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On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

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[PDF file]: ‘Epistemic homicide’ On Disinformation How to fight for truth and protect democracy Lee McIntyre Cambridge (Mass.) and London: MIT Press, 2023, (p/b) $14.95/£10.99 Robin Ramsay This is a short book of about 24,000 words on a very important and complex subject from an American perspective. So much of it is quotable, what follows is mostly […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

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[PDF file]: […] social issues designed to divide (race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, intersectionality) rather than on populist economic issues or criticisms of militarism. Useful for UK readers are summaries of the Trump political positions (populist, anti-immigration, anti-war, socially conservative); how these differ from traditional elite positions (which prefer aloof government, proimmigration policies, pro-military adventurism abroad, and are prepared […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* He’s not the Messiah. . . he’s a very naughty boy! You’ll have to forgive my twice using a Monty Python reference within this one issue’s ‘South of the Border’, but it’s the only sensible reaction to some recent communication1 from ‘God’s own spy’, David […]

Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967, edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley

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[PDF file]: That was the world that was Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967
 edited by Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley
 Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017, £24.99 (p/b)
 ISBN-13: 978-1138675179 
 Scott Anthony 
 Although the book begins in 1967, Tomorrow Belongs to Us is primarily the story of the post-1968 generation’s […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

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[PDF file]: […] 10 leaders this century with five others taking the acting position. 6 7 3 Campbell has earned a good living as a professional anti-Tory. Along with Donald Trump, it is Conservatives who are largely his target in this book as he seeks to inspire his readers to move on from ‘tweeting, blaming and bemoaning […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

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[PDF file]: […] the ones where they didn’t win.15 Perhaps the marketing industry’s ambition to algorithmise politics is meeting its match – not just in the shape of Corbyn, but Trump too. In Corbyn’s case he can look to a huge army of Momentum members who are both social media savvy and also willing to revive the […]

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[…] as was).24 Taibbi wrote: Groups like the CCDH often paralyze left-leaning political figures and media commentators by making them afraid to be lumped in with antivaxxers or Trump supporters. Only a few sharp reporters like Branko Marcetic of Jacobin, have had the vision to understand that ‘They’ll come for us next.’ In other words, […]

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