LM127

Russell Grinker grinker at mweb.co.za
Fri Jan 28 11:18:14 PST 2000



>LM127 IS NOW ONLINE: FEBRUARY 2000
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>Feature: 'New e-conomy: don't blow IT'
>Despite all the hype about IT and e-commerce, says Phil Mullan, a shortage
of investment and ambition risks wasting the real opportunities provided by new technology
> http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM127/LM127_Mullan.html
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>Editorial: 'Exploiting the Holocaust'
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> 'The Nazi Holocaust has acquired its elevated status as perhaps the
last moral absolute in an uncertain world. Ours is a post-traditional society in which it seems ever-harder for those in authority to create a consensus about what is right and wrong on issues ranging from road building to child-rearing, from GM food to fertility treatment. How comforting, then, to be able to fall back on the Holocaust as one issue where all decent citizens can agree that there remains a clear line between Good and Evil.' Mick Hume on the exploitation of the Holocaust.
> http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM127/LM127_Edit.html
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>OTHER ARTICLES THIS ISSUE:


>'Free speech on trial':
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> 'The most worrying aspect of the UK libel law is the effect it has on
free speech. If authors, editors or publishers have the smallest inkling that the truth of a proposition cannot be proven in court (even when made in good faith), the knowledge that they would have less than a one-in-five chance of success in a libel trial means that the story is most likely to be dropped.' Helene Guldberg, legal
> coordinator of LM's libel defence, examines the iniquities of English
libel law.
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>'Tony Blair's therapeutic state':
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> 'The subject of the therapeutic state is the vulnerable or the victim,
above all the child - hence the emblematic significance of child poverty in the rhetoric of New Labour. The government's emphasis on the feebleness of the individual in society serves to justify its drive to intrude more and more into the regulation of everyday life...' Michael Fitzpatrick on New Britain, where we are not citizens, but clients.


>'Making the ordinary extraordinary':
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> 'For Sillitoe, writing about working-class people was a way of imbuing
them with "a kind of dignity": "Here they were, in writing, in literature, and that can be all right, a dignifying experience." But today the working classes seem only to appear in literature and film as objects of ridicule...' Writer Alan Sillitoe talks to Brendan O'Neill about the degradation of the working-class hero.
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>'Returning fire':
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> 'Unlike popular psychology, Cathy Young's interest is not in the
everyday tensions and conflicts that arise in intimate relationships. "When it comes to treating one another badly on a personal level, men and women generally give as good as they get", she says. Young is more concerned with the sex war being waged at the level of feminist theory and how it impacts upon academia, legal reform, education, health and family policy, and popular culture.' Cathy Young, author of Ceasefire, a fresh
> challenge to American feminism, talks to Jan Macvarish about why the
personal should be anything but political.
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