David Robjant
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Rosbif, étant né qqpart, j'admire surtout Georges Brassens- My articles on Plato, Wittgenstein, & Iris Murdoch (some about all 3) listed @RobjantDavid
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Joined October 2019
I wrote a thing about Orwell and "patriotism"; the odd and interesting "love" part in "love of country", that isn't dinner dates but might be to do with possession and jealousy. You should read it because it is amusing, some think insightful.
abc.net.au
Orwell’s well-known contrast between patriotism and nationalism wasn’t accurate in his time, nor is it useful in ours. We need to conceptualise more clearly a good, self-transcending love of country,...
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Answer is in the question.
Is starting a podcast some sort of immutable law now, and people grudgingly have to pick something to make a podcast about even if they're clueless?.
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RT @AlexTaylorNews: Great 15 minute report opening @BBCNews tonight on just how difficult it is to stop Channel crossings and how French po….
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RT @John_Attridge: It is widely believed that academic arguments should challenge accepted ideas. Yet this common perception is based on a….
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That third guy, Victor Bosoni, is now entering Bulgaria, more than a hundred kilometers ahead, is soon to cross into Romania, and his pursuers, extraordinary athletes all, start to seem out of the race. A first french winner of the transcontinental is, perhaps, in the making.
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Disconcertingly, seem to have decided that I like talking to this dentist, or that I was amused to do so. But there is a time, in all things.
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On the basis that the BBC Talk Italian grammar book was a good read
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There is some sophistry here (I made no “claim” of such a form). But you link an interesting and extremely hetrogenous essay. It deserves a reply in greater depth on a later occasion, companion to my ABC piece on Orwell & Ireland, perhaps.
@DavidRobjant The claim that 'Scotland is not a colony' is on the most banal and legalistic level, technically true. On all other levels, it's false. To make that claim is to completely misunderstand the nature and complexities of empire.
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-and as settling a “civil” war with a football feud manifestation even now. Brexit also has this character as internal relations under the cover of external relations, as no doubt will Rejoin.
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Mythmaking about what “we” are is almost always at the heart of nation talk. Are “we” Scots the Jacobite rebellion and the downtrodden Gaels of the highland clearances? Or rather the inheritors of a protestant imperialist community that saw Union as completing both ambitions?.
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The quote tweet chain leads back to a post in which (under cover of argument about recognition of Scottish independence) Sara Slayers is engaged in a more heartfelt project: to get Scotland internationally classified as a colonised nation, thus effacing cocolonisation &Darien.
@SymbolStones This was all obvious (to me, anyway) in 2014. Perhaps it is now obvious to many more. But is it obvious to enough?.
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RT @David__Well: 😂 They’re so committed to their narrative of a Palestinian state being a punishment they think this is some psy-op, but Ha….
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RT @OpenChiswickW4: 😡 Fuming! . Just six months ago this was a parking space that could be used by a whole SUV and its single occupant. No….
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And yet by your statements and actions you give Hamas reason to persist in what they cruelly do, both to those upon whom they visit fanatical jew hate and upon their own population, noting that it _works_ to achieve their aims.
Videos of emaciated hostages are a horrifying reminder of the evil of Hamas and the plight of those still held captive after so long. No family should have to see their loved ones like that. The UK must continue to press for the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages.
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RT @SCynic1: Do you not think that, as the world again closes its eyes to Jews being starved to death, you might have sufficient humility a….
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RT @adam_louis52328: The invocation of figures like Netanyahu or Trump is often a deliberate deflection—a way to avoid addressing the actua….
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RT @nickreeves9876: UK inflation is 3.4%. Eurozone inflation is 2.0%. The Bank of England interest rate is 4.25%. The ECB rate is 2.0%. Bre….
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RT @eurinco1: Unfortunately Kier Starmer is as committed to hard Brexit - outside the single market as well as the EU - as his Tory predece….
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It beggars beleif that you can want to ‘put pressure on Israel’ without understanding that this takes the pressure off the fascists who started the war. And Hamas didn’t just ‘claim’ something. They backed it up with video of a condemned Jew digging his grave at gunpoint.
Now the Hamas terrorists behind the October 7 atrocities are trying to erode support for recognition of a Palestinian state by falsely claiming it would be a victory for them. Hamas do not represent the Palestinian people and have no future in Gaza with a two-state solution.
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(in fact much of this work has been in place a year or more, but it’s a good photo of what has been saved from diesel fumes).
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