Category Archives: 1 – Politics

T10 – Up With The Unions – Responses

Posted on Monday 20th December 2010 by Conor Gearty

What has been gratifying about this week’s responses has been how they have built on my thoughts about the unions, driving further into their potential as builders of a human rights culture.  But at the same time, you have not allowed me to drift into some kind of romantic nostalgia for a long lost unionised ‘Golden Age.’ Continue reading →

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T10 – Up With The Unions

Posted on Monday 13th December 2010 by Conor Gearty

Human rights thrive when the workers are united Continue reading →

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T8 – Down With Constantine! – Responses

Posted on Monday 6th December 2010 by Conor Gearty

Paul Bernal asks about achieving a better balance with regard to property.  He thinks as I do that the Convention as it has been interpreted is far too relaxed about the accumulation of money. Continue reading →

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T8 – Down With Constantine!

Posted on Monday 29th November 2010 by Conor Gearty

Property is (nearly) theft. Continue reading →

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T5 – Hatred Can Be Progress – Responses

Posted on Monday 15th November 2010 by Conor Gearty

I made a mistake in using the term ‘Hatred’ in the title, Antonio and Jose-Manuel Barretto were right to take me up on this and I will make sure it disappears from any final product that this project produces: it was a misjudgement on my part. Continue reading →

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T5 – Hatred Can Be Progress

Posted on Monday 8th November 2010 by Conor Gearty

If human rights are not despised by the powerful they are not human rights Continue reading →

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