
William A. Booth
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William A. Booth
@WilliamABooth
Historian of Latin America & the Left at UCL 🚩🏳️⚧️🕊️✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿 الحرية لفلسطين Hope there is plenty, just not for us. Views often different from my employers.


IShowSpeed installed a pull-up bar in his bathroom calling it a "cheat code" "You pee 5-6 times a day. Every time you go to the bathroom do 10 pull-ups."

Sensational that the last vestiges of duty to the British Empire means going out into your garden to check whether a large, geriatric reptile is dead or not,

Almost half of British people, and almost three quarters of Green voters, say that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews. Only a small minority of people hold antisemitic beliefs, the lowest rate being among people who are more likely to be anti-Zionist.

Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left's cartoon version of America ( it's all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.

Iran is firing ballistic missiles either with 500kg warheads or cluster submunitions at Israeli residential areas, and the whole world is treating that as totally normal.

Be honest… does ANYONE actually use these words in real life? 🤣 Bamboozled Flabbergasted Discombobulated Shenanigans Cattywampus Lollygag Malarkey Kerfuffle Brouhaha Nincompoop Skedaddle Tomfoolery Flibbertigibbet Pumpernickel


Why did Langston Hughes's 'Troubled Lands' go unpublished for nearly a century? A conversation with Ricardo Wilson, editor of the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers. newbooksnetwork.com/troubled-lands…

Polanski is a know-nothing blowhard. The only Jewish person to lead a political party — bar, that is, Benjamin Disraeli, Ed Miliband, Michael Howard, Jimmy Goldsmith and Herbert Samuel. He is clearly ignorant of the country’s history. And much more besides.



to be totally sincere for a second, i can believe that transplants become Mets fans. but i suspect they do so because the culture of the Mets was more attractive to them, and part of the attraction was precisely that Mets fandom involves a greater degree of psychic commitment: the specifically New York character of loving something ugly, enduring inconvenience, and submitting yourself to one big collective neurosis. people who want to become New Yorkers, become Mets fans. And they're right to do so.


to be totally sincere for a second, i can believe that transplants become Mets fans. but i suspect they do so because the culture of the Mets was more attractive to them, and part of the attraction was precisely that Mets fandom involves a greater degree of psychic commitment: the specifically New York character of loving something ugly, enduring inconvenience, and submitting yourself to one big collective neurosis. people who want to become New Yorkers, become Mets fans. And they're right to do so.

More details have emerged of Nigel Farage's visit to Ipswich Town. 👉An associate of CEO Mark Ashton sent an invite to Nigel Farage 👉Farage was met by Marcus Nash, director of media and communications 👉Ashton and COO Luke Werhun had lunch with Farage 👉The club gifted Farage SIX 'Farage 10' shirts 👉 Employees outside a select few were unaware of the stunt 👉Members of staff have made complaints This is despite the club claiming they were 'apolitical' in a statement made on Wednesday. (Via: @TheAthleticFC)

The consultant class is one of the main reasons the West doesn’t build well anymore


