Category: Politics

Posted on September 14, 2022

Linkblog 🔗: Ian McEwan's long look back

>British politics does not offer much more cause for optimism. Liz Truss becoming prime minister is “such a disaster”, he says. “She’s intellectually so vapid. I think her world-view is so tiny, so shrivelled, so ungenerous, so dry… Or maybe she’s just a highly ambitious politician who’s playing a very cynical game.” He sees an opportunity for Keir Starmer’s Labour – “I admire him in many ways” – but for McEwan, an ardent Remainer who wrote a satirical novella, _The Cockroach_, about Brexit, the Labour leader remains “tied to the Tories” until he “admits Brexit was a colossal error”.

Posted on September 1, 2021

🔗 Star Trek versus Imperialist Doctrine by Yanis Varoufakis

> America’s liberal imperialist doctrine has been responsible for appalling carnage in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Central America. But America has also produced a liberal anti-imperialist doctrine that remains ensconced in a TV series that has been captivating US audiences since 1966.