Simon Garnett
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
Editor at Eurozine | www.eurozine.com
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The sharp drop in support for Ukraine in Italy has less to do with the traditionally Russia-friendly policy of the Italian right, and more with the anti-US sentiment rooted in the culture of the Italian left. By @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/italy-and-ru...
Italy and Russia: A never-ending love story
The sharp drop in support for Ukraine in Italy has less to do with the traditionally Russia-friendly economic policy of the Italian right, and more with the anti-US sentiment rooted in the political c...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The sharp drop in support for Ukraine in Italy has less to do with the traditionally Russia-friendly policy of the Italian right, and more with the anti-US sentiment rooted in the culture of the Italian left. By @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/italy-and-ru...
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The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...
'Obwohl beim Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs schon eine erneute Wahl von Trump keineswegs ausgeschlossen werden konnte, haben die westlichen Regierungen nicht begriffen, dass dieser Konflikt ... unbedingt innerhalb der Regierungszeit von Joe Biden hätte beendet werden müssen.' 🧐
Jürgen Habermas: Kann sich die EU dem autoritären Sog der USA noch entziehen?
Die politische Integration Europas ist so überlebenswichtig wie nie. Und sehr unwahrscheinlich. Eine bittere Bilanz von Jürgen Habermas.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
'Obwohl beim Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs schon eine erneute Wahl von Trump keineswegs ausgeschlossen werden konnte, haben die westlichen Regierungen nicht begriffen, dass dieser Konflikt ... unbedingt innerhalb der Regierungszeit von Joe Biden hätte beendet werden müssen.' 🧐
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This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The real threat to BBC impartiality
The BBC has suffered a week of mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn lawsuit. But the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the ne...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • Articles • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
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November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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While civilizational rhetoric in the West reflects a sense of threat, globally it is recognition-seeking. Common to all civilizationalisms, however, is a blurring of the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy. By Hans Kundnani
and Srirupa Roy www.eurozine.com/the-clash-of...
and Srirupa Roy www.eurozine.com/the-clash-of...
The clash of civilizationalisms
While civilizational rhetoric in the West reflects a sense of threat, globally it is recognition-seeking. Common to all civilizationalisms, however, is a blurring of the distinction between authoritar...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
While civilizational rhetoric in the West reflects a sense of threat, globally it is recognition-seeking. Common to all civilizationalisms, however, is a blurring of the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy. By Hans Kundnani
and Srirupa Roy www.eurozine.com/the-clash-of...
and Srirupa Roy www.eurozine.com/the-clash-of...
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‘By going out of its way to appease its critics on the right – by, for example, providing disproportionate coverage of Reform and amplifying right-wing talking points from social media – the BBC has only fuelled the forces that are set on undermining it.’
Des Freedman
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman | Whose BBC?
From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years its...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
‘By going out of its way to appease its critics on the right – by, for example, providing disproportionate coverage of Reform and amplifying right-wing talking points from social media – the BBC has only fuelled the forces that are set on undermining it.’
Des Freedman
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Des Freedman
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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But Prescott’s memo wasn’t an internal BBC document — it was unsolicited. And its “neutral” proof relies on partisan, Trump-aligned sources. Full analysis in Part Two: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 7/12
The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
But Prescott’s memo wasn’t an internal BBC document — it was unsolicited. And its “neutral” proof relies on partisan, Trump-aligned sources. Full analysis in Part Two: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 7/12
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As propagandists of a patriarchal order, tradwives perpetrate harm. But harm is being enacted on tradwives too. So why do some feminists see tradwifery as self-empowerment? By Katie Buckley via Dublin Review of Books www.eurozine.com/honey-im-home/
Honey, I’m home!
As propagandists of a patriarchal order, tradwives perpetrate harm. But harm is being enacted on tradwives too. So why do some feminists see tradwifery as self-empowerment?
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November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
As propagandists of a patriarchal order, tradwives perpetrate harm. But harm is being enacted on tradwives too. So why do some feminists see tradwifery as self-empowerment? By Katie Buckley via Dublin Review of Books www.eurozine.com/honey-im-home/
Why the only complaints the BBC fears are those from the right: @lewisgoodall.com on the Prescott Report.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Why the only complaints the BBC fears are those from the right: @lewisgoodall.com on the Prescott Report.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place this weekend in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The conference is co-organized with Razpotja magazine. www.eurozine.com/translating-...
Translating cultures – Cultures of translation
The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place from 7–9 November 2025 in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The co...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place this weekend in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The conference is co-organized with Razpotja magazine. www.eurozine.com/translating-...
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Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of @indexoncensorship.org from 1993–2006 and a longstanding member of Eurozine’s advisory board. We recall the deep and lasting mark she made on the network. www.eurozine.com/judith-vidal...
Judith Vidal-Hall 1938–2025
Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of Index on Censorship from 1993–2006 and a longstanding member of Eurozine’s advisory board. We recall the deep and lasting mark ...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of @indexoncensorship.org from 1993–2006 and a longstanding member of Eurozine’s advisory board. We recall the deep and lasting mark she made on the network. www.eurozine.com/judith-vidal...
Strong argument by the legal and political historian Aziz Rana for the analytical fruitfulness of the term 'settler colonialism' across a very diverse range of contexts:
From our fall issue: Aziz Rana on the uses and abuses of the term "settler colonialism."
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...
Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”? - Dissent Magazine
If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.
www.dissentmagazine.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Strong argument by the legal and political historian Aziz Rana for the analytical fruitfulness of the term 'settler colonialism' across a very diverse range of contexts:
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Eurozine is very saddened to hear of the death of Judith Vidal-Hall (1938–2025), a former editor of @indexoncensorship.org, former Eurozine editorial board member, and member of Eurozine’s advisory board since 2005. She will be deeply missed by the network and wider community.
"She was a pioneer." Read Jo Glanville's moving tribute to Judith Vidal-Hall, our former editor-in-chief, whose dedication, integrity and wit reinvented the Index magazine and brought voices from the Global South to the forefront: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/exce...
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Eurozine is very saddened to hear of the death of Judith Vidal-Hall (1938–2025), a former editor of @indexoncensorship.org, former Eurozine editorial board member, and member of Eurozine’s advisory board since 2005. She will be deeply missed by the network and wider community.
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Israel's war on Gaza inaugurates a global era in which consensus itself has lost legitimacy, writes Seyla Benhabib via Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social @voelkerrechtsblog.org www.eurozine.com/gaza-and-the...
Gaza and the age of impunity
Under the Netanyahu government, Israel has aligned itself with an autocratic international whose goal is to transform sovereignty into state impunity. The war on Gaza inaugurates a global era in which...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Israel's war on Gaza inaugurates a global era in which consensus itself has lost legitimacy, writes Seyla Benhabib via Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social @voelkerrechtsblog.org www.eurozine.com/gaza-and-the...
Interesting interview with Manfred Sapper editor Osteuropa @dgoberlin.bsky.social and Katharina Raabe editor @suhrkamp.de:
- Access to authors in RU, BY
and much of Caucasus near impossible, forcing reliance on diaspora
- Public interest in Ukraine much diminished
podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/o...
- Access to authors in RU, BY
and much of Caucasus near impossible, forcing reliance on diaspora
- Public interest in Ukraine much diminished
podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/o...
OSTERWEITERUNG
Society & Culture Podcast · Every two months · OSTERWEITERUNG ist der Podcast der DGO und der Zeitschrift Osteuropa. Unsere Plattformen bieten Monat für Monat Themen und Orientierung – fundiert und i...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Interesting interview with Manfred Sapper editor Osteuropa @dgoberlin.bsky.social and Katharina Raabe editor @suhrkamp.de:
- Access to authors in RU, BY
and much of Caucasus near impossible, forcing reliance on diaspora
- Public interest in Ukraine much diminished
podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/o...
- Access to authors in RU, BY
and much of Caucasus near impossible, forcing reliance on diaspora
- Public interest in Ukraine much diminished
podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/o...
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Jewish people are not only divided over Israel, they also feel alienated from societies in which antisemitism is regularly disguised as anti-Zionism, writes Eva Illouz on the aftermath of October 7th.
www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...
www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...
After October 7th
Political failures since 7 October 2023 have had deep repercussions for Jews in liberal democracies. Not only are they divided over the Jewish state, they also feel alienated from societies in which a...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Jewish people are not only divided over Israel, they also feel alienated from societies in which antisemitism is regularly disguised as anti-Zionism, writes Eva Illouz on the aftermath of October 7th.
www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...
www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...
Mouin Rabbani as usual cutting through the noise (read to end): www.newarab.com/opinion/good...
Good news or bad, Gaza peace is up to those least fit to keep it
Each truce in Gaza carries the illusion of mercy. This one, forged in panic and self-interest, will mark the prelude to what comes next, says Mouin Rabbani.
www.newarab.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Mouin Rabbani as usual cutting through the noise (read to end): www.newarab.com/opinion/good...
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A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror. By Arnon Grunberg @arnonyy.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-elastici...
The elasticity of morals
A century after its publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror. By Arnon Grunberg @arnonyy.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-elastici...
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Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, younger Palestinians are defining the goals of liberation and return anew, writes Hazem Jamjoum via Vikerkaar 9/2025 (upcoming in Estonian). www.eurozine.com/left-alone-t...
Left alone to find one another
For younger Palestinians, most of them diasporic, the heroics of the past are no compensation for the absence of an organized liberation movement. Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated ...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, younger Palestinians are defining the goals of liberation and return anew, writes Hazem Jamjoum via Vikerkaar 9/2025 (upcoming in Estonian). www.eurozine.com/left-alone-t...
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Sven Lütticken and Ana Teixeira Pinto on political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity www.eurozine.com/surviving-fa...
Surviving fascist solidarity
On political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity.
www.eurozine.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Sven Lütticken and Ana Teixeira Pinto on political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity www.eurozine.com/surviving-fa...
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Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...
Did colonization ever end?
Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and do...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...
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Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...
Intellectual violence
Education has become another battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘speci...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...
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Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...
Setting the stage for genocide
Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly twenty years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Pal...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...