Itay Lotem
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
- Reposted by Itay LotemLet's not let British voters off the hook. When May made some sense over social care, she got trashed. If Starmer had been honest about the need for income tax raises, he would have lost. The charlatans who brought you 10 years of decline - Johnson and Farage - did so with the backing of the public.
- The latest iteration of the Britishness/Englishness debate just seems even more useless and egregious than before. But also - these ideas have always changed. I grew up thinking “English” felt too home counties and “British” vague enough to be inclusive. But then around the mid-2000s it flipped.
- Reposted by Itay LotemWarum dürfen wir eigentlich keinen Klassenkampf machen aber die CDU schon?
- Reposted by Itay LotemFascinating how tone deaf US political elites have been towards European anger. From Newsom among Dems who failed to beat Trump berating Euro diplomacy, Schumer rattling out domestic guff to Graham and Bessent telling Euros to stop being hysterical. Just speeds up European rejection of America
- What does it say about me that I’m only really proud of being British when I get to partake in the aftermath of Brooklyn Beckham going nuclear on his parents or Coleen Rooney revealing Rebekah Vardy’s treacherous ways?
- Ce mardi (13 janvier), j’organise une petite journée d’études à l’Iméra avec le but de faire un petit état des lieux sur les débats publics autour de la race en France. Si jamais vous étiez à Marseille, venez nous voir ! www.imera.fr/agenda/race-...
- I walked out of ASDA and walked slowly, minding my own business. I slipped on a nakd bar wrapping (organic, vegan, sustainable), managed to rebalance myself and was proud of not hitting the ground, but… broken foot.
- THIS. Seeing how the UK debate about immigration gets into a dehumanising binary between “immigrants are dangerous” and “immigrants are economic fuel and will do the jobs you hate” is just depressing.
- Some of my colleagues, very right on academics, supported this bigot. And they still wouldn’t back down, coz “anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism”.
- Reposted by Itay Lotem100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
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- I think I’m going to show this video in class from now on as a prompt for a debate about what university is for. Because I think it’s something we need to address clearly if we are to ever deal with the AI avalanche clusterfuck and other attacks on the very institution that is university.
