{"id":6111,"date":"2014-09-18T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2014-09-18T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T07:50:07","slug":"george-monbiot-and-brian-wilson-disagree-on-progress-and-whats-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/18\/george-monbiot-and-brian-wilson-disagree-on-progress-and-whats-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"George Monbiot and Brian Wilson disagree on progress, and what's progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/sep\/02\/scots-independence-england-scotland\">M\u2019s<\/a> latest dyspeptic vision of the future \u2013 at least for benighted folk\u00a0north of the Wall \u2013 \u00a0has been seen off by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/sep\/04\/scottish-independence-nationalism-progressive-george-monbiot-uk\">Brian Wilson<\/a>\u00a0for the \u201cpatronizing rubbish\u201d\u00a0it clearly is. \u00a0Wilson asks where are the progressive ideas in nationalist politics, claiming never to have found one.<\/p>\n<p>Sceptics of this view might point to free university tuition, except that this is as clear a middle-class subsidy as you'd want\u00a0to find: all those rich folk who've lavished many years of private education on their bairns\u00a0suddenly finding there's no more to\u00a0pay thanks to tax-payer largesse. \u00a0Joy, rapture and bliss unconfined. \u00a0Meanwhile, the working poor in Glasgow and Dundee are still paying taxes to fund all this. \u00a0Not only that, they find that the state funding for the further education their own children use\u00a0has been slashed to shore up the subsidy. \u00a0Quite a few people, it seems, want more of this sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George M\u2019s latest dyspeptic vision of the future \u2013 at least for benighted folk\u00a0north of the Wall \u2013 \u00a0has been seen off by Brian Wilson\u00a0for the \u201cpatronizing rubbish\u201d\u00a0it clearly is. \u00a0Wilson asks where are the progressive ideas in nationalist politics,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}