Tag Archives: Iran

Mansfield Park, The Slave Trade & Iran

By chris | Published: 7 October 2009
The slave trade subtext Mansfield Park were hardly accidental, Austen surely suggesting that the ethical ideas she was exploring in a family setting could be framed by the slavery question (to what extent is ‘absolute authority’ ever just or wise) but also the ethical drama of the family had a bearing on wider issues such [...]
Posted in topical | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Iran

By chris | Published: 4 October 2009
I didn’t expect to be blogging on this.  I watched in disbelief as the public was manipulated into the Iraq war in 2002 and blogged intensively on the standoff with Iran over its nuclear programme in 2006/7 until the 16 US intelligence agencies unanimously signed off on the remarkable 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s [...]
Posted in topical | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment