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A guy called Red Saunders, along with a few of his friends, had formed Rock Against Racism in 1976, not just as a reaction to the racist skinheads terrorising our streets, but also in response to comments made by Eric Clapton and David Bowie. It’s extraordinary to think that back then Eric Clapton (aka God) said he agreed with Enoch Powell and that
... See moreBenjamin Zephaniah • The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
This new system, which operated for most of the second century CE, was sometimes presented as a major shift in the ideology of political power, almost a meritocratic revolution. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (now called ‘Pliny the Younger’, to distinguish him from his uncle ‘the Elder’) justified the procedure in precisely those terms, in a spee
... See moreMary Beard • SPQR
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AFTER QIBYA, CONDEMNATIONS POURED in from across the globe, including from the American Jewish community.13 But Ben-Gurion was unmoved. When the prime minister called Sharon in to discuss the details of the notorious night, Sharon recalled Ben-Gurion’s reaction: “It doesn’t make any real difference what will be said about Qibya around the world. Th
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Mr Brooke, necessarily, had his agents, who understood the nature of the Middlemarch voter and the means of enlisting his ignorance on the side of the Bill – which were remarkably similar to the means of enlisting it on the side against the Bill. Will stopped his ears. Occasionally Parliament, like the rest of our lives, even to our eating and appa
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
However, the early theorists of social contract were able to take one thing for granted, namely the existence of a shared culture – Christianity – by which people made sense of their moral obligations. The battle in the seventeenth century was merely over which form of Christianity should prevail. Politics might be the arena of self-interest, but i
... See moreJonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Ben-Gurion was determined to snuff out any remaining embers of the Irgun and the Lechi, and he convinced the cabinet to give him broad powers to end acts of terrorism, including administrative detention without trial. The era of the Jewish underground,…
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