2024 has been a Hell Of A Year, almost literally, so that will have to be my excuse for neglecting this blog for a while. However I will post these two significant pieces I did for different platforms as a stop-gap.
A review of Susan Neiman for Political Quarterly:
https://substack.com/@politicalquarterly/note/c-7933333
https://unfiltered.smws.com/unfiltered-01-2024/smws-adventures-prague
Whisky Talk podcast:
https://whiskytalk.fireside.fm/66
This could be said to be cruel. Juxtaposing the Prague Spring and the halcyon early days of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society with our contemporary left hobbled by ‘woke’. ( Although maybe the latter is getting less vicious?)
ReplyDeleteJust after posting above I read this by Paul Mason:
ReplyDeleteThe elevation of identity-based concepts of social justice over class-based concepts, challenging the universalist assumptions on which Western politics were built. In the context of the zero sum game this is fuelling dissatisfaction among working people, including settled ethnic minorities (for example the US minority ethnic votes for Trump).
I find myself increasingly in agreement with Paul Mason
Delete‘Anonymous’ is Al, by the way. How do I get my name on my posts?
DeleteIn this font Al looks exactly the same as AI, which gave me a bit of a shock! Assuming you're AL, not ChatGPT, then answer is don't know. Doesn't it offer you an edit button to change the name?
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