Thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported by Russia. Behind every story is a family torn apart. This cannot be tolerated. Today, the EU joined the International Coalition for the Return of Abducted Children. We will not rest until these children are back home.

‘In creating a myth of modernism, Stein did something delirious to the myth the modernists had so far preferred.’ Adam Thirlwell on Francesca Wade’s biography of Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The best way to stop the far-right is to hold it accountable for its actions and their impacts, namely: - Brexit caused the small boat crisis. Why is this never mentioned? - Reform UK support Israel's genocide in Gaza. Why is this never mentioned? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My favourite #Rapture post so far

I enjoyed this snippet from the BBC website: "but it was first Robson and Jerome and then Westlife who brought him credibility."

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

I can accept one 'explore' per 1000 words, NO MORE

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I saw Goody Proctor taking Tylenol.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rolling countryside, dry sherry, flying buttresses, navy blue woollen jumpers, evensong, Composer of the Week, Wodehouse.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

Adam Parsons: "Right now the Israel defence forces are in the midst of a huge ground offensive..." Deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure & turning an entire city into rubble in order to forcibly expel Palestinians from their land is not an "offensive"

Interesting to find The Ruskin Collection in the Millennium Gallery Sheffield.

I am starting to quite like Ed Davey...

This photo is everything!! (Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

North Chesthill Estate is trying to stop walkers enjoying 4 Munros in Glen Lyon during all of Sept & Oct. #ScottishOutdoorAccessCode is clear on 🦌 stalking: Landowners can manage routes on specific days, but NOT force unreasonable blanket bans. We hope @perthandkinross.bsky.social can intervene.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Fredric Jameson died on September 22nd, aged 90. Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy. To mark his 90th birthday, in April 2024, we published a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

What I don't understand about the rush to AI is why people don't *want* to think. Thinking is the most pleasurable, gorgeous, exciting, sophisticated thing I do, and skipping that to get to an output and have more time to spend, I don't know, on my phone or something just seems insane to me.

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

🟢 New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on how to grow the economy. "We need to destroy this really bad metaphor that the household budget is anything like a national economy."

Another sweaty 5km run to keep my steps over 10k per day for September. All for Venture Scotland, you can donate below 🙏🙏🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/doug-jo...

Come and join me next Saturday to take up space and explore the ways in which we connect, physically, to the landscape. www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-yo...

In October I’ll be running some writing workshops based on the John Atkinson Grimshaw exhibition at Scarborough art gallery. Come join me? www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/nor...

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The Dutch rip the hell out of Donald Trump and Disney for the ridiculous Jimmy Kimmel firing. This is what you call Free Speech, Trump.

What a bleak outlook on life. Peter Kyle has no idea that the world is full of interesting people who are thinking and making and creating and researching and questioning received ideas and coming up with their own. People who think Peter Kyle is an idiot.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

Everything you ever wanted to know about the humble blackberry - 350 species! New Country Diary by @sarahlambert7.bsky.social

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THERE NEEDS TO BE A FULL SCALE, INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO TREY REED IMMEDIATELY!

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Trump says he specifically requested that Sadiq Khan be excluded from the UK state banquet: "On immigration, he's a disaster." As mayor of London, Khan has no powers over immigration.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Every day I give thanks I turned away from academia after my PhD. The university management who decide to install those things can go fuck themselves. And that's my polite response.

Normal People author Sally Rooney has been advised she 'can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest' due to her support of Palestine Action 👇

New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...