Political Compass

Political Compass is supposed to help you to find your position on the ideological spectrum. The quiz takes the form of a list of statements with which you can agree or disagree. The problem is that many of these statements already acknowledge a left-wing worldview.
For example:
“If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity [...]

Leeds University partnered with Extreme Leftists: activism masquerading as research

Via commenter Andrew K on Longrider’s blog I find out about this guy. Step forwards Paul Chatterton – a man doing publicly funded leftist activism masquerading as research.
His projects (funded by British taxpayers money) include Autonomous Geographies:
“Autonomous Geographies was a two year action research project . . . . . funded by the Economic [...]

Deconstruction – worth(-)less boll-ox ^¦牛¦^ ?

I’ve just been reading about deconstruction and that worthless charlatan esteemed intellectual Jacques Derrida.
As far as I can ascertain, this is how you are supposed to deconstruct a text:

Take a bunch of concepts or things from the text.

For each thing, take its opposite.  There may be many possible choices of opposite but it is important [...]

The free market as the devil

This morning’s Today Programme included this gem (from author Adam Thorpe) in a discussion about Robin Hood:

In fact it’s ended up the novel is in the form of a Latin document translated and Hod, Robert Hod which is his name in the document is actually an extremely unpleasant kind of madman really who believes he [...]