James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa

But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.

Any other thoughts?

#ukpol

Lovely piece found in my #lrb backlog about handwriting, the brain and the “line that is not stupid”

Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind

#psychology #amreading

I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb

@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.

> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB

The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
#Maduro #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #imperialBullying

Aftershock: The #WarOnTerror | Ep 1: With Us or Against Us

The 1st ep of a 6-part series looking at the evolution of Western politics, esp #USpolitics & #UKpolitics, in the aftermath of #9_11 and the onset of the #GlobalWarOnTerror, examining as well the effects on #media & public debate.

The series uses the prism of #LRB's coverage of the #GWOT

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/aftershock-the-war-on-terror/episode-1-with-us-or-against-us
#régimeChangeWars #ForeverWars #militarism #USforeignPolicy #USpol #UKpol #stateRepression #WeTorturedSomeFolks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6tlFVigsQ

#Art #Design #GraphicDesign #CoverDesign #LRB #LondonReviewOfBooks

@kutter.bsky.social

LRB

Lingua republicae Berlinensis

#LRB #LinguaRepublicaeBerlinensis

🇵🇸 Guerre de Palestine
Connaissance des faits pertinents
Par Selma Dabbagh
🔸 "Selon un sondage du Washington Post, 61 % des Juifs américains considèrent qu’Israël commet des crimes de guerre à Gaza et près de 40 % pensent que sa conduite équivaut à un génocide."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/october/knowledge-of-the-relevant-facts
#Palestine #guerre #génocide #LRB #média #USA #UK #Canada #France #Europe #journalistes #femmes #enfants #déportation

David Renton on Palestine Action, protest and freedom of speech - and the creeping authoritarianism in Britain. (More likely *England* - but the terrorism laws coming out of Westminster also affect Scotland.)

#LRB #protest #Gaza

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/david-renton/short-cuts

“””Neoliberalism morphed into paleo-libertarianism: free markets plus primitive racial, sexual and political hierarchies. Hayek had celebrated dynamic entrepreneurs and free-thinking intellectuals. Hayek's bastards were into cavemen.”””

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy #LRB

Early summer reading delivery day apparently #LRB #LeDiplo

#LRB on #ICE. May be paywalled, not sure. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/ice-s-war-on-home?utm_campaign=1550876_20250611Blog&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,X8NW,3EJIMH,2LCI1,1

📖 **Hokey Cowboy**

_“Neoliberalism morphed into paleolibertarianism: free markets plus primitive racial, sexual and political hierarchies. Hayek had celebrated dynamic entrepreneurs and free-thinking intellectuals. Hayek’s bastards were into cavemen.”_

🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy.

#Neoliberalism #Hayek #LRB #Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Politics #PoliticalScience @bookstodon @politicalscience

Michael Rothberg on the Israeli Embassy's attacks on Omri Boehm leading to the cancelling of his speech at #Buchenwald

#LRB blog

A clear short text on Holocaust Memory and Universal Values

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/april/universal-values

#holocaust #MemoryStudies #Israel #ConcentrationCamp

🔴 🇬🇱 🇺🇸 **‘Everything is possible’**

🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/james-meek/everything-is-possible.

#LRB #Greenland #Denmark #USA #US #UnitedStates

This #LRB article reads like a #dystopian #scifi short story from the 1990s. But it seems to be the 2025 reality in some parts of #China …

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/long-ling/diary

Did they really name it #Skynet?

Pleased to see in the new #LRB that their "follow us on social media" box has finally stopped advertising Twitter.
They've gone Bluesky. I'd have rather that they'd reactivated their Mastodon account but it's an improvement.

Looking forward to this one... #LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/perry-anderson/regime-change-in-the-west

@DaniGaravelli 's #LRB article about deaths in custody at #Polmont is well worth reading.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n03/dani-garavelli/jailed-failed-forgotten
(Reading limit paywall)

But the final page of the print article is befouled by a "Follow Us On Social Media" box featuring Meta, Musk n Alphabet. Surely it is long past time for LRB to make a conscious decision to switch platforms?