Ancient Grudge
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A young man from Birmingham presents a podcast about Conspiracy and Racism in his city. There is a little too much about the young man included, for Macdara’s tastes; the present writer has less appetite for impulsive twenty-something Brummies than Serial’s American producers do. But Hamza Syed is certainly likeable, and on the right side;…
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With this, your correspondent introduces a new category: Ancient Grudge, whereby he complains about something from the past that has pissed him off enough that he has had to write about it to get it out of his system. Macdara has long been fascinated by the functioning of groups, and in particular the tendency of…