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I think it's a bit too simple to say that English players rely on the class of their foreign counterparts in the league and thus can't play when they only have their fellow countrymen for company. There are plenty of players in the England squad who are - technically and athletically - very...

Off the top of my head I think that calling it the "right to revolution" is something of a misnomer. I would subscribe to some kind of Hegel-influenced model of rights, where rights exist by virtue of their being demanded and enforced. In a typical modern society, it is largely the role of the...

They didn't; the Electoral Reform society did. And of course the Guardian posted no kind of detail of the methodology of their study. I can't seem to find the publication on the ERS website. It is more than possible that is significantly at odds with what the actual outcome would have been if...

It's also worth noting that although the Tories' share of seats would have been reduced under STV (although they would remain the largest party), their share of seats in Scotland would have gone up, giving them 7, as opposed to the meagre 1 that they have now. They would also have equalled the...

If I understand correctly, the Alternative Vote would be an improvement in some ways, and in other ways would actually be worse than the first past the post system we have now: Electoral Reform Society: Alternative Vote It can end up being less proportional than FPTP, and has all kinds of...

Thanks four_five_one, and everyone else who's posted in here. I know virtually nothing about Thailand and I've been struggling to get my head around the basics of what's going on out there. I've been pretty disappointed in news coverage of the events actually. My faith in the ability of...

Shashamene is the place you're thinking of. It was set up by Haile Selassie as a place where rastas would be welcome to come and establish a new life. I think it got hit pretty hard by the junta in the late 80s but I saw a documentary (on the BBC I think) a while ago that said there were still...

Caught most of Roska's set at Format on Saturday night. Was well impressed with him as a DJ, after hearing mixed things about the new LP. I ended up having to work a surprise 10 hour shift that day and I was completely knackered, but I couldn't resist the groove. Oneman and L-Vis 1990 did it...

Cheers for the suggestions guys. Ancient Methods is pretty much the only name there I'm familiar with at all. I can sense some heavy listening sessions coming up :)

So, for someone who's a relative novice when it comes to contemporary house and techno, what would you recommend as jumping off points into the .01% of those genres that isn't stupid music for mindless sheeple? I've been flirting around the edges of producers/DJs like Shed, Theo Parrish...

Sorry to interject at this point in an interesting segue away from the thread topic... I'm generally a fan of MIA's work, but I've always thought of her pretty much as an album artist. Her LPs have a dynamic to them, and some of the songs that I think are her best (XR2, Galang) don't really...

On that topic, has anyone read Steve Goodman (aka kode9)'s book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear? I had a skim through the thread on here discussing the album he put out on Hyperdub (which I haven't heard all the way through) which I guess flirts with some of the ideas from...

That's the one. I'll keep an ear out for the name whenever I'm in the mood for some heavy bass weight :mad:

I dunno. When I meet people it's usually patently obvious to them that I'm not what you would call "white", but they also have immense difficulty fitting my ethnicity into one of the preconceived categories they have in their head. People who are of African or Caribbean origin can usually...

Caught the Deep Medi label night at MMU union in Manchester back in December. Acoustics usually aren't great in there, but a floor-to-ceiling sound system on the main wall was setting off car alarms on the street outside that night. Great definition too. I'd been drifting a little away from...

A message from Friends of Plastic People: I think there has been a problem with publicity for publicising the petition through Facebook, as that service puts limits on the representations you can make to members of large groups in order to fight spam. Hence 13,000 in the FB group and only...

Growing up in the '90s, stuff like this prejudiced me against electronic music for the best part of a decade. But now, looking back, it all seems to make some twisted kind of sense.

Dunno if anyone who's not from Manny will be interested in this (and I'm guessing massrock definitely won't be!) but if anyone wants to see that documentary Gerald was showing about Hulme in full, it's here: Couldn't really make it out on the RBMA vid. Would have thought they could manage...

Evening all. Only just stumbled across these boards today whilst on the lookout for some African house, but I saw this thread and thought I'd better register. I came across Kodwo Eshun's work fairly recently and managed to scope a few of his articles online. I was interested in checking out...