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Michael Ledger-Lomas

@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social

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I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote about Cecil Rhodes for @lrb.co.uk

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...

www.lrb.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6h

‘Although Rhodes talked of securing the future, power for him was not a means to an end but the expression of a need to treat people as objects to “quicken and control”.’

@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on what motiivated Cecil Rhodes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote about Cecil Rhodes for @lrb.co.uk

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 14h

Phwoar

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 6d

The people Sim is targeting don't use public pools. The ones I know who vote for him defer their taxes.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 7d

Much of what appears in the screenshotted extract there (some individuals are OK but cultures can be bad, they nurse gruesome practices, they 'ghettoise' etc) would once have been said by Protestant Britons about Jews.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 7d

My reflections on Udi Greenberg's excellent new book and the dangers of wishing to defend Christianity for @unherd.com

unherd.com/2025/10/chri...

Christian nationalism’s godless heart

unherd.com

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 8d

was checking out this stock tank at Tractor Supply for a raised bed garden planter and clicked on "Most Helpful Critical Review"

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 9d

Do you rate Wrigley's Energy and the IR? I still use chapters from that but am behind the curve clearly....

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 9d

All the Ozempic is giving him Powell's cadaverous air.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13d

I keep restartling myself with this fact.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 15d

Yes exactly. I'm not sure the average A customer would lose much sleep over this as they get behind the wheel of their big Suburban or whatever.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 15d

Funny or depressing to see a cafe on the grounds of UBC offering to match tips with donations to SAVE THE OSTRICHES? I vote depressing.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 18d

In the Globe and Mail every Friday, Kerry Gold explains to you why we don't need to build more houses in Vancouver and then on the next page a couple explains to you why their 2500sq ft second home was too small.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

No better time post reno and with the new landscaping!

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

He looks more like Ernst Roehm.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

When I was in Tel Aviv while they hosted EV, everyone assumed I was there for it. I was surprised at how large it looms for Israelis.

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

They are right: it's not OK.

Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

If you range back to the HBC, you can say that Canada basically is (a nation derived from) a crown corporation. We should treasure them.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 19d

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

Correct

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 19d

More should be made of the fact that Burnham was urging a ceasefire at the very moment in the autumn of 2023 that Starmer was mumbling his apologies for the illegal mass punishment of Gazans

www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...