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by eynsham 5y ago
I agree that Islamophobia contributes to unhelpfully negative attitudes towards Iran. > It's a double standard where nobody sees a problem with England even though there's a state religion and the religious head and government
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Do you mean the Workers’ Party? It doesn’t really fit the term ‘Labour’ since the NTUC is pretty much entirely government-controlled. And yes, from ~1980-2020 we’ve gone from no opposition to over ten opposition MPs and multiple opposition
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> I must admit I am not all that informed on the details of French wars in different African countries. So I can not speak on those details. I think this is somewhat in tension with the tenor of your claims above, e.g.— > Well if you
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by eynsham 5y ago
I suppose that there’s no guarantee that it was motivated by sexism. I think some authors choose to use such words even when they aren’t entirely sure because it’s impossible to be completely sure and so they think it’s better to flag cases
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Afghanistan I think is illustrative of the fundamental logic underpinning foreign policy decisions. There is no direct connexion, I agree. (Well, perhaps there is but neither of us are aware of it.)
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I’m not sure we actually disagree: the Americans started out far too confident in their abilities and their view of what they can do now is, tempered by two decades of fighting, much more realistic. A loss of confidence, even if caused by a
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by eynsham 5y ago
As US forces withdraw from Afghanistan and the West’s loss of confidence finally results in actual withdrawals (though see the reversal by the French in Mali), it’s worth noting that old-style selfish neocolonialism is still alive and kicki
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by eynsham 5y ago
I think that at a similar sort of length are the lengthier essays in the London Review of Books , New Left Review , etc. Some of them impinge on rather controversial topics (and would of course elicit some disagreement), but they’re perfe
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by eynsham 5y ago
Studies like this suggest that there were Covid-19 infections in the US before they were first detected; they don’t suggest that they were terribly widespread. Unless flu is vastly less likely to cause these symptoms than Covid, or it turns
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by eynsham 5y ago
The collection of books rescued from Ashburnham House is now, I understand, mostly in the British Library—this includes Cotton Nero A.x. Ashburnham House presently is home to some classrooms and a school library—perhaps a very distinguished
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by eynsham 5y ago
I suppose that you are right that it is an infelicitous turn of phrase: I mean what you mean, i.e., that the long battle eventually was won. In China, the vindication of 4 June looks more distant a prospect than ever.
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I think that we forget 18 May partly because it succeeded. There is no enormous symbol of the failure and suppression of 18 May in the same way that there is of 4 June. I suppose that another massacre that sticks in my mind is the Kent Stat
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Thomas Nagel on human rights and moral knowledge(lrb.co.uk)
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Quite a lot of land in Hanoi is dedicated to agriculture. Even Hong Kong has some farmland, for that matter. According to one paper, about two decades ago, half of Hanoi province’s land was used for agriculture.¹ I don’t know the relation b