Re: The Guardian Life after Living Marxism

["Graham" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes, the marvelous Manchester Guardian, that bastion of anti-capitalist
politics. In same issue of the paper that brought you Serbian death camps
was Tom Wolfe, writing in defence of the free market and attacking political
correctness in academia.

In the New Statesman this week, columnist Laurie Taylor - who was chairing a
session at Institute of Ideas - reveals he was approached by a Guardian
journalist and asked to find evidence of Serb/white South African/CIA/MI5
funding: none showed up, but they keep on insinuating  anyway.

Whatever next, the Zinoviev telegram?
Graham Barnfield
Fax. +44 (0)870 7345198
PS.  These sections of the article have already been corrected as factually
wrong by the Guardian itself or on the letters page:
[snip] Leading the libertarian charge from the US, funding one of the
debates
and providing speakers for others, is the Reason Foundation. The institute's
programme does not say it, but this rightwing think tank/magazine, which
has
been promoting the corporate takeover of schools in the US, is pro-guns
and
pro-GM.
Both its founder and senior editor accepted invitations to talk at LM
events - and will be paying their own way to come. Their leading writer,
the
syndicated columnist Sandra Postrel, is author of the libertarian book
The
Enemies of Freedom and frequently talks at the Hudson Institute. This
body
is mainly run by former Reaganite cold war warriors and initiates much of
the "research" that attacks environmentalists and liberal governments.
LM has forged strong links with internet companies, including Cyberia -
the company that set up the first internet cafe and has a place on the
Cabinet Office websites policy group. [snip ends]