Today's post, on how the Soviet Union pioneered affirmative action and ‘traditional Russian culture was stigmatised as a culture of oppression' edwest.substack.com/p/stalin-and-t…
This is a follow up to the earlier post on the historical similarities between Russia and the United States edwest.substack.com/p/america-as-r…
Jun 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
'Stepping over people’s bodies, blurring my eyes to not see a dull needle jabbing and jabbing again between toes—it coarsened me. I’d gotten used to the idea that some people just want to live like that. I was even a little defensive of it' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
'San Francisco now has the fewest children per capita of any large American city, and a $117,400 salary counts as low-income for a family of four.'
This, I believe, is the tweet that got him suspended
Jun 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Emperor Joseph II's reforms of Austria's monasteries led to the destruction of 2.5 million books, 'Europe’s greatest biblioclasm before the Third Reich' (Martyn Rady's The Habsburgs)
'Joseph’s relaxation of censorship in 1781 saw a flood of pamphlets critical of monastic institutions and church wealth. Not a few of these were, in fact, covertly published by Joseph’s ministers.' The Blob, Enlightenment edition
May 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Percy family arrived with William the Conqueror and, almost a millennium later, are still the great power in the north of England unherd.com/2022/05/britai…
May 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
All the videos going around from Saturday show Liverpool fans either being attacked by locals in Paris or being tear gassed by the police
I'm inclined to strike the Paris banlieues off my holiday list for next year
Apr 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This week's posts. 1. Why Ukraine is like the rebels in Star Wars. Or maybe Russia is. For most of history, imperialism and diversity have gone hand in hand edwest.substack.com/p/empires-v-na…2. This month's best pieces. The dishonesty of 'fact-checkers', obfuscation in the sex/gender debate, why I won't ever play EU4, woke slavery, and if Russia is cancelled, will Ukraine get milk-shake ducked? edwest.substack.com/p/russia-getti…
Feb 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This week's Wrong Side of History posts. 1. Russia's post-Soviet humiliation: why life is one big status game, even for countries edwest.substack.com/p/russias-post…2. Living (and losing) the First Culture War. The pagans of the 4th century Rome and the conservatives of the 21st century share many similarities edwest.substack.com/p/living-and-l…
The Tate seemed to have hired the staff at Teen Vogue to write the notes for the Hogarth exhibition
Dec 2, 2021 • 26 tweets • 11 min read
Man escapes jail after stabbing dad in front of son in row over loud music on the bus metro.co.uk/2021/11/30/dad… The judge is confident he won't reoffend and said he 'has mental health difficulties'
Drug dealer attacks man with a machete, puncturing a lung, having been spared jail 9 months earlier for dealing heroin and cocaine manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
Nov 29, 2021 • 30 tweets • 8 min read
There are many theories about Rome's fall, but the most likely is the most mundane and depressing edwest.substack.com/p/did-immigrat… Brilliant and thoughtful piece on plague and climate change, by me
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