Stuart Hall Dies
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall
Not the presenter, the cultural theorist and academic who coined the term Thatcherism and formed a large part of the 'New Left' and important member of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which did a lot of important work in how popular culture works (and was relatively jargon free and insightful).
Interesting piece here http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall-radical-thinker-thatcherismNice to see confused lefties kissing each other's backsides even when one of them is dead. I was the victim of a Cultural Studies non-degree back in the days when I knew no better. Hall was no more a Marxist than Lenin was.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/veteran-leftwing-politician-and-activist-tony-benn-seriously-ill-in-hospital-9123064.htmlTony Benn on his last legs? Tony Benn is reportedly 'seriously ill' in hospital.Time to update that obituary ?
Had a phone call yesterday from a branch member who had just read Stuart Hall's obituary in the Independent. He said he had read him before he joined the Party, so he can't have been all bad or completely useless even though he did describe him as an "academic Tony Benn", i.e a well-meaning but confused leftwinger.
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