Ben Pollock
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Architect | Research Fellow: Computation, Mapping, Climate & Ecology | @climate_cartox | Tutor MArch DS18 @UniWestminster bit.ly/2Yh9SKH
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'These are the type of politics you’d expect of the British empire in the 19th century,' says eyal weizman on Trump’s colonial plans for Gaza. 'To simply erase Gaza and turn it into a riviera is a way to continue the work of destruction by construction': theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.