Debate: Islam and free speech
Continuing on from yesterday’s freedom of speech piece, Carl Packman investigates the recent protests in the Middle East and Asia in relation to a film.
Carl Packman
Website Carl is a health researcher; he writes book reviews for Left Foot Forward. Carl has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Tribune Magazine, and The Philosopher's Magazine and blogs regularly at Though Cowards Flinch and Liberal Conspiracy. He is currently writing a book on consumer debt.
Debate: The complexities of freedom of speech
Carl Packman explores the complex nature of freedom of speech. Where should the line be drawn? should there even be a line?
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker 2011/12: Stella Creasy
Carl Packman MP nominates Stella Creasy as the most influential left-winger thinker 2011/12.
The Tories are struggling with vagueness of policy
All present gave a thumbs up to Big Society, but when asked whether the name was quite right most turned their thumbs down
Lord Glasman has developed a criticism of Keynes in a distinctively modern way
These might well be exciting times to be in the Labour party, writes Carl Packman.
The sick anti-Semites at the heart of Galloway’s band of bigots
Carl Packman exposes the sick underbelly of anti-Semitisim at the heart of George Galloway’s victorious Bradford West by-election campaign.
The next credit crisis will hit consumers, not banks
Packman looks at the findings that the boom before the bust was caused by growth in the consumer credit market, and asks what happens when it inevitably fails.
“You’ve never had it so good” has never been so wrong: Review of The Cost of Inequality
Carl Packman reviews Stewart Lansley’s “The Cost of Inequality,” and loves it.
Glasman calls for a break from ‘viagra or vivisection’ (that’s growth or cuts, to you)
Carl Packman reports on the Maurice (Lord) Glasman’s talk at Localis, where he elaborated further on the Blue Labour brand.
Betting shops are blighting our high streets, and councils can’t take action
Carl Packman reports on Rowenna Davis’s campaign to allow councils the powers needed to ensure that high streets aren’t overrun by betting shops.