Robert Chapman

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Author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism and founding member of Books From Below They/them.

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Book cover for Palo Alto by Malcom Harris. Black text against psychedelic, mutli colour background.
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A Forensic-Linguistic Analysis of 'Factionalism or Progress: A Response to Grassroots Left's 22 March CEC Meeting Report'
Hey ladies, hey fellas And the people that don't give a fuck All the lovers, all the haters And all the people that call themselves players Hot mommas, pimp daddies And the people rolling up in Caddies Hey rockers, hip hoppers And everybody all around the world
Allister Heath Why Neurodivergent Marxism is the most toxic ideology ever inflicted on the British people
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Shopping list for baby foods
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A controversial edition of kant's book Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, depicting a woman leaning back with her legs spread apart.
As Teresa Noce, future communist leader and resident in Turin at the time, later wrote: ‘It was the women who started everything.’11 It was said that a large car had driven by, and someone from inside had shouted ‘Let them eat biscuits’.12 It was claimed that this was the catalyst for the revolt. ‘So, let’s eat the biscuits,’ someone responded on 22 August, and another echoed that ‘this time, the biscuits aren’t just for the rich, we will eat them as well’.13 Groups of women and children began to attack bakeries and other stores.
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No child is disabled, just differently abled, says Tice Reform deputy leader believes new definition of special-needs conditions would ‘maximise’ young people’s potential
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Your party Our party Popular Alliance For the Many
Cooper suggests asylum seekers being moved out of hotels could be housed in warehouses instead Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has suggested that warehouses could be used to house some of the asylum seekers currently being put up in hotels.
"Normal is not a fact; it is a construct, a story we tell ourselves about who belongs and who does not." This striking line from Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality captures the essence of a book that challenges everything we think we know about what it means to be "normal." As someone who has often felt like an outsider, this book felt like a revelation—a deeply thoughtful exploration of how societal norms are created, enforced, and resisted. Chapman’s work is not just an academic critique; it’s a call to rethink the ways we define and value human difference.
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I checked with a few people who are more across the ways of the world than I seem to be these days: my daughters, a neighbour, an on-trend colleague or two. Blank looks all around. “Sounds dirty,” said one of my BBC colleagues.
The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives
Guilds must not strive to submerge the individual in the collectivity by arbitrarily leveling his or her abilities and strengths. Rather, they must aim at making good use of and developing them.
Therefore it is a spiritual conception, arising from the general reaction of this century against the flabby and materialistic positivism of the nineteenth century. Anti-positivistic, but positive: not skeptical, nor agnostic, nor pessimistic, nor passively optimistic, as are, in general, the doctrines (all negative) which place the center of life outside man, who by his free will can and must create his own world. Fascism wants man to be active and to engage in action with all his energies; it wants him to be manfully aware of the difficulties that exist and ready to face them. It conceives of life as a struggle, considering that it behooves man to acquire for himself that life truly worthy of him, creating first of all in himself the instrument (physical, moral, intellectual) to construct it. As for the individual, so for the nation, and so for humanity. Hence the high value of culture in all its forms (artistic, religious, scientific) and the great importance of education. Hence also the essential value of work, with which man conquers nature and creates the human world (economic, political, moral, and intellectual).
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Mr Wimble rejected concerns over lack of experience. "All the [candidates] that have been elected have got experience of running their own businesses," he said. "They've had the problems of paying the wages at the end of the month. They've got the problems with the rates and council tax and things like that."
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Keir Starmer post reading: Most Prime Ministers would respond to these local elections with the same old excuses. My response is simple: I get it. We're moving in the right direction, but people must feel the benefits of change. I will go further and faster to make that happen.
Book cover with red and white block image, El Impreio de la Normalidad by Robert Chapman.
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Index listing: Fiery devils, Fire's rage, fish good, fishes in love, fishing Dowling how and when good exercise, flaxen hair a great motive of love, fools often beget wise men, by love become wise, force of imagination, frenzy's description
One day the apolitical intellectuals of our land will be interrogated by the poorest of people. They will be asked what they did while their community was extinguished, like a sweet fire, small and alone.
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Orange background with white text reading: After Spectrum 10k: Neurodiversity and the politics of research funding
judge has let rip at a woman who admitted to sending videos of her breaking wind to her boyfriend’s ex. Rhiannon Evans, 25, is believed to be the first person to ever face charges for cyber-farting over Christmas. She sent the videos to Deborah Prytherech who said the videos caused her distress and anxiety
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Book cover of The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England by Jonathan Healey. The text is in black and white against a red background.
Hawick and Hermitage councillor Watson McAteer, detective chief superintendent and head of criminal investigation for Lothian and Borders Police until his retirement in 2004, has mixed feelings about the initiative. Though giving it a cautious welcome, he believes real officers rather than fake ones would be a better solution to the problem.
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Book cover of Nazi Billionaires by David De Jong. An image of high-rise blocks against a red sky.
Right-wing media, to Moncrieff’s unease, leapt on her findings. The controversial American political host Tucker Carlson covered her serotonin study on his Fox News talk show. “When I heard I was horrified,” Moncrieff says. “But then I watched and thought, actually, this is really quite a good programme.
Heading reading: Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair said he is concerned about increasing numbers of people self-diagnosing with mental illness and the impact this is having on the economy.
A 35-year-old architect and small business owner from Perth said: “When I get flaked on, I feel relieved that I have an excuse to not have to leave the house. I have always wanted to be a flaky person, but society didn’t let me. Now that [many others] have given up, I feel like I let myself go, too.
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Autism to blame for my inappropriate actions, Gregg Wallace expected to tell inquiry Friends of MasterChef presenter are convinced he suffers from neurodiversity condition that explains behaviour
Book cover of Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics by Simon Fadaee, with the title written over a collage of portraits of various revolutionaries.
Labour party Facebook profile saying they will not tolerate racist sexist or homophobic comments.
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