From the engineered addiction of UPFs to Nestlé’s ‘floating supermarkets’ in the Amazon, Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People tackles the capitalist food machine head-on. But in a decolonial, anti-racist space, even the best scientific critiques deserve a critical eye. Read my full review of the book, the brilliant audiobook experience, and my one major disappointment.
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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.
Frantz Fanon Philosopher of the Barricades by Peter Hudis – Book Review
The Hungarian revolution highlighted the obvious racism in France and Western Europe. Whilst hardly anyone in the French Left had flinched at the butchering of Algerians, tens of thousands of communists, in France and Western Europe, now tore up their party cards and left the Communist Party in response to the brutal Soviet repression of the workers revolution in Budapest.
This Hybrid Reads 