Showing posts with label ideology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ideology. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Is terrorism more driven by identity than extremist ideology?

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How do you define, in the context of free speech, extremism? Is extremism a belief, opinion or world view beyond arbitrarily defined societa...
Monday, 18 June 2018

Historical revisionism - ideology trumps scholarship

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A depressing article about his dissertation from Jack Morgan Jones. I accept it's a one-sided piece but it sets out how a simple propos...
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Saturday, 28 April 2018

Telling stories to public health...

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Helped run a story-telling session for public health folk yesterday - my contribution included a direct challenge to their narrative - or ra...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Public health is a faith-based ideology not a science

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And I accept that you may be happy with your faith in the tenets of the public health folk. To explain, we'll start with this from the ...
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Friday, 20 May 2016

There is no such thing as neoliberalism. It's just the left's favourite straw bogeyman.

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**** There is no such thing as neoliberalism. At least not as an ideology that determines the policies of governments across the globe. Trus...
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Monday, 9 November 2015

"It's not an ideology, dear, it's a mental illness": On the medicalisation of brainwashing

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We all sort of know about brainwashing - it features in dystopic SF movies and is the sort of thing that dodgy religious cults get up to. ...
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Thursday, 30 October 2014

More politics should be local - if we want people to understand it and take part

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Sam Bowman from the Adam Smith Institute has written - taking this piece from Ezra Klein as his text - about ideology, ignorance and in...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Finding a New England

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Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath. Not the g...
Friday, 11 April 2014

Speaking up for better schools in Bradford...so Labour's education chief attacks him

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**** The Principal of Bradford successful family of academies has said some wise things about education in the city - he does so from the ...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

On the ideology of public health

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Building London's sewers - real public health work I know I rant and rave about them, complaining about their outlook, attitudes a...
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Ideology, ideology, ideology!

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At first the term "ideology" referred to the study of ideas and their origins. Over time this has transmogrified into our mode...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Is it ideology or bureaucracy? On the failings of social work.

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**** Douglas Carswell points out the cruel truth about the Daniel Pelka case: The boxes were ticked. Training was complied with. Meeti...
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Thursday, 31 May 2012

Krugman...Or When You Get Stuck Change the Subject

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**** I have just watched Paul Krugman's master class in punditry (note the use of this term rather than the term "economics"...
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Sunday, 19 February 2012

Doubt and the problem of planning - a thought on conservatism

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In recent times I’ve tried to explain to people that conservatism isn’t some form of brash, know-all ideological fix for mankind’s proble...
Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Quote of the week...

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From Alexander Illarionov, chief economic advisor to President Putin (cited in this Spectator article): "...man-hating totalitarian ide...