after the Badiou piece you linked i've started to check out that Lacan URL in general
i hope to win the approval of Nomad (and the, er, disapproval of Ollie) quite possibly.
my glib endorsement of that Shiraz Socialist piece aside, i think Crackerjack teases out some of the key points of this very well.
the fact that sympathy strikes are breaking out across the UK is interesting.
does one feel cheered that concepts of solidarity are bubbling under, or does one feel a bit indifferent as the strikes are grounded in the sort of impulse that will not harm the BNP? (as Crackerjack has noted.)
or both of course, i suppose. (writes a white-collar guy from his warm room on his laptop..)
Gordon Brown's British jobs may well become a similar millstone - from a strict UK media pov at the least - to Tony 'PFI' Blair on education, or John 'not a shot fired' Reid.
i read a pretty interesting article in Prospect recently arguing - IIRC - that protectionism was no bad thing for developing economies, which seems fair to me. if i can find it again (i cleared my cache) i'll put the URL on thread.