Author Archives: Damian Counsell

The Euston Manifesto Conference

‘Solidarity and Rights: The Euston Manifesto one year on’ The Euston Manifesto Group will stage a one-day conference at SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, on 30 May 2007. The event will be hosted with the help of the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies and take place in the Khalili […]

Poetry Reading: Nazand Beqikhani

The Kurdistan Development Corporation invites you to a poetry reading by Kurdish exile Nazand Begikhani on Mon 14May07 at the House of Commons, from 17:00 to 18:30. The reading will take place and refreshments will be served in the Inter-Parliamentary Union Room. You must register to attend by contacting info@kurdistancorporation.com or ringing 020 7170 4300

Real-world Euston Manifesto launch

NEW VENUE. Because of unexpectedly high demand for tickets—we were sold out in two days!—the venue for (but not the time of) the public launch of the Euston Manifesto has changed. It will now take place on Thursday 25 May 2006 at 7pm (19:00hrs BST, 18:00 UTC) at The Union Chapel, Compton Terrace N1 2UN […]

The Weekly Standard: A Few good liberals

Liberalism stands strong in the United Kingdom. “WHO TODAY IS CALLED a liberal for strength and confidence in defense of liberty?” Harvey Mansfield asked this question almost 30 years ago in the preface to his Spirit of Liberalism, and the answer was almost self-evident. This was during the Carter administration, and things haven’t gotten better […]

The American Spectator: Going back to Euston

I am European. I am liberal. I am a supporter of the U.S.-led intervention in Iraq. Sometimes it feels like a meeting attended by every person who shares those traits could be held in a closet. “But that feeling, it has transpired, is wrong. Late last month, a group of left-of-center academics, journalists, and bloggers […]

The Sunday Times: At last our lefties see the light

“Misguided support for dictators destroyed the left’s credibility. Christopher Hitchens welcomes a volte-face“ “One can stare at a simple sign or banner or placard for a long time before its true meaning discloses itself. The late John Sparrow, warden of All Souls College, Oxford, was once struck motionless by a notice at the foot of […]

The Guardian: We live in changed times. The Euston group, alas, does not

A manifesto of the ‘pro-war left’ is a cry of pain and an argument about ownership of a corpse You will have to read the Euston Manifesto in full for yourself. Likewise the churning arguments that are developing about it on commentisfree.com and other weblogs. But there are two big things you need to know […]

The Observer: Why the Euston group offers a new direction for the left

A disparate set of left-wing thinkers meeting in a London pub has reopened an essential debate on the nature of democracy To be on the left is to be both temperamentally inclined to dissent and to be passionate about your own utopia, which can never be achieved. Condemned to disappointment, you rage at the world, […]

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