Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The strange story of how a legendary investigative journalist came to echo Assad's propaganda

"here’s what might surprise you, if you’ve read too much liberal academic bullshit about the “white working class". Opposition to Brexit, and the xenophobia that’s come with it, was strong in Durham. This was mainly white, working class people refusing to adopt the reactionary identity of the “white working class”, invented by liberal pundits in response to Trump." The labour movement and Brexit

An on-going Who picked up my tea? Background: a BBC report

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

Review of Geoffrey B. Robinson,  The Killing Season. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965 – 66 (Princeton University Press, 2018)

"Technology development became less a story of collective flourishing than personal survival. Worse, as I learned, to call attention to any of this was to unintentionally cast oneself as an enemy of the market or an anti-technology curmudgeon." Survival of the richest Related Elysium

I have just finished reading Late Victorian Holocausts El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World It is an execellent book .  Some passages in chapter 8 are not easy and require some scientific knowledge of the field, but most of the book is a very good read.