Mostly reading books around the issue of national decline, cultural rot, loss of traditions and the British Old New Left, while unpicking Whig history.
Cardiff’s ‘Tiger Bay’: The Formation of a ‘Sailortown’, Immigration, Urban Development, and Media Portrayal, c. 1880-1939 - Jenna R. Twyford-Jones https://x.com/ThreeJacques/status/2107958…
Typically when you casually look for who started the Notting Hill Carnival, you discover a Trinidadian Communist journalist called Claudia Jones, who was kicked out of the US for her activities, banne…
I've been losing track of my notes on books I've read over the past year or so as bookmarks on X are garbage. Regular post can't handle the number of URLs, so I'm posting as an article. Jungle West 1…