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The Third Estate
http://thethirdestate.net
Founded by a group of Cambridge graduates who wanted to put their degrees to good use by setting the world to rights, The Third Estate is one of the most popular political blogs in the UK. We offer daily news, reviews and typically irreverent comment and analysis plus interviews with leading figures in politics and the media.
- Added on: Sep 16th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Salman Shaheen
- Listed in: Liberalism Green Politics
- Tags: politics news environment society socialism journalism
Recent Posts
The New Secularism and the Politics of Condescension
Guest post by Jon Storey It’s really unsurprising that the figures of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett should rise to such prominence now. The secular society and its values of free expression and scientific advance have for several years n...
Labour’s Wilderness Years: Setting the Record Straight
“Back in the 1980s the Labour party lurched to the left and made the party unelectable. Ultimately it was the hardline Labour left who were responsible for 18 grim years of Tory rule.” Ever since Blair’s landslide victory in 1997 th...
Grade Gordon
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have already written off this year’s Queen’s Speech as pointless political posturing, filled with legislation that will never see the light of day before the next general election. The implication being, neith...
Beauty and the Beast
This week the identity of one of the internet’s most infamous bloggers was revealed. Belle de Jour, who wrote anonymously about her life as a highly paid call girl turned out to be Dr Brook Magnanti, 34, a research scientist in Bristol. Cue moral o...
Democratising Energy
Guest post by Helena Wright It is so frustrating when people say ‘renewable energy is too expensive’. Surely it is obvious that when you are harnessing a renewable resource such as the sun or wind, the technology (i.e. solar panels and tu...
Disney Ad Gives Scrooge Exagerrated Semitic Features
One of the above images appeared, at the turn of the century, in an anti-Semitic Austrian newspaper. One of the images, however, is a contemporary portrayal of the legendary tight fisted businessman, Scrooge. It has gone up on posters across the Lon...
Top Notch!
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