Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
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This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
The clue's very much in title, not that the article really gets to the key issue, being much happier delivering kicks at feckless students. Students spend thousands, so they're burdened with debt but still have inadequate maintenance loans. Many are stressed and working multiple jobs. Class suffers.
don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer
Taylor Swift's gift is narrating particular romances with touching little details, whereas Olivia Rodrigo's gift is abstracting from her own experiences to general features of modern relationships - it's the old Aristotle vs Plato clash.
