We learn from David Cameron that Muammar Gaddafi ‘has lied to the international community,’ Sarkozy, in more poetic vein, suggests a ‘murderous madness’ which must be stopped, and Gaddafi himself, last night (22 March), criticises the commencement of a ‘new Crusader...
I have been wondering about teaching one of the secret lives of private law; the use of the law of tort, contract and equity to regulate on-campus student protest. There is a growing online archive – of blogs, media reports and university press releases –...
Miraculous you call it babe You ain’t seen nothing yet They’ve got Pepsi in the Andes McDonalds in Tibet (Roger Waters, Amused to Death) In the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010) the United States Supreme Court, its...
The current wave of revolutionary insurrections seems to be the fastest in history. Revolutions always come in waves, but insurgent shockwaves that once expanded across continents over years or months are now making states crumble, one after another, in a matter of...
Boring life What a boring life /How could anyone surviveBoring life.(The Slits, “A Boring Life”) Punk spoke not of ideals and dreams but of boredom. For punks, the 1960s hippie dream was dead and the socialist utopias were as boring as the ideologies of...
My new rose, lets go Hey ho, let’s go Hey ho, let’s go […] They’re piling in the back seat They’re generating steam heat Pulsating to the back beat The Blitzkrieg Bop. (Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”) Even if the lyrics of punk did not always...
