Rupert's Read

So, it appears now from Peter Francis's allegations that the police may have sought to infiltrate and undermine anti-racist organisations, in relation to the Stephen Lawrence case. Well done to the GUARDIAN for bringing extraordinary and appalling police undercover operations to public attention. But: it would be a serious mistake to see the allegations concerning the Lawrence case as merely the latest phenomenon of police-undercover-operations having been out of hand. We need to be clear that abuses of police power are by no means restricted to undercover operations, which have been attracting the lion's share of the attention lately. Rather, such abuses are, I would urge, widespread on ordinary 'day to day' policing of protests. My experience over many years in the animal-protection movement, in the anti-nuclear movement, in campaigning against aggressive wars, and in the climate movement, has repeatedly been that the police d...

Will those who voted for UKIP at the local elections last month turn a blind eye to newspaper reports that the leader they've turned to, the "charismatic" Nigel Farage, set up an offshore trust fund? Perhaps voters at the County Council elections, understandably and rightly fed up with the old Parties, were impressed by UKIP's stance as the 'outsiders' to mainstream politics. Yet, just as the MPs' expenses scandal was beginning to fade in the public consciousness, here is Farage, who'd spoken out against tax-evasion, exposed as a person so keen on feathering his own nest that you have to ask how far removed is his attitude from that of some of those Parliamentary wrongdoers. It sits badly with the Leader of a Party supposedly committed to putting this country first that he sought to avoid paying tax here by taking his money offshore and did so after he'd switched professions from commodities broker to politician. ...

Wittgenstein / Phenomenology 1-day workshop   University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK)   11 June 2013 (9.30am-1pm / 2pm-5pm) Venue: Arts Building, room 01.06 Programme 9:30-10:00 Coffee 10:00-10:50 TIMUR UÇAN (University of East Anglia; University of Bordeaux 3 - SPH) The Notion of 'World' in the Early Works of Sartre and Wittgenstein 11:00-11:50 MIHAI OMETITA (University of East Anglia) Saying and Seeing: Middle Wittgenstein's 'Phenomenological Reduction' 12:00-12:50 DENIS MCMANUS (University of Southampton) Anxiety, Responsibility, and the Autonomy of Grammar 13:00-13:50 lunch break 14:00-15:20 JEAN-PHILIPPE NARBOUX (University of Bordeaux 3 - SPH/ IUF) Is Self-Consciousness Consciousness of One's Self? Respondent: OSKARI KUUSELA (University of East Anglia) 15:30-17:00 THOMAS GREAVES (University of East Anglia) & RUPERT READ (University of East Anglia) Panel discussion