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Category Archives: Politics
Bullingdon-esque
One of the books I’m reading at the moment (for research purposes, really) is the diary of Duff Cooper (1890-1954), Cabinet minister, bon vivant and David Cameron’s great-great uncle. (You can see the resemblance in the photo.) The early stages … Continue reading
Posted in Class, History, Politics
Tagged Bullingdon Club, David Cameron, Duff Cooper
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Article 50
Twitter is a Brexit battleground today. I thought I’d feel more passionate one way or the other about the milestone we’ve just passed. Instead I’m just impatient for the whole process to start. I’ve already explained how I voted Remain … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Politics, UK politics
Tagged Brexit, European Union, Larry Siedentop, Twitter
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Notebook
We don’t know yet what the televising of the conventions will do to American politics, to elections, to the convention system itself. Some of us fear what one good demagogue with a fine voice and a rousing profile might do … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Technology, TV, US politics
Tagged Alistair Cooke, Cinerama, demagogues, Edmund Burke, Hitler, political conventions
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Notebook
George Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, 1944.
Posted in Notebook, Politics, Uncategorized, World War 2
Tagged Fascism, George Orwell
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Out of the shadows
An intriguing book that sometimes tries too hard. My Times review of David Olusoga’s “Black and British: A Forgotten History” For all the fascinating material that it unearths, Black and British is not always an easy read. In his introduction … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Race, Reviews, UK politics
Tagged Black and British, David Olusoga, Peter Fryer
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The life of a politician
From a Q&A with author and academic Danny Dorling: Are politicians any more interested in listening to academics than to members of the public? And is your time as an academic well spent in engaging with and advising politicians? Politicians … Continue reading
The champion & the preacher
In today’s Times, my review [£] of a fascinating account of the moment when sport and politics collided head-on: Thanks to Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith’s enthralling narrative we now have a better understanding of how a complex relationship was born, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Race, Sport, US politics
Tagged Johnny Smith, José Torres, Malcolm X., Muhammad Ali, Randy Roberts
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Sundries
The FT’s correspondent interviews South Africa’s most notorious revolutionary over lunch and gets a surprise at the end: I shake his hand in the routine English way, apologising that I don’t know the elaborate South African variation, which involves three different … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Politics, Race
Tagged Financial Times, Julius Malema, revolutionary
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