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I did a month long internship with some foreign policy think tank in between the first and second year of uni. Wasn't an advertised one, it happened because the person who became director a couple of months before had been more or less brought up by my grandparents.
The main lessons I learnt there was that if that was a world you wanted to be part of it was all about networking and using your personal connections, and that internships were a huge part of starting that process.
The other thing I learnt was that it wasn't a world I wanted to be part of.

As has been said, internships are a way of ensuring that certain sectors remain almost exclusively middle/upper class in composition and is a way of the elite replicating itself.

Used a lot in film/tv where you basically have to work unpaid as a runner to meet the people that will give you paid work somewhere down the line. BECTU do a lot of good work getting these people paid nmw.
Of course if you went to the right school/uni then you don't need to do it, but if you didn't then you do, still have to have money to live through it though so still pretty exclusively middle class
 
J Ed said:
The online ebook that she was giving out about online trolls, there's nothing about this hive of misogyny strangely...
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DotCommunist said:
what? nothing about this place- but we are all massive racists and rape apologists! must not be trying hard enough
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As Laurie Penny's arch nemesis and all round racist misogynist type, If I'm not in it I'm gonna moan about it then write my own pro-troll version - class war to twitter war - a bit like what Joe Owens did when he found out he wasn't mentioned in No Retreat.
 
SpineyNorman said:
Really? Could have sworn he said something about it in the introduction - maybe I dreamed it.
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His book came out in 2007 and BTF in 2010. His moan was about No Retreat. He does have a habit of searching for his name in relation to anti-fascism. I remember he turned up on matb after 39 steps (i think it was) posted his review of Race War TDW, and he's also been on here in the past.
 
Spiney was talking about No Retreat though, not BTF!

He moaned about not being mentioned in No Retreat but he also claimed to have been mentioned in BTF several times prior to its publication, he was then dismayed to find out he wasn't mentioned at all once it was actually published
 
Check out this incredibly poor article http://internationalsocialistnetwor...ow-sections-of-the-left-came-to-abandon-syria

Manages to criticise the left for not cheerleading the Syrian rebels without once mentioning Al-Nusrah, Al-Qaeda, massacres of Alawites (which it euphemistically refers to as "several sectarian attacks"), no mention of the "Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut" slogan. Russian imperialism? Absolutely bizarre. Doesn't mention the Kurds either. Willful deluson.
 
J Ed said:
Check out this incredibly poor article http://internationalsocialistnetwor...ow-sections-of-the-left-came-to-abandon-syria

Manages to criticise the left for not cheerleading the Syrian rebels without once mentioning Al-Nusrah, Al-Qaeda, massacres of Alawites (which it euphemistically refers to as "several sectarian attacks"), no mention of the "Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut" slogan. Russian imperialism? Absolutely bizarre. Doesn't mention the Kurds either. Willful deluson.
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Looks to me like a deliberate attempt to position themselves distinct from their former comrades, and to pick up support from the hand wringing something must be done brigade
 
J Ed said:
It's like stars in their eyes.

Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be a liberal interventionist... wait I mean an anti-imperialist voice of British yoof wait I mean...
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Exactly! and Matthew embraces her and beams to camera "didn't she do well!" :D

It's just dilettantism. And it's hardly surprising, as there are no actual politics in her article.
 
ViolentPanda said:
Surely that merely marks you as someone who likes watching cod-amiable buffoons on telly, while living in an anrcho-lifestylist bubble? :p



Clarkson represents a boss-class presentation of appeal to working class males. Of course, as a viewer of Top gear, you'll be aware that much of his studio audience are Jaspers and Jemimas. :)
Why does Laurie Penny "matter"? Because she and those like her present "top-down" commentary on situations they don't understand and/or haven't experienced except in a glancing "couple of years of student squalor" way. They present "solutions" to social problems that are not solutions, and they (however much they may call themselves "left wing" or even "anarchist") present a politics that is no different from what currently exists, except in a few ameliorative details.
You may not care about people speaking for you and at you, but not to you. Some of us do.
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not been part of the anrcho-lifestylist bubble for a while, not since being expelled from the posh boys club ;)

Laurie penny has never said anything about me or my class. I don't think she ever will. There is on the other hand a surfeit of "class struggle" anarchists who are infinitely posher and more privileged than laurie penny who have never stopped telling me what it means to be working class.
 
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