politics

  • Prisoners of Geography

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Let’s just say 2017 was a challenging year and leave it at that. I’m starting with Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, lent to me by a friend. The book looks at ten areas of the world and how the geography affects foreign policy and strategic interests.…

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  • The Establishment

      In The Establishment, Owen Jones argues that the establishment is not so much a group of wealthy people in cahoots to keep everyone else down, but rather a collection of people with shared beliefs who benefit from being able to influence each other. The establishment hasn’t remained stable over the years and those that…

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