Jacob Bard-Rosenberg

It was suggested to me that I make some notes on my experience of CBT that I have to do at the moment, so here is a rather fragmentary thing from the first week penned last night when my sleeping…

I spend a lot of time thinking about Charlotte Beradt. She was a Jewish communist, a collector and translator, but little is known of her. During the 1930s in Berlin for reasons we still don’t know entirely, she collected dreams…

“They understand how to pose subtle and sophisticated questions, but they swamp the sewers of their questions with the tidal sludge of their answers – that unfiltered wealth which is beneficial for a few and detrimental to almost everyone.”  –…

I don’t know how many people caught this video (below) that Jeremy Corbyn put out, made of excerpts from his speech at the Fabian Society earlier in the week. The first half in particular is striking because of its choice…

This is probably the wrong place to write this. Everyone knows the beginning of The Communist Manifesto, where Marx talks about how society is dividing ever more into two great classes in struggle. The history of a lot of Marxism…

1940-41 mark Disney’s greatest experiment with Ballet, and particularly with the sounds of Paris two to three decades earlier, and the Ballet Russes. And while only explicitly this can be found in the Rite of Spring in Fantasia so are…

What happened at Byron has brought back memories of the terrible events at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2009, when all the cleaners were summoned to a meeting, the doors were locked, and then the UK Border Agency…

I. Renaming the Cosmos No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. – NRSV The names we call the cosmos are given in…

1) There will be no second referendum.2) Big capital, most of the politicians in the UK and EU, and a large part of the British population do not want Brexit to go ahead.3) A general election will be held in…