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Britain doesn’t just glorify its violent past: it gets high on it | Afua Hirsch

British racism, is still racism even if a tiny bit less brutal than the Belgians, Germans, Japanese. Most of the people transported into slavery from what is now thought of as Africa, were transported to North, Central and South America in British and French ships. That is not something to be candied over with “we were not as brutal as the Belgian king.” Tearing apart families and enslaving people is brutal enough and needs to be healed not by candy but by admitting the wrong!

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The defensive, patriotic narrative of empire has become a drug. Like all addicts, those hooked on it cannot stomach critique

It feels like I live in the middle of a culture war. On one side is a kind of state-sponsored amnesia. It’s pervasive. It’s an Oscar-winning movie perpetuating the idea that Winston Churchill stood alone, at the Darkest Hour, as Nazi fascism encroached, with Britain a small and vulnerable nation isolated in the north Atlantic. In reality the United Kingdom was at that moment an imperial power with the collective might of Indian, African, Canadian and Australian manpower, resources and wealth at its disposal.

It’s also Poland passing a law so that errant historians, survivors or Auschwitz guides who raise the inconvenient fact of Polish complicity in atrocities now risk up to three years’ imprisonment. It’s Tennessee in the US legislating against the removal of Confederate statues when, as the former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu puts it, they “purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitised Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for”.

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New Zealand ‘marine heatwave’ brings tropical fish from 3,000km away

One time or the future?

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Out-of-place Queensland groper seen off New Zealand coast after water temperatures soared

Rare tropical fish from Australia have been spotted in New Zealand waters after a record-breaking hot summer and warm ocean temperatures lured the creatures across the Tasman sea.

The Queensland groper, also known as the giant grouper, is the aquatic emblem of the state and was spotted swimming around the wreck of the HMNZ Canterbury in the Bay of Islands on Sunday, more than 3,000 kilometres away from its usual cruising spots on the coral reefs and estuaries off the Queensland coast.

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Valencia village lays claim to original Coca-Cola recipe

The recipe for Kola-coca is languishing in a safe inside the office of 79-year-old Juan Juan Micó, who owns Destilerías Ayelo, in the village of of Aielo de Malferit, in Spain’s Valencia province. After ensuring no photos will be taken, the elderly gentleman unlocks the box and extracts the notebook in which the secret formula is inscribed.

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Mobs spurred by panic video lynch beggar in Hyd

wtf Lynch mobs spurred by social media rumours struck again, this time in the heart of Hyderabad when an elderly beggar dressed as a transgender was bludgeoned to death on suspicion of being a child-lifter. This takes the death toll from mob lynchings to four in 13 days despite the police brass in two Telugu states putting forces on high alert.

News Analysis: Trump Versus Law Enforcement: A Confrontation with No Precedent

As long as he believes he is protecting himself – he cares not what damage he cause others! The president’s allies say he has every right to manage the executive branch and every reason to be outraged at possible misconduct aimed at his campaign. Critics say he is wreaking untold damage on institutions that form the bulwark of a democratic society.

US liberal Islamophobia is rising – and more insidious than rightwing bigotry | Khaled A Beydoun

Fascists hide inside of all religions and subvert the universal message of love for one another. People who believe otherwise just give comfort to the fascists.

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We must not ignore the spread of leftists who preach that Islam is inimical to liberal values

“When will Muslims step up and reform Islam?” asked the self-identified “progressive and intersectional” college student, following a presentation of my book, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, at New York University.

The student wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt and a colorful assortment of pins and patches on his camouflage backpack calling for “equality now” and claiming that “The future is female”. The young man, by way of verbal admission and the myriad of political statements he proudly wore, was a political progressive. And indeed, a representative of a swelling population of leftists who embrace progressive principles yet see Islam as inimical to liberal values and in conflict with American identity.

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