Les Tres Riches Heures du Tony Blair

If you want to know what Tony Blair has been up to lately, click below:

Joking apart, this comedy clip really analyses the mechanisms of power through which symbolic domination is exercised in a masterly way; showing how post-modern financial capitalism divested charismatic political leaders of real power and also created new invisible, flexible but also impenetrable barriers of taste and disposition through which elites could control and dominate. These elites are post-national, liberal, moderate and determinedly gender and race-neutral. Yet at the same time their intolerance of any other claim to power or indeed dignity which is not built on brutal Darwinian and imperial capital accumulation shines through. A sad foretaste of the Obama years, which were also foreseen and denounced by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu:

David Harvey, the social geographer and the author of "The Condition of Postmodernity" has brilliantly analysed the structural basis of financial capitalism and claims that the crash of 2008 was quite predictable from this (Marxist) Perspective:

Finally here is my favourite comic take on what used to be called "the subprime crisis" before it mutated into the "Great Recession." Once again comedians seem to make the best social analysts: