tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post154104860780752493..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: My Ten for OrwellPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-56640639749666125202010-01-03T16:28:03.900+00:002010-01-03T16:28:03.900+00:00Seems like a good place to plug what I wrote last ...Seems like a good place to plug <a href="http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2009/04/orwell-prize-for-blogging.html" rel="nofollow">what I wrote</a> last year on the Orwell prize.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-30516048008712677332010-01-03T16:11:36.279+00:002010-01-03T16:11:36.279+00:00Alas, if I were to win an Orwell prize for anythin...Alas, if I were to win an Orwell prize for anything I've written I would have to write an angry exposé of the Orwell Prize's loss of standards.<br /><br />On the other hand, Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize, so I suppose anything can happen.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961828826925034002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-6821387859816204762010-01-03T15:34:24.719+00:002010-01-03T15:34:24.719+00:00Oops, no, here they are:
http://steveaitch.wordpr...Oops, no, here they are:<br /><br />http://steveaitch.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/the-orwell-prize-for-blogging-addendum/Steve Hansonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-32850908880149070802010-01-03T15:24:18.746+00:002010-01-03T15:24:18.746+00:00I have no problem with lists in themselves. Just I...I have no problem with lists in themselves. Just Iain Dale's.Anton Vowlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04954959652278081079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-76220308256705852582010-01-03T13:28:46.700+00:002010-01-03T13:28:46.700+00:00Here are my ten:
http://steveaitch.wordpress.com/...Here are my ten:<br /><br />http://steveaitch.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/ten-for-the-orwell-prize-for-blogging/Steve Hansonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-41112792599815382592010-01-03T12:08:23.781+00:002010-01-03T12:08:23.781+00:00I wouldn't worry, I know I'm not going to ...I wouldn't worry, I know I'm not going to get anywhere either. It's a purely cynical audience-boosting exercise!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-4984112353940009072010-01-03T04:16:25.787+00:002010-01-03T04:16:25.787+00:00I've decided to enter - all though I'm a l...I've decided to enter - all though I'm a little hamstrung as a fair few of my better writings were articles for Socialism Today or the Socialist and are therefore ineligable. I only tended to polish the writing style properly if I was writing for publication elsewhere, so I probably haven;t a cats chance in hell of winning<br /><br />I've picked<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/01/socialists-on-criminal-justice-system.html - Commentary on Eugene V Debs article on the effects of prison labour<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-israels-leaders-be-put-before-war.html<br />I ask whether the trial of Israels leaders for war crimes that some of the anti-Gaza bombings campaigners were calling for would be a possibility.<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-run-in-with-law.html<br />My account of how certain 'anti-social behaviour' policies are money spinners for companies<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/03/brunstrom-watch-i-meet-brunstrom.html<br />My encounter with the then chief of north wales police, Richard Brunstrom<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/07/haitian-election-boycotts-masses-reject.html<br />My comments on the massive election boycott in Haiti in the summer<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/07/british-prison-in-nigeria.html<br />I pick apart the governments announcement in the summer of its intent to build a prison to house nigerian convicts currently imprisoned in Britain<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/11/out-with-bad-mercenaries-in-with.html<br />I highlight that the mercenaries the US government is hiring to replace Blackwater with are just as unsvaoury as they are<br /><br />http://andnowforsomethingcompletelysectarian.blogspot.com/2009/12/raging-against-machine.html<br />My take on the xmas number 1 battle<br /><br />http://andnowforsomethingcompletelysectarian.blogspot.com/2009/11/trotsky-on-paris-commune.html<br />I look at Trotsky's analysis of the Paris Commune and critique Donny Gluckstein's view of this<br /><br />http://andnowforsomethingcompletelysectarian.blogspot.com/2009/09/bnp-and-council-cuts.html<br />I point out the BNP's statements on making public sector cuts more severe in Kirklees<br /><br />and one that i replaced with the above at the last minute<br /><br />http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/02/naming-and-shaming.html<br />I argue that naming and shaming should be directed at 'respectable criminals' rather than petty offendersLeftwing Criminologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369810078697007763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-6875244757332783062010-01-02T23:29:00.961+00:002010-01-02T23:29:00.961+00:00I will enter as well, but I haven't worked out...I will enter as well, but I haven't worked out which ten yetandy newmanhttp://www.socialistunity.comnoreply@blogger.com