The Euston Manifesto » academic http://eustonmanifesto.org for a renewal of progressive politics Thu, 12 May 2011 00:58:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Halliday on the LSE and Gaddafi http://eustonmanifesto.org/2011/03/07/halliday-on-the-lse-and-gaddafi/ http://eustonmanifesto.org/2011/03/07/halliday-on-the-lse-and-gaddafi/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:32:55 +0000 Damian Counsell http://eustonmanifesto.org/?p=660 At least one prominent figure involved in the London School of Economics’ discomfort over that institution’s connections with Libya has claimed that critics are operating with the luxury of hindsight. In 2009, Fred Halliday wrote a memorandum to the Council of the London School of Economics, warning it not to accept a grant from the Qaddafi Foundation:

The most important issue of all is that of reputational risk to LSE. I have myself defended acceptance by the School of grants from some authoritarian countries (e.g. Arab Gulf states): but there should be clear limits on this, depending on the degree of political and human rights abuses perpetrated with them and on their ongoing foreign policy conduct. Here I would draw attention not just to the prevailing consensus in Whitehall and the City, which are now happy, for their own legitimate reasons, to do business with Libya, but to broader reputational concerns in regard to British and American public opinion

[Thanks to Naomi McAuliffe for the link.]

]]> http://eustonmanifesto.org/2011/03/07/halliday-on-the-lse-and-gaddafi/feed/ 0 Kingston Symposium: New Labour in Power: Ten Years On http://eustonmanifesto.org/2006/09/06/kingston-symposium-new-labour-in-power-ten-years-on/ http://eustonmanifesto.org/2006/09/06/kingston-symposium-new-labour-in-power-ten-years-on/#comments Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:54:27 +0000 Brian Brivati http://eustonmanifesto.org/?p=487 . As we approach the tenth anniversary of the publication of the book and the election of the Labour government, many of the original contributors are gathering with other academics and commentators to revisit their first thoughts on the Labour government. The symposium will be in Town House 102, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames [...]]]> te>. As we approach the tenth anniversary of the publication of the book and the election of the Labour government, many of the original contributors are gathering with other academics and commentators to revisit their first thoughts on the Labour government.

The symposium will be in Town House 102, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames on 11th September 2006 from 10-6pm

Speakers will include: Vernon Bogdanor (Oxford University), Andrew Blake (UEL), Sarah Childs (Bristol University), Nick Ellison (Durham University), David Walker (The Guardian), Rokhsana Fiaz (Change Institute), Simon Woolley (Operation Black Vote), Eric Shaw (Stirling University), Matt Beech (York University), Anna Showstack-Sassoon (Birkbeck College), Brian Brivati (Kingston University/Euston Manifesto Group), Alan Johnson (Edge Hill College/Social Democratic Futures), Rupa Huq (Kingston University) and Tim Bale (Sussex University)

Panels will cover Security and Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, Representation, Governance: local, regional and constitutional policy and Party-Government relations.

Audience places are limited. Conference costs £15 (£10 concessions) for a booking form and to reserve a place please email: Dr Rupa Huq.

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