tom westland

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and you remain barry jones in the process! economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation (he/him) tomwestland.com

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tom westland@tomwestland· 29d

We had two extremists shoot up a Jewish gathering in public and for some reason instead of focusing on intelligence failures we have: is the acting ANU vice-chancellor able to describe the Israeli flag

tom westland@tomwestland· Jul 14

they yassified josh frydenberg

tom westland@tomwestland· Jul 13

lovely little cartoon in the 1976 Cameroon census instruction manual for field workers

tom westland@tomwestland· Jul 13

Something that you have to say about Peta Credlin is she is kind of illiterate

tom westland@tomwestland· Jul 2

Tony Abbott has an absolutely batshit reading of 1984

tom westland@tomwestland· Jun 7

utterly cooked

tom westland@tomwestland· Jun 3

OK the Temu X thing has passed its use by date.

tom westland@tomwestland· May 26

tom westland@tomwestland· May 24

australia has had some truly cooked Deputy Prime Ministers but it is so grim that we have one that is reposting fashslop about Rhodesia

Tweet from John Anderson: "In this video, @FreyaThinks breaks down how one of Africa's most functional states was dismantled, not by military defeat, but by Western liberal idealism that demanded revolution over evolution."

tom westland@tomwestland· May 21

This is from Cazeau de Roumillac's essay on sugar cultivation which was published in 1781 - apparently a minority, but some of planters were using plows then

tom westland@tomwestland· May 21

Contemporary fascism appears to be converging on "Restore Our Glorious Toilets" from multiple angles

tom westland@tomwestland· May 16

I don't want to get into an annoying debate about a translation of a poem in a language I don't read but come on dude this is such a great line in English

tom westland@tomwestland· May 16

kind of feels like a few more defections and "One Nation: All The Things You Hated About The Morrison Government" is a viable line of attack

tom westland@tomwestland· May 13

its great that the budget is released in may because there are some solid Meltdown May contenders on twitter at the moment

tom westland@tomwestland· May 13

genuinely very beautiful to see Gen Z learn how to do the 'crossed arms, very angry at Labor' pose for News Limited papers

tom westland@tomwestland· May 8

it could be my ignorance of Togolese ethnic groups but is there a reason that the Murdock Map has a polygon named as belonging to the "Tribu", i.e. the French word for 'tribe'?