Last Saturday approximately 100,000 “Britons” gathered in Central London to “Unite the Kingdom”. As they marched, they held placards in memory of Charlie Kirk, the far-right American YouTuber who was killed in September, flew Israeli flags, and stopped for Indian street food. The huge crowd gathered as they listening to talks from South African Elon…
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Hi I’m Mina, a librarian, a reader, an indoor plant enthusiast and now a blogger.
Charlie Kirk and an Ideology of Violence
Kirk was a controversial figure, but more than anything else, he was a useful tool to the far right, in life and now in death. His murder will be used to sanitise his deceitful ideas and more insidiously, to demand more censorship, more police powers, and more crackdowns. The only people who benefit from his murder are his own base.
Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor – Review
It would be unfair to suggest that the entirety of this book is awful, far from it. It just needed the author to sit with someone to discuss his views towards Muslims, and ask if they were the lingering consequence of colonialism or more recently developed ideas from the racist BJP party, currently governing India.
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