Listing Details
| ID: | 2047 |
| Title: | Neil Clark |
| URL: | http://neilclark66.blogspot.com/ |
| Category: | Society: Politics: Great Britain |
| Description: | Political blog of a teacher and newspaper journalist with a socially conservative left-wing outlook. |
| Eastern Europe's neoliberal disaster provides a warning for the Arab spring - 2012-05-21 08:29:00 |
 This article of mine appears on The Guardian'sComment is Freewebsite. Neil Clark: Rather than help enhance democracy and reduce corruption, following western advice on privatisation does the exact opposite. I wonder if David Cameron spent any time in eastern Europe in the 1990s. Judging from his recent remarks about the Arab spring and international aid, the British prime minister seems to believe that having a more "open" and "free", ie privately owned, economy is the key to both economic development and a successful transition from one-party rule. The evidence from the former communist countries gives lie to that neoliberal viewpoint. You can read the whole articlehere  |
| Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks charged with perverting the cause of justice - 2012-05-16 09:23:00 |
 The Weekreports: FORMER News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie have been charged along with four other people of perverting the course of justice in relation to the phone hacking scandal. That's right. The former CEO of what, not so very long ago, was the UK's most powerful newspaper group charged with a crime which can carry a sentence of life imprisonment. But as The Mole reportshere,NI's problems are only just beginning. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!  |
| The Wrong Munro - 2012-05-15 14:41:00 |
 As a huge fan of the Edwardian comic writer Hector Hugh Munro aka Saki (I wrote anappreciation pieceon him for the Daily Telegraph a few years back), I was very pleased to see the great man’s photograph in the new edition of the Radio Times- page 106, above the caption: Munro: Mountain Man 8.00pm . Profile of Victorian adventurer Hugh Munro. ....Nicholas Crane visits some of Scotland's most spectacular peaks as he explores the legacy of Victorian adventurer Hugh Munro, whose lofty ambition it was to climb and list all of Scotland's mountains that stand over 3,000 ft. ' I've read nearly all of Saki's work and also a biography of him and so it was a huge surprise to read that he was, in addition to his other talents, a mountaineer whose ‘lofty ambition it was to climb and list all of Scotland’s mountains that stand over 3,000 ft’. I think perhaps the man whose photo the Radio Times should have used wasthis other Hugh Munro. I'm sure Saki, with his wonderful sense of humour, would have seen the funny side of it!  |