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Dan Hancox
@danhancox.bsky.social
Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
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Really good article about a history I knew very little about.

But that’s not just me being ignorant.

As Dan put it (in DMs), ‘The Pact of Forgetting is a thing with capital letters and its own Wikipedia page.’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of...
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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“Franco died not in a ditch but in bed, as a victor, and he left behind this legacy: that justice would not to be served, that the amnesty law would be signed, that everyone would be pardoned and that his successors would sign up to a pact of silence – of forgetting.”

— Andrés Rebolledo Barreno
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Aw thanks Amy! I will never entirely abandon said bs
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the only kind of "collab" I'm interested in, thank you Bobby
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thanks very much John
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Thanks so much for making it happen Debbie!
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Thanks Jacob! It came out of exactly this discombobulating feeling yes!!
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Came here to say the same thing. There are good robust media studies which show disproportionality in various types of reporting, and Islamophobia is absolutely not taken seriously enough by the UK media - but pls get the facts right first
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's had 16,000 views since Thursday, which I'm not overly surprised by, because people *really* love Burial - and Burial speaks about music with the same mesmerising passion he applies to making it danhancox.substack.com/p/burials-la...
September 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
por eso que prefiero viajar en tren espanol, jaja.. el servicio aqui es tan malo!
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Ah thanks so much Charlotte!
September 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Also my favourite dish in the world... made them using YouTube tutorials once, was so much fun - you should ask if you can join in!
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM