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Occupy London urgently seeks direction

It was a few days before Margaret Thatcher marched into Downing Street in May 1979, but as far as the then Labour prime minister, James Callaghan, was concerned, the game was already up. "You know, there are times, perhaps once every 30 years, when there is a sea change in politics," he told his adviser Bernard Donoughue. "It does not matter what you say or what you do. I suspect there is now such a sea change - and it is for Mrs Thatcher." His pessimism was well founded. The postwar consensus, with its pillars of a mixed economy, strong unions and high taxes on the wealthy, was coming to an end. Callaghan could no longer preserve the disintegrating centre. What became known as Thatcherism - or neoliberalism - emerged victorious.

As I stood in Finsbury Square just outside the City of London, on Sunday 23 October, I could not help but be reminded of "Callaghan's Law". Around me was the first offshoot from Occupy the London Stock Exchange, a protest camp set up eight days earlier. A couple of dozen tents were neatly arranged in rows (apparently to comply with health and safety regulations) and several protesters were dancing cheerfully as a brass band called Horns of Plenty belted out left-wing anthems. It was just the latest addition to the fastest-growing political force on earth: the Occupy movement, which now has a presence in up to a thousand cities. Was this the most compelling sign yet of a "sea change" - of a global repudiation of the neoliberal order that began teetering when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008?

Source: New Statesman

The various publications of London Met : Verve Media – London Met ...

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Verve is not the only London Met publication run by students, for students. The Business School, the Law School and the Postgraduate College all aim to keep you updated with the latest faculty and industry-related news.

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Verve is published once a month during term time and can be collected from the distribution boxes across both campuses, in the lobbies and key meeting points across the university. For the grand price of absolutely nothing, Verve reports on University news, features, top tips, interviews, University sports updates, relationship advice and fashion pages. The magazine reports on anything and everything believed to be of importance to you London Met-ers! Verve is always looking for new writers, so whatever your interests are there is always an opportunity to get involved.

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Jude Law & Kevin Spacey Get Political in London | OK! Magazine

by OK! Staff

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The actors were informed soon after that their movies were banned in Belarus as a result of their participation in the protests. They kept right on protesting, regardless!

"They can ban as many films as they want but they will never be able to ban the Belarus people's right to fight for their freedom and their voices to be heard, and that's what this protest is about," Kevin reportedly said.

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