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London’s Laundry Business
- keithpeter 13y agohttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/27/fragile-empire-russia-putin-review http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/27/fragile-empire-... Ben Judah seems interesting. I shall read more of his work. Now, how do we change things? I'd like the Labour party back myself. You know, actual socialists with a vaguely radical agenda.
- exratione 13y ago"Any moralizing remnant of the British Empire is gone; it has turned back to the pirate England of Sir Walter Raleigh." Come on - the British Empire was exactly the same under the hood as the Elizabethan Era, just wealthier and capable of far larger, lengthier, and more sophisticated acts of piracy. Fig leaves for the actions of the state change, but people are people in every age, and the goals of those with power ever remain the same.
- PaulAJ 13y ago"It boils down to this: Britain is ready to betray the United States to protect the City of London’s hold on dirty Russian money." And when exactly did we sign up to be your vassals?
- presidentender 13y agoAmerican diplomacy assumes NATO lapdogs (or vassals, as it were) and so the idea is probably that you signed a vassal contract when you went policing Europe with us during the cold war. As far as I'm concerned, any trust placed without consulting the other party is just an assumption. You defy assumptions, you don't betray them. Why is America's stance any more just than Russia's?
- iamwithnail 13y agoThat article's way off. Our buses are really clean now. But seriously, damned if i'll be lectured by an American institution on anything to do with morals or normative ethics.
- beejay 13y agoMoney, like politics makes for strange bedfellows