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A few of what I think are the best pieces I wrote in 2020:
How the British government - backed by contrarians scribblers and the Stalinoid left - enabled genocide in the Balkans 25 years ago: https://unherd.com/2020/07/britains-shameful-role-in-srebrenica/
How the British government - backed by contrarians scribblers and the Stalinoid left - enabled genocide in the Balkans 25 years ago: https://unherd.com/2020/07/britains-shameful-role-in-srebrenica/
How the post-Cold War 'end of history' era pined for by Atlanticists and neo-liberals was undone by its own ideological hubris. https://unherd.com/2020/07/who-paved-the-way-for-the-populists/
On the Intellectual Dark Web and the cloying self-regard of the purveyors of ‘unorthodox thought’ who drone on about campus politics but say little about those who wield real power. (review of a book by the late @_michaelbrooks, who sadly died this year). https://unherd.com/2020/07/the-emptiness-of-the-intellectual-dark-web/
On @MarcusRashford's brilliant campaign and why we should go beyond Dickensian moralising about personal responsibility when it comes to feeding the poor. https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-the-poor-eat-poorly/
On how Orwell is not the all-purpose patron saint he is often portrayed as: Orwell’s power is in his ability to interrogate himself and change his own mind. (paywalled £) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/orwell-a-man-of-our-time-by-richard-bradford-review-would-george-orwell-be-good-on-twitter-z28ngjvnh
Another review, this time The Cubans, a book about a people treated – by both admirers of the revolution and anti-communists alike – as historical flotsam in a struggle between states and ideas. This was a fantastic book. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-cubans-by-anthony-depalma-review-cuba-without-the-castro-worship-lkd09q86v
On how Labour patriotism should transcend the cosplaying 'anti-imperialists' but also the prolier-than-thou social conservatives. https://thecritic.co.uk/the-uniquely-british-thing-about-the-labour-party/
And lastly this one, on useful idiots stanning for China:
"A permanent feature of politics seems to be a stubborn rump of ideologues whose criticism of their own government co-exists with a need to develop a corresponding loyalty to another unit." https://unherd.com/2020/12/the-useful-idiots-are-back-again/
"A permanent feature of politics seems to be a stubborn rump of ideologues whose criticism of their own government co-exists with a need to develop a corresponding loyalty to another unit." https://unherd.com/2020/12/the-useful-idiots-are-back-again/
