Month: September 2025

“The “imperial boomerang” is the concept that all of the methods of oppression that a mighty nation visits upon its far-flung imperial subjects will one day be turned back upon its own population. And here we are. This is a decades-long process, ratcheting up in earnest since the post-9/11 War on Terror, and any declaration of the moment when the boomerang’s sharp edge finally buried itself right in America’s skull is surely an arbitrary one. But last night will do as well as any”

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-all-domestic-terrorists-now

“the actual decision was that there were two proximate causes of the student flats being blown up – the dropping of the bomb in 1942, and its explosion in 2021. Neither cause could have destroyed the flats without the other (if the bomb had exploded in 2021 in a museum in Dresden or whatever, it wouldn’t have triggered this insurance policy). And the rule for insurance cases is that when there are two causes, one of which is excluded and one which isn’t, the exclusion prevails”

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/analysing-the-explosions

“Labour’s committees are a maze with no centre. They lead to no destination and are not intended to. They are intended to take the something-must-be-done activist spirit of its members and contain it, so that it can walk the hallways of this maze with a sense of purpose and without ever realising that it has undertaken a journey to nowhere. Having been safely sequestered where it can do no harm, the spirit can then be bottled and used as an energy source to power the party’s leafleting and door-knocking operation, getting the vote out on polling day”

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/god-save-us-from-conference-season-627