Re: Britain/US split?

2001-09-25 Thread Mark A Jones
At 25/09/2001 09:02, Michael Keaney wrote: Penners Previous posts with this and other subject headings have broached the subject of Britain's dilemma vis a vis the US and the EU. I've been following with great interest these postings by Michael Keaney. One of the reasons why the talk about "Empi

Re: Britain/US split?

2001-09-20 Thread Tom Walker
Rob Schaap wrote, >The politics of floating signifiers, for mine. & dem bones is fossils. Tom Walker Bowen Island, BC 604 947 2213

Re: Britain/US split?

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Devine
Michael the K wrote: >. But the "public" sector, so called, is in deep crisis owing to >systematic starvation of investment that predates Thatcher but was >intensified by her, and has continued up to now. Another of Judt's >musings that I could not understand was his waxing lyrical over >"swinging

Re: Britain/US split?

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Tony Judt book from UC Press on the French Left intelligentsia is quite a rollicking read, though. Funnier and more polemical than Mark Poster book from Princeton Univ. Press. (See his website at UCI, the book is o.p. but, he has scanned it all.) Course, nothing beats, Regis Debray, "Teachers

RE: Britain/US split?

2001-08-20 Thread Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)
I experienced a little bit of this when I was recently in the UK. As I mentioned earlier, I attended a play called "Feel Good" in London that is a satire of Blair, written, apparently, by a member of old-labor. More to the point, I needed to take the train from London to York and back. By U.S.

Re: Britain/US split?

2001-08-20 Thread Mark Jones
At 20/08/2001 12:24, Michael Keaney wrote: >Penners > >Way back on 25 May, Mark Jones wrote: > >"Norman Tebbit seems to think, along with Margaret Thatcher, that >political > salvation for the Tories lies in strengthening the 'Special >Relationship', > and prioritising Britain's US con