[DISSENT] Debating the Uses and Abuses of “Neoliberalism”: Forum

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/debating-uses-abuses-neoliberalism-forum

[DISSENT] Michael Waltzer: The Historical Task of the Left in the Present Period

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/historical-task-of-left-present-period-trump

[DISSENT] Nancy Fraser: Against Progressive Neoliberalism, A New Progressive Populism

Reply to Brenner by Nancy Fraser   https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/nancy-fraser-against-progressive-neoliberalism-progressive-populism

[DISSENT] Johanna Brenner: There Was No Such Thing as “Progressive Neoliberalism”

Response to Nancy Fraser   https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/nancy-fraser-progressive-neoliberalism-social-movements-response

[DISSENT] Nancy Fraser: The End of Progressive Neoliberalism

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/progressive-neoliberalism-reactionary-populism-nancy-fraser

[Washington Post] Five stereotypes about poor families and education

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/28/five-stereotypes-about-poor-families-and-education/?utm_term=.17bba70b1186

[The Guardian]Jeremy Kyle’s sadistic moralising conveys a wider social resentment

A17-year-old woman is called a thief and a crackhead and is tormented and humiliated on national television. Amid all these taunts the host of the programme, Jeremy Kyle, interrupts and pruriently informs viewers that she has a "reputation" and is said to have slept with 33 men. ITV says this did not violate broadcasting standards because, after...

[The Guardian]Poor doors: the segregation of London’s inner-city flat dwellers

Multimillion pound housing developments in London are segregating less well-off tenants from wealthy homebuyers by forcing them to use separate entrances. A Guardian investigation has discovered a growing trend in the capital's upmarket apartment blocks – which are required to include affordable homes in order to win planning permission – for the poorer residents to be forced...

[The Guardian] David Mellor caught on tape as he rages at London black-cab driver

David Mellor, a QC and former Conservative MP, called the black-cab driver a “sweaty, stupid little shit” during an argument about the route he wanted to travel. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/25/david-mellor-caught-tape-rages-black-cab-driver-london

[The Guardian]Come on, Britain – it’s the 21st century. Stop this obsession with social class

I long ago accepted that I would never understand this country’s class obsession, or get it right, and this was brought home to me with force earlier this year. In an article in this paper I described Kirstie Allsopp as “posh” – a term which, I thought, seemed pretty accurate, considering she is the daughter of the 6th Baron Hindlip...