The Proletarian Tide: Peter Mandelson: 'I'm just a pussycat.'

Ongoing Literary Assimilations

A Companion to Marx's Capital - David Harvey
A History of God - Karen Armstrong
An Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede
Ape and Essence - Aldous Huxley
Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin
Capital - Karl Marx
Crime, Class and Corruption: The Politics of the Police - Audrey Farrell
Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
Ethics - J L Mackie
Fear, Myth and History: The Historians and the Ranters - JC Davis
Jewish Antiquities - Flavius Josephus
Kant and the Platypus - Umberto Eco
Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
On Photography - Susan Sontag
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia - N K Sandars (trans.)
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
The Bible
The Credit Crunch - Graham Turner
The Double - Jose Saramago
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Jewish War - Flavius Josephus
The Qu'ran
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Jose Saramago
Watys of Seeing - John Berger

Recently Consumed Literary Morsels

A People's History of the World - Chris Harman
Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique - Mohammed 'Abed al-Jabri
Armed Madhouse - Greg Palast
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in its Downfall - Luke Haines
Belching Out The Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola - Mark Thomas
Billion-Dollar Brain - Len Deighton
Britain, the Slave Trade and Slavery, from 1562 to the 1880s - Marika and Kim Sherwood
Coming Up For Air - George Orwell
Complicity - Iain Banks
Dark Fire - C J Sansom
Das ist ein Buch! - Lane Smith
Dissolution - C J Sansom
Enemy Combatant - Moazzam Begg
England Made Me - Graham Greene
England Made Me - Graham Greene
Essential Works of Lenin - V.I. Lenin
Fame is the Spur - Howard Spring
Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
Free At Last! - Tony Benn
Funeral in Berlin - Len Deighton
It Just Occurred to Me... the reminiscencces & thoughts of Chairman Humph - Humphrey Lyttelton
It's Only A Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive - Mark Kermode
Jesus Christ: The Gospels
Last Love in Constantinople - Milorad Pavic
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Maigret and the Ghost - Georges Simenon
Maigret in Court - Georges Simenon
Necrophenia - Robert Rankin
Novel on Yellow Paper - Stevie Smith
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Power Without Responsibility : The Press and Broadcasting in Britain - James Curran and Jean Seaton
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate - Terry Eagleton
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy - Matthew Alford
Retromancer - Robert Rankin
Science and Religious Belief: A Selection of Recent Historical Studies - CA Russell (ed)
Selected Poems - Tony Harrison
Several Perceptions - Angela Carter
Sovereign - C J Sansom
Teach Yourself Catholicism - Peter Stanford
Ten Days That Shook the World - John Reed
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love - Giovanni Boccaccio
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
The Future of an Illusion: Religion is the Universal Neurosis - Sigmund Freud
The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex: What's Wrong with Modern Movies? - Mark Kermode
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ - Jose Saramago
The IPCRESS File - Len Deighton
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Meaning of David Cameron - Richard Seymour
The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene
The Misery of Reading Karl Marx - Rainer Granahl
The Oedipus plays - Sophocles
The Politics of Windrush - Peter Fryer
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
The Rain Before It Falls - Jonathan Coe
The Republic/The Laws - Cicero
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui - Bertolt Brecht
The Road - Cormack McCarthy
The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
The Scorpion God - William Golding
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
The Third Man - Graham Greene
The Vote: How It Was Won, And How It Was Undermined - Paul Foot
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
Tokyo Year Zero - David Peace
Union Street - Pat Barker
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
Watchmen - Alan Moore
What's Going On? - Mark Steel
Will the Revolution be Televised? A Marxist Analysis of the Media - John Molyneux

Recently Discovered Aural Delights

... And All The Pieces Matter: 5 Years Of Music From The Wire
A Woman of No Importance - eponymous
Apes, Pigs and Spacemen - Transfusion
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Bat for Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
BEAK - eponymous
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose
Brahms - Hungarian Dances
Captain - Album Sampler
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
Dag for Dag - Shooting From the Shadows
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - The Logic of Chance
Danananakroyd - Hey Everyone
Dartz! - The Sad History of the Village of Alnerique
Dead Prez - Let's Get Free
Depeche Mode - The Singles
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Django Django - Default
Dom Thomas - Miscellaneous Mutant Mishaps
Drive-By Argument - eponymous
Envy - Set Yourself On Fire
Everybody Was in the French Resistance ... Now! - Fixin' The Charts Vol 1
Finlay Quaye - The Best of the Epic Years
Four Tet - Pause
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Hooray for Earth - Tru Loves
Hope of the States - Left
Hot Club de Paris - Drop It 'Til It Pops
I Was A Cub Scout - I Want You To Know That There is Always Hope
Idlewild - Make Another World
Interpol - eponymous
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
J.S. Bach/ Glenn Gould - The Art of Fugue
Johnny Boy - eponymous
Joseph Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne
Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
Ladyfuzz - Kerfuffle
Let's Buy Happiness - No Hot Ashes
Let's Buy Happiness - Six Wolves
Lowkey - Dear Listener
Lowkey - Long Live Palestine
Luke Haines - 21st Century Man
M.I.A. - /\/\ /\ Y /\
M.I.A. - Kala
Mammal Club - http://music.nme.com/mammal_club/
Matt Berry - Witchazel
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
Metric - Fantasies
Minus the Bear - Omni
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
My Robot Friend - Soft Core
Noonday Underground - Self-Assembly
O' Messy Life - Worry Party
Orbital - Halcyon
Performance - Surrender
Plumtree - Mass Teen Fainting
Prodigy - More Music for a Jilted Generation
Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
Propagandhi - Today's Empire, Tomorrow's Ashes
Puppini Sisters - Spooky
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World OST
Seasick Steve - Dog House Music
Seasick Steve - It's All Good
Slow Club - Yeah So
Stewart Lee and Nick Pynn - Galway Girl
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fall - Time Enough At Last
The Futureheads - eponymous
The Futureheads - News and Tributes
The National - Boxer
The National - High Violet
The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
The Unthanks - Here's the Tender Coming
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall
Various Artists - An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music: Fifth A-Chronology 1920-2007
Various Artists - Colours Are Brighter
We Are Animal - Luminous Lights
We Are the Physics - eponymous
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Worry Party - O'Messy Life
Yourcodenameis: milo - They Came From the Sun
Yuck - Rubber

The Proletarian Tide

Monday 10 August 2009

Peter Mandelson: 'I'm just a pussycat.'

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