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Alison Phipps አሊሰን

Alison Phipps አሊሰን

@alisonphipps.bsky.social

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UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow

Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 1h

Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 7h

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 8h

Also a characteristically abject response to far right vigilantism from the Home Office, amounting to: “The fascists are right but, tut, going about it the wrong way”

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10h

LIVE: The Met Office has issued several “danger to life” weather warnings for rain and wind in parts of Scotland, Wales and south-west England amid Storm Bram 🚨

LIVE: ‘Danger to life’ weather warnings in place amid Storm Bram

www.thenational.scot

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 11h

Gaza officials says Israel committed 738 violations since ceasefire deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-says-israel-committed-738-violations-ceasefire-deal

Gaza officials says Israel committed 738 violations since ceasefire deal

<article data-history-node-id="432467" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-says-israel-committed-738-violations-ceasefire-deal" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-says-israel-committed-738-violations-ceasefire-deal" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza officials says Israel committed 738 violations since ceasefire deal</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="447" data-start="115">The Government Media Office in Gaza says Israel has carried out 738 violations in the 60 days since the ceasefire agreement was announced, accusing the occupation of repeatedly breaching the deal’s basic humanitarian provisions.</p> <p data-end="447" data-start="115">Officials said Israel has honoured less than 40 percent of its humanitarian obligations, a failure they argue has deepened the crisis for Palestinians already living under a suffocating blockade and ongoing military pressure.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h

Israel says it struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, adding pressure to a US-brokered ceasefire.

Israel launches new wave of air attacks on Lebanon, straining fragile truce

Israel says it struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, adding pressure to a US-brokered ceasefire.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Buried in the new defense bill is a policy to fill weapon “gaps” Israel gets as other nations embargo it.

As in: citing "wartime" needs, the US armed Israel’s genocide.
Nations responded by restricting weapons to Israel.
Now, citing those very restrictions, the US may send Israel *even more.*

US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes

The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes

The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.

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US Defense Bill Would Fill Israel’s Weapons ‘Gaps’ Caused by Embargoes

The US armed Israel’s genocide. Nations responded by embargoing Israel. Citing those restrictions, the US may now send even more weapons to Israel.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Tony Blair has been dropped from a top role on the Gaza 'board of peace' after concerns from Middle East nations, reports say

Tony Blair 'dropped' from Gaza 'board of peace' after objections from states

www.thenational.scot

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 1d

www.middleeasteye.net/news/70-perc...

Seventy percent of Britons say UK should boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation

Eighty-two percent of British people believe Israel should be excluded from competition in 2026, after the European Broadcasting Union gave Israel the green light to compete

www.middleeasteye.net

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d

And the punishment for those who stand on life's sidelines sneering, shall be having stood on life's sidelines, sneering.

[ #Art: The Kiss of Forgiveness by Maria Makki]

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Farage Biographer Says Reform Leader Has 'Totally Lost It' Over Racism Allegations
"He's really, really rattled in a way we've not seen before," according to Michael Crick. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage...

Farage Biographer Says Reform Leader Has 'Totally Lost It' Over Racism Allegations

"He's really, really rattled in a way we've not seen before," according to Michael Crick.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 1d

People fleeing war and persecution aren’t asking for much - just to be treated with dignity and given the chance to rebuild their shattered lives.

Everyone has the right to be safe and to feel like they belong.

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not the evil that is surprising but the stupidity.

Supping with devils with very short spoons while the devils stab you in the back and front repeatedly to amuse those now addicted to a public sphere characterised by love of cruelty and humiliation

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

“Kill more. Kill everyone. Kill with our weapons”

The new competitive West’s embrace of “ceasefire” means heavy continuous murderous fire

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"After removing restrictions on weapons exports.. Germanys signed the largest weapons export deal in Israels history"

The point of the 'ceasefire'. Not to stop genocide but to allow countries to more easily resist calls to put pressure on Israel & reverse actions already taken

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"After removing restrictions on weapons exports.. Germanys signed the largest weapons export deal in Israels history"

The point of the 'ceasefire'. Not to stop genocide but to allow countries to more easily resist calls to put pressure on Israel & reverse actions already taken

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Rather than pushing yet more hostile anti-asylum policies, Labour needs to be actually supporting people. UK policies and rhetoric have the inevitable consequences of not only forcing more people towards gangs, but increasing violence used against them. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups

Home Office drive to stop small boats crossing Channel is handing more power to people smugglers, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

This is NOT FUNNY AT ALL (giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...).

A Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

While over 10,000 Palestinians remain buried under the rubble of homes destroyed by Israel, families mourn their loved ones as Egyptian teams reportedly halted searches after recovering Israeli soldiers’ bodies. The unequal urgency is devastating.

A screenshot of a social media post by Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) reading: “WHY?! Egyptians stopped operating their heavy equipment after completing their search for the bodies of Israeli soldiers in Gaza. There are bodies of over 10,000 Palestinians under the rubble of their homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces.” The post time is 7:29 PM, Dec 7, 2025, with 11.4K views.

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UK for UNHCR @ukforunhcr.bsky.social · 1d

In northern Mozambique, families have endured years of insecurity and repeated displacement.

Now violence is spreading again.

The world must keep its eyes on Mozambique.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 1d

The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/07/t...

The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland

The big reveal that Malcolm Offord would be joining Reform UK was framed as a breakthrough moment for the far-right party. Without any real base here in Scotland, and safe in the knowledge that run…

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

“But far stranger than having a friend transformed overnight into a global icon was having a friend, a colleague in the publishing business, a holiday host, deliberately assassinated by a government in cahoots with my own”

Exactly how it feels to have lost this friend this way

Refaat Alareer and the online culture war

Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."

electronicintifada.net

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 2d

This is why a Job Guarantee can ONLY work if there is also a Universal Basic Income.

www.commonweal.scot/articles/8826

Jobs or Security, or Both? — Common Weal

Craig Dalzell - 10th March 2022 Back in 2017, I  wrote a policy paper  imagining various potential social security policies that  Scotland could explore once independent. It...

www.commonweal.scot

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve written the @resprofnews.bsky.social Sunday Read this week. I’ve looked at the value and importance of the arts, humanities and social sciences and what policymakers might do to support them at a time we are seeing major cutbacks in universities www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...

Human values
By Hetan Shah
7th December 2025
* SUNDAY
READING
Hetan Shah suggests solutions to counter the current pressures on arts and humanities
Pressures on UK higher education finances are affecting all disciplines, but cutbacks are particularly pronounced in the arts, humanities and some parts of the social sciences.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2d

‘Poverty is a human rights violation. We cannot realise our own human rights until we address tax’

I talk to Scotland’s human rights chief who says poverty is trashing citizens rights to food, warmth, education and healthcare. ‘It robs people of dignity’.

My Big Read @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Sickened human rights chief reveals how poverty is destroying Scotland

The head of the Scottish Human Rights Commission steps forward to say that poverty is robbing citizens of their dignity. She talks candidly to our…

www.heraldscotland.com

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

Twas ever thus

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Another weird billionaire with too much power

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Holy smokes! If you acted like Palantir CEO Alex Karp in a corporate meeting, they would report you to HR. Just saying.

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all

www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Alison Phipps: Monolingualism was invented to serve capitalism and colonialism

THE majority of the world’s mother tongue is multilingual. The vast majority of the world’s people are multilingual people. Indeed, the idea of…

www.thenational.scot

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now

The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech

The EU is the enemy of both

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The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance

It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech

pdjukes.substack.com