I’m going to add this because The Boss was a Cannes door opener with Lady Sings the Blues and this is still rare - credit to this woman!

“We plan to use what we learn from this experience to continue educating our campus communities about cultural sensitivity, diversity, and inclusion for members of our Sage community.”

Oh they’re all just hooks to hang products and endorsements on these days

If we could talk to the animals?

I know, the callow miasma of the classroom;

How parochial!

Empires eh?

That’s wonderful writing!

No. Pigeons. Pigeons with emphysema. Autheticity matters. Your uncle is a Peacock.

True, or she’s an evil clickbait genius, which is likely as this isn’t a serious piece of writing. They know exactly what they’re doing, they’ve been doing it for years.

Burning in effigy would be ironic and somewhat provocative given that those racist cuturally imperialist British bastards banned Suttee.

I was feeling more “author function” in this instance. Foucault being a huge masochist.

Goodbye to the entire Rennaisance and the Enlightenment and all its products and legacies in science, philosophy, medicine, law, art and politics because they happen in the context of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? Burn that product of Empire Charles Darwin, because of the uses Francis Galton was put to? Context and…

The notion that Empires feel any need to justify their power to anyone is an interesting contemporary construct and seems to misunderstand the concept. I doubt the Mughals ever felt the need, nor the Edo, Yuan Dynasty or the Fulani Jihad. As Sanjay Subrahmanyam, the esteemed Indian Historian has written, “A national…

Philosophically he is absolutely correct, commercially he is naive.

Wonderful idea. Genius actress. I totally agree with you. Major talent. She is secure enough to chance being both unsympathetic and intelligent on screen while being able to convey huge emotional nuance - she’d have made a stunning Simone, provided that the script is good enough to allow her to do that; if it ain’t on…

“Zoe Saldana and David Oyelowo are refusing to give interviews about the film, which is both surprising and not.” - well, life is clearly too short, the movie is already dead at birth; why elect to endure further public humiliation? If it doesn’t involve a cape or some infantilised computer game franchise, it’s…

Obfuscation is never a good tactic, it just draws attention to your incomprehension, ignorance or lack of cogent argument and there is neither time nor space in this exchange to make you intelligent. Go well.