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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · 19h
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Video: A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters
In this 1981 Brockport Writers Forum interview, June Jordan reads “A Poem about Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters,” and speaks about how she came to poetry and fell in love with “the possibilit...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d
We’re going to make migrants read Ian McEwan? Now that’s a hostile environment.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d
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Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English
Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 8d
Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values
Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values
Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · 8d
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 13d
The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted?

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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
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May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social · 19d
The idea that digital ID cards will stop people working in the shadow economy and thus reduce small boat crossings is baffling

The very nature of the shadow economy (the only way asylum seekers can find work) is employers don’t check documents.. That would obviously continue with ID cards
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · 21d
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‘We should have been shouting about this earlier’: David Tennant on his shocking TV show about phone hacking
He went to court over having his phone tapped, and now he’s starring in ITV’s look at the Guardian’s investigation into the scandal. Tennant and writer Jack Thorne open up about this ‘immensely troubl...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22d
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...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 28d
Private Eye
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jun 18
Nicanor Parra, trs. Lerzundi & Van Voorhis
USA Donde la libertad es una estatua U.S.A. where liberty is a statue
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · 27d
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Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint (Live) 4K
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28d
No words.
The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner. He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament. PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings. Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response. In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess. Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Sep 12
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Jose and Pilar (english subtitles)
"José and Pilar," a documentary by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, is a deeply moving story about love, loss and literature. It follows the days…
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Sep 9
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Sep 5
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Edmund White: The Farewell Symphony
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Sep 2
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Aug 28
Glad to sort my books into a bit of a home library this week. Also gave me the chance to re-visit this text from #SusanSontag
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Aug 27
"many more people will not have to die before the penny finally drops." - Paul Gilroy, 2004 (After Empire) [2]
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Aug 27
"Brit nationalism cannot be purged of its racialized contents any more easily than a body can be purged of the skeleton that supports it. Doubtless, the full implications of that realization will one day transform the conduct of British political life. Let us hope that ..." [1/2]
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Aug 5
"John Berger and I spent half a day looking for bras for Mrs Roy. Each time we entered a shop, I hung back to experience the sheer delight of watching this extremely handsome eighty-something man say in his British-accented Italian, ‘Excuse me, could you show us what you have in size 44DD?’"
The cover of Arundhati Roy's memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Aug 22
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Wolf Alice - Safe in the World (Official Lyric Video)
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Aug 5
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Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 5
Yup. As I am constantly saying.

People say they want far less immigration when polled because they have been led to believe that immigration is primarily a small boats phenomemon.
I try to push back but jesus, they're funded by fucking billionaires.
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · Aug 5
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
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Dan Thompson @dt1877.bsky.social · Jul 31
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Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Episode
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