The real left, the pro-Western left, the second camp left, and a whole load more lefts
These blog posts all have a common theme:
P.S. if you've been following the Obama-debate in the comments here, there's lots and lots more here.
**P.P.S. "Anthony Andrews" corrected into "Andrew Anthony". I think I was getting confused by Anthony Edwards, as I kept seeing Dr Green from ER while I read the extracts from The Fall-Out.
P.P.P.S. This post has been expanded (considerably here: Between Burke and Paine in the twenty-first century
- Greater Surbiton says It is no longer Left vs Right, but pro-Western vs anti-Western, complete with a cool diagram. It's the starting point of an excellent blog post on Ignoblus.
- Excellent review of Andrew Anthony's** The Fall-Out by the Fat Man (damned with faint praise* by Jim D as "second most interesting writer to ever have been employed by the University of Hull". Actually, that's praise by faint damnation, because presumably the most interesting was Larkin).
- Two good posts at Though Cowards Flinch: Solidarity with Palestine? and Venezuela: Socialism or Second Campism.
- While many anti-anti-Zionists are not digging Barack Obama, the hardcore anti-Zionist left isn't either, says Judeosphere, which might be another reason to dig him, says Bob.
P.S. if you've been following the Obama-debate in the comments here, there's lots and lots more here.
**P.P.S. "Anthony Andrews" corrected into "Andrew Anthony". I think I was getting confused by Anthony Edwards, as I kept seeing Dr Green from ER while I read the extracts from The Fall-Out.
P.P.P.S. This post has been expanded (considerably here: Between Burke and Paine in the twenty-first century
Comments
I wish someone would compare my writing to that of Larkin's: I wouldn't consider being put second behind him any sort of "faint praise", I can assure you.