Anyone elses still just say 'Coming Soon'. I'm a student and am using my uni email.
How do you know it's 1000 points when it's just sitting on coming soon?
Used to get a free drink on download of the app for the first time, this is a crap offer.
Anyone tried using a flask instead of a cup?
You're right. Your comment gets a "golden" like from me.
Not really but I guess we all have our own opinions on things.
It is a reward program, just like any other, why does it matter if you are collecting air miles or cookie stamps.
If you already have the app and have stamps on it then I'm assuming you cannot use this n taking a risk to delete the app and reinstall and might loose all stamps already collected? Can anyone advise about this?
Thank you. For some reason the two codes above worked even though I had used them before.
I got one today; scanned the Nero app for stamps and paid using O2 Priority code, the VIP Coffee Pass then appeared in my app straightaway. I've also been gone from Caffe Nero for less than a month. I wouldn't have known to look out for it if I hadn't seen this post though and would probably have missed its appearance, so thanks!
That's when I got it yes. I am not sure if it's a 2019 new year free coffee now, rather it's one you'll randomly get at some point if you use the Nero app.
Is this after you scan the Nero App ?
Get 10% back every time in Caffe Nero using Amex nectar car. Not sure if it is account specific, thought worth saving.
Thank you for the post, saved to my card.
This one appeared a few weeks back I believe. I have one card with 10% off, another with 5% on purchases over £7 as someone else has had. Which to use (lol) ?! Good idea to purchase a gift-card to maximise the use over time.
Not on mine. Just the usual 5% back when spening £7 or more.
Maybe i'm missing something but what is the full code ?? Anyone help ??
Bozo by name..... You can fill in the rest. Literally.
PLEASE read what I said, I did not say you didn't.!
No problem, here you go... Nought. Scatter thee sandwich I cheated on the last word for comic effect. I am stating this so as to not risk offence.
Caffè Nero - Bring your own cup, get 3 stamps!
I agree with the contacting Nero to let them know about the glitch was "not cool" - but to post a deal on a glitch which they would likely resolve is, in my opinion, is fine as I was just encouraging others to maximise the benefit. I mean it's an extra stamp not a massive saving. If you really wanted you could use the other deal of creating a new account and get a new drink which is better than this extra stamp.
They've all gone today, will they be restocked tomorrow?
Oh. I've only been an 02 customer a few months but I've had 2 free drinks a week until today.
Last week I had a code on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Yesterday (Tuesday I used my code) but today it just kept saying my code had already been used (I haven't had a drink from Nero today) . It was the same for the 2 people in front of me. Have o2 changed this offer to now only one free drink a week?
Valid untill the 9th. Thank you OP, used the offer with Amex 10% off.
16% discount on nero giftcards through my work. Whats the odds of buying this giftcard with giftcard topped up through my work?
Late November / early December.
how long does this offer normally last for ?
In one store, they didn't know about it. In another, there was a board clearly advertising it. I bought, checked the balance online and the bonus amount was there. Nero has this almost every November and I wait to combine it with Halifax / Amex cashback.
It's back again can't see a thread on it.
As in take a photo of it? I have found them to be sold out too! I see it as something for free so hardly worth getting upset abpjt.
Its valid for the whole 2 days whichever day you do it. Always has been. When it was only Tuesdays it wqs always valid all Tuesday. Branch open until 11pm in Manchester (picc station) so very handy!
Thanks, didn't know that would work!
Just a point worth mentioning, the paper stamp cards last indefinitely, the stamps collected on the App are only valid for 12 months (pretty sure).
I transferred my nine stamped cards to the Nero application and before i left i had 18 cards.
I had 3 cards with 4 stamps on each so I got the double up promo that ran during October for adding stamps from cards to the app.
Can you use this on Xmas drinks?
I claimed my first free drink in store, and as soon as I scanned it, my 2nd free drink disappeared from the app!!! Anyone else experienced this?
Why isn't this expired? It doesn't work.
Voted hot. I get free coffee every week.
Can I be the Mrs?


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Review of Henry Buckley's The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic
IB Tauris's 2013 edition of Henry Buckley's long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War
The reissue by IB Tauris of Henry Buckley's long-lost memoir, The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic, is an event which anyone interested in the Spanish Civil War should celebrate. Buckley's classic eye-witness account of the eight years of the second Spanish Republic from 14 April 1931 to 31 March 1939 is, I think, one of the best accounts of the period penned by Britons.
Knowledgeable, insightful and beautifully written, Buckley's memoir possesses a rare sense of immediacy that immerses the reader deep within turbulent 1930s Spain. 'Spain', writes Buckley, is 'a poor country with many rich people'; struggling to cope with a difficult transition, where 'new ideas, as well as motor-cars, raced along these fine broad roads which now intersected Spain.' A devout Catholic, Buckley was nevertheless objective enough to recognise the Church's failings and its complicity in creating and supporting a deeply unequal society. In fact the text is astonishingly fair-minded and objective: while he became deeply sympathetic to the Republican cause (even toying with the idea of joining the International Brigades), he was not blind to its failings, arguing that the Republic needed not just to aspire to be good, but to actually raise the pitiful living standards of the poverty-stricken peasants '[which] still form[ed] the majority of the nation's population.'
Unlike foreign correspondents who arrived at the outbreak of the civil war, Henry Buckley had been in Spain since 1929. He spoke the language fluently and knew the country well. He was acquainted with many of the key figures in the Republic, including Pasionaria, Francisco Largo Caballero, Manuel Azaña and Juan Negrín. And his observations of many key figures are not written in the polite banalities of politicians and diplomats. For example, while Buckley has good things to say about many of the Republic's political and military leaders, especially Negrín and Pasionaria, he is not always as enthusiastic about the socialist leaders Francisco Largo Caballero and Julián Besteiro.
There are occasional factual errors in Buckley's account, though surprisingly few when one remembers how deeply immersed in the situation the author must have been. And any errors are more than compensated for by the astute observations and intelligent, grounded analysis. The account of Largo Caballero's own contribution to his fall from office in 1937 is one good example, as is Buckley's sorrowful analysis of the doomed attempts by the western democracies to restrict the war to Spain's borders. Buckley fully understands the inevitable consequence of the French and British governments' determination not to come to the Republic's aid. His eloquent account of the final dark days of the Spanish Republic and the dashing of the hopes of those fighting in support of the Spanish Republic are heart-rending. Yet, despite all, Buckley's conclusion is as clear as it is uplifting: 'their courage and efforts were not in vain. No sacrifice like that ever is.' A sentiment that, I suspect, many will feel is as true now, as it was seventy five years ago.
This review originally appeared in the IBMT newsletter 36, January 2014, p. 22.
Review of James Matthews' Reluctant Warriors
Within Britain, popular knowledge of the Spanish civil war usually centres on the internationalisation of the conflict; the support of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy for General Franco and the involvement of the volunteers of the International Brigades in support of the Spanish Republic. However, it should be remembered that foreigners only ever made up a small proportion of those fighting in Spain; most were Spaniards and a huge number were conscripts. Therefore the publication of Reluctant Warriors, James Matthews' examination of the experiences of these ordinary Spaniards drafted into the armies of both sides, is to be thoroughly welcomed.
For the full review, please see the English Historical Review 2014, issue 129, pp. 761–763.
Review of Helen Graham's The War and its Shadow
Helen Graham's latest monograph, The War and its Shadow, is not an introductory text to the Spanish Civil War, nor is it an easy read. While only 150 pages long, the text's richness and complexity, the scope and ambition, the intelligence and sheer breadth of knowledge contained within make it both thought-provoking and challenging. Important and timely too. One of the major issues currently facing the International Brigade Memorial Trust is how to explain to a contemporary audience the significance of a war which was fought in Spain over seventy years ago. This book provides detailed evidence of the enduring relevance of the Spanish Civil War and the thirty-five years of malevolent and vengeful dictatorship which followed.
In structure, the book comprises a number of essays, implicitly divided into three main sections. In the first, the author discusses the legacy of the First World War, which saw the mortal wounding of many European ancien regimes but not, as yet, their destruction. During what was essentially becoming a European civil war, nationalist movements fought to reassert what they believed to be their natural right to rule. The second section examines the notion of the volunteers (originally raised in her inaugural professorial lecture) for the Spanish Republic as 'border-crossers'. For Helen Graham, many of the International Brigaders were, to use her rather elegant expression, 'the stormy petrels of social change', members of a vanguard fighting for 'cosmopolitan cultural modernity'. The third, final section of the book is a passionate essay on contemporary Spain, the enduring legacy of Francoism and the current battles to control historical memory.
The book provides a trenchant demolition of some of the more enduring myths of the Franco dictatorship. As the author points out, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of a war 'waged predominantly on civilians' and there is no shortage of evidence that murder and rape were used deliberately as a weapon to break down resistance. As the leader of the military rebels, General Emilio Mola declared, they were determined to eliminate 'without scruple or hesitation those who do not think as we do.' This included not just members of the 'left' and members of some imaginary 'judeo-masonic conspiracy', but any representatives of progress and modernity: teachers, trade unionists, homosexuals and 'modern women' too, as the accounts in chapter three of the viciousness visited on the Barayón family make only too clear.
Like Paul Preston's acclaimed Spanish Holocaust, Helen Graham's The War and its Shadow reiterates that Franco's dictatorship was not 'softer' than those of Hitler and Stalin, remarking pointedly on a persisting lack of awareness of the vast number of 'extra and quasi-judicial' killings enacted by the Franco regime between 1936 and 1975. The chapter on Franco's prisons is particularly harrowing. 'All Spain is a prison' wrote Marcos Ana, as Franco's regime set about 'teaching the defeated the meaning of their defeat'. As evidence of the truly repugnant nature of Franco's Spain, the author reminds us that even Heinrich Himmler was shocked by the extent of judicial murder when he visited Spain in October 1940 (though admitting that his main concern may have been the wastage of potential slave labour). The book explains how the victimisation continued within the prisons, with 'the rape/sexual assault of women prisoners was systematically perpetrated with impunity by the servants of the Franco regime', and children removed from what were considered to be 'unfit' mothers.
The book concludes with a rather depressing, though no doubt accurate, assessment of the situation in contemporary Spain, which finds the conservative Partido Popular in power during a time of severe financial crisis. Attempts to recuperate historical memory are becoming increasing difficult, as court cases are launched against those – however prominent – involved in investigating the crimes of the Franco regime. As the author explains, while there have been many positive changes in Spain since the death of Franco, 'many of its most damaging effects endure within the constitutional polity.' Clearly much of Spain remains in shadow and the task of dismantling the Francoist structure has some way to go.
This review originally appeared in the IBMT newsletter 34, January 2013, pp. 24-5.
Review of Elizabeth Roberts' 'Freedom, Faction, Fame and Blood'
My review of Elizabeth Roberts' new book appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History, October 2012, vol. 47:4, pp. 889-891.
The 'methodologically challenging' study by Elizabeth Roberts is a comparative study of the experiences of three groups of 'soldiers of conscience,' British men and women who risked, and often lost, their lives fighting in 'a far-away country,' during the Greek War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish War.
Review of Ben Hughes' They Shall Not Pass! The British Battalion at Jarama
The Battle of Jarama in February 1937, the first action of the British Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, provided a brutal wake-up call for both the volunteers themselves and the British Communist Party, which had recruited them. During three days of bitter and sustained fighting, the six hundred poorly-trained, ill-equipped 'city-bred young men' were attacked by an overwhelming force, comprising the cream of Franco's professional army, backed up by German armour. That the British Battalion managed to hold the line – just – was a feat of both stubborn defiance and astonishing bravery. But the cost was substantial. After the three days of fighting of 12-14 February, less than half the Battalion remained; Suicide Hill was not named in vain. As the Scottish Political Commissar, Peter Kerrigan, later stated, 'this battle has been reported on many occasions. Suffice it to say that it was the bloodiest of all the battles that the British Battalion was involved in, in Spain. There was none as deadly.'
Ben Hughes new study places the battle of Jarama at the centre of the story of the British and Irish in Spain. Drawing on the numerous memoirs, both published and held in archives around the world, They Shall Not Pass! successfully weaves the volunteers' accounts together, contextualising them within a clear narrative. This is a satisfyingly well-written account which tells the, often horrifying, story with both verve and understanding.
Divided into three parts, the book's scope actually extends beyond Jarama, though the main focus of the book is, of course, the battle itself. Part one begins with a chapter to set the scene, before two chapters briefly sketch out the volunteers' journeys to Spain and the hurried and limited attempts to transform the volunteers' political will into military skill. Hughes then returns to the Jarama Valley, concluding his first section at lunchtime on 12 February 1937, with the battalion under attack, but dug in, still determined that that the fascists will not pass.
In the second and crucial section of the book, Hughes reveals how the naïve optimism of the novice volunteer soldiers was violently shattered by the terrifying onslaught of Franco's elite troops of the Army of Africa. Ten graphic chapters provide 'a micro history' of the battle, almost forensic in the attention to detail. Hughes has clearly spent considerable time on his primary research here and the work certainly pays off. The events are recounted from, in Hughes words, 'a worm's eye point of view,' which provides the reader with an understanding of how shocking the experiences of the Jarama battle – and the war in Spain for that matter – really were for the volunteers.
The third and final part of the book provides an account of the experiences of the British and Irish volunteers from the battle of Brunete of July 1937, through to their return to Britain at the end of 1938. Unfortunately, this section is somewhat of a disappointment, perhaps because the previous sections have set such a high standard. Increasingly reliant on secondary sources, it offers nothing like the level of detail of the earlier chapters and is correspondingly less original and informative.
Interest picks up again in the epilogue, which brings the account up to the present day, revealing what happened to the veterans of Jarama during the Second World War and thereafter. For example, the later lives of the three commanders of the battalion at Jarama, Tom Wintringham, Jock Cunningham and Fred Copeman, certainly make interesting reading.
The book also benefits from two useful appendices, including directions to help locate the actual site of the February battle, which I'm sure a number of IBMT members will find beneficial. There is a thorough index and copious footnotes, both of which should prove valuable for students and researchers. All the maps are very clear and other good touches are the brief biographies of the dramatis personae and the numerous photographs, including a number of colour pictures of Jarama features such as the sunken road and 'the knoll' in the present day.
There are, of course, a few areas where the reader may disagree with Hughes' approach or conclusions – I think that he overestimates the casualty rates at Jarama, for example – and there are a number of oversights and little errors, inevitable in a book of this scope and probably only apparent or of interest to the specialist. Most, though, do not detract from what, I think, is one of the best recent additions to the collection of studies on the brave group of British and Irish volunteers, who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
Review of Hugo García's The Truth about Spain
Hugo García's The Truth About Spain, published by Sussex Academic Press, 2010
There has been a spate of books published recently on The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain, to use the title of Tom Buchanan's latest (2007) work. In addition to the IBMT's Antifascistas (2010) written to accompany the exhibition on the British and Irish volunteers, we have had Brian Shelmerdine's British Representations of the Spanish Civil War (2006), Lewis Mates' The Spanish Civil War and the British Left (2007), David Deacon's British News Media and the Spanish Civil War (2008) and now Hugo García has added The Truth About Spain!: Mobilizing British Public Opinion, 1936-1939. This is not to forget Chris Hall's Not Just Orwell, Daniel Gray's Homage to Caledonia, the two oral histories of British volunteers – Max Arthur's The Real Band of Brothers and Peter Darman's Heroic Voices of the Spanish Civil War – and two more general books that include much of interest to a British audience: Paul Preston's study of the war correspondents, We Saw Spain Die, and Steve Hurst's Famous Faces of the Spanish Civil War. Clearly, as we approach the seventy-fifth anniversary of the war, the conflict still has a powerful resonance in Britain, despite rarely making an appearance in the classroom.
Hugo García has made an important contribution to this rather crowded field; it is a rich, detailed study, impeccably researched. The title, however, is somewhat of a misnomer for García's aim, as he admits, is not to judge the veracity of Republican and Nationalist propaganda, but rather to attempt to present an objective, dispassionate analysis of the forms and effectiveness of their propaganda campaigns, how they functioned and impacted on British opinion.
The book comprises four main sections. The first is a history of 'modern' forms of propaganda and censorship, from the end of the nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War, focusing on the use of propaganda in the totalitarian countries and in Spain itself during the Second Republic.
Part two compares the differing approaches of the Nationalists and the Republicans and contains a wealth of detail on the development, manning and operation of both sides' propaganda machines. As García shows, the view of foreign correspondents as spies and criminals by senior Nationalists, and their treatment by their rude and obstructive Press officer, Luis Bolín was often counter-productive. For example, the expulsion of The Times correspondent George Steer required him to move to the Republican zone, from where he later produced his devastating coverage of the bombing of Guernica.
García's analysis of the Republicans' approach – frequently drawing on Arturo Barea's wonderful memoir, The Forging of a Rebel – recognises that the Republic's initial problem was to overcome the chaos that followed the rising and which had shattered the state apparatus. As García describes, order was gradually re-established by the end of 1936, leading to increasingly sophisticated and professional dealings with the foreign press. In contrast to the repugnant Bolín, Republican faces such as Constancia de la Mora offered an efficient and charming front to the foreign correspondents, recognising their value, rather than treating them as irritants.
García then turns to the propaganda messages put out by both sides, particularly atrocities and foreign intervention. It was obviously vitally important for both sides to get across their version of events: the Rebels' depiction of themselves as Nacionales with an anti-Communist crusade was countered by the Republicans' portrayal of the war as 'progress versus feudalism', or the defence of democracy against international fascism. García argues that the techniques used by both sides were, in fact, very similar and that both sides knowingly and deliberately used falsehoods to sustain their portrayal of the conflict.
The final section discusses the impact of the propaganda on Britain. As he recognises, García faces the thorny problem of assessing exactly how the 'messages' put across by both sides were received in Britain; not easy to judge considering the unreliability of opinion polling, then still in its infancy. García claims that, in the main, there was a general indifference, 'a plague on both your houses,' as one contemporary newspaper put it. However, as he recognises, of those who took sides, many more sided with the Republicans than with the Rebels. And while the strongest support for both sides came from the political extremes in Britain, the Republicans had some success in extending their realm of support as the war progressed.
However, García believes that the reportage of the horrors of the Spanish war was most effective in convincing neutrals of the horror of war in general, rather than of one particular side, and thus consolidated support for non-intervention. In a depressing conclusion, he argues that even if the Republican propaganda had been more effective, it would probably still not have achieved enough to be able to save the Spanish Republic. Sadly, it is difficult to disagree with García's view put forward at the very beginning of the book, that 'this was, from very early in the war, a lost cause.' Once Britain and France were determined to pursue a policy of non-intervention in the war, despite ample evidence of a huge German and Italian presence in Spain, the Spanish Republic was effectively doomed.
Review of Gabriel Jackson's Juan Negrín
Review of Daniel Gray's Homage to Caledonia
It is fitting that Homage to Caledonia, Daniel Gray's book on Scotland and the Spanish Civil War, begins with the funeral of Steve Fullarton, the last remaining Scot to have fought with the International Brigades in Spain. This book acts as a testament, not just for the more than 550 men and women from Scotland who risked their lives in Spain, but also for those who stayed behind in Scotland and campaigned for the beleagured Spanish Republic. Gray's deep sympathy with his subject is manifest, yet this is a serious, scholarly work.
The book's first section on the volunteers draws strongly on Ian MacDougall's excellent 1986 study, Voices from the Spanish Civil War. As Gray explains, the reasons that lay behind the determination of so many Scots to go to Spain are not hard to find. He paints a clear picture of the dire poverty of many working class Scots and the ensuing atmosphere of strikes and protests that led many to join the Communist Party. It is a political journey that took in hunger marches, anti-Blackshirt demonstrations and the long – and often one-way- trip to Spain.
Gray's descriptions of the horrifying battles of Jarama and Brunete in 1937, though brief, effectively capture the lack of preparation and the awful shock that the volunteers faced in Spain. Further chapters examine the daily grind in Spain and the brutal experiences of those held in Franco's prisoner-of-war camps. The work of medical services in Spain is not overlooked, with one chapter describing the role of the 'misguided' Scottish Ambulance unit. Gray describes how four volunteers left the unit in disgust, following suspicions that its leader was using it as a cover to evacuate Nationalist sympathisers from Spain.
The book's second section turns to 'Scotland's War', the home front. Gray examines of the role of Scottish women, such as the Conservative MP Katherine Atholl, 'the Red Duchess', in raising funds and campaigning for the beleaguered Spanish Republic. He also outlines the huge importance of family politics, evidenced by the extraordinary Murray family, three of whom went to Spain whilst their five sisters stayed at home campaigning. As Gray says, 'anti-fascism often ran in families, who supported each other in the shared belief that no death was in vain, no matter the personal pain a parent or sibling might feel.' (p.52)
Whilst Gray's work naturally focuses on the Scottish supporters of Republican Spain, he does not forget the Scottish 'Friends of National Spain.' Far-fetched stories in the right-wing press north of the border mirrored those in England: for example, Grays recounts how both the Catholic Herald and Glasgow Observer claimed that the Republican government had created a battalion of prostitutes to defend Madrid. Gray brings to life the various right-wing fanatics, such as Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell-Scott, Walter Scott's great-great grandson, who alleged in March 1937 that 50 000 'workers of the world' were fighting for the Republic.
Gray concludes the section with the tale of 'Scotland's other left', the parties who, with the Communists, supported the Republic. The chapter's main concern is the Independent Labour Party, whose four MPs were all Scots. Of the Scottish volunteers in Spain, perhaps as many as 100 were members of the ILP, who divided themselves between the Catalan POUM militia (in which George Orwell famously served) and the International Brigades. The sectarianism between the CP and ILP in Scotland mirrored that in Spain; as Gray says, 'the politics of Catalonia had been imported by Caledonia.' (p.145)
Gray's final section is a collection of essays on individuals and themes of Scottish interest. The first two subjects, the ILP volunteer Bob Smillie and the Anarchist Ethel Macdonald, have both been covered in detail by Tom Buchanan and Chris Dolan respectively. The only note of real controversy here is that Gray repeats the accusation that Smillie was kicked to death by SIM agents during his interrogation. However, as Tom Buchanan has argued, the lack of conclusive evidence suggests that this case must remain not proven.
Gray's chapter on the Aragon campaigns of 1937 and 1938 include a number of well-chosen vignettes, giving a powerful sense of the Scot's experiences in Spain. Gray provides an extremely moving description of the terrible last days of the battalion in September 1938, in which nearly 200 volunteers were killed or wounded in just three days of desperate and bloody fighting.
The issue of dissent and discipline is now an important part of any study of the foreign volunteers in Spain. Obviously Russia, via the Communist Party, had a very powerful influence on the volunteers, particularly on their attitudes to the Barcelona May days and the POUM. However, Gray believes that 'this should not … detract from the credibility of the 35 000 people from around the world who travelled to Spain of their own volition.' (p.193)
Gray concludes his study with an examination of the legacy of the Scottish supporters of the Spanish Republic. As Gray argues passionately, the Spanish episode remains something to be proud of; 'a glorious, if often tragic, chapter in Scotland's unwritten history.' (p.211)
This review first appeared in Family and Community History, 13:2, November 2010, pp.149-150.
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The Mexican First Lady and a Jewish Anarcho-Feminist Walk Into An East Village Tenement…
By Andrew Berman
…well, it almost happened that way.
The Village and East Village have historically been home to all sorts of strange bedfellows. Today we look at one of the most unusual such pairings, two people whose paths crossed just around the corner from our offices at 208 East 13th Street.
208 East 13th Street is a fairly nondescript looking 'New Law' tenement built in 1901 by noted architect Charles Rentz. ("New Law" tenements had to abide by the provisions of the Tenement House Act of 1901, or the "new" tenement law — as opposed to the "old" tenement law of 1879 — and required more light and air for each room.) "Nondescript," however, would probably be the last word you would use to describe two of the more prominent women who lived here.
Several brownstone rowhouses were demolished to make way for 208 East 13th Street, including one which used the address 206 East 13th Street. Thorough an unusual twist of history, 206 East 13th Street became the residence in exile of the First Lady of Mexico, from 1864 to 1867.
Margarita Maza de Juarez
Margarita Maza de Juarez married Benito Juarez in 1843 in Oaxaca, the Mexican state in which they were both born. Benito Juarez was a lawyer of indigenous origin who went on to serve as the President of Mexico for five terms. He was known for his dedication to progressive reform, constitutional democracy, the rights of indigenous people, and a firm separation of church and state. But he is perhaps most well known for his resistance to the French occupation of Mexico in the 1860s and overthrowing the French-installed Emperor Maximilian (also known as the Second Mexican Empire). And this brings us to Margarita Maza de Juarez's residency in the East Village.
During Juarez's second term as president in 1862, France invaded the country under the pretense of seeking restitution for unpaid Mexican debts. However, it soon became clear that France's real goal was to overthrow Juarez's liberal government and replace it with a combination of conservatives who had lost to Juarez and an Austrian prince, Maximilian von Habsburg, as a new emperor.
Benito Juarez is in the center, with his wife Margarita on the right. His sister, Nela, is to his left.
After some initial victories by Mexican forces against the French, culminating in the victory at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 (now commemorated as Cinco de Mayo), the French rallied in 1863 and forced Juarez's government to flee Mexico City. Juarez and his cabinet had to move successively farther north as the French forces expanded their grip on Mexico.
By 1864, Napoleon III and a group of Mexican conservatives declared Maximilian the Emperor of Mexico ("Maximilian I") and Juarez and his cabinet established a government in exile. Unable to hold democratic elections, Juarez's presidency was authorized by the Mexican congress from 1864 to 1867.
It was at this time, in 1864, that Juarez's wife also fled Mexico, and came to live in the United States during the remainder of Juarez's term in exile. She remained on East 13th Street until 1867, when Juarez's forces, with some assistance from U.S. President Andrew Johnson, finally expelled the French forces and captured Maximilian. It was at this time that Margarita returned to Mexico to be by her husband again, who remained president until he died of a heart attack in 1872. Margarita, though twenty years his junior, actually died a year before Benito Juarez, in 1871.
A significantly less establishment figure also associated with this site was the radical feminist anarchist Emma Goldman. Goldman was born to Orthodox Jewish parents in 1869 in Kovno, in the Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania). In 1885, Goldman emigrated to the United States, where she was quickly drawn to the growing anarchist movement.
Goldman became an icon of the radical anarchist movement, attracting crowds of thousands to her numerous speeches and rallies. A true radical, she went to jail several times for, among other things, inciting to riot and distributing information about birth control. She was jailed again during World War I under the new Espionage Act. After her release, she was deported to Russia, where she initially supported the Bolshevik Revolution. But Goldman soon denounced the Soviet Union for its repressive tactics, moving between England, Canada, France, and Spain, where she supported the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. She died in Toronto in 1940. To find out more about Goldman's life and work, see this prior Off the Grid blog post.
In the midst of this tumultuous and eventful life, from 1909 to 1913 Goldman lived at 208 East 13th Street, the tenement which replaced the house in which Margarita Maza de Juarez resided in the previous century. During this period, Goldman published the radical magazine "Mother Earth," for which she is perhaps most famous. ( The magazine was published from 1906 to 1917; it ended publication after it explicitly called for readers not to enlist for military service, for which Goldman was jailed.)
Both halves of this unlikely pair are memorialized with plaques on the front of the building at 208 West 13th Street. Perhaps ironically, Goldman's plaque is the one found the right side on the building.
The two plaques; Goldman's, ironically, is on the right.
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DANTON, EMILY MILLER, 1888-1982.
Librarian; editor. Born– July 8, 1888, Jackson, Miss. Parents– Thomas Marshall and Anna Letitia Dabney Miller. Married– J. Peran Danton. Education– Newcomb College, B.A., 1907; additional study at Columbia University. Certified as a librarian in New York in 1911. Branch assistant for the Minneapolis Public Library, 1911-1914; reference librarian in Birmingham Public Library, 1914-1920; hospital librarian for the U.S. Public Health Service and the U. S. Veteran's Bureau, 1920-1923; editor of the ALA Booklist and other ALA Publications, 1923-1925; freelance worker for ALA, 1935-1937; director of Birmingham Public Library, 1947-55; executive assistant in the Alabama Public Library Service, 1954. Died August 1982.
Who's Who in Library Service, 1955.
The Library of Tomorrow, a Symposium. Chicago; American Library Association, 1939.
Pioneering Leaders in Librarianship. Chicago; American Library Association, 1953.


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Julie Maclean's poems have appeared in The Best Australian Poetry (UQP), Cordite, Southerly, Island, Overland, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Salzburg, The Antigonish Review, The Rialto, Mslexia, and The Age, among others.
She has published five chapbooks and one full collection. Her chapbooks include: Tango Boleo, (a collaboration with Avril Bradley), Ginninderra, 2019; Lips That Did, Dancing Girl Press, US, 2017; a collaboration with UK poet Terry Quinn, To Have to Follow, Indigo Dreams, 2016; Kiss of the Viking, Poetry Salzburg, 2014, and e-chapbook, You Love You Leave, Kind of a Hurricane Press, US, 2014. Her full collection When I saw Jimi was shortlisted for The Crashaw Prize, Salt, 2013 and became joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize, Indigo Dreams, 2013.
In 2018 she was longlisted in The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition and has two poems highly commended in the 2017 W B Yeats Poetry Prize. In 2017 she won Best Poem in fourWNew Writing 27, Highly commended in 2016. One of her poems How Deep is Your Love was shortlisted for the RedRoom Company New Shoots Project in 2016.
She was one of two poets, in addition to commissioned works, selected for Wandering Words, a chapbook of ekphrastic poems presented at Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy, London, 2014.
As feature poet she has appeared in LA Cultural Review, Sundress Best Dressed, US, Tincture, Melbourne Poets Union, Winter Words at Airey's Inlet, Poetry at the Dan, Melbourne, Damson Poets, UK, on Tania Hershman's blogspot and Clare Carlin's Pieced Work.
Her work appears in several anthologies including The Best Australian Poetry (UQP), Australian Poetry Journal and Anthology, Flarestacks Sylvia is Missing, Indigo Dreams Heartshoots, Booranga fourW New Writing and The Emma Press, Motherhood, Dance and The Sea. Forthcoming in Smith/Doorstop anthology on running, The Result Is What You See Today.
She has been granted a residency with Booranga Writers for June 2019 and will be Feature Poet, conducting workshops and readings for Winter Words Queenscliff in July, 2019.


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As we enter what will be for this fan my 36th season of watching baseball playoffs, I think about how this year is different than previous years. At my age and in what has become a time of reflection, finding myself between jobs and uncertain about my next steps in life, I am reminded that each season and each year is unique with its own peaks and valleys, as well as its share of smooth and bumpy rides along the way.
I've talked previously about how my baseball heart was first broken as a young 9-year old Expos fan on Blue Monday in 1981, and how through the great wonder that is baseball, that has brought me full circle to life as a die-hard Dodgers fan, hoping, rooting and waiting for the boys in blue to be the ones who bring me tears of joy, and not the tears of despair they brought this sensitive 5th grader back in October 1981.
All baseball fans enter each season with a level of optimism and hope. It's one of the many beautiful things about this sport, but this year felt just a little different. There was a special level of optimism going into this year for this fan, after the magic of 2016, the team's first year under Dave Roberts. I re-read my Opening Day post for Dodgers Nation recently and can honestly say that nothing has changed about how I feel. Even when things did get off course, as they painfully did during that losing streak in September, I knew in my heart of baseball hearts that the ship would get righted, and that the optimism for this team would last far beyond Opening Day.
And so we come to the playoffs, and how this year has a decidedly different feeling to it. I think back to previous playoff rounds since 2014 (which my first year fully in the throws of Dodgers fandom, having signed up for MLB TV during Josh Beckett's no-hitter in May, and never looking back) and how yes, each playoff year felt hopeful, because "anything can happen in the playoffs", but there was never the kind of feeling many of us fans have this year.
A friend and fellow baseball fan asked me recently why this year feels different. Even though my standard line to friends in previous seasons has been "this is the year", this has been the first year in all of my years as a baseball fan that I mean it, feel it, believe it.
Many things, and mainly, I believe there exists a deeper emotional connection. These are good guys, under an exceptionally great leader and coaching staff. Have you ever thought to yourself that you like some of the players on the team more than some of your own friends, and kind of meant it? My friend and fellow Dodgers blogger Andy swears she likes Clayton Kershaw more than her own husband, and there is a possibility that I'm single because no man would be better for me than Rich Hill.
But all kidding aside, there is still that emotional connection we have to these men who we often feel we spend more time with than our own people. And like many parents, I would imagine, feel about their own children, we only want what's best for them, made so much easier when we know they're good people, with leaders like Turner, Jansen and Utley emerging to join Kershaw as the emotional backbone of this team.
Baseball, on and off the field, has always been about the people and relationships for me. I've been fortunate enough to become closer to other Dodgers fans on Twitter, so this year the team's experiences feel even more personal, sharing them with friends who have simultaneously been hanging on every pitch, every inning like I have. Like many others I've become acquainted with throughout Dodgers Nation, this season has seen a lot of ups and downs and changes in my personal life – changes that put real life in perspective but also make me appreciate that special "escape" of Dodgers baseball more than ever. Having this soft place to land has been a lifesaver in a lot of ways for many of us, and while a winning baseball season ultimately comes down to the team on the field, this team going all the way could feel sweeter than any other year because it feels like the culmination of years of loyalty and hope shown by its large, passionate fanbase. And for many of us, we may need this World Series win as much as we want it. Knowing we will share the joy and agony of postseason baseball together is comfort all on its own, and for that, I am grateful.
And of course, above all, the play on the field. The team won 104 games this year so has set expectations higher than they've ever been, and rightfully so. Going into the playoffs has never felt so hopeful before, mainly because of how they have played and shown us what they can do. Thinking back on the previous 3 postseasons, they each, of course, had some sliver hope attached to them, but like baseball seasons of my youth as an Expos fan, the other shoe always felt like it was inevitably about to drop.
2014 – The team had faltered down the stretch and sputtered into the playoffs, running on a Kershaw and a prayer, forcing him to have to go too far into games. The sight of him walking off the mound after giving up that 3-run HR to Matt Adams will forever be burned into my brain. The season ended in St. Louis with Carl Crawford at the plate and runners on base, but even if they had pulled out a win in Game 4 and Ethier hadn't been picked off third late in the game, in hindsight it really didn't feel like they had any hope in Game 5.
2015 – They beat Bumgarner to clinch in SF, which was sweet on its own, then had their NLDS overshadowed by the Utley slide and all of its controversy. Kershaw then threw a gem in Game 4 in New York in front of hateful Mets fans, and hope abounded with Greinke on the mound at home in Game 5. Many still point to letting Daniel Murphy go from first to third as the key to that loss, but this fan remembers too many Dodgers left on base early on, when they could have gotten to deGrom when they had the chance. We will never know what might have happened vs the Cubs in the NLCS that year, but it still didn't feel like they quite possessed the postseason magic they would have needed to get any further.
2016 – A much deeper emotional connection to team because of Dave Roberts and the then improbable 2nd half come back. The team had become much more than just Kershaw. All season, though, the Cubs were just so good that it was easy to think this was destined to be their year, and at one point it felt like we should have just been happy that the Dodgers beat out the Giants to make the playoffs. Then, when the boys went up 2-1 on Cubs in NLCS on the strength of a masterful outing by Rich Hill, hope temporarily abounded until it was soon crushed even before the series even headed back to the dark, cold confines of Wrigley Field.
There will be a new day, and eventually a new year. And when the coming winter gives way to spring, oh, rest assured, once again, it will be time for Dodger baseball.
This year may see its own heartbreaking ending, or it may end with a Dodgers win for the first time in 29 years. As in life, we can't always write that ending ourselves, but can only do our best to enjoy the moments we have while they are in front of us, and appreciate that the world will keep on turning whether we spend the first week of November watching a World Series parade weave its way through the streets of LA, or curled up in the fetal position counting the days until Spring Training 2018.
So with an unprecedented level of excitement and anxiety, I say bring it on, playoffs! My liquor cabinet and I are ready…for whatever you have in store for us this year.
You captured my feelings perfectly. There is something special about this team. They're the Good Guys who didn't gloat while winning or complain when losing.
They seem to embody those feelings that made me love the nobleness of baseball when I was a kid. I'm so anxious about tonight 's game that I've got a bit of a knot in my stomach. Think Blue everybody and Go Dodgers!


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Anantnag girl pursuing MBBS found dead in Bangladesh college
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Srinagar: A 22-year-old MBBS girl student from Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir died in Bangladesh, according to family members.
Quratul Ain daughter of Ali Mohd Bhat, a resident of Bun Dialgam Anantnag was pursuing MBBS final year in Tahir Ul Nisa Medical College.
"She spoke to us on phone last night and today we were informed she didn't wake up and was found dead inside her hostel room," a family member said.
The family urged MEA to help them get her body home.
"We urge the government of India through Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to see that the body is brought to Anantnag for last rites. "We have been asked by the Bangladesh authorities to follow some procedures including sending an Affadavit which we have done, "they said.
"We request the government of India especially Minister of external affairs to ensure that body is brought to Anantnag for last rites," Naveed Bhat, brother of the deceased said.
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Will take 2-3 days for scheduling flights over Pak air space: AI official
Air India on Tuesday indicated that it will take two to three days for scheduling flights over Pakistan which has lifted all curbs on flying over its air space. "We are looking into the matter. It will take two to three days for scheduling to use Pakistani airspace," an Air India official said.
For the first time since February's Balakot strike, Pakistan fully operationalised its airspace for civilian traffic, bringing a huge relief for the airlines which had to take long and costly detours to avoid the Pakisrtani air space. "With immediate effect, Pakistan airspace is open for all type of civilian traffic on published ATS routes," read a notice to airmen (NOTAM) issued by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority.
In a tweet, the Ministry of Civil Aviation in New Delhi termed the move a "great news" and a "big relief to air passengers". Pakistan had earlier claimed that it would not open its airspace for commercial flights until India removed its fighter jets from forwarding Indian airbases.
Pakistan had fully shut its airspace on the eastern border with India after the Indian Air Force had carried out airstrikes on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)camp in Balakot on February 26.
In mid-April, Pakistan opened one of its 11 air routes for west-bound flights from India — airlines like Air India and Turkish Airlines have started using it. In March, the neighbouring country partially opened its airspace but did not allow Indian flights to fly over its airspace.
Srinagar, July 16: Police on Tuesday recovered an identified male body on river Jehlum near Shadipora area of Sumbal in North Kashmir's Bandipora district.
Reports reaching said that some locals spotted the body floating near Shadipora and informed the concerned police station immediately.
A police team reached the spot and retrieved the body. Confirming it a police officer said that the body has been taken to a nearby hospital for medico-legal formalities.
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963 militants,413 soldiers killed in J&K since 2014: Home Ministry
A total of 963 militants have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir by security forces since 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was first voted to power.
During the various encounters and anti-combing operations in the state during the period, a total of 413 security personnel were also killed.
The data was furnished by the Ministry of Home Affairs in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. The Home Ministry also said that pursuant to Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government's zero-tolerance policy against militancy, the forces were taking proactive measures to neutralize militants.
According to the Home Ministry, each of the Central Armed Police Forces has a designated welfare officer at each headquarter. Apart from it, there are welfare officers at the unit level to facilitate the families of security personnel, who were killed in the line of duty.
On Monday, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik had informed the Rajya Sabha that Jammu and Kashmir witnessed a total of 318 militants attacks in 2018, which is 187 more than the number of attacks in 2017.
In a written reply to Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel, the government had further said that as many as 265 militants were killed in various counter-militants, counter infiltration and militant Initiated Incidents operations undertaken by the defence and security personnel. In the same year, a total of 43 Army men were killed during anti-militant operations.


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Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts
T M Goodall, C P North, K W Glennie
Geology and Geophysics
The growth and subsequent dissolution of salts on or within sediment may alter sedimentary structures and textures to such an extent that it is difficult to identify the depositional origin of that sediment and, as a result, the sediment may be misinterpreted. To help to overcome such problems with investigating ancient successions, results are presented from a comprehensive study of the morphology and fabrics of three large areas of modern salt flats in SE Arabia: the Sabkhat Matti inland region and the At Taf coastal region, both in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the Umm as Samim region in Oman. These salt flats are affected by tidal-marine, alluvial and aeolian depositional processes and include both clastic- and carbonate-dominated surficial sediments. The efflorescent and precipitated salt crusts in these areas can be grouped into two main types: thick crusts, with high relief (> 10 cm) and a polygonal or blocky morphology; or thin crusts, with low relief (< 10 cm) and a polygonal or blister-like appearance. The thin crusts may assume the surface morphology of underlying features, such as ripples or biogenic mats. A variety of small-scale textures were observed: pustular growths, hair-like spikes and irregular wrinkles. Evolution of these crusts over time results in a variety of distinctive sedimentary fabrics produced by salt-growth sediment deformation, salt-solution sediment collapse, sediment aggradation and compound mixtures of these processes. Salt-crust processes produce features that may be confused with aeolian adhesion structures. An example from the Lower Triassic Ormskirk Sandstone Formation of the Irish Sea Basin demonstrates how this knowledge of modern environments improves the interpretation of the rock record. A distinctive wavy-laminated facies in this formation had previously been interpreted as the product of fluvial sheetfloods modified by soft-sediment deformation and bioturbation. Close inspection of laminations seen in core reveals many of the same sedimentary fabrics seen in SE Arabia associated with salt crusts. This facies is the product of salt growth on aeolian sediment and is not of fluvial origin.
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Goodall, T. M., North, C. P., & Glennie, K. W. (2000). Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts. Sedimentology, 47(1), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00279.x
Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts. / Goodall, T M ; North, C P ; Glennie, K W .
In: Sedimentology, Vol. 47, No. 1, 02.2000, p. 99-118.
Goodall, TM, North, CP & Glennie, KW 2000, 'Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts', Sedimentology, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 99-118. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00279.x
Goodall TM, North CP, Glennie KW. Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts. Sedimentology. 2000 Feb;47(1):99-118. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3091.2000.00279.x
Goodall, T M ; North, C P ; Glennie, K W . / Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts. In: Sedimentology. 2000 ; Vol. 47, No. 1. pp. 99-118.
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Ballymena United are through to the final of the Bet McLean League Cup after a 3-1 against Cliftonville at the Showgrounds.
Goals from Leroy Millar, Tony Kane and Cathair Friel sealed Unted's place in the final - where they will face Dungannon Swifts at Windsor Park on Saturday.
In the 22nd minute the Reds had a chance. Jay Donnelly crossed from the right but his ball was just to high for the unmarked Joe Gormley at the back post.
The Reds went close again in the 31st minute. Chris Curran found Conor McDonald. However he shot over when well placed.
Jonathan McMurray was causing problems for the Reds defence and he had a couple of chances before the break but he failed to convert either.
The second half started at a good pace with both sides pushing for the opener.
in the 56th minute a Tony Kane corner caused problems but Braniff pushed it wide from a Cathair Friel flick.
It was 1-0 to United in the 61st minute. McMurray found Kane - his shot was parried by Brian Neeson and Leroy Millar was there to knock it home.
Were the holders heading for another final?
It was 2-0 in the 73rd minute. A throw-in from sub Conor McCloskey found Kane and he headed home past Neeson.
The Reds had a chance through Rory Donnelly but Glendinning saved well in the 75th minute.
McMurray tried his luck in the 86th minute from long range but his shot was easily saved by keeper Neeson.
It was 2-1 in the 89th minute as Cliftonville got a goal through a scramble in the United goal mouth and it was game on.
it was 3-1 right at the death Friel shooting home from his own half after keeper Neeson had come up for a Reds corner.
And Ballymena wil now face Dungannon Swifts in Saturday's final.
Ballymena Utd: Glendinning, Kane, Owens, Friel, Braniff, Burns (McCloskey 67mins), Balmer, Ervin, McCullough, Millar (Faulkner 86mins), McMurray.
Subs not used: Flynn, Shevlin, McCaffrey.
Subs not used: Dunne, Lavery, Grimes.


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May 18, 2018 May 21, 2018 callumalexanderscott
The Perils of a Good Education: how so many educated professionals become servants of the status quo
Originally published in the Morning Star on 19th May 2018
Recalling the work of physicist Jeff Schmidt, CALLUM ALEXANDER SCOTT traces how a good education can produce obedience, conformity and conservatism in young professionals.
In the late 1990s, the physicist Jeff Schmidt wrote a fascinating book called Disciplined Minds.
In the book Schmidt contended that, by and large, professionals of all kinds – across government, the civil service, the corporate world, journalism, the media, cultural management and the more articulate sectors in general – are conditioned to serve the agenda of established power by subordinating themselves to working "within an assigned political and ideological framework".
This leads them, he argued, to become a far more conservative force in society than a progressive one.
For Schmidt, this conditioning begins in early education. Children are curious about all things, he writes, but must gradually learn to assign their curiosity to specific tasks set by teachers – a process he calls "assigned curiosity".
At school, the children who are best able to assign their curiosity and subordinate themselves to the teacher's instructions will generally obtain the best grades and receive the most praise. While the ones who are unable to do so will tend to experience the opposite – or worse, end up in the headmaster's office as "behavioural problems".
In this respect, subordination and compliance are encouraged and rewarded in the school system, while insubordination and nonconformity are discouraged and punished. The process, Schmidt argues, helps to instill the former characteristics in children and weed out the latter.
What this means is that by the time students reach university level and professional training, a significant portion of them will have made it because they were better able to subordinate themselves and comply with orders.
As Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT, has hypothesised, the higher up the education system you go – that is, the more elite the university you attend – the more obedience and conformity you are likely to find since you are "getting the students who were better able to do it".
The conditioning continues throughout university, writes Schmidt. Only, now it becomes more of a voluntary process for students.
Take, for example, when a teacher assigns an essay topic. Good students who have made it thus far will rarely consider writing about a topic that is not assigned.
In fact, the best, most obedient students will adhere strictly to the rules and go out of their way to please their teacher, finding ways to align with his or her outlook, attitudes and beliefs.
The students who eagerly adopt their teacher's outlook, no matter what it is, the ones who subordinate their own desires and beliefs for the purposes of the task, will generally do better.
Another important part of the conditioning process, Schmidt writes, is socialisation – that is, learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to society, to hold the "correct" outlook, attitudes and values.
Sociologists have long recognised how attending a "good" school or university is critical to learning the correct etiquette, adopting the right speaking voice, and knowing what to say and what not to say in certain environments.
As George Orwell wrote in 1945, the "sinister fact" about censorship amongst the English intelligentsia is that "it is largely voluntary":
Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark […] not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that 'it wouldn't do' to mention that particular fact.
This "wouldn't do to mention" attitude derives very much from a "good education", whether you attend Oxbridge, an Ivy League university or a Grandes écoles.
Ultimately, Schmidt argues, the educational system, the higher you climb it, amounts to a process of selection, training and qualification for obedience – what he calls "ideological discipline".
This discipline is of course essential in professional work where employees are required to subordinate themselves to serve the interests of their employers without question.
While there may occasionally be moments for manoeuvre, good professionals, the well-disciplined ones, recognise that to seriously question the ideology, morality or politics built into their work and to voice their opinions on such matters would be too disruptive in the workplace.
To do so would reflect negatively on them in the eyes of their managers and colleagues and, much like the children with "behavioural problems" in school, they would become "managerial problems" in the workplace.
Image from the 1988 American science fiction horror film They Live, written and directed by John Carpenter.
But here is the really interesting part. The conditioning does not merely produce disciplined, obedient and conformist professionals – it also produces conservative ones.
To illustrate, Schmidt notes how it is commonly assumed that professionals with a good education are more liberal on social issues, while non-professionals without good educations are regarded as being more conservative. It is for this reason that professionals claim, often rather smugly, to be a more progressive force in society than non-professionals.
This is a fallacy, argues Schmidt, because while educated professionals may be more progressive on distant social issues (civil liberties, personal morality and cultural issues), when it comes to issues that might really affect them personally, such as issues in their workplace, they tend to be more conservative.
Think of the bricklayer or engineer who thinks most politicians are corrupt and untrustworthy or that Tony Blair should be on trial at the Hague for war crimes. He will freely proclaim such an opinion because it has no effect on him in his workplace.
The professor, judge, journalist or corporate manager, however, will likely refrain from saying such a thing because, as Orwell put it, it simply "wouldn't do to mention" it, despite the fact that few people in broader society would be shocked.
Professionals can "rarely muster the courage to take a position that they think might displease their employers" or colleagues, Schmidt writes, because they do not "want anyone to think that their own views might affect their work".
Independence of thought, breaking social norms and eccentricity would just seem out of line. As a result, the professional rarely ends up standing for anything other than the proclaimed values of the company they work for.
Another example of conservatism among professionals relates to the issue of democracy.
Liberal professionals will be the first to extol the virtues of freedom and plurality, both in and outside of their workplace. However, discuss politics in depth with them, Schmidt says, and "you will not hear a word in favour of a more democratic distribution of power in society perhaps because in the professional's view ignorant non-professionals make up the large majority of the population".
Think here of the scorn that many educated liberals showed poorer, less educated Brexit voters following the EU Referendum, and their subsequent efforts to reverse the result.
Or the liberal New Labourites (Blairites) who tried (and still try) to undermine the Labour Party's membership who voted Corbyn as their leader. Or similarly how US Democrats treated (and still treat) Trump voters with derision and mockery. "Even the most liberal professionals", Schmidt notes, "tend toward authoritarianism in their social visions".
Ever hear of a solicitor who advocates free training for litigants to represent themselves? Or a doctor who supports people without medical qualifications (like experienced nurses) practicing medicine? Or how about teachers who support the opening of jobs in schools to people without degrees or teacher training – or even letting students run their own classes?
The point Schmidt is making here is that many professionals, while liberal outside of their work, tend to be more conservative when it comes to workplace issues. Non-professionals, on the other hand, while often conservative outside of their work, tend to be more liberal inside of the workplace. The result is that professionals have a far more conservatising effect on society.
The reason for this is because the societal impact people have in the workplace is far greater than the impact they have outside of it. Schmidt illustrates this with a simple statement:
If […] you were given the power to dictate the outlook that governs the day-in day-out decision-making of a professional at work, and I were given the power to dictate the outlook that governs what that professional does inside the voting booth once every four years, then your power to shape society would be vastly greater than mine.
Certainly, I can recall from my own experience how this works. For example, during my postgraduate study at Kings College London there was a professor who many students feared and disliked, but who carried an air of authority and respect in the department.
On the first day of classes he declared to us that he was "politically liberal but socially conservative". This meant, as he would pompously remind us each semester, that he believed in "traditional power structures" and therefore required to be addressed as either "Professor or Dr", or else he would not respond to us.
Just consider the hundreds of students he teaches each year, many of whom go on to work in prominent roles in the professions. The influence he is having on them and the example he is setting – and the subsequent influence they will have and the examples they will set in their own workplaces – will be far greater than the impact of his "liberal" vote at the ballot box once every five years.
The same of course applies to any professional manager who perpetuates "traditional power structures" in their workplace.
To conclude here, the ultimate point Schmidt is arguing in his book is that the process of a good education and professional training tends to produce obedience, conformity and conservatism in young professionals.
The system, by its very nature, helps foster what he describes as a "political and intellectual timidity" amongst our "most highly educated employees". The result is that they end up constituting a more conservative force in society by serving the "interests of those who have power", thus helping to "maintain the social and economic status quo".
As a final note, it is worth noting that Schmidt's aim is not to lambaste professionals – it is merely to build an understanding of the role they play in society.
He empathises with the many professionals who start off hoping to "make a difference", but soon find they have been pushed to "accept a role in which they do not make a significant difference, a politically subordinate role".
When this happens, he says, professionals tend to seek money and status as compensation for subordinating their ideals.
For anyone interested, he gives some brilliant advice on techniques for resistance and maintaining independent thought within the professions.
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