86 - Dunt Look Back in Anger
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English - December 15, 2021 21:13 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For ALE's December theme of liberalism we go back to the moment that makes liberals misty eyed, the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Rivers, railways and roads, the Churchill statue waving, the green mound that turns into an industrial hell, Kenneth Branagh, The Queen and James Bond jumping out of helicopters, Mary Poppins and the NHS beds jazz sequence...
A high watermark for the Kingdom or a revealing window into the papier mâché heart of 21st Century liberalism? Who can say?
Second Row Socialists on Twitter
Alternative Left Entertainment
The Complete London 2012 Opening Ceremony
Nick Clegg backs face-sitting protesters over UK porn ban - Andrew Grice in The Independent (2020)
Industrial Revolution sequence from the ceremony
Brunel giving Caliban's speech from The Tempest
The Queen and James Bond sequence from the ceremony
Carl Schmitt at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
NHS sequence from the ceremony
Eclipse section from the ceremony
"WHEN ERIC CLAPTON’S BIGOTED 1976 RANT SPARKED ROCK AGAINST RACISM"
What the Olympics didn’t say about Britain’s place in the world - Eric Taylor Woods (2012)
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Jodi Dean in LARB (2020)
Does Neo-Feudalism Define Our Current Epoch? - Louis Proyect for Counterpunch (2020)