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'Heresies' and 'the Two Faces of Liberalism' are a fair approximiation of his political thought.

People are very happy to throw around the convenient and eminently quotable parts of John Gray's arguments - namely, that modern Western culture's belief in progress is no more than judaeo-Christian eschatology stripped of the belief in original sin. However, his alternative to his much derided...

I think the environmental point is emblematic of the problem with political/public discorse at the moment. People ignore the acheivements NL have secured - poverty reduction, Surestart, low unemployment, minimum wage etc - and use Iraq and alienation from Blair as a fit-all battering ram. I...

ok, however far off it may be, wouldn't a better idea (than american intervention) be a functioning European army, or more realistically some kind of revived Nato that had and was prepared to use force? What the world needs most now is America being drawn back into a multilateral foreign policy...

do you want a media that only criticises the party in power? obviously, the role of a well functioning foruth estate is a critical one, but ideally it should be constructive. Are people like Polly Toynbee Blairite toadies because she's willing to explicate issues like Sure Start and poverty...

apart from her suddenly deciding that accepting an honour would be a good idea after all, of course. very republican and true to principles that. Surely a good journalist is one who makes you think and, therefore, the best journalists aren't those who simply stroke your egos and existing...

you should only write a history of private security if you do it in medieval french and include the suffix ur-ismicity at the end of every second word. Seriously, it sounds like an interesting project. Monsieur Effy, you're knowledge of Deleuze doesn't give you the right to call me 'son' and...

um, sorry don't know how to do the quote boxes, but xpost "Whilst I agree with you about theoretical fanaticism, this is just anti-intellectual bollocks. The reason people talk in the 'riddled language' is that the stuff they're talking about is difficult and requires a certain amount of...

hanway street. the albert bridge late at night. the limehouse basin.

to IT, xpost, no of course i don't think that all theory is bollocks. i like a lot of it, but i like it when it promotes questioning rather than insists on its own vadlity. I would also like theoreticians to engage with populist writers like Hitchens or Hari more and meet in the middle rather...

i guess my gripe with the way things seem to be going here is people's fanatical adherence to theoretical systems and the arrogance that results. ie Claims that reading certain theory will give you a universal template for understanding all human experience. You tear down one oppressive system...

why is it that theory in these forums is so centred on deleuze, guatarri, zizek etc. i'm tempted to think that Dissensus, like the nu-look K-punk, has become little more than a course discussion group at a third-rate university. Cold rationalism, decoding the human OS, Utopian fantasies of a...