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A group of protesters march down a city street holding trans pride flags and placards. At the centre, a person holds a large sign reading: “THE THREAT OF TRANS PEOPLE IS A STATISTICAL ANOMALY! FACT: EHRC WANTS TO HUMILIATE TRANS PEOPLE. SUPREME COURT RULING DID NOT HEAR FROM ONE TRANS PERSON.” The crowd includes people of various ages and genders, with police officers visible to the left and Union Jack flags hanging in the background. The mood is serious but determined.

Correctional Politics and the Cruelty of Clarity

Trans people are not confused. They are not misled. They have not been lied to. They are responding, with dignity and resistance, to a sustained campaign of dehumanisation, spearheaded by a cross-section of legal hardliners, culture warriors, so called feminists, and opportunists.

The Room for Best

Geoff Dyer’s Homework shows childhood not as innocence, but as class training—plastic toys, unwritten rules, and a welfare state already fraying at the edges.

Original Sin front cover

The Delusion Presidency

They knew he was unfit—and backed him anyway; Original Sin is the story of how denial, deference, and decay brought Trump back.

They Meant It

Read side by side, Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and Keach Hagey’s The Optimist show that what Silicon Valley sells as salvation—artificial general intelligence, safety, abundance—is in fact a system of extraction and control, built on scraped data, outsourced labour, and centralised power, with Sam Altman not merely as its architect, but as its most convincing prophet.

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The Many Lives of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was not just a man but an ongoing process. A revolutionary for us all—even children—his journey from rage to clarity shows how radical truth is learned, lived, and handed down.

Front cover of DETAINED

The Diary of a Border Orphan

On Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience by D. Esperanza and Gerardo Iván Morales (Simon & Schuster, 2024)