Linda Grant
@lindasgrant.bsky.social
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Linda Grant
@lindasgrant.bsky.social
· Nov 20
“We are all made up of private family legends, we are all novels in the making.” Linda Grant on what’s true and what’s invented about our origins.
Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins
I was not born Linda Grant. First I was Ginsberg. “I’m probably related to the poet,” I boasted when I grew old enough to value lies and exaggerations. My father arrived in England as a…
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I wrote this.
I’d hoped it would be Tom Sutcliffe but Misha Glenny is a fine choice.
Things that will interest Bluesky; Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, replaces Melvyn Bragg as host of In Our Time.
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I’d hoped it would be Tom Sutcliffe but Misha Glenny is a fine choice.
My experience of jury duty was exactly this. In the end one juror summed up the key points and got us over the line to a verdict. Turned out in his day job he was a
solicitor.
solicitor.
My experiences made me cynical about the whole concept of jury trial. But I have no better alternative 😕:
He’s been arrested so he must be guilty.
I’ll go with the majority to get out of here quicker.
He’s (not-white) so he must be guilty.
He’s (not-white) so he must be innocent.
I wasn’t listening.
He’s been arrested so he must be guilty.
I’ll go with the majority to get out of here quicker.
He’s (not-white) so he must be guilty.
He’s (not-white) so he must be innocent.
I wasn’t listening.
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My experience of jury duty was exactly this. In the end one juror summed up the key points and got us over the line to a verdict. Turned out in his day job he was a
solicitor.
solicitor.
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In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
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The Andrew formerly known as Prince.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince.
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Which judges went on holiday together? Which author lost their literary innocence with a judge badmouthed his book? Who sat next to AS Byatt's roll of Sellotape?
Me on the Booker Prize in the 2000s, with contributions from @ericawgnr.bsky.social, @lindasgrant.bsky.social, Damon Galgut and more:
Me on the Booker Prize in the 2000s, with contributions from @ericawgnr.bsky.social, @lindasgrant.bsky.social, Damon Galgut and more:
The Booker Prize in the Noughties: 10 novels that are well worth revisiting | The Booker Prizes
The first decade of the 21st century saw a series of innovations and wins by Hilary Mantel, Alan Hollinghurst and Yann Martel. But several lesser-known works demand attention too
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October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Which judges went on holiday together? Which author lost their literary innocence with a judge badmouthed his book? Who sat next to AS Byatt's roll of Sellotape?
Me on the Booker Prize in the 2000s, with contributions from @ericawgnr.bsky.social, @lindasgrant.bsky.social, Damon Galgut and more:
Me on the Booker Prize in the 2000s, with contributions from @ericawgnr.bsky.social, @lindasgrant.bsky.social, Damon Galgut and more:
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Please share this letter in support of the City University professor of economics Michael Ben-Gad, who is receiving death threats and harassment, as part of an ongoing campaign to have him sacked owing to his having completed compulsory IDF service 1982-1985.
Open letter in support of Prof Michael Ben-Gad, City University London, targeted and harassed by “students” in a protest group, for no other reason than pure anti-semitism - for being an Israeli Jew. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Standing against targeted harassment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad
21 October 2025
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by a targeted harassment campaign against Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City St George’s, University of London, led by a group ca...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Please share this letter in support of the City University professor of economics Michael Ben-Gad, who is receiving death threats and harassment, as part of an ongoing campaign to have him sacked owing to his having completed compulsory IDF service 1982-1985.
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Can any flower experts tell me what these are please?
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Can any flower experts tell me what these are please?
Trump now preparing to invade and annex Sweden.
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Trump now preparing to invade and annex Sweden.
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To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.
The Community Security Trust is one of the jewels of British Jewry which has its origins in the street fighting against the postwar resurgence of the Mosleyites and later the National Front. cst.org.uk/about-cst
About CST – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community
CST is a charity working against antisemitism and racism in British society. We are proud of Britain’s diverse and vibrant Jewish community, and protect its many achievements. We believe that re...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Community Security Trust is one of the jewels of British Jewry which has its origins in the street fighting against the postwar resurgence of the Mosleyites and later the National Front. cst.org.uk/about-cst
I assume the conspiracy theories about the Manchester attack are in full force on X but I’m not going to look.
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I assume the conspiracy theories about the Manchester attack are in full force on X but I’m not going to look.
To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.
October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
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I bet Rusbridger is livid at getting played by Toby Jones when Ben Bradlee got Jason Robards
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I bet Rusbridger is livid at getting played by Toby Jones when Ben Bradlee got Jason Robards
Watching The Hack. With the casting of Toby Jones as Alan Rusbridger I expected Mackenzie Crook to turn up as Jonathan Freedland.
September 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Watching The Hack. With the casting of Toby Jones as Alan Rusbridger I expected Mackenzie Crook to turn up as Jonathan Freedland.
When people come out with that old saw, if voting changed anything it would be illegal I give you Trump’s speech to the UN.
September 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
When people come out with that old saw, if voting changed anything it would be illegal I give you Trump’s speech to the UN.
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I would love to know if there was ANYONE who was rich and/or famous who met Jeffrey Epstein and decided he was a sick creep.
September 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I would love to know if there was ANYONE who was rich and/or famous who met Jeffrey Epstein and decided he was a sick creep.
The Roses is at heart a romcom which The Wars of the Roses definitely wasn’t.
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Roses is at heart a romcom which The Wars of the Roses definitely wasn’t.
‘I have in my hand a piece of paper’ Anchorage Agreement
August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
‘I have in my hand a piece of paper’ Anchorage Agreement
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I think the word “broken” is politically toxic, breeding despair, feeding populism, and disparaging people who work in those sectors
August 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I think the word “broken” is politically toxic, breeding despair, feeding populism, and disparaging people who work in those sectors
www.theguardian.com/books/2002/j... Bacck in 2002 I addressed the question so often asked - how could the Jews of all people behave like this to the Palestinians.
Linda Grant on tough Jews
Since the Holocaust, the idealised version of the Jew has been Primo Levi, a 'latter day saint'. But, argues Linda Grant, from Samson to Ariel Sharon there have always been tougher, more aggressive ro...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
www.theguardian.com/books/2002/j... Bacck in 2002 I addressed the question so often asked - how could the Jews of all people behave like this to the Palestinians.
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I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
August 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
Finished. Glad to see the back of it.
Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises for the first time since I was a teenager, the antisemitism and racism make the experience like chewing a mouthful of rocks.
August 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Finished. Glad to see the back of it.