Redbeard the Ruthful
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I, who raised a scaffold / Around the house I never built.
Joined December 2020
It came out in 2023 but this was one of my favourites from this year. A sort of political history of British sociology you might say. You can read it as an account of how contests that would shape the 20th century British state had been rehearsed in late colonial East Africa.
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This week I have mostly been reading about foreign assistance in Myanmar
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from a Foreign Office-produced television drama in Burma
British Council attempting to rehabilitate colonial era architecture in Rangoon, 2010s.
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British Council attempting to rehabilitate colonial era architecture in Rangoon, 2010s.
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We only came to this country to ... admire your security cooperation with the EU and to see Power Being Held to Account.
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Gosh - I wonder what he meant by this?? Danny Kruger must lap this stuff up.
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Self-serving anti-Thatcherite rhubarb. This book is a spiritual sequel to his one on the EU which sought to create a common identity underpinning a federal constitution. His entire oeuvre is an attempt to create new deferential identities in the face of democratic pressure.
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Spoiler: there was a barrier
Your HIV status is no barrier to service. This #WorldAIDSDay, the UK is proud to become the first @NATO nation to open up every single role in our Armed Forces to people living with HIV on treatment – meaning they cannot pass the virus on. @THTorguk
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I imagine it would be in a kind of "Spaced" milieu but this was before my time.
Need Mad Men but about whoever was responsible for designing video game magazine ads in the 1990s.
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Britain and France are, I think, the only two countries in the world, due to anomalies of current taste and supply, where it is cheaper to fill your house with good quality 18th and 19th c furniture than it is to buy new. This is an entirely post-2000s situation, hitting 1960s
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There is an alternative history in which Liz Truss didn't win the leadership election and subsequently became one of these Amber Rudd / Barwell figures.
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Brill!! 🤣
Gavin is right. I am full of admiration for fabulous Nus :
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Pathologizing the state as un-Christian is one of the ideological bases of what became postwar Europe. Notwithstanding their tactical euroscepticism, the Cameroon Tories are probably the closest we have to a Christian Democrat party.
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Not only is she an impossibly dim woman but you can also see the very obvious ideological lineage with Neil Ó Briain-era Cameroonism. Intellectually moribund party.
🔺NEW: Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian | ✍️ @Steven_Swinford
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The press were being primed around this time. [2007] "The graphic that shocked the Foreign Office... One of the diplomats present said there was an audible intake of breath when the slide was shown" - yeah right
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