Last night was the dogs. Really enjoyed myself , still fecking hungover .
He looked fecking fire
can't wait for the rest of the gigs...
I thought it was funny when pinched Douglas Murray's remark on Louis Vuitton bags and reparations. Made me really fecking laugh .
I remember M recommend The Strange Death of Europe on M central and Murray tweeted M's comment. As Murray did that book about Bosie and likes music, I suspected he may be a Smiths fan...
Douglas Murray did say that a couple of days before
Morrissey repeated in Portsmouth what he is apparently watching on the news. Tsk tsk! Where did I put that wet plimsoll?
Still, this detailed
review from India suggests that Europe is forming border policies according to Douglas Murray's recommendations in The Strange Death of Europe.
Quillette's shorter sharp review identifies more of the flaws.
(Diem25 folk discuss French behavior in a webinar tomorrow evening.)
Brilliant analyst Vijay Prasad sets out the ongoing colonial sins of Europe, France first in this instance, to shed light on the Paris riots, and on recent African pushback against unequal transnational treatment, just as the article Gashonthenail shared on borders
by Angela Nagle gets an admirable handle on history and broader context.
Tying in with Karl Marx's observations in it about Irish immigrants's effects on their English counterparts, is something I read recently In a fabulous book, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, by Eoghan Daltun, who calls Richard Boyle the first colonial millionaire and richest man in the UK. In the early seventeenth century, Boyle received huge tracts of violently-seized Irish land and destroyed remaining forests to be made into charcoal for smelting iron; "setting a precedent for centuries of immense fortunes made all over the world from colonial:-related ecocide: the wholesale liquidation of natural ecosystems." Another stated intention was to remove cover for evicted natives who were not only subjugated but also annihilated, or 'extirpated', "Official policy regularly dictated that all 'Irishry - mawne, woman and childe; - be put to the sword wherever they were found, leading to vast uninhabited tracts." Land is still being appropriated today, elsewhere in the world: people being dispossessed and disappeared, if no longer outright admitted in official policy.
Arun Kundnani diagnoses the misunderstandings too: "There is no culture war over immigration in the normally understood sense. Rather, there is a strange and hidden class war being fought out on the terrains of race and culture. At stake is the very definition of the working class: whether or not it can extend to a political refugee from Turkey — or anyone else from the Global South.
To win that class war requires understanding that working-class anti-immigrant sentiment is lodged in a misdirected sense of class interest, and it needs to be dislodged on those terms, rather than through appeals to cosmopolitanism or empty promises of economic betterment.
And it means grasping that, in this war, the flags waved can be misleading: the neoliberals who preach cultural tolerance to the less wealthy are those most responsible for the death-by-policy we inflict on migrants and asylum seekers."
Jeremy Williams short book,
Climate Change Is Racist is discussed in
this podcast and is
reviewed here. He writes an excellent blog on environmental issues,
https://earthbound.report/ . Jeremy's sound, a genuine holistic ethical being doing constructive work for a liveable kind future. He's also involved in running outdoor spiritual services
https://faithactionfornature.org/ Isn't it on a wing and a prayer we're pulling through at all?
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