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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.


Ed Miliband


#conventional #conventional wisdom #did #every #every time

And that's the real reason the powerful fear open systems and networks. If anyone can set up a free voicecall to anyone else in the world, using the net, then we can all communicate with the same ease that's standard for the high and mighty. [...] And if any worker, anywhere, can communicate with any other worker, anywhere, for free, instantaneously, without the boss's permission, then, brother, look out, because the Coase cost of demanding better pay, better working conditions and a slice of the pie just got a *lot* cheaper. And the people who have the power aren't going to sit still and let a bunch of grunts take it away from them.


Cory Doctorow


#labour-movement #communication

C'est par le travail que la femme a conquis sa dignité d'être humain; mais ce fut une conquête singulièrement dure et lente.


Simone de Beauvoir


#gender-equality #labour #equality

Unless the Labour leadership candidates decide to settle the issue through televised mud-wrestling (Adam Boulton, I think, for referee, and he may even take part) they will find it hard to gain massive attention for their utterances. Nor would the wannabes be wise to sign up to Lord Adonis's optimistic gloom about the coalition not lasting. Watching David Laws this week going about deficit reduction with an avidity bordering on the erotic, I realised that there are very good reasons why the centre should hold.


David Aaronovitch


#david-laws #labour-party #leadership

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.


Francis Bacon


#children #labours #make #misfortunes #more

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.


Barbara Amiel


#cut #cutting #dictatorships #down #expedient

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.


Henry Bessemer


#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.


Lucy Powell


#candidate #central #honoured #i #labour

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.


Lucy Powell


#continue #current #drop #fallen #female

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.


Lucy Powell


#choice #government #labour #labour government #minds






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