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 [...]
I’ve often wondered whether it would be an enjoyable experience to sit in a room full of my peers and listen to their thoughts on writing. Blogging and journalism – both of which I do – are fairly solitary arts and it’s all too easy to never have any contact with others outside the realm [...]
It’s Valentines Day 2009. Six young men with Cambridge degrees and no dates decide to do something vaguely meaningful with their lives and launch what they hope to be a new voice in progressive political blogging. I didn’t really know quite what to expect when I signed up to it. Whilst I’ve always had a [...]
It should come as little surprise to hear that Ricky Gervais has quit Twitter after just one month and six tweets. After all, it would be hard to imagine the self-confessed (and not wholly undeserving) egotist getting everything he wants to say about himself down in 140 cringe-worthy characters. Of course, one of his characters [...]
Whilst some members of The Third Estate are veteran bloggers, 2009 was my first year of serious political blogging with the exception of a few articles here and there for Socialist Unity. It is, then, with some trepidation that I follow fellow lefty bloggers such as Phil BC, Andy Newman, Left Outside and Though Cowards Flinch in [...]
The Queen told us that 2009 has been a year to forget, but we beg to differ. It was, after all, the year that saw the launch of the hottest new political website since the Tory Party joined the digital age. So The Third Estate would like to wish all our readers a very happy [...]
Despite being a site largely run by ethnics, Jews, atheists, heathens and very bad Muslims, The Third Estate would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas. This time next year, we’ll be living in a communist utopia.
Hey, remember that time a couple of months ago when Trafigura tried to stop the Guardian from reporting what was said in Parliament? Want to stop the rich and powerful from using the threat of expensive court cases to bully writers, scientists and academics into censoring themselves? PEN and Index on Censorship have teamed up [...]
This week the identity of one of the internet’s most infamous bloggers was revealed. Belle de Jour, who wrote anonymously about her life as a highly paid call girl turned out to be Dr Brook Magnanti, 34, a research scientist in Bristol. Cue moral outrage and titillation – the favourite combination of the right-wing press. [...]
Ah, Twitter. That bite-sized break from ennui, that stream of consciousness, that tool of social mobilisation… but mobilisation to what? Twitter has played an important part in the democratisation of politics – witness the Tweets of solidarity from Iran and the recent downfall of the Carter Ruck’s Trafigura injunction against The Guardian (which was also in [...]
