Politics
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China: Care about Uighurs? You must be a white supremacist
Somehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
Culture
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Pussy Galore in the new Bond
The meh news of the day: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged whether the next 007 should be a woman, or black. …
History
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Where were you when the walls came crashing down
It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …
Books
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Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy
I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …
WTF
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Polish Jesus starts transmitting internet
Happy 101st birthday to modern Poland, which regained its independence (briefly) as a result of World War One, after over a century of being partitioned and colonised by Russia, Prussia …
Love
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Think Feministically, Act Old-fashionally
Equality – good in theory, doesn’t necessarily work for you in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the past few decades, and now researchers from Cornell University are offering …
