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Canon, to the right of them

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory Gurminder K Bhambra & John Holmwood, Polity, 2021, 257 pp, £16 LESLIE JONES is unconvinced by a clever piece of 'decolonizing' advocacy The toxic legacy of European colonialism and imperialism underpins the 'populist ressentiment and rejection of multiculturalism' of the white working class in Europe and the USA [i], according to Bhambra…

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Fear of frying

Visitors to Yadegar Asisi's 'Dresden 1945' installation at the Panometer in Dresden in January 2015 Dresden, the Fire and the Darkness, Sinclair McKay, Viking, 2020 LESLIE JONES revisits the Dresden raid of February 1945 “Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast” (Arthur Schopenhauer) Historian James Holland, a ubiquitous presence on television programmes about World…