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The integrity of Greens
Adam has an interesting post up on how Labour running the Vote Green-Get Blue tactic may be misguided. I agree, but not for the reasons Adam gives.
For Adam, the Green surge is because:
[w]ith another hung parliament now a racing certainty with the bookies, voters know that a vote for the smaller parties is no longer necessarily a wasted one.
In a first past the post system, this doesn't really hold water. If people are making decisions about their vote, everyone outside a very small number of constituencies (Brighton, Norwich South, just possibly Bristol West and St Ives), knows that their vote will be "wasted" in terms of the meaning Adam accords it – the Greens taking or not taking the seat in May. Even the extension of this theory, that this vote builds towards victory in 2020, seems a bit ambitious.
Nor am I as convinced as Adam appears to be that most voters make their voting decisions on the basis of its likely effect on the result. Witness, for example, the small but significant "wasted" Labour votes in rock solid Tory constituencies, and vice versa, which has taken place for decades.
But the nationwide surge of the Greens in the polling appears to be real, as does the increase in membership. The question is what explains this surge, if it isn't the prospect of victory.
An alternative explanation lies in the opposite direction from the utilitarian calculations assumed by Adam. This is that, in the terms of the godfather of anti-utilitarianism Bernard Williams, Green voters are developing "integrity".
In the Williams sense of the term, integrity doesn't mean honesty. It simply means that a person's decisions are made on the basis not of other agents' views on what the best outcome is – this for Williams is a philosophical absurdity [1] – but on the basis of that person's own 'project'.
Of course, Williams is offering a normative account, in response to the normative proposals of utilitarians, of how society might properly conduct itself, and he produces little or no empirical evidence that people actually make decisions on this basis. Nevertheless, it rings true. My own experience of talking to Green voters – both friends/work colleagues and on the doorstep – is that people are more likely than they used to be to say "I'm a Green", as opposed to "I vote/am voting Green". This suggests a level of internalisation of what it means to support the Green party, in the same way that we still hear "we're Labour in this house". By contrast, it's not something I hear lot from people saying they intend to vote UKIP.
It's possible, then, that what we're seeing now – and perhaps membership is a more important indicator than polling – is the Green party starting to become an "integral" part of some people's being, with the result that more people vote Green simply because that is what they do and who they are.
There is not necessarily any contradiction between this and the apparent swift surge in the polling and membership; the idea of making decisions in line with some kind of internal 'project' doesn't mean that this project is not internalised swiftly from external factors, including press coverage. Over a longer timespan, it may be that younger people are more open to taking on being Green as part of an internal project because they have studied ecological issues at school, and are simply more aware of the detail. [2]
It may be that social theorist Anthony Giddens was right, way back in 1991, when she suggested that at least one section of modern society will move beyond "emancipatory politics" and towards "life politics", and via this transition reclaim what Giddens calls their "ontological security", a concept which seems quite close to Williams' agential integrity.
Good for them. Most of the Greens I meet are OK people, and at a personal level I wish them well. But the issue for socialists is , of course, precisely that it is only one section of society who is benefiting from this stage of late modernism. As Giddens notes:
Life politics presumes (a certain level of) emancipation, in both the main senses….: emancipation form the fixities of tradition and form conditions of hierarchical domination…Life politics does not primarily concern the conditions which liberate us in order to make choices: it is a politics of choice. While emancipatory politics is a politics of life chances, life politics is a of lifestyle (p.214).
As a Labour person, ontologically secure in my loyalty to the Labour party because of what I have internalised about it, the rise of the Greens obviously concerns me. From a Williams/Giddens reading, it actually concerns me more than the rise of UKIP, which is currently profiting from a phase of deep ontological insecurity, but which does not currently at least threaten to consolidate a group of people who are 'integrally UKIP' [3].
The rise of the Green party concerns me because it remains fundamentally a bourgeois party, with no organisational links to the working class and no real heart for emancipatory struggle [4]. I'm not talking here about specific policy stances, which range form the sensible (citizen's income) to the downright stupid (opposing water fluoridation [5]). I'm talking about what makes Greens tick, and it's not the emancipatory ideal and the re-embedding of worker-consumer duality that make me tick.
As Adam says then, combating the Greens with 'Vote Green, Get Blue' messaging will not, for the reasons I've set out, be effective; indeed, it may help reinforce Green "integrity". The only real way for Labour to shore up its vote in the longer term against the Green surge is to reinvigorate the Labour 'life project', so that Labour people can become whole again. Again, this isn't (mostly) about policy detail, though that helps. It's about, at a local level, ridding ourselves of the bastardised version of 'community organising', which under Arnie Graf promotes the efficient but angry consumer instead of collectivist action. At a national level, it's about allowing that to happen e.g. through allowing and facilitating the development of Modern Trades Councils as associative endeavours with ever-increasing legitimacy. It's about people feeling the Labour impulse.
[1] Williams' famous thought experiment to explore this is the story of Jim, faced with the dilemma of shooting one hostage to free twenty others, or not taking a life and knowing that all 20 will die. For Williams, the utilitarian argument for the former option is, literally, "absurd" since it
demand[s] of such a man, when the sums come in from the utility network which the projects of others have in part determined, that he should just step aside from his own project and decision and acknowledge the decision which utilitarian calculation requires. It is to alienate him in a real sense from his actions and the source of his action in his own convictions. It is to make him into a channel between the input of everyone's projects, including his own, and an output of optimific decision; but this is to neglect the extent to which his projects and his decisions have to be seen as the actions and decisions which flow from the projects and attitudes with which he is most closely identified. It is thus, in the most literal sense, an attack on his integrity.
At a personal level, this argument strikes a chord in relation to my father's bombing of Dresden which, while an understandable act in utilitarian terms, did – I have cause to believe – leave him with a life that lacked some integrity, in the Williams sense of the word. This is not to argue that bombing civilians was ethically wrong in the context of the war – indeed Williams argument is part of his anti-ethics philosophy, but the fetishisation of the military over the last twenty years, in a way which fails to recognise what killing people actually means for those who do the killing as well as the killed – does concern me.
[2] There may be a more mundane explanation for the rise. It may simply be that more voters are now saying they'll vote Green simply because they've not had an option to do so at local elections, in which Green candidates only make an occasional appearance in many areas.
[3] My nagging fear remains that, although UKIP may fade as an electoral force after May, or at least sfter a referendum on EU membership, and when the buffoon Farage goes, the empty institutional architecture of the party will be taken over by an authoritarian demagogue able to convert the insecurities of modern life, including terrorism, into the securities of something much darker, taking a large section of current UKIP sympathizers with her/him (it would almost certainly be a him). Williams-style integrity doesn't have to be a good thing.
[4] In this I disagree politely with Phil, who contends that the Green party has been transformed into a genuinely socialist party no longer dominated by what he calls "deep Greens" (in my area these have been the only ones on public view for many years, though they tend only to come out at election time).
[5] It's not just that this is anti-science, around which even Bernard Williams softened his stance. It's the whole notion that personal choice must outweigh public health benefits at all costs, which seems strangely at odds with the call for collective action on the environment in general. If this logic applies to fluoridation, why won't it apply vaccination, with resulting in the consequences of loss of herd immunity?
[Edited 22/01 to correct Bristol South to West.]
Steve Bruce and the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis
Last week, somewhat less noticed than it might have been but for the Paris attack, premier league football manager Steve Bruce gave us his commentary on the conviction of Ched Evans for rape. Here's what he said:
Yes, I spoke with Simon [the Oldham FC chairman who tried to sign Evans] I've known Sing for a lot of years now, and know that in his mind – he'd looked at the case too, and when you look at the evidence before everybody, I think he was of the opinion to give the kid a chance.
In my mind he has looked at the case and evidence and he was of the opinion to give the kid a chance. I'm a big believer that if you have done your time, you've done your time. Everyone deserves a second chance. You've seen footballers involved in accidents, and given a second chance, which I can only say, on behalf of myself ad I know I might bee upsetting people, that when you do look at the case in depth, in detail, then there is a question of the rape and how he's been convicted of it by a jury, but when you do look at the evidence, it is there for appeal.
[cut in footage]
It has divided opinion of course, and I think when you look at the case in detail – and I think most people haven't really, because they've just seen Ched Evans as a convicted rapist – but when you do look at the case and look at the evidence, before everybody to see, then certainly Ched has got a case, and I'm a big believer that if you've done your time, you've done your time, and everybody deserves a second chance. We've seen footballers involved with accidents and been given a second chance and for me, the appeal can't come quick enough for Ched. It must be a frustrating, difficult time for him, like it is with everybody, and I think the appeal can't quick enough for him and I think that the event of the appeal will see for that Ched will be allowed to play football again.
Bruce has been widely criticized for suggesting that he might know something a jury that sat through the evidence doesn't know. For myself, I don't care what he thinks, but the way he conveys his belief that Evans may be innocent is interesting.
Bruce starts hesitantly, evidence that he knows he is on unfamiliar, risky territory. The way he gets into his stride is to adopt the grammatical structure of the football pundit, slipping naturally into the mix of present and present perfect tense that you hear all the time on Match of the Day to describe recent action: "he's looked at the evidence", "Ched's got a case", "how he's been convicted" etc.. Listen again, and it sounds very much like he's doing a post-match interview, and is aggrieved at a decision – something along the lines of: "he's gone down in the box, he's had his legs taken from under him, clear as day, but the ref's not seen it, that's a shocking decision, that is, Gary", and so on.
You can even sense where Bruce might have gone with his analysis: "Sure, he's done her, but it's not malicious, and she's already on her way down. It's a yellow card at most, never a red". To be fair to Bruce, he doesn't go in this direction, but there's a televisual quality about the way he questions how the jury has come to its decision, as though he and his viewers are looking at the replay from the side-on angle, and then criticizing the linesman for getting it wrong. In Bruce's mind now, as he gets into his flow, he has actually seen what needs to be seen, and he's made the right call because he's a top manager, and that's what top managers do.
I think there may be two phenomena at play here:
First, there's linguistic determinism, of the (arguably Wittgensteinian) Whorf-Sapir hypothesis type. Bruce slips into the language with which he's familiar, and this structures his thoughts; he has to give an opinion, because that's the role of the pundit, and he has to talk the 'viewer' through the action. It's his very expertise as a football pundit that creates his failure to step back from the abyss.
Second, there's the cult of managerialism on display from both interviewer and interviewee. Bruce, despite knowing he's on unfamiliar ground, can't resist taking his managerial competence in one area and seeking to apply it to another, with disastrous consequences. Nor, it seems, can the interviewer (or the editorial team setting the questions) recognize that Bruce is a football manager, and that he's really quite unlikely to have anything useful to say about a rape conviction.
As I've said, I've no interest in Steve Bruce, but the way he conducts himself in this interview arguably offers a wider lesson. If Wittgenstein's maxim (5.6) that "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" holds true for a football manager, why would it different for other managers, or politicians*? If they can't speak fluently a language other than management, then it's cognitively-linguistically impossible for them to grasp anything beyond what that language constructs for them. This, then, creates an empirically sound argument for worker representation on boards, and for diversification of background in parliament, for example, and for a democratization of decision-making in the interests of sounder and public services.
Meanwhile, Steve Bruce should stick with football.
* Roger tells me that Alistair Campbell's new book may be full of stuff about how politicians can learn about successful management from footballers, though neither of us are going to read it.
Dealing with deflation the Kalecki way
In 1942 Kalecki said of "so called 'economic experts'":
Obstinate ignorance is usually a manifestation of underlying political motives (p.324)
There's evidence of this phenomenon in George Osborne's previewed speech to the Royal Economic Society, in which he gives a fairly reasonable explanation* of how the deflation mechanism works:
There [in the eurozone] the debate has understandably turned to the dangers of deflation – the risk of a self-reinforcing spiral where economic activity falters, consumers defer purchases* as prices fall and nominal debt burdens become ever harder to manage.
Why then, we might ask, does he not appear to understand the self-reinforcing mechanisms at work when it comes to austerity? We can, following Kalecki, assume underlying political motives for not getting that bit; 'real'** falls in inflation are on the European mainland , not (yet) here, and anyway prices falling relative to wages is something to be celebrated in the last four months of Tory government, given the possible juxtaposition of the Bank of England having to deal with deflation in the first year of a Labour government.
In any event, a key question for a new Labour-led government is likely to be, at the very least, how do we work with our European partners to help them out of the deflationary spiral, with its negative effects on our own economy. At worst, it will be what steps need to be taken to stop our own deflationary spiral, if the Bank of England's monetary tools prove to be ineffective.
Here, again, I think the answer may lie with Kalecki. He argues for an annual capital tax to match the government borrowing required to maintain full employment (now a rather quaint notion), so that the GDP/debt ratio falls in the context of inflation:
If full employment is maintained by Government spending financed by borrowing, the National Debt will continuously increase. This need not, however, involve any disturbances in output and employment, if interest on the Debt is financed by an annual capital tax. The current income after payment of capital tax of some capitalists will be lower and of some higher than if the National Debt had not increased, but their aggregate income will remain unaltered and their aggregate consumption will not be likely to change significantly. Further, the inducement to invest in fixed capital is not affected by a capital tax because it is paid on any type of wealth. Whether an amount is held in cash or Government securities or invested in building a factory, the same capital tax is paid on it and thus the comparative advantage is unchanged. And if investment is financed by loans it is clearly not affected by a capital tax because it does not mean an increase in wealth of the investing entrepreneur. Thus neither capitalists' consumption nor investment is affected by the rise in he National Debt if interest on it is financed by an annual capital tax (p.323)
The key concept in Kalecki's proposal is that capitalists can have it one of two ways. They can invest, or they can be taxed.
Either way, there's investment. It is reasonable to assume that, in these circumstances, shareholders would look for managers good at spotting and exploiting investment opportunities, so that they get bigger dividends from big turnover, rather than just allowing tax to be levied.
That was 70 years ago, in wartime, when taxing capitalists seemed pretty reasonable. 70 years later, a direct annual tax on profit will no longer pass the political acceptability test, but their does remain an alternative which, while a somewhat different and more politically salable mechanism, might achieve the same end of persuading firms (probably those above a certain size) to spend. This could be branded a non-investment levy, whereby firms that do not invest a certain percentage of their profits become liable for a levy at or greater than that percentage. This simply switches the sequence, away from the war-time assumption that the government knows how best to invest the levy receipts in order to attain full employment, towards the more 21st century conception that firms know best where to invest, but that in a deflationary spiral it is their corporate social responsibility to do so. This may or may not be the case, but a sub-optimal strategy is better than none at all. A levy which a government can celebrate not being levied may be an attractive proposition.
The non-investment levy would need to be agreed at European level (similar to the proposed Financial Transaction Tax) in order to prevent not just relocation but also the tendency of firms to seek out imports (capital or labour) from countries where prices are falling. Thus a European levy would make sense to British interests, if Europe goes earlier and deeper into deflation. Further, tax authorities may need to establish definitions of spending which exclude those which drive up commercial and residential property prices and create even greater inequalities.
But I suspect all of this is manageable, if there is political will. Richer European countries entering deflation*** will be a scary moment which might just trigger that political will, but the solution to the problem as it then expresses itself will need to be ready and waiting at the top of the bin, or else another one will be picked out. Labour should be helping develop that solution even now.
* It's not that good an explanation. The issue is as much firms reluctance to invest because prices will be lower later as it is consumers deferring purchases. Chris's explanation is much better, of course
** In fact, as I showed here, Osborne's claim that the steepness of the oil price falls are as much to with the earlier steep climb caused directly by Cameron's disastrous foreign policy as they are by the current oversupply (from new fracking sources etc).
*** Poorer ones are already in deflation, but they don't count politically. They would, though, back the new levy.
The Paris march and the garbage can model
Readers will have seen, I think, that 17 people were shot dead last week in Paris, by gunmen associating themselves with Daech and Al Qaeida Yemen, who were also killed.
These were brutal murders. Within a few hours, though, even before four people were killed at a supermarket, the actions were being seen less as murder, and more as terrorist attacks on freedom of expression. This was because some of the people killed were journalists at a satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The twitter hashtag #jesuischarlie, expressive of solidarity with the aims or ethos of the magazine, which takes some pride in its no-holds barred depiction of religion and religious figures, quickly became established, and remained at the top of twitter's hashtag rankings until after enormous marches in France at the weekend. These marches also became gestures in support of freedom of expression. They were not primarily gestures against people being murdered.
This, I think, is a good example of the Garbage Can Model, as conceived by Cohen, March & Olsen, in action. According to the model, actors rummage around "in the garbage" for a solution which may or may not fit with the problem. In this case, the core problem – people murdered in cold blood and the possibility of more – is met with a 'solution' which not entirely coincidentally coincides with a media elite. As Fligstein and McAdam show, the courses of action that do get chosen are not chosen at random. They are chosen because those with material and institutional power are able to ensure that they are in the right place at the right time, unless others with less power coalesce and share resources with sufficient skill (or luck).
This reminds me a little of the debate on these pages several years ago about a thing called the Convention on Modern Liberty, in which I and my erstwhile colleague Dave took issue with purportedly radical resources being directed towards of a conference, featuring the great and the good, about the need to defend civil liberties:
For me and Dave, the liberal, metropolitan elite which soaks up human and financial resources in the name of civil liberties and 'reform' are, in part, responsible for the fact that since the second world war there have been no further major material advances for labour, and why over the last 30 years capital has got away with rolling back many of the concessions that labour had extracted.
Why, Dave and I would question, is it appropriate to join coalitionary force with them when they insist on seeking to undertake actions which history has proven provide for lesser material gain for labour than working class militancy?
But it also reminds me more directly of the Rotherham sex abuse scandal, in which those with sufficient influence imposed a narrative quite out of keeping with the findings of the Jay report, and insisted that the ways to stop children being sexually abused is to stop being 'politically correct' and start shouting at social workers. As I pointed out, in the real world what might help stop abuse is for a) social workers to be empowered to get on with their work with families, to ensure that young people feel safe at home; b) police to focus, in both their investigative and preventative roles, in a 'race blind' manner on what circumstances create opportunities for predators to prey on young people (takeaways, poorly regulated taxi firms, and young people who feel unsafe at home.
This, I suggested, would be a socialist response, in that it understands the dialectic of structure and agency, as well as the Overton window. It seeks to stop people being harmful agents, but it also seeks to change the structure so that being a harmful agent comes to be less and less a rational choice.
So too, a socialist response to the Paris attacks is little to do with marching for a solution to a non-problem* – does anyone really think that the two terrorists who killed journalists were motivated by insult to the prophet, rather than a desire for a dramatic display of new-found power? The real response is to look at the conditions that made these two men, angry failures, into brutal killers. The real response for socialists is to argue for the resources needed to improve the lives of all in the Parisian banlieue, so that the prospect of a good job and (male) self-respect starts to shove violent crime beyond what can be seen through the Overton window. This isn't to deny their agency – they did what they did, while millions of French men in similar situations did not – but it is to address a problem with a solution that fits the problem.
* This is not to say the 3 million people were wrong to march, even in a march quickly co-opted by their states' leaders for their own purpose. The march behind the leaders was one of genuine solidarity, but it is only a start, and it will be for naught if Europe's leaders now return to type.
Oil prices and the price of Cameron
As the election campaign gets underway, Cameron's record in office is coming under review, including by David Schneider and at greater length, Eoin Clarke. What surprises me a little is that neither of these pay any attention to his foreign policy record. Indeed, I've seen nothing for ages has any comment on the Coalition's foreign policy (other than towards the EU) in the context of the election.
This seems a little odd, given how disastrous it's been. I'm thinking especially of Cameron's PR intervention in Egypt in the heady Arab Spring of 2011, followed by his orchestrating role in the Libyan war, followed again by the PR. We'll leave aside here the effect Western intervention had on the Syrian uprising and the opportunities that opened up for the carnage and chaos we see today, as attribution is difficult to evidence however much common sense suggests a causal link, but there is little doubt that Western intervention in Libya, whatever the intentions, have led directly to the situation we see in Libya today, as well as to other instability in Mali and other Sahel states.
Of course international events get pushed to one side in a domestic election, but perhaps things would be different in this case if we looked at the direct effects on the UK economy of Cameron's 2011 adventures. Again, precise attribution is not possible, but we can at least take a stab, with a focus on oil.
Oil prices rose steadily in the 2000s with demand growth in China, settling at around $70/barrel before a big spike to $135/barrel (Iraq and continued Chinese demand) was followed by a collapse to below $50/barrel with the financial crisis. It seems reasonable therefore to take $70/barrel as a baseline price, as it returned and steadied there or just above in the early recovery. See the chart below (source).
Prices then rose rapidly again to around $120/barrel, with this rise largely driven by the war in Libya and collapse in production/export there. It seems reasonable to attribute around 50% of that rapid rise to the Libyan war, and therefore to UK government action, on the basis that around 50% of world oil supply 'outage' has been because of Libyan non-productio both during the war then later as the state has collapsed (see chart):
UK consumption during this period has been around 1.5 million barrels per day, or around 500 million per year.
If we do attribute 50% of the ($120-$70) $50/barrel additional price paid, we find an additional yearly cost to the UK economy of around ($25 x 500million barrels) $12.5 billion. Over, say a two period during which this attribution may be valid, then it might be argued that Cameron's lust for foreign policy glory has cost the UK economy around $25 billion, in addition to the direct costs of waging the war (government calculations suggest about £320 million). Such a figure puts into perspective the £1.9bn Gordon Brown is argued to have traded away on gold.
Now, of course these calculations are approximate, and of course attribution can be argued up, down, or away, and I'm not arguing that they appear in election posters (I'm not convinced Labour could quite get way with that). My main point is that overt policy decision-making such as austerity may actually have less impact (as Chris notes, sub-optimal may not be a disaster at aggregate level*) than actions which results from a governing mode and from the entrenched attitudes and beliefs of the governing elite. As I argued during the Libyan war from a Bulpittian statecraft perspective, in which Cameron is a reluctant Thatcherite but natural High Tory:
Cameron and his upper-class coterie find themselves drawn towards the 'high politics' of Libya. This is the territory in which they feel instinctively more comfortable, and it was noticeable that Osborne in particular suddenly looks all the more at ease in TV interviews. This is not the stuff of confrontational party politics, but an arena where consensus within the Westminster village can be assumed (largely because of the trajectory of the Parliamentary Labour Party), and where they get to look statesmanlike without also having to pander to the 'ordinary bloke' image the electoral history of the Tory party has forced them to espouse.
Suddenly, Cameron doesn't need to have all the details of 'low politics' at his fingertips; that's beneath his new status as world leader. If the Libyan crisis had not happened, then a good deal more might have been made of his performance at PMQ's last week, when he appeared only hazily aware of Health and Social Care Bill. But that was Wednesday. By Friday, a compliant media had no such questions, because Cameron was a statesman acting in the international interest.
We should remember, though, that this wasn't chance. As Brian Barder has noted, there was no automatic reason for the UK to lead on the question of the No Fly Zone. It was a political choice by a Tory leader, fashioned in the upper-class mould of his predecessors……..
As I've said before, the New Conservative regime is involved in class war because that is in keeping with its abiding and most pervasive tradition. Its new war in Libya, however bad for the Libyans it gets, does create an opportunity to confront them on that, and to set out their 'humanitarianism' for the class-ridden Boys' Own adventure that it really is.
In the end, maybe Cameron & chums's upbringing on the playing fields of Eton is more damaging to us than the neo-liberalism that ensures those playing fields remain manicured.
* Austerity is, of course, a disaster for the vulnerable individuals and families who bear the brunt of it.
From job security to security of a job: through the Overton window
You could be forgiven for having skipped over this odd phrasing by a Conservative spokesperson at the start of today's pre-election banter:
1.75 million more people have the security of a job……
Security of a job, rather than job security? "What's going on here?", I wondered, before indulging in 30 seconds primary research, which revealed that this new phrasing* appears to have been first used by Cameron in October:
If you want to provide for yourself and your family, you'll have the security of a job but only if we stick to our long-term economic plan.
This does suggest that, rather than today's use just being clumsy writing, the use of the variation on the phrase might actually be deliberate. And while small, it is a signifcant variation. For while "job security" is usually read not just as having a job, but having one that's likely to last and which also gets you by, "security of a job" feels quite different in tone.
There's more than a hint in there that the proles should have less expansive expectations about what they're entitled too. There's even a hint that the state accords jobs as a very part of its magnanimous welfare provision – as long as you can prove you really, really want to provide for your family by taking any old shite – rather than because that's what the state is there for, and the proles should be grateful for that. Certainly, the sense of longevity and a link to stable household income is gone.
If I'm reading it right, the new phrase does seem to back Alex's view that, quietly but consciously, the whole reciprocity thing, set out in the second Beveridge report – whereby the government was bound to do what it had to create full employment – has been shoved rightward beyond what we can see through the Overton window.
* I couldn't find the phrase anywhere else except as part of a longer phrase e.g "security of a job for life", which is clearly different in meaning.
On the concept of totty
While creating the links for my previous post, I came upon this quite unpleasant post from right-wing blogger Tim Worstall, in which he introduces the concept of "underage totty".
Underage totty in Worstall's world is, as far as I can establish, a female who is a child in law and therefore with a right to legal protection from sexual predators, but who by dint of some pro-active display of her sexuality, can be seen not to be in need of that protection. Or something. From what he goes on to say about how 14, 15 and 16 year olds should be treated under law, Worstall seems to be suggesting that a physical capacity to act or appear in a sexual or sexualised manner should be the main indicator of when a young person should be regarded as an adult in law, when it comes to sexual consent.
Now Worstall's ignorance of or wanton disregard for how wealth, power and gender status* come together to create the concept of "totty" in the first place need not detain us too long – he revels in his non-PC status and a bit of online trolling of a possible victim of serious sexual abuse is presumably all part of the act – but his post does give cause for reflection over what age should be the age to which young people still need protection under the law (we will leave aside here Worstall's apparent confusion between the age of consent and protection from harm).
In fact, while Worstall seems to suggest that the age of protection should be lowered on the basis that young women can appear physically older, actual research suggests public and legal policy might be better going the other way, and creating protective mechanisms for young people for longer. If we look at brain, as opposed to breast, formation, longitudinal tracking of adolescents and young people's brains indicates that the parts of the brain associated with judgment, especially in "hot" circumstances, continues well into a young person's third decade:
Most research to date has captured information in conditions of "cold cognition" (e.g., low arousal, no peers, and hypothetical situations). Like impulse control and sensation seeking, hot and cold cognition are subserved by different neuronal circuits and have different developmental courses [30]. Thus, adolescent maturity of judgment and its putative biological determinants are difficult to disentangle from socioemotional context.
I don't, of course expect pointing to actual research about how young people develop, and how public policy might need to change in the light of newish data, will do much to change the views of Worstall and the similarly-minded on what's permissible if you're a rich, white bloke. But, as someone who remains unapologetically and old-fashionedly PC about the rights of both women and children, I do feel bound to point it out.
* I am alerted by Justin to the fact that other rich, white folk, such as chess champion Nigel Short, have similar views.


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Bianco Antico Granite
Anyone have pictures of this granite. Do you like it? Is it very porous requiring a lot of sealing. I looked at a couple of slabs at the granite yard. It seemed to have some quartz in it at least in the bright sunlight in the yard. If anyone remembers me from before I am a blue pearl lover and had my blue pearl for 8 years and never tired of it . In my new kitchen though the cabs are darker and the kitchen does not get the natural light my old one did . So hubby thinks my blue pearl might be to dark in there .So if you have Bianco Antico Granite and have any info and pictures you want to share I would really like that . Thank you :)
We struggled with whether to go black or white for the counters.
Here is a link to photos after my install.
Ended up with White diamond aka bianco antico.
If you google "gardenweb bianco antico" you should find some others like beekeeperswife who had/has BA.
Here is a link that might be useful: white diamond aka bianco antico
I had it in my last kitchen. It was gorgeous, no issues AT ALL with staining, etc. Just do a google search for Bianco Antico and Gardenweb and you will be thrilled with all the results.
I fell in love with my slab, then googled BA, and I ended up here thanks to good ol' Redroze and her lovely kitchen.
It is beautiful and you will love it. I did not repeat it only because I could only find slabs when I was looking that had too much pink in them. My last one had lots of taupe and grays.
Man, I miss that kitchen....
Thank you very much I love both the kitchens with the Bianco Antico so pretty!! I hope you do love your new kitchen Bee.
I will have the darker cabs and the color is called amaretto . They are a maple and have a reddish undertones . I think they do at least . I will try to post a picture. Going tomorrow I hope they have the Antico there tomorrow. I know another yard had it but we going to to another tomorrow and will have to go there another day. Only thing I am worried about is my floor is a porcelain with a lot of variation it in . I did a search for the granite not much came up maybe I mistyped will do it again later.
Sarina--the best way to search this site is by using an Internet search, not the search here on the forum. So to find all posts here on GW about Bianco Antico, type the following in your search browser:
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You'll find many, many threads. I'll link the search results below for you so you can start your reading. Good luck! BA is a beautiful stone.
Here is a link that might be useful: Search results for BA
I have it and love it - have received lots of compliments. It really sparkles and does not etch or stain.
However, it does chip, so in retrospect I would not have gone with an ogee edge on the island. I even have to be careful in the sink - can't lean pot handles against the edge, so I put a dish towel on the edge to protect it.
Wow stunning! Yours and Bee's granite is more of a compact pattern then one I saw at the yard. They were wavy and swirling. My taste leans toward this . Thanks for sharing this with me I know now if I get this granite what I will be on the lookout for. :) I loved the other one too but not sure it would be to my taste installed for the long haul.
Your fabricator did you a disservice if he did not recommend a radiused edge on Bianco Antico. It's a "chippy" stone that needs a radiused edge. An Ogee is a very poor edge choice for that stone and the sink should have had at elast a 3/8" radiused top edge.
If he's a good fabricator you might request they come out and radius the sink cutout edge for you. Not much you can do with the Ogee on the island but at least that gets a lot less wear than the sink area.
Note: Communicating edge detail considerations before the fact is the kind of thing a good fabricator or competent designer does as a matter of course.
yup, could very well be. he made a few mistakes but in the bathrooms we were quite pleased. i'm over it. i'm sure he won't come back. i live in MA and the trades here live by the tail light warranty philosophy. too bad.... i've found this to be true with virtually every single trade.
leela, no, not sad. I just miss it. It was a DIY project, had so much blood sweat and tears put into it. When my husband and I relocated it was sort of sad to leave a kitchen behind that just meant so much to us and had only just been completed. Somehow I got over it by building a kitchen with a house around it. That's pretty much how we explain the construction process. Sorry to make you think I'm sad.
And now that you all mention it about the chipping, I do recall that right before we moved my hubby chipped the edge a couple of times. (pretty sure it was the house trying to prevent us from leaving) But we just glued the pieces back on with super glue gel, when it hardened, we used a razor blade to clean up the excess. Worked perfectly. The pieces were pretty small, not big hunks!
I also have Bianco Antico polished granite on my island, it's stunning. We have an eased edge, so far no issue with chipping, I don't have a sink it in. It's a super large long island with seating. No issue with staining or etching. I call it a blessing or a curse depending on how I feel, you really can't see that it's dirty.. Double edge sword :-)
I really love the stone, it has movement, the colors are gorgeous (grays, white and brown/taupe).
Here are some pics, apologies they come from my iphone, not great.
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WORTHINGTON -- The Worthington Area Chamber of Commerce through the Community Improvement Committee has sponsored a "Flower Power -- Yard of the Week" throughout the summer.
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How Ethiopia is Solving Food Insecurity
February 11, 2014
With a focus on supporting smallholder farmers, Ethiopia's ambitious strategy for agricultural development is driving down hunger and poverty.
What can the world learn about tackling hunger and food insecurity from Ethiopia? In a blog post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Khalid Bomba and Dan Glickman examine how, in spite of great obstacles, Ethiopia has dramatically boosted food production and cut its poverty rate from 77 percent in 2012 to 66 percent in 2013.
According to the authors, this success stems from an approach to agricultural development that includes ambitious policies, programs and investments, with a focus on supporting smallholder farmers.
To address low smallholder farmer productivity, Ethiopia has also invested in agricultural research and development (particularly improved seed varieties and breeds, and farming practices), timely access to and use of high-quality inputs (such as fertilizers, seed), and expanded knowledge dissemination networks to smallholder farmers.
TechnoServe has been helping thousands of Ethiopian farmers increase production of both food and cash crops. As part of the Coffee Initiative, farmers learn techniques such as intercropping maize with beans to improve the productivity of their staple crops, which they can sell to supplement their coffee incomes. At the same time, we help the farmers improve coffee productivity, strengthen their business skills and connect to better markets. This integrated and diversified approach helps ensure food security, sustainability and higher incomes.
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- Tulip® Fashion Glitter™ Shimmer Transfer Sheets: Primary
- Tulip® Fabric Paintbrushes™
- Tulip Soft® Fabric Paint: BI15784 Glacier White
- Ribbon – red, white and blue – 2½ yards
- Disposable plate
- Permanent marker
- Thread
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- Chalk
- 2 T-shirts – red, blue – large youth
- Freezer paper
- Pressing cloth
- Eyelet trim – white – 3 yards
- Iron
Pattern 3
Pattern 1
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Cut & Sew:
- Cut both T-shirts as illustrated in the diagram.
- Sew bottom of bodice to top of skirt, right sides facing.
- Sew a 1 inch hem (casing) on sides and top, leaving an opening at top corners of bodice and where the skirt connects to the bodice for ribbon to feed through.
- Thread ribbon through casing, up from bottom side of bodice and back down the other bodice casing, leaving a loop for neck.
- Sew four rows of ruffled lace equally spaced onto the skirt portion of apron.
- Print out desired design pattern and cut out. Trace around design on bodice of apron with chalk.
- Place pattern pieces on red and blue Shimmer Transfer Sheets as indicated and trace with permanent marker. Cut out with craft knife. Peel away clear liner from each piece and place glossy side down on apron bodice according to pattern. Cover with pressing cloth and iron 30 to 60 seconds. Check to make sure pieces have adhered to apron; if not, re-iron as necessary.
- Pour Glacier White Soft Fabric Paint on disposable plate. Use Fabric Paintbrushes to paint a coat of Glacier White into the indicated areas of design. Let dry and add another coat if necessary.
- Trace pattern for "USA" onto freezer paper.
- Cut out with craft knife, discarding the inside area of letters to create stencil.
- Lightly iron (wax side down) above painted design on apron. Do not iron over paint or Shimmer Transfer Sheet designs.
- Paint the open areas of stencil with a coat of Glacier White. Let dry and repeat if necessary. Let dry.
- Peel off freezer paper to reveal completed design.
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A guide to problems, costs, maintenance and repair for your 2007 Jaguar XK
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- 60,000 Mile Service $470 - 673
- 80,000 Mile Service $142 - 222
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2007 Jaguar XK Problems
The Check Engine Light may illuminate with fault codes P0491 or P0492 stored. Our technicians tell us that the engine control module (ECM) software should be upgraded to correct this concern.
A creak, click, or squeal type noise may be noted from the front brakes under light brake application. Our technicians tell us that lubing appropriate brake caliper and pad surfaces and installing new front brake pads should correct this concern.
Various issues with the door glass can be caused by the glass being out of adjustment, not a faulty window regulator. These issues include a knock, squeak, or binding condition when raising or lowering the door glass. Our technicians tell us that window adjustment should be checked first if any of these symptoms occur.
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I replaced the 4+ year old battery.
Did fine for two months, then battery went down again.
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2007 Jaguar XK Recalls
On 112 Jaguar XK vehicles, the TPMS warnings were turned off on the instrument cluster. If the TPMS control unit were to send a signal to display a TPMS warning, it would not display on the instrument cluster. Failure to notify the driver of tire deflation is not in compliance with the Motor Vehicle Safety Standard and could lead to tire failure and a crash.


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OpenText acquires mobile development vendor
Content management software provider OpenText has acquired London-based mobile application development tool vendor WeComm, the companies announced Tuesday.
Content management software provider OpenText has acquired London-based mobile application development tool vendor WeComm, the companies announced Tuesday.
Citing inactivity on the project, the Apache Software Foundation has retired the open source Apache Excalibur project, which provided a Java Inversion of Control container and reusable components, Apache said on Friday.
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Java.net has been re-launched as the home of Java community projects, featuring a new look and new tools for developers, an Oracle official said on Tuesday.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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Has anyone tried growing Butterfly Bush from seed?
I've gathered some seed from a Butterfly Bush and am wondering if any Carolinians have tried growing them from seed. If so, did you cover the seed or leave it exposed to light? Does it need pre-chilling? Did you have good results?
Considering that B. davidii and its hybrids and B. lindleyana are on the noxious weed list in NC and other areas, and that the common blue and white ones spring up with regularity at a friend's house, I doubt it's too difficult. If you REALLY want to, (which I don't recommend unless it's one of the rarer species, which don't seem to be as much of a problem [yet]), then I would suggest that you try winter sowing, and maybe try both covering the seeds and leaving them exposed, in separate pots, to see which works best.
I have and it grew very tall in the first season - It even flowered. This is and caryopteris were very easy to grow.
Noxious weed? Somehow I can't put B/Bush in the same league as honeysuckle and stiltgrass. Now, if they want to add Chinese/Siberian Elm, that would make sense to me.
Love BB and only had a few volunteers over the years. EZ transplants when you've had second thoughts about pitching them after ripping them out of the soil.
Thanks to all for the info.
I hadn't considered that it might be on the noxious plants list so I checked via the usda.gov site and did not find it listed there for South Carolina. (I'm in the upstate area.)
I've posted the link, in case anyone else wants to see what IS on the list.
Here is a link that might be useful: SC Noxious List
The only place I've had seedlings is the bonfire pit. I don't think it has any particular requirements that are satisfied by ash, but there's not much competition in there.
There is a recent post on the Winter Sowing forum concerning growing butterfly bushes from seed. I don't think any of the posters live in the Carolinas though. I've only ever bought live plants or had them already growing on the property at purchase.
Been growing various butterfly bushes for almost 15 years, 3 different states and NEVER had ONE reseed for me. I've never seen one out in the wild either.
I have 3 BB, 1 white and 2 dark purple. this spring I noticed about half a dozen seedlings in the general area of these. I dug them up and replanted them elsewhere. 1 has started blooming and it is a light purple. I don't know about the others yet. I don't know how I got a different color than the 3 originals, but the wife likes it.
Can someone please tell me how to collect seeds?
Mine don't reproduce, I wish that I had seedlings.
Are they the dried flower heads? Can you try for seedlings right away, or should I wait til next spring?
I have not grown them from seed, but I do know that it takes a long time after the flower is dead for the seeds to show up. I have propagated from cuttings which is real easy. All I do is cut right under a leaf, take off the leaves, just leaving a few at the top, stick it in soil in a pot and keep watered for a while. Originally I keep it in the shade, but when I can pull on the stalk and it doesn't easily move, then I start adding sun to its routine. I plant them once they have been in full sun for a while.
I've had great success wintersowing butterfly bush seeds.
I haven't had any reseeding from my plants but a number of my plants have been seed-grown.
Good luck!
Here is a link that might be useful: How to collect Butterfly Bush seeds
My 'Royal Red' Butterfly bushes self-sow. The offspring show up and bloom well in the first year. Sometimes, they are different colors because I have so many other varieties in my garden and the butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, etc help with the cross-pollination. I have a very nice light purple right now.


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My 1996 Ram 2500 with the Cummins 5.9L i6 turbo diesel is a great truck. What I've found, though, is that the engine is far better than the truck. The truck has only left me stranded once in 210,000 miles due to a broken clutch. The interior is a good design, but the dashboard is falling apart, knobs stop working, and the A/C is just awful. The engine, on the other hand, is bulletproof. I have never had a problem with the engine; tons of power and torque, and is surprisingly quick for a 2500 truck! This truck will get you from point A to point B every time, but not always in the best comfort. If I had the option, I would most definitely buy this truck again.
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I have a 1996 ram 2500 2 wheel drive standard box. This truck was ordered with the old and reliable 318 8 cyl. gas engine. We use this in our business here in BC Canada.
I haul a 20 foot flat bed trailer out of the mountains on Vancouver Island with up to 20 8 x 6 inch x 18 foot cants of red cedar.
We just finished a 10,000 KM ( 6213 mile ) trip The engine used three liters of oil ( .79 gal ) of oil.
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We used it as a work horse the first ten years, hauling furniture, sawdust, rocks and etc., but putting very few miles on it as used car for out of town trips. Then with only 20,000 miles and a dozen years old decided to put a camper on it's back. Performs beautifully with a 8.5 camper fully loaded. Makes hills with little effort, as much as diesels do, if we do not lose RPM behind a truck. Never had it in the repair garage until this year, other than normal maintenance. This year have to have A/C fan fixed. Averaging 12-14 mpg with camper.
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1996 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 Laramie SLT 2dr Regular Cab LB
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Bought this truck new in 96 and have been extremely happy with it. The only real problems I've had have been related to rust after spending 6 long winters in Upstate NY where they use lots of salt. I have quite a bit of rust under the doors and had a fuel line and brake line rust through--not a good feeling having a 7,000 lb vehicle going down the road and finding I had no brakes. Fortunately, the high compression diesel slows you down quite a bit, and having a manual transmission helped too. I bought the truck for towing, but haven't done much (never got my boat), but when I have towed its as if there is nothing behind me--gobs of torque!
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Good towing plenty of power looks good
strong constitu.tion
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