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Maria Cullen
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Postdoctoral researcher on Solidarity, Sovereignty and Sanctuary (SOS) project in UCD School of History https://boatrefugeehistory.org/.
Interests in humanitarian history, human rights, migration and global health.
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And then came the fallout. The BBC was roundly criticised for airing Bob Vylan’s set (and, in fairness, for censoring Kneecap’s appearance). There was swift condemnation from politicians and pundits alike that either had been booked at all, and Avon and Somerset Police announced it was launching a criminal investigation into comments made from the stage during both performances. By Monday the BBC itself had released a statement describing remarks made as “incitement to violence”. Many were quick to point out that inciting violence against a literal army, not least one almost 4,000km away, perhaps stretches the definition of that term, and that the BBC explicitly rejected calls for a similar apology in 2020, when a panellist on Have I Got News for You suggested dropping a bomb on Glastonbury to kill Jeremy Corbyn supporters. No matter. Between then and Wednesday morning, my TV viewing included half a dozen BBC News bulletins, every one of which gave the outrage over the chants higher billing than the 200 Palestinian civilians killed in those intervening 48 hours, half of them while seeking food at designated aid sites, across several attacks that also targeted a school, as well as a cafe crowded with women and children and hosting a birthday party at the time. If moved to discuss distractions, we should really start and end there. It would have been nice to use the BBC’s mostly excellent coverage to reminisce about my one trip to Glastonbury, in 2015, during which I watched Christy Moore watch Kanye West, and managed to avoid passing a solid bowel movement for four straight days; to wax lyrical about music festivals, or the joy I now feel watching them – for free, excellently rendered and produced in full high definition – from my couch rather than while covered with mud, sunburn or both in a series of increasingly large fields I’ve paid £400 to sweat in. But the main story of the BBC’s Glastonbury 2025 coverage will now, and forever, be this self-made morass of missed points and moral cowardice. To focus solely on the music, and the BBC’s superlative presentation of it, would overshoot complacency and enter the realm of complicity. “Apart from all that unpleasantness,” we might ask, “how did you enjoy the play, Mrs Lincoln?”
July 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Thank you so much for paying us a visit Anca! It was a pleasure to hear more about your work 😃
May 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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May 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Check it out (and the other blogs by my colleagues on the Developing Humanitarian Medicine project) if of interest :) @hcrinstitute.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM