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10 March 2012
i really like how David Wearing nails Vince Cable in this tweet here.

The chutzpah of Cable. Supports most regressive economic policies in decades, then poses as voice of enlightened reason



09 March 2012
“If you keep teaching here, you are going to die and we won’t be responsible for your death.”



06 March 2012
All nationalisms are gendered, all are invented, and all are dangerous - dangerous, not in Eric Hobsbawm's sense as having to be opposed, but in the sense of representing relations to political power and to the technologies of violence.

- Anne McClintock



05 March 2012
Why don’t you tackle directly the excessive rents being charged by private landlords rather than making tenants the victim?

- Tony Blair MP, 1995



02 March 2012
There’s a building in the Cayman Islands that houses supposedly 12,000 US corporations. That’s either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam in the world.

- Barack Obama



29 February 2012
The field of vision has always seemed to me comparable to the ground of an archaeological excavation.

- Paul Virilio



26 February 2012
Mr Jozef Smole, the head of the Slovene Socialist Alliance, accused Mr Milosevic of 'pouring manure' on Slovenia in a speech that portended a Serbian 'crusade' against the northern republic, widely viewed as the most liberal part of the country. 'I am deeply offended,' said Mr Smole. 'One would not expect the president of Serbia to lower himself to such slander.'

- Ian Traynor from Vienna, in The Guardian, 25th May, 1989