Second pargraph of third chapter:When you are the child of someone such as he, there are things that are expected that may not be expected of someone of a more lowly persuasion. And so it was with I.
I liked this without being overwhelmed by it. It's a novel of the Windrush period, with flashbacks to the very recent war. Levy gives very believable ( Read more... )

Long long ago, when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge in the late 1980s, I vaguely knew one of the university academics. He was famous for his rudeness ( Read more... )

I was a bit surprised the other day to discover someone who describes himself as "The Leading Hispanic Voice in Science Fiction". How could that possibly be quantified, I wondered? It is probably not too difficult to be *A* Leading Voice of whatever kind one might want to be. But *The* Leading Voice surely requires some numerical evidence ( Read more... )

Why you should care about the Muslim headscarf ban
Hear, hear, @aryngbeck!
(tags: humanrights eu race )

Mount Everest's famous Hillary Step destroyed, mountaineers confirm
Crumbs.
(tags: everest )

Edward and Catherine Despard
The Anglo-Irish rebel and his Jamaican wife.
(tags: race History ireland )

What's in a name?
My old friend Andrew Smith: "I have the most common boys’ name of my birth year and the most common surname, so you will not be ( Read more... )

Banks planning to move 9,000 jobs from Britain because of Brexit | Reuters
#TakingBackControl
(tags: eu brexit ukpolitics )

Centralisation and chaos
The Conservatives' internal problems.
(tags: ukpolitics )

A forecast of the 2017 UK general election
Pretty broad! From @chrishanretty.
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Mississippi’s richest county uses police checkpoints to ( Read more... )

Are There More Trees on Earth Than There Are Stars in the Milky Way?
Actually, yes, as it turns out.
(tags: mathematics biology astronomy )

Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers
Fascinating piece (from 2015)
(tags: Russia Maps )

Same But Different
My friend Siobhán: "I can see the world as a white person and as a black person."
( ( Read more... )

Theresa May 'lacks courage to admit complexity of Brexit'
A messy under-resourced process.
(tags: ukpolitics brexit )

A slave mother's love in 56 carefully stitched words
An eloquent testimony in thread.
(tags: race history )

The Strange Death of Municipal England: Assault on Local Government
Long, analytical, brutal.
(tags: ukpolitics )

David ( Read more... )

My President Was Black
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama's presidency.
(tags: Uspolitics race )

The 10 laws of Brexit
@jonworth cocks a snook.
(tags: ukpolitics brexit eu )

UK's first major Moomin exhibition set to open in London
Hooray!
(tags: finland sf )

the elf advises
Estonia makes you adapt.
(tags: Christmas estonia )

EU citizens in Britain post Brexit vote: ‘I feel betrayed, not at home, sad’ | UK news | The Guardian
Brexiters - pleased with your achievement?
(tags: ukpolitics brexit race eu )

Brutalist architecture in Skopje: why you should have visited Skopje before yesterday
Harsh but fair.
(tags: macedonia architecture )

The Duke of Richmond's bill for ( Read more... )