Andrew Popp

Love how it looks like a house + garage in the first picture.

I wish I'd known this earlier today.

What a pleasure to read G.L.S. Shackle again. He wrote so thrillingly on human dilemmas, frailties, and capacities: on how decision occurs in "the torrent of the experience of life;" and on the world as place where history "has staged its untidy, unorganized, wild play."

American Typewriter?

Congratulations! You have completed your training.

I found the article on Saunders (of whom I hadn't heard) fascinating and have even used it in teaching. But it hadn't clicked that these geographies were overlaid.

I am just shy of two months older than Farage and attended Bristol Cathedral School (a public school of a very minor kind I suppose) through the second half of the seventies. Hitler (let alone admiration thereof) was categorically not the daily currency of our playground conversations.

I hope you got a sunrise! We did hear but it then very rapidly became overcast again.

Personally, I don't struggle too much with it, but I have several Danish colleagues who are completely unreconciled with the winter, even after whole lifetimes. Now I am sat in my kitchen and the light is just coming and it looks like it will be a beautiful clear blue sky here in Copenhagen.

Notable that yesterday was very grey and overcast (as it seems to be all the time right now).

Thanks! this looks great.

One of the more believable things I've seen.

Celebrating liberation.

Much weaker in the UK I think. My father and both my grandfathers served in the British Army, but I don't think any of us would ever have thought of us as being a military family (possibly because all conscripted?).

Quite a few.

Can I teach it on a course about family business?

One of the best!

Walking home (from the pub) we witnessed joyous celebrations in a room above the neighbourhood library. It was only later we realised it was the first anniversary of the fall of Bashir al-Assad. Unbounded joy is something to witness

Not exactly the same thing, and you probably know, but @millieqed.bsky.social is running a project on complaints to and about welfare states (UK vs. Denmark).

I never paid the poll tax despite having a settled address. I participated in anti-poll tax protests but, in the end, I'm not sure I ever received a bill and I was certainly never chased for payment.

I have thought about it often since, perhaps as a moment of awakening. How often are most white Briton's today vividly connected to or confronted with Empire?

In autumn 1989 I was stood on the banks of Bagirathi above Gangotri at dusk. I was very scruffy, longs dreads. An elderly Indian man approached, looked me up & down & said "For 400 years you ruled us under the Raj & I never thought to see an English man looking like this." He turned and walked off

Oops. Just deleted my own reply, perhaps confusing things.

That helps think about why religious conservatism might also require the rehabilitation of Empire.

Perhaps it is just that?

Of course. That’s all true and important. But Biggar’s commitment seems to go beyond the political.

I’m totally sure, to be honest. Probably just contrariness.

It seems like a very personal commitment.

I don't understand Biggar's apparent need for the British Empire to be thought of as somehow *good*. Why does it matter to him?