"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
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"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
Breathtaking statement from Carney.
Basically that Iran's regime is evil and therefore Canada stands with US and Israel's war of aggression.
So much for the "middle powers" leading a nonaligned post-American world order. @katemac.bsky.social
And this was my first article, using Victor Serge's memoir as a jumping off point for thinking about "a sense of history":
open.substack.com/pub/tanroops...
Decided to give Substack a try! Here's a short essay I wrote on Marco Rubio's strange, but revealing, speech at the Munich Security Conference recently:
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Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3)
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Increasingly feel like half of what I see - captions, emails, assessments - are AI generated. I hope I'm being paranoid. Even more worried that I'm right 😅
Newest Discourse on Anticolonialism post is up, and it's an incredibly exciting piece by Shreya Bhattacharya on "Evelyn Trent: Erased Voices and the Radical Struggle Against Imperial Capitalism":
open.substack.com/pub/discours...
Really excited to be sharing the first edition of the relaunched Renewal - a journal of social democracy, now co-edited by me, @morganj0nes.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social, and Jack Jeffrey
The cover of the book with an image of Naoroji
Now online! @tanroopsandhu.bsky.social (@qmul.ac.uk) reviews "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" in the series Global South Asians (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2022) by @vik1004.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It was such a pleasure reading it, Vikram!
My review of Vikram Visana's "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought" is out now with the Journal of Global Intellectual History! Really enjoyed reading this.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/W3ZC8...
Very excited to share the first essay on HACPT's new Substack, "Discourse on Anticolonialism". Read Kevin D. Pham's fantastic piece, "Taking Asian and African Agency Seriously" here: open.substack.com/pub/discours...
Thanks Beni 🙌🏽
Glad to have my chapter, "The Politics and Place of Rajani Palme Dutt", included in this exciting new volume: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/decoloniz...
The UK government is proposing to finally finish off its universities by further tightening the terms of the graduate visa route. The stupid fools. Playing with dangers they don't even understand. www.ft.com/content/f441...
Still time to sign up!:
HACPT is back! Join us on Monday 7 April at 5pm (GMT), either in person at the UCL IAS or online, to hear from Dr Mahvish Ahmad and @sarasalem.bsky.social on "Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state".
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Used Trotsky's speech "Europe and America" as a jumping off point for a little article for @rs21.bsky.social :
revsoc21.uk/2025/03/15/t...
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”
A truly evil time
aquamarine blue poster with white, black, and bright orange lettering. and in the right bottom corner there's a clownfish. programme for the School of History research seminar, in the senior common room on the fourth floor of ArtsTwo Week 3: Monday 3 February, 16:00: Charlotte Johann: “Law after the Holy Roman Empire” Week 5: Wednesday 19 February, 12:00: Mark White: “Icon, Libertine, Leader: The Life and Presidency of John F. Kennedy” Week 6: Wednesday 26 February, 16:00: Ross MacFarlane: “‘Now here is an SOS message’: The (Medical) History of a Broadcasting First” Week 8: Wednesday 12 March, 12:30: Colin Jones: “Robespierre Speech-Maker” Week 10: Wednesday 26 March, 16:00: Maia Blumberg: “Nostalgia for the Ordinary: Medievalism in Malmesbury 1924-2024” Week 12: Wednesday 9 April, 16:30: Tanroop Sandhu: “Internationalism on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929-1933) and the Courtroom as a Stage”
Would you look at how much exciting research there's happening in the School of History at QMUL!
Never not impressed with the range and depth of knowledge in this place and excited to hear much more about it from these lovely people.
Very excited about the first HACPT Seminar of 2025, where we'll hear from Dr. Kevin D. Pham on his recent book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization". Sign up below!
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Very excited about the first HACPT Seminar of 2025, where we'll hear from Dr. Kevin D. Pham on his recent book "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization". Sign up below!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Between All We Imagine As Light, The Brutalist, Dune 2, Anora, etc, what an amazing year for film
"Questions from a Worker Who Reads" by Bertolt Brecht: Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished. Who raised it up so many times? In what houses Of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live? Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished Did the masons go? Great Rome Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis The night the ocean engulfed it The drowning still bawled for their slaves. The young Alexander conquered India. Was he alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Did he not have even a cook with him? Philip of Spain wept when his armada Went down. Was he the only one to weep? Frederick the Second won the Seven Years' War. Who Else won it? Every page a victory. Who cooked the feast for the victors? Every ten years a great man. Who paid the bill? So many reports. So many questions
"Questions From A Worker Who Reads" by Bertolt Brecht:
It is because such a rotten state of affairs as this exists and because I want to end it and was active to that end that I had to take my Xmas dinner in Jail this year as I done on the three previous Xmas days.”
"There must have been many hundreds in this Xmas who did not even smell an Xmas dinner as good as that. Not only did those many hundreds not even smell anything like an [sic] good dinner on Xmas day but rather there must have been Hundreds who were in dire want and on the verge of starvation...
British Communist Ben Bradley writes a letter to his mother from a jail in India, 1932: "Spratt, myself, and a couple of others who take European food managed to get a Duck and some green peas, etc..."