William A. Booth
@WilliamABooth
Historian of Latin America & the Left at UCL 🚩🏳️⚧️🕊️✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿 الحرية لفلسطين Hope there is plenty, just not for us. Views often different from my employers.
We have finally got around to putting our back catalogue online, plus some never-before-released material (including some quite basic demos). Anyhow, if you want to hear how I spent five years of my life, click below…
Announcement: the Dead Spies back catalogue is now available on all major streaming platforms! Including a bunch of unreleased material. Here’s the Spotify link to start with: open.spotify.com/artist/3TdUtIy…
Absolutely cretinous take given the last fifty years of UK history
Welfare v warfare? For decades governments have run defence spending down, pouring money into public services. Now Europe has to re-arm and we have to pay for it. And that’s shaping up into one of Starmer’s biggest challenges since he became PM x.com/SkyNews/status…
Lol almost as big as Labour on day one!?
140,000 signups to the new left party on its first day - and counting
Of course we can have it all. We just need to take it, as the tiny minority that is the sociopathic super rich have been doing for decades, indeed centuries.
Earlier today, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, got to the heart of a significant problem with British politics, which is that politicians don’t feel able to be honest about what is achievable. “The UK public finances are in an unsustainable position in the long run. The UK…
Bravo!
Performer unfurls Palestine flag during Royal Opera House curtain call thejc.com/news/uk/perfor…
I asked my friend Dr. James Smith why he also made the trip over to Gallipoli, Italy to help support and send off the Handala freedom flotilla team as they set sail for Gaza, Palestine today. Here is what he had to say as a medic who has worked in Gaza during this genocide.
Come along to the UCL Institute of the Americas for the inaugural meeting of the Latin American Research Community! A new interdisciplinary network of PhD students working on Latin American topics. More details of the event below! 👇🏻 ucl.ac.uk/americas/event…
Ayer tuvimos casa llena en @SandorMaraiCDMX para escuchar al historiador británico Benjamin Smith hablar de su último libro “La droga: la verdadera historia del narcotráfico en México”. Con presencias como las del profesor Smith, nuestro proyecto librero sigue creciendo.
Jurassic World: Rebirth - 6/10. Some crappy storyline shortcuts and flummery but saved by Jonathan Bailey and the D-Rex which was deeply unsettling. So many other (real) dinosaurs that haven’t been used in the franchise, titanosaurs were good but shame we didn’t get more newbies.
In 2004, ten years after the death of Derek Jarman, Andrew wrote ‘Revealed’ which you can listen to here: open.spotify.com/track/0lpCKtuX… - there is also a pretty majestic version on our 2009 live album
But the coach said there were no concrete offers 😎
Ni por todo el dinero del mundo 😎 Con el rumor de que Marcel Ruíz pueda ir a Europa, recientemente se reveló que la Máquina ofreció una millonada por él y ni así se pudieron hacer con los servicios del jugador 😱💵 Acá te contamos la oferta 👇🏼 elesto.mx/44sNm49
Was going to make a crap video of the Ed Sheeran fireworks that just lit up Ipswich but I was distracted by the bats whizzing round outside (probably very confused)
Hell of a way to prod Ipswich into getting serious
88 - Además de su gol y asistencia, Marcel Ruiz 🇲🇽 lideró esta noche a Toluca en ocasiones creadas (6, al igual que Alexis Vega), intervenciones (88) y pases en el último tercio (30). Prime. #LigaMX 🇲🇽
Does playing frisbee make you dizzy? We have the solution: ‘I Want To’ from our Unreleased EP: music.youtube.com/watch?v=un9Pu3…