Even cynical I was starting to be moved by the love-fest around Jason Vanporppal. Then I learnt that his two Ugandan companions were denied entry to South Africa. Apparently we suspend our xenophobia for those who bear first-world passports and are not too dark of complexion.
Is your child up at 9pm arguing about tram networks with the entire staff of the FT and some tedious Americans who are not familiar with the concept of a joke?
This report make shock you.
To the small Venn diagram of people who follow both South African & UK politics - is anyone else seeing an uncanny resemblance between Wes Streeting & Geordin Hill-Lewis?
My vanishingly few South African followers will share my amusement here. Naughty Helen.
Connections
Puzzle #1081
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First guess had four different colours. Thereafter a reverse rainbow.
Slightly increase a band:
Level 43.
Everything's a conspiracy
Our Special Issue of @jsas-journal.bsky.social 'Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in Southern Africa' is now out. We focus on military institutions formed by liberation struggles & remade in independent states as sites of political, social & cultural production.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...
David Higham
Jack Tindale
Allowing myself a moment of nostalgia for the 2010s internet. Doge Weather (and everything Doge). Feminist Ryan Gosling. Strindberg and Helium. What do you miss?
Justin Pearce
Justin Pearce
Justin Pearce
Justin Pearce
Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in South Africa. Volume 51, Issue 6 of Journal of Southern African Studies
This describes the UK prime minister as 'a man without convictions'. So of course anyone my age is now going to hear 'Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer chameleon...'
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