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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

francis gets an easy ride from baptists of my acquaintance cos he isn't natzinger, he's invited gardeners and papal lowly staff to come pray with him, eschews the pomp to some degree etc etc.

Pretty sure that ones in the papal hand book 'every so often a pope must wear the brown homespun robe and assume the demeanor of the servant-priest'
 
DotCommunist said:
francis gets an easy ride from baptists of my acquaintance cos he isn't natzinger, he's invited gardeners and papal lowly staff to come pray with him, eschews the pomp to some degree etc etc.

Pretty sure that ones in the papal hand book 'every so often a pope must wear the brown homespun robe and assume the demeanor of the servant-priest'
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Loving his 15 ailments of the curia shtick. Seems to have missed a few but these two are up there.
Committing the “terrorism of gossip”. “It’s the sickness of cowardly people who, not having the courage to speak directly, talk behind people’s backs.”
Glorifying one’s bosses. “It’s the sickness of those who court their superiors, hoping for their benevolence. They are victims of careerism and opportunism, they honour people who aren’t God.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...thing-critique-vatican-officials-curia-speech
 
el-ahrairah said:
and why can't they leave them there.
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I can think of a nice cultural excursion, preferably permanent:

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Me? I make no apologies. I’m the Typhoid Mary of gentrification. I leave middle-class prosperity in my wake, like the Capitalism Fairy. Both of the places where I used to live in London are now gentrified beyond recognition. I’m in Stockwell now, and have been for 18 years, watching it not-changing around me. The day I move out – that’ll be the day the faux-Dickensian hardware store moves in, with its faux-Dickensian leaseholder. Hopefully.


Arrrgh
 
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...lds-lab-disguised-as-a-hipster-cafe?CMP=fb_gu

a very confused piece. guardian writers often have trouble with things like mcdonalds, because they know that they should hate it, but they also don't want to be seen hating it, in case people think they're snobs or anti-capitalists. but they don't want to praise it either, in case people think they're plebs or cheerleaders for the industrial meat complex. and they have much the same about hipsters, they don't want to be seen either being in favour of or actively against hipsters. so we learn from this piece that this is a really good thing and not much cop all at once. that mcdonalds is Not Good but also ideal if you want to eat McDonalds for any reason.

like laurie penny, they don't want anyone to disagree with them but they can't stand the idea of no talking about something!
 
butchersapron said:
What's it got to do with US attitudes to healthcare?

I don't understand any of that post.
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I think he is comparing the attitudes towards the Affordable Healthcare Act and the portrayal of it as being very left-wing, socialist, communist or whatever in the US to Hunt's remarkably timid approach to private schools. If we're considering tax breaks for private schools as the left-wing position, and not the abolition of these schools, then the discussion has moved rightwards.
 
J Ed said:
I think he is comparing the attitudes towards the Affordable Healthcare Act and the portrayal of it as being very left-wing, socialist, communist or whatever in the US to Hunt's remarkably timid approach to private schools. If we're considering tax breaks for private schools as the left-wing position, and not the abolition of these schools, then the discussion has moved rightwards.
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Ta. The first sentence is odd still.

The elite discussion has moved nowhere - and there's no we in this. There's one privately educated oxbridge elite boy telling a recipient of sponsored mobility that they slightly disagree on something that means nothing.
 
Profit-with-purpose

Unless we develop an intimate connection between the need for profit and the creation of value for (at least a part of) society, we will all be missing out. Until then, we'll be driving towards short-term objectives, creating placeholders that don't provide real meaning, 'motivating' people with mechanisms that create an inward looking mindset that will never be satisfied
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The inventors of the term.

The dominant story that we are told about poverty is that these people live hand-to-mouth – a storyline that leads us to treat people as passive beneficiaries rather than agents. In fact, 85% of low-income people are emerging consumers, willing and able to pay for essential products and services, if only offered, to help them to rise out of poverty and into the middle class.

The greatest untapped opportunity for businesses, and for society, is to serve this immense market. Our team pursues and fulfils this opportunity every day. We call it Profit-with-Purpose
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LeapFrog is now one of the world’s largest impact investment funds. We hope that our ongoing successes will help open the gates of the capital markets ever wider. Only then will there be the entry of sufficient private resources and talent to drive financial services to a point where, on an unprecedented scale, we end cycles of poverty.
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If we as a global community can do that, we will have fulfilled our distinctive epochal promise. We will be able to say not just that the poor are bankable but that the poor are investors. They can access capital and financial instruments, they can take risks and generate rewards; they can shape their destiny rather than it being shaped by powers beyond them. That was the promise of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, but now for the first time it could be realised not for the few and developed societies but the many and developing societies.
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Whom do you want to stab? #3356 foolishly conflated a stupid and platitudinous piece about CSR and employee/customer engagement with a piece of collateral championing emerging market investment, just because the same three word headline was used. You're better than that, though - presumably you don't stab indiscriminately.
 
Maurice Picarda said:
Whom do you want to stab? #3356 foolishly conflated a stupid and platitudinous piece about CSR and employee/customer engagement with a piece of collateral championing emerging market investment, just because the same three word headline was used. You're better than that, though - presumably you don't stab indiscriminately.
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You presumably - and anyone else who has made the choice to describe themselves - in public to strangers - as arch.
 
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