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The journalist walked off after claiming his co-panelist and host were trying to ‘deflect’ attention from the fact that Omar Mateen deliberately attacked gay people. 
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Progressives should be appalled by European Union’s ruination of Greece. It’s time to reclaim the Eurosceptic cause
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The French economist tells Owen Jones about his extraordinary year – including his sudden rise to stardom and his battles to defend his ideas
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Russell Brand talks to Guardian columnist Owen Jones about capitalism, democracy and his new book Revolution. He says revolution isn't just possible, but inevitable. Brand was speaking at a Guardian Live event at the Emmanuel Centre in London in October. The event, run in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas, was broadcast live to more than 200 cinemas.
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In the red corner: Russell Brand, the Hollywood sybarite and cockney yogi who has travelled a path from drug addiction to enlightment, and now political action. His new book Revolution is a call to arms for the disenfranchised in Britain, those who feel underserved or outright ignored by the powers that be, and aims to catalyse them with a typically manic mix of transcendental meditation, Thomas Piketty and the 12 steps.
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Having caricatured the working classes in his first book, Owen Jones caricatures the ruling classes in his second. Where in Chavs the less well-off were held aloft by our pitying author as the ‘victims of social problems’, ‘vulnerable’, and ‘lacking… toys, days out, good food’, in The Establishment the rulers of society are denounced as ‘venal’, ‘greedy’, ‘despicable’, ‘zealots’, ‘scroungers’, and possibly even psychopathic. To read Jones’ books is to enter into a super-moralistic world in which all shades of grey have been banned for fear of muddying the narrative. There are only the put-upon and the putters-upon. It must be nice to live in such a binary moral universe. I wish I lived there.
jean lievens's insight:
well, what would you ha-ve expected from this critic? :)
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When British politics reaches a low ebb, I find myself turning to YouTube. Not just for videos of skateboarding cats or dogs that don't want to have baths: sometimes, I'll cheer myself up with a speech made by the 1970s US civil rights icon Harvey Milk. "There's hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow," he tells a cheering audience. "I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it life is not worth living." Ah, what a line.
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MediaFire is a simple to use free service for that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.
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Why do private-sector zealots choose to ignore the countless ways public money underpins daily life?
Clutch your mobile phone close to your bosom, stroke it tenderly, and praise the Fairy Godmother of Free Market Capitalism that you’re not walking around with an obscene brick stuck to your ear, a breadstick aerial reaching towards the heavens.
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Labour supporting blogger Owen Jones talks about Karl Marx. Recorded from BBC Daily Politics, 01 Novoember 2013.
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Britain is now suffering the longest fall in living standards since Queen Victoria sat on the throne.
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