Comment on Nelson Mandela RIP by WorldbyStorm
Mandela wasn’t above criticism, I completely agree – and there were and remain significant problems with the post-apartheid dispensation, but – and this isn’t in relation to what you’re saying, I think...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Dr. X
The points about the ANC reneging on its economic programme are all correct, but they miss one very important point. This is that the turn away from the full economic programme was a necessary...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by EamonnCork
I did find it wonderful that all the clubs in English league football had a minute’s silence for Mandela when none of them had one for Thatcher.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by richotto
I think its incumbent on all of us to form an opinion on each industrial relations situation on its merits. In the ESB dispute I was struck that most of the public seemed to have an appreciation of the...
View ArticleComment on Nelson Mandela RIP by Dell Boy
First you’re peeved by the air-brushing of Mandela and the ANC, then you find the ultimate expression of such air-brushing “wonderful”. In fact so moved were you by the experience that you failed to...
View ArticleComment on The tyranny of working life by CMK
I always got the impression that once you were willing to swallow Berlin 1953, Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 that was all that was required. Oh, and not make too much of a fuss about Stalin i.e....
View ArticleComment on After Privatisation by Michael Carley
I was thinking of the banks, and a fair bit of real estate.
View ArticleComment on After Privatisation by RosencrantzisDead
You don’t really need a 50% shareholding to make an impact on a company. Anything above 25% and you have an effective veto on most important business. You will also guarantee yourself an ability to get...
View ArticleComment on The tyranny of working life by CL
Or look at the extent to which the neoliberal consensus has insinuated itself into mainstream media so that yahoos like Dan O’Brien can deny its existence.
View ArticleComment on After Privatisation by Liberius
Doesn’t that limited control though simply rely on disunity of direction amongst the other shareholders? While that’s certainly a factor in some companies it isn’t universal, and I’d be convinced that,...
View ArticleComment on After Privatisation by Dell Boy
No, it’s not an investment in any rational sense. Rational connoting the expectation that plowing resources into an enterprise will yield some positive outcome. What we have here is a rescue of banks...
View ArticleComment on The tyranny of working life by Dell Boy
Surprised there’s no mention of a cult-like formation closer to home, that’s received some comment of late. The “relentless, zombie-like defence” of dear leader referenced by Fionnan Sheahan …...
View ArticleComment on After Privatisation by RosencrantzisDead
You could face a coalition of the other 75% or even 40%, but that coalition has to band together in a monolithic form to defeat you. This is an unlikely scenario, however, since we are presuming that...
View ArticleComment on The tyranny of working life by CMK
SNAP!! http://hiredknaves.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/creative-moral-accounting/
View ArticleComment on After Privatisation by RosencrantzisDead
Yes. These private sector actors engaged in ‘irrational’ and myopic behaviour. But they did so of their own volition. The State policy was incredibly stupid, but a lot of lawyers, accountants, builders...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 11th December 2013 by CL
Maybe Michael Pearl is a former Irish Christian Brother?
View ArticleComment on Latest Irish Times Ipsos/MRBI Poll figures by CMK
Ness a the ‘truth’ will be managed, if not concealed. New narratives will emerge that will contradict existing ones. For instance, I would not be surprised to see government ministers pooh-poohing the...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 11th December 2013 by Starkadder
Possibly. There’d be the same view of children as extremely sinful and needing the harshest punishment in the old CB system (and the British public schools).
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 11th December 2013 by CL
The parasitical ruling class transcends party affiliation; it matters not if they’re in F.F, F.G or Lab, they have their own safety net. ‘Our ruling class — including many of the politicians, bankers...
View ArticleComment on When (political) distinctions are superflous by rockroots
I notice in today’s Indo that de-whipped SF Peadar Tobin confirms he too was invited to join FF (he declined, as he hopes for reconciliation with his party). It can’t be much of a stretch to imagine...
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