Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Sam Wetherell
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This is risible, stupid, cruelty. But there's also a complacency in Europeans posting this from behind their own militarised and theatrically racist border regimes. The belief that Britain, say, might temporarily and selectively suspend these regimes during a World Cup means basically nothing.
Sam Wetherell
Or, say, the rough and targeted treatment of Senegalese passengers at Charles De Gaulle airport will be happening dozens if not hundreds of times a day. Having the decorum to hide it in a high profile diplomatic setting is not really anything to celebrate.
Cannot wait to read the latest by Jonas - this will set off a nuclear bomb beneath a discourse on class in Britain that has been desperately provincial, nakedly partial and unimaginative for too long.
The funniest thing about this by-election is watching people like Nandy having to pretend that an arbitrarily demarcated exurban strip of market towns and commuter villages between Wigan and Manchester is some radically essentialist super special Gemeinschaft that holds the key to Britain's soul.
Great to see that @modbritstud.bsky.social's new website is taking seriously my argument that Liverpool's modern history is exactly where we need to look to understand the past, present and future of Britain.
I hope every single person responsible for the Champions League final not being free to watch today is having a truly awful, miserable, terrible day.
Balls is of course sprouting barely literate reactionary nonsense here. But, as I argued in a piece in 2019, Stalinism with a British accent rings true in complicated historical ways... A shared history of ruthless imperialism followed by structural unravelling. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Last night Britain broke the record for the hottest night ever recorded in May by almost 2 degrees. The insane thing though, according to this article, is that the initial record was *set* the night before (i.e. Sunday night)! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This is what Ruth Wilson Gilmore called the “organised abandonment” of the poor. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Pep Guardiola’s advocacy for Palestine during a genocide that much of the rest of the global north tacitly (or overtly) supported was admirable. But c’mon guys, he was also effectively the PR front for a petrostate run by slave labour. I think we can chill a little. www.aljazeera.com/amp/sports/2...
