British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Alan Lester
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How far right, anti-Muslim “Tommy Robinson” adherents are Putin’s pawns.
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MAGA’s brand of hyper-nationalist, white supremacy was always going to be counterproductive in the USA’s struggle with China for global supremacy. With his hubristic folly in Iran & his falling into Netanyahu’s trap, Trump has accelerated the transition.
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Well of course you’d expect white supremacy to be carefully segmented into different shades.
2/2 Syed seems to think the root cause is governments allowing too many “Illegals” in, which alienates even “legal” immigrants. It doesn’t strike him that it’s about resurgent racism rather than immigration per se, even when he’s speaking to “legal” Pakistani students burnt out of their homes!
I suspect that even after an eventual change of regime in Iran, this false hope, betrayal even, that led to thousands more deaths, will not be forgotten.
1/2 Here’s a radical idea. How about blaming the rioters? Or at least the politicians who egged them on, rather than the ones who didn’t?
Politics is a funny old business. Here’s the Daily Mail condemning a party for being racist in support of its preferred racist party.
Trump’s administration really do not understand soft power. Marco Rubio said it manifests in cage fighting spectacles like that at the White House. The dramatic failure to defeat the Iranian regime demonstrates what it really is, and how Trump has thrown it away.
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Pressured by the more explicitly racist Lowe, Farage’s facade that it’s all about immigration rather than race is cracking wide open
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! "Trump Completely Misunderstands the Lessons of the British Empire" by @alanlester.bsky.social. It is free to read, share and download for a limited time.
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