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England’s Foreign Legion raise the hopes of the lands of ...

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 20h

Football, identity and nationality choices:
@RorySmith on players born in England but choosing their lands of family heritage
#SportingCitizenship
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Countries across the world are tracking down British-born players with family links who can bolster their national teams

observer.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 21h

Jenrick, Handsworth and integration:
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on the need to consider the diversity within both white and non-white communities
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Apache Indian could teach Jenrick a thing or two about in...

Growing up in diverse Birmingham defined my world view. What other city could have inspired Apache Indian’s mash-up?

observer.co.uk

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

"A combination of generational change, revulsion at the events in Gaza and alienation caused by Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme rightwing government is giving BDS new traction"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

'It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

The West Has Helped Paul Kagame to Pillage the Congo

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

Territorial pillaging, resource extraction and geo-economic strategies: The cosy relationship between Rwanda and the West
@jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/kaga...

For the last three decades, Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame has fueled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ransacked its natural resources. The US and the EU have been Kagame’s partners in cr...

jacobin.com

Colin Sheridan: The one word missing from all this so-called talk of peace in Gaza is 'Palestinian'

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

"I’ll believe in this ceasefire when the men who brokered it stop using Palestinian lives as stepping-stones to their own redemption"
@colinivan.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The world may celebrate a ceasefire in Gaza, but without Palestinian agency and justice, peace remains an illusion

www.irishexaminer.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

'Israel is openly aligning itself with the European far right, weaponising Islamophobia as political currency... casts itself as the vanguard of “western civilisation”; the first line of defence against an imagined Muslim threat'
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...

How Netanyahu's war on Islam fuels antisemitism in Europe

The Israeli prime minister is teaming up with the same forces of hatred that once persecuted Jews - and surely will again

www.middleeasteye.net

Tight security and political tension hang over key Norway v Israel World Cup qualifier

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

"Israel shouldn’t be included in an international football arena when they are violating international law and preventing Palestinian football players from playing"
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The hosts in Oslo are closing in on qualification but the politics surrounding their visitors’ presence casts a shadow over the football

It is the West, not Gaza, that needs to be deradicalised

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 3d

Sums up the current state of the world!

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 3d

It is the West, not Gaza, that needs to be deradicalised
@jonathan-cook.bsky.social
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel's demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism

www.middleeasteye.net

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

The health costs of fast-fashion recycling in the 'cast-off capital of the world'
#GeographiesOfConsumption
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

It's insensitive not to mention the *Palestinian* victims: ground rules for commemorating 7 October

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

"Must we not commemorate all the victims - and since the killing continues, protest against Israel’s daily creation of ever more victims?"
@martinshaw.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

In the new age of genocide, we must remember all who die, not just a select few - my answer to Sir Keir Starmer

open.substack.com

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

Imperial delusions, public power and private profit - Gaza and the Trump-Blair deal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

Does the road to hell begin in Cork?

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

Getting drunk in Cork leads to visions of hell!! 😱
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How one man's drink-induced unconscious trip in 12th century Cork reshaped how the Western world imagines eternal damnation

www.rte.ie

If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician | Arwa Mahdawi

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

"When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt. Just ask NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, writes Arwa Mahdawi

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

Jenrick’s "comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA & supercharged by bad actors on social media. Suddenly, a great many people...are keen on the racist idea that you simply can’t be English and non-white"
@sathnam.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

Malaysia rejects Fifa accusations it forged players’ citizenship and says it will appeal sanctions

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 4d

Questions of sporting citizenship in Malaysia
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Malaysia’s football association says it will appeal Fifa sanctions and fine after seven players on national team suspended for one year

Commemorative plaque unveiled for station's 175th anniversary

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 5d

Railway heritage
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2552132...

Worcester Shrub Hill station marks 175 years with a commemorative plaque installed by West Midlands Railway and events celebrating its railway…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

October 7… two years on Two years on, we are still counting the dead. Still counting the lies. Still counting the betrayals. And… look around… we are still standing. This awful day, and the …

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 5d

Two years on....
Lina AbiRafeh on the decontextualisation of October 7
linaabirafeh.medium.com/october-7-tw...

October 7… two years on

linaabirafeh.medium.com

More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 5d

Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure
@ncgeehan.bsky.social & @antoineduval.bsky.social
@josimarfootball.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...

Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.

josimarfootball.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 5d

The erasure of Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble