I have just come across the review of Social Europe Journal on politics.co.uk which I found quite interesting. Here is what they wrote: There are some genuine items of interest in this blog collective – shame about the website. This site would be a good source of commentary on European politics, and many of the [...]
The Noughties – A Valediction
30/12/2009 By
Tomorrow we say goodbye to the first decade of the new millennium. And the last ten years were troubled ones. The 1990s were characterised by a captivating optimism that the new world after the Cold War would bring peace and prosperity for all. The triumphalism could not have been any more striking – remember the [...]
Who will be the Builders of the Good Society?
23/12/2009 By
A reflection on the good society debate so far. The good society debate will restart on 11 January, with ten final articles. More than eighty people from across Europe have taken part so far. Thank you to everyone for this successful experiment in collective thinking and discussion. I think it is the first of its [...]
Towards a Convivial Society?
22/12/2009 By
We need a realistic utopia – a good place that can really exist. Since the times of Plato there has been an abundance of grand visions for a perfect social future; however, developments in reality have always proved to be far more modest than what was envisaged in the philosophical musings or political strivings in [...]
A Project for the Future: Recover the Essential Role of the Ethical and Cultural Factors
22/12/2009 By
Social-democratic plans for the future should take more account of the ethical and moral spheres. A European paradox: the continent is turning towards the centre right just when the largest financial and economic crisis since the second world war has demonstrated the resounding failure of the free market economy and fundamentalist liberalism that have dominated [...]
New Social Europe Journal Out Now!
21/12/2009 By
The latest Issue of Social Europe Journal is out now and includes contributions by: Phillipe Pochet (European Trade Union Institute), Mercedes Bresso (Socialist Group in the Committee of the Regions), David Held (London School of Economics and Political Science), Gero Maass et. al. (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), Karin Roth (German MP), Sebastian Dullien et. al. (Friedrich [...]
A Good Society and a Good Life
21/12/2009 By
We need to resist the neoliberal tendency to reduce everything to the economic. Neoliberalism has not only led to the reorganisation of all sectors of society in accordance with market principles; it has also implied a fundamental redefinition of human life in terms of economic criteria. As well as reframing fundamental political and social ideas [...]
Taking on the Social Liberals
21/12/2009 By
Social democrats – you can’t do anything with them and you can’t do anything without them. At the turn of the millennium the bases of social democracy were visibly crumbling. Not only had George Bush won the election against Al Gore in 2000, not only did the socialists in welfare state par excellence Denmark lose [...]
On the Justification of the Iraq War – In Memory of Robin Cook
20/12/2009 By
I was a big fan of Robin Cook and decided to watch again his resignation speech when Tony Blair revealed that he thought the Iraq War was justified even if there were no WMD (obviously there weren’t any). Blair seems to have completely lost touch with reality if he thinks his own “moral” believes were [...]
The Copenhagen Failure shows: There is no effective Global Politics!
19/12/2009 By
In the early hours of this morning the news of the failure of the Copenhagen summit on climate change hit the news wires. I won’t repeat the individual disappointments as the papers will be full of it today. But I would like to comment on the political implications of this disaster. It shows that there [...]
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