Child sex abuse and grooming gangs: What we know, and what we don’t, from the data: Data isn’t great, but what we do know suggests that there’s not a big link between ethnicity and commuting a group based offence.
Recently I read:
White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump’s mind : His current obsession is nothing new.
Borders of whiteness: Do refugees have a colour?: ‘Reports on the refugee crisis have also suggested discriminatory behaviour on the part of Europeans to refugees of black or brown skin colour.’
Incredible visualisation from Our World In Data showing the flow of human existence, from birth to death. About 7% of all humans that ever existed are alive today!
Currently reading: Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones 📚.
From the preface:
…borders that are open for corporations, capital, and consumer goods but closed for workers and regulators are creating dramatic inequalities in wealth and opportunity within individual countries and at a global scale
is a sentiment I already tend to believe. I’m interested to see what evidence the authors muster up in support of it.
🎥 Watched Dune.
Let the modern incarnation of the spice battles begin.