Interesting Links for 12-11-2014

[andrewducker]

• Marijuana's long-term effects on the brain demonstrated
  (tags: marijuana mri neuroscience )
• EU court ruling backs curbs on 'benefit tourism'
  (tags: Europe welfare )
• New party Left Unity to hold first annual conference
  (tags: politics UK )
• Calvin Klein Never Called That Model ‘Plus-Sized’ - Twitter Did
  (tags: fashion weight women Twitter )
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Comments

[cmcmck]

As an old fashioned cloth cap left Socialist (not a Marxist, Communist or Trot) with nowhere left to go, I wonder if Left Unity will prove to be yet another Trot front outfit?

[andrewducker]

My left wing friends have largely headed for either the SNP or the Greens (depending on how left-wing they are).

The Greens, in particular, seem to be the place to go if you want societal change in a left-wards direction.

(I also still have a fair number of Left Lib-Dem friends, sadly un-done by a centrist/right leadership.)

[alextfish]

Aye. I consider myself left-wing and Lib Dem, and am startled and disappointed how different these two statements seem to have become.

[a_pawson]

Interesting. I had not heard of Left Unity before. I have thought for a number of years that there is a gap for a sensible socialist (or at least left wing) party in UK politics. The problem being that every time one has been founded, it has imploded shortly afterwards due to infighting.

[skington]

Well, yes. It's a left-wing party!

[cmcmck]

Or Trot infiltration which amounts to the same thing, I suppose.