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I Intend To Escape.... And Come Back
http://www.paulstott.typepad.com
A blog dedicated to class struggle politics, parapolitics, sport and life in the London Borough of Hackney.
Recent Posts
A Dumb Animal And?
Captions please for this picture of the Respect MP George Galloway, and his elephant friend. The picture comes from GG's recent visit to Bangladesh, as part of a 21 strong Respect delegation - which you can read all about here. It would of ...
Winter 2009 Issue of Lobster Published
The December 2009 issue of Lobster, number 58, is now out. This is the first issue to be published solely online, and it can be downloaded via the Lobster website here. I'm not a great one for reading theory, or indeed any serious writing of any...
On Identity
"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.....Let us leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order". Michel Foucault "The Archaeology of Knowledge" p.17. ...
Muay Thai On Sky Sports Today
I have not written much on Boxing recently, and even less on Muay Thai. As my own training has been blown slightly off course, I have been rather out of the loop, but am delighted to hear that Sky Sports 3 is covering the MSA Muay Thai Premier League...
Rugby, Class and Bookshops
One of the joys of living in London that has not quite been snatched away in recent years, is the access to so many second hand bookshops. I say not quite, because the number has been greatly reduced - comparing Charing Cross Road today to fift...
Afghanistan: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the longest running stage show in the world. Here it is the actors and the audience that change, but never the plot or the ending. Reading Olivier Roy's "Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan" ...


Proving that humour and hard-headedness go with class politics.
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