study of dialectical materialism, particularly insofar as economic and social planning could be demonstrated to condition eugenics, birth-rates and anthropology. His wrangles with Keats lasted far into the night. He was particularly obsessed by the fact that in the animal kingdom, where there was no self-evident plan of ordered Society and where connubial relations were casual and polygamous, the breed prospered and disease remained of modest dimensions. Where there was any attempt at the imposition from without - and he instanced the scientific breeeding of race-horses by humans - the breed prospered even more remarkably. He was not slow to point out that philosophers of the school of Marx and Engels had ignored the apparent necessity for ordered breeding on the part of humans as a concomitant to planning in the social and economic spheres. Was this, he once asked Keats, to be taken as evidence of superior reproductive selection on the part of, say, horses - or was it to be taken that a man of the stamp of Engels deliberately shirked an issue too imponderable for rationative evaluation?
The poet found this sort of thing boring, and frowned.
'Foals rush in where Engels feared to tread,' he said morosely.
 
temper_tantrum said:
She won an EI punditry award yesterday. Check out her acceptance speech.

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http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-...intelligence-twitter-public-personality-award
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The speech handily reinforces what this thread is mostly about, that Laura is a case study in class privilege, opportunism, dishonesty and pathological self-absorption.

List of judges

http://www.commentawards.com/category-judges.htm

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's a fair chance that all of these people are fucking fuckers.
 
Sorry, i have to post them names:

HARVEY GOLDSMITH CBE Chair of the Judges
Louise Allen-Jones Literary Scout, Louise Allen-Jones Associates
Mohit Bakaya Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual, BBC Radio 4
Sam Baker Editor-In-Chief, Red
Bidisha Critic, broadcaster and international human rights reporter
Polly Billington Head of Internal Communications, Labour Party
Giselle Bodie Global CEO, Salience Research
Jane Bruton Editor, Grazia Magazine
Paul Bryden Communications Consultant
Belinda Budge Publisher, HarperCollins
Leo von Bülow-Quirk Partner & Global Head of Research, Chartwell Partners
Charlie Burgess Editorial Director, Editorial Intelligence
Simon Burton Acting Head of Corporate Affairs, Camelot Group
Carla Buzasi Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post UK
René Carayol Chairman, Inspired Leaders Network
Henry Chevallier Guild Director of Global Strategy, Aspall
Harry Cole Contributing Editor, Spectator
Rev Richard Coles
Stella Creasy MP Shadow Minister for Crime Prevention
Giles Croot Director, Media Relations, Barclays Group Corporate Affairs
Rt Hon. David Davis MP
Karen Dillon Contributing Editor, Harvard Business Review
Sarah Ducker Managing Director, SJD Events
Huw Edwards Presenter, BBC News at Ten
Amber Elliot Politics Producer, Sky News
Angela Ferreira Television Producer
Dermot Finch Head of Public Affairs, Fishburn Hedges
Jeffrey Gedmin President and CEO, Legatum Institute
Patricia Hamzahee Partner, Kreab & Gavin Anderson Worldwide
Stuart Handley Director, Purple Rabbit
Stephen Hargrave Chairman of Trustees, Reform
Anoushka Healy Group Managing Editor, The Times and Sunday Times
Maurice Helfgott Founder Director of Amery Capital Limited
Steve Hewlett Writer & Broadcaster, BBC Radio 4
Julia Hobsbawm Chair & CEO, Editorial Intelligence
Emma Jacobs Global Communications Director, Financial Times
Paul Kafka Global Head of CEO Communications and Global Head of Marketing, UBS Investment Bank
Jessica Lambert Editor, The Harker
Tashi Lassalle Director & Head of Communications, Actis
Alison Lucas Director, London, Fenton Communications
Jane Martinson Women’s Editor, The Guardian
Rosie Millard Journalist & Broadcaster
Rebecca Miller Senior Media Relations Executive, Office of the Mayor of London
John Mitchinson Co-founder & Publisher, Unbound
Steve Moore Chief Executive, Big Society Network
Mwila Mulenshi Programme Assistant, New Deal of the Mind
Dianne Nelmes Managing Director, Liberty Bell Productions
Claire Oldfield Managing Director, Wardour Publishing
Cliff Oswick Head, Faculty of Management, Deputy Dean Under Graduate Programmes, Cass Business School
Julia Peyton-Jones Director, Serpentine Gallery
Judy Piatkus Owner, Judy Piatkus Enterprises Ltd
Aaron Porter Freelance Journalist & Higher Education Consultant, Aaron Porter Consultancy
Michael Prescott Group Director of Corporate Affairs, BT Group
Hamish Pringle Strategic Advisor, 23red
Peter Riddell Director, Institute for Government
Kerstin Rodgers Chef & Writer, Ms. Marmite Lover Blog
Graham Rumney CEO, R3
Richard Sambrook Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
Brigitte Trafford Director of Corporate Affairs, ICAP
Chantal Tregear Director, Taylor Bennett
Kitty Ussher Research Fellow, The Smith Institute
Marc Vlessing Co-founder, Pocket
Benjamin Webb Managing Director, Deliberate PR
 
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