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Beyond the Lure of Empire: The Door of No Return
Bonnie Greer, a former British Museum trustee, observes the role of African Empires in her own roots and looks beyond possession and subjugation for true post-imperial thinking
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Static Statues Can’t Change their Position – But We Can
Beyond offensive memorials being removed, real progress will come when we talk to each other and make it our focus to understand the other side, writes Bonnie Greer
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The Year of Living Distantly: As Brightness Falls from the Air will Celebrity Survive?
Bonnie Greer muses on how lockdown and social distancing may be making us more remote from the neediness of the famous.
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The Year of Living Distantly: Lockdown Shadows of the Mind
Confined to a small urban apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bonnie Greer reflects on her time in the Actors Studio, and how shaming memory brings self-knowledge.
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The Emptiness of Trump’s Relentless Pursuit of Beauty
Bonnie Greer explores what is driving the US President in his quest to create the world around him in his vision.
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‘Why Does Anyone Young Want to Elect Bernie Sanders for President?’
Bonnie Greer remembers her Baby Boomer past and wonders what happened to a healthy disrespect for your elders.
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R.I.P. The Great White Man
Bonnie Greer on what Prince Harry and Laurence Fox’s different approaches to the world in which we live tell us about privilege, race and hierarchy – and the distinction between the White Man and the white man.
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We are now Living in ‘American Psycho’
Bonnie Greer finds clarity about the desecration of US society under Donald Trump in the premise of Brett Easton Ellis’ famous 1991 novel.
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Cities are Not Full of ‘Urban Elites’ but So Many Possibilities – Now is the Time to Uphold Metropolitan Values
Bonnie Greer explores the divide between city and country in Britain and how this will be played on in the years ahead to sow more discord, not unity.
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The English Dream: Boris Johnson’s ‘Noblesse Oblige’, Fake Charm and Pantomime Bluster
Bonnie Greer on why the Prime Minister’s victory is symbolic of an English consciousness reawakening.
