Around the red web

I recently realised that we don’t usually give enough attention to some of the really excellent content around left blogosphere – so here are some of the things that recently caught my eye.

Over at Though Cowards Flinch Paul Cockshott’s posts on Keynes and his significance to today’s economic crisis are everything that economics bloggging should – annd well worth a read.

Jim Jepps’ obituary of Michael Foot ably critiques the popular consensus that Foot bore primary responsibility for Labour’s massive defeat in 1983.

Sunny Hundal comments on the recent conviction of Harry Taylor for offending religious sensibilities. Sadly the 59 year old, who put up pictures of the Pope with a condom on his finger and other things in Airports multifaith room, is perhaps too much of an epic twat to be an ideal cause celebre, even if his rights ought to be defended – as Sunny argues.

Left Outside pwns the Devils Kitchen blog.

And finally, it’s not quite the left blogosphere but Brendan o’ Neill at Spiked has a very interesting take on the Venables case. Arguing against the myth of public hysteria, O’ Neill suggests that it is primarily the cultural and political elite – and not the masses – that have responded hysterically to the case and turned Venables and Thompson into symbols of evil.