London’s imperial college articles
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Labour’s Sadiq Khan Reelected as London Mayor as UK’s Ruling Conservatives Face More Electoral Pain
Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage […]
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From Universal’s TikTok deal to Blackstone’s bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days Source
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Twain’s Anti-Imperialism and the Boxer Uprising
In school, many received a boring, whitewashed version of Mark Twain—a humorist of bottomless wit certainly, and comfortably critical of American slavery and racism, but without a more comprehensive anti-authoritarian worldview. Though the ideological underpinnings of his anti-imperialism have been debated, Twain clearly understood a relationship between monopoly capitalism and imperialism.[8] The anti-imperialism that was so important a part of his life and character has been blotted out...