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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    Just to point out what I said was not "fight Trump"! To play devil’s advocate to all those who find it all a bit much and are trying to avoid it: part of fighting fascism is knowing what the fascists are actually doing. Do we really need to discuss how fascism is an international movement...
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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    Why so fast, aside from all the practical reasosn? Let’s see what our old friend Umberto Eco has to say: I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of...
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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    I have a few liberal American friends I’ve noticed a tendency towards… a kind of minimisation of Trump? At least before January, I am not sure where they all are at now. But not on the streets! To play devil’s advocate to all those who find it all a bit much and are trying to avoid it: part of...
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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    I am absolutely the opposite here. It’s clear that 2016 was the warm up and that this is the real thing, and it’s going to have profound and as yet unknowable implications for our society. But those implications might not be unknowable for long - so we need to be thinking about what we want and...
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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    Good piece I read today: I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority. Having watched with growing...
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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    Musk is now boasting of destroying USAID, with Trump's backing. A department that spends a small fraction of the US federal budget but is doing important work with some of the world's poorest people. At the level of US spending, this is pure symbolic shit that makes very right wing people feel...
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    Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

    Yes, but it’s so well done that I wasn't entirely sure at the start!
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    Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

    Me watching The Brutalist, thinking to myself: Well, it's certainly a lot. My partner immediately on leaving the cinema: Well, that was a lot, wasn't it? Mark Kermode, when I checked out his you tube channel after: It's a lot. Moose on UKB.... So only go to see this if you want a massive...
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    Finger friendly Euro Sport - end of March

    Yeah Asturias is excellent, the rock is very high quality, but it’s a bit rainy, or it was when we went in May.
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    Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second

    I also saw A Real Pain last week; what Moose said. It is very, very good. And it really has to be, given that it includes both a lot of gentle humour and a concentration camp visit.
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    Aims for 2025

    Long covid recovery I can do a lot more than I could at the start of 2024, and I would very much like that trend to continue. Work Start doing more and more regular work, and get my economics skills back up to a suitable level. Climbing Go to the wall regularly. Climb outside (I would have...
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    Books...

    I’m very much an Indo-phile, for me it would be remiss not to have read Naipaul! Chandler is great, and LA is a fabulous setting.
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    Books...

    One of my favourite authors is VS Naipaul, and my favourite Naipaul work is his 1961 masterpiece A House for Mr Biswas. Set in Naipaul's homeland of Trinidad, the novel encompases the whole of Mohan Biswas' life, from his inauspicious birth to a poor rural family, descended from indentured...
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    Aims for 2024

    Long covid recovery - be able to do more. Given that this disease is an absolutely masterful wrecker of plans and goals, I'm going to keep this pretty open. More walking, doing things I haven't been able to do over the last two years, all whilst managing my energy levels such that I don't crash...
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    Really good podcasts

    Something for Stone here - historian and all round public intellectual Adam Tooze doing a miniseries in heterodox economists, starting out with the Polish Marxist Michal Kalecki: Well worth a listen even if you’re not Stone, the section at the end on one possible end point to a sort of naive...
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    TV/iplayer must watches

    In 2007 Oxfam, my then employer, sent me to Banda Aceh to write a report on the post-tsunami reconstruction process. I spent a week going all round the area interviewing local officials and tsunami survivors, it was all very sobering. One man told me how he'd heard there was a huge wave coming...
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    Higher Academic and Professional qualification advice.

    Re: Higher Academic and Professional qualification advice., I did maths, further maths and physics A-levels. That level of specialisation at 16 really shouldn't be allowed, but given that it is, it's a great combination for anyone who is keen on those subjects. Everyone who's doing further...
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    U-S-A! The American Politics Thread.

    Analytics aside, what floated into my mind this morning was the film "Killers of the Flower Moon" - specifically the two characters played by DiCaprio and de Niro. It doesn't feel like an attempt to wind back to the 1950s but rather to the 1920s, rapaciousness and chauvinism all mixed together...
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    UK development built from historical slavery???

    I'm with Wellsy here - this is just unserious. Point number two is a demand for repatriation for "people who wish to return". Yes I'm sure Nigeria and Ghana are going to welcome the UK and others setting up a system to take in Caribbean people and put them... where exactly? It talks about...
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    UK development built from historical slavery???

    The UAE would like a word. So America is currently the world's richest large country because everyone is getting on? Or perhaps this is a tad simplistic? This is a classic Stone "I've read one thing that might help, now I'm going to consider it the only thing that needs doing" which is far...
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