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Mar 15, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | George Hoare
In a 1991 essay titled “Winning the Culture War: The American Cause,” radical conservative thinker Sam Francis summoned up the ghost of the late Italian communist Antonio Gramsci in order to offer the American far right a strategic path forward.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | George Hoare
The great strength of World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order by Rita Abrahamsen, Jean-François Drolet, Michael C. Williams, Srdjan Vucetic, Karin Narita, and Alexandra Gheciu lies in its insistence that the contemporary right should be taken seriously rather than dismissed out of hand.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
lexology.com | George Hoare |Thomas Morgan |Natalie Hendy
Key takeaways With authorised push payment (APP) fraud on the rise, the courts and regulators continue to grapple with the consequences of this problem. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Philipp v. Barclays Bank (see our previous article) provided clarity that payment service providers (PSPs) owe no contractual or tortious duty where the customer had unequivocally authorised and instructed the PSP to make the payment.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | George Hoare |Christian Lally |Natalie Hendy
Key takeaways In the case of Warren, the Court of Appeal has provided welcome clarification on application of CPR 3.9 and test for relief from sanctions While there are now clearer procedural steps, the Court has maintained focus on compliance with procedural rules and efficient conduct of litigation Ruling in Warren reiterates the Court’s wide discretion in these matters and highlights that parties’ conduct is key factor in how the Court will approach applications under CPR 3.9 Summary With...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
damagemag.com | Matthew Thompson |Matthew Thompson |George Hoare |Jonny Gordon-Farleigh
Civil society has always been defined by class struggle. As the social terrain that bridges the political and economic and that regulates relations between individuals and the state and market, civil society has always been shaped by conflicting forces.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
damagemag.com | George Hoare
The twentieth century saw the rise of America from a postcolonial rival to the British dominance of world capitalism to the undisputed global hegemon. It was decisively the American century. As the United States established economic dominance, it also exerted tremendous influence in the domain of culture across the globe. So it was that the twentieth century saw the increasing universalization of world culture in the American model, from McDonald’s to Hollywood cinema to rock and pop music.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
lexology.com | George Hoare |James Stockman |Natalie Hendy |Aishwarya Karunakaran
Key takeawaysThe Court of Appeal in Houssein v London Credit Limited ("LCL") [2024] has recently reiterated the test for determining whether default interest should be construed as a penalty clause. The threefold test is:First, as a threshold question, is the default rate of interest in substance a secondary obligation engaged upon breach of a primary obligation? Second, if it is, what is the extent and nature of the legitimate interest of the promisee in having the primary obligation performed?
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
cafeamericainmag.com | George Hoare
Why do we love football? This is a difficult question to answer—anyone who accepts the mantle of being a football fan is faced with a series of increasingly clear problems with the sport. The moral panic of the 1980s over violent, “thuggish” football fans (i.e. white working-class men) has lost its sway in the UK (though not in places like Germany), but all is not well with football.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
cafeamericainmag.com | George Hoare
One of the major interests of the English historian E. P. Thompson was the historical processes through which social classes are formed. Thompson saw the dynamics of class-making as involving not just the “objective” economic changes that create new professions and “class positions” as economies develop, but also the political and cultural processes through which individuals come to see themselves as members of a group and then act politically.
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May 23, 2024 | 
cafeamericainmag.com | George Hoare
While political scientists hardly have a perfect record of predicting key votes in the past decade, the outcome of the United Kingdom’s upcoming General Election, now scheduled for 4th July 2024, does not at this stage seem in any doubt. While Rishi Sunak gets quotes from removal men, Keir Starmer supporters are busy finalising their “First 100 Days” plans.
