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  1. "...there would be something deeply perverse about celebrating the defeat of the extreme right on the battlefield while ignoring the fact that Europe is voting for its ideological descendants at the ballot box" #VEDayincontext #GaryYounge #journalism
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  2. "...there would be something deeply perverse about celebrating the defeat of the extreme right on the battlefield while ignoring the fact that Europe is voting for its ideological descendants at the ballot box" #VEDayincontext #GaryYounge #journalism
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  3. Excellent article on the failure to remember our past of racism, slavery and colonialism by #GaryYounge. The starting point is Britain and slavery, but it applies much more generally as illustrated repeatedly in the article. theguardian.com/news/ng-intera #racism

  4. Excellent article on the failure to remember our past of racism, slavery and colonialism by #GaryYounge. The starting point is Britain and slavery, but it applies much more generally as illustrated repeatedly in the article. theguardian.com/news/ng-intera #racism

  5. #Scotland taught #GaryYounge hard truths about #racism.
    Younge is one of Britain’s most celebrated #journalists & #professor of #sociology . He was #Britain ’s 1st #black #NewspaperColumnist, #renowned for his work with #TheGuardian. Younge’s #NewBook - Dispatches From The Diaspora, #investigates what it means to be black today.

    ...Younge learned many of the #lessons which shaped his view of how #BlackPeople are treated in predominantly #WhiteSocieties .

    heraldscotland.com/politics/23

    #Author #book

  6. Interview with Gary Younge - from @NeilMackay’s Big Read series in The Herald - which touches on Scotland’s racism and imperialism (yes, ours/possessive) informed by his time at university in Scotland but also much wider thoughts on race/racism, empire/imperialism, England/UK, Brexit, the media etc etc:

    heraldscotland.com/politics/23

    #ScotPol #UKPolitics #Racism #Empire #Imperialism #GaryYounge

  7. Interview with Gary Younge - from @NeilMackay’s Big Read series in The Herald - which touches on Scotland’s racism and imperialism (yes, ours/possessive) informed by his time at university in Scotland but also much wider thoughts on race/racism, empire/imperialism, England/UK, Brexit, the media etc etc:

    heraldscotland.com/politics/23

    #ScotPol #UKPolitics #Racism #Empire #Imperialism #GaryYounge

  8. This op-ed by #GaryYounge is a classic example of the mess of self-contradiction UK's liberal media find themselves in due to the implosion of the neo-liberal and neo-con narratives of the last 3-40 years:
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/