Britain/US split?

[Rob Schaap <bantam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Writes Michael:

"... And while the focus of this mainly British-sponsored effort is primarily
European, of course other similarly-minded folks (as Dubya would say)
are welcome to join ..."

Mark Latham: ex-Whitlam staffer, research contributor to *The Whitlam
Government 1972-1975*, self-styled Labor Party back-bench enfant terrible,
political hard-arse, traveller of the third way, and author of a 1998 tome
called *Civilising Global Capital: New thinking for Australian Labor*, a
third-wayist thought-piece on how we live in an exceptional age that renders
irrelevant the leftist theory of bygone fordism, and holds that if we
encourage difference-respecting 'public mutuality' (but sans the dead hand of
big government - it's called 'social devolution'), we can civilise global
capital.  Some reasonable moments of analysis in it, mind, but, of course, all
those hairy-fairy buzzwords can mean anything you want 'em to mean, and my
response to the book was that anything that can mean anything means nothing.
The politics of floating signifiers, for mine.

Cheers,
Rob.