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'No Other Land', which chronicles settler violence and the Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, won the Oscar for best documentary. We look at why the win is significant aje.io/ewi7jt

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Time for ‘controversial’ to be retired. Difficult to think of any context in which it is not now evasive, dishonest, a weasel word.

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The UK’s 2024 election had one of the lowest turnouts since universal suffrage. That’s a crisis, writes Calix Eden. Automatic voter registration & reversing voter ID laws are essential first steps.

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The invasion of Iraq was probably the most terrible atrocity of a century soaked in atrocities. It was an undisputed catastrophe, its war crimes on a scale quite inconceivable. Why would someone quite consciously use George W. Bush’s ’coalition of the willing’? What does it say about that person?

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If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as

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Bonsoir

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jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Radical diversity

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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It was hoped that we could end AIDS deaths by 2030. Instead, it is now projected that an additional 6.3 million people will die of AIDS if US global aid (specifically PEPFAR) is not restored. This assumes all else remains even. If the UK and others also reduce aid these figures could be even worse.

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Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Rubio.

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A Knock on the Roof, @royalcourt.bsky.social

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Utterly shameful - a sickening betrayal of some of the poorest people. And counterproductive too - as if global security isn’t also dependent on efforts to tackle the climate crisis, global poverty, inequality, and humanitarian needs.

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Have not taught on this particular Master's module before, so has been interesting to put together a couple of classes on staging opera. Will see how it goes in tomorrow's first instalment.

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Disgraceful. Anyone with any knowledge of university education will tell you a disproportionate amount of the best student work is done by joint honours students. These are not only highly challenging programmes, but also further the very cooperation between departments required by management.

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Surveys find a large number of bigots perceive a particular threat from within the LGBT+ community. Should we take that as a valid concern regarding the LGBT+ community, Sam? Should we? Should we really? Should we, Sam? Well should we? Should we? Sam, should we? Should we Sam? Sam? Sam? Sam? Sam?

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Frauenanteil in den neuen Fraktionen: Grüne: 61 % Linke: 56 % SPD: 42 % Union: 23 % AfD: 12 %

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Forgive me if I am not especially interested in the sudden rush of ‘views’ on Thuringia from people who couldn’t tell us whether Bodo Ramelow is a person, a town, or a foodstuff, and probably think House of Wettin refers to a department store.

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The next Chancellor of Germany gave yesterday an antisemitic speech, in which he spoke of Judenfahnen (Jewish flags): not a word I recall seeing in political discourse later than far-Right attacks on the Weimar ‘system’. And his party’s far-rightward shift has normalised the AfD.

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Christian Lindner: as Oscar Wilde said of the death of Little Nell…

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What truly shocks about Merz's use of 'Judenfahnen' is that it need not even be thought of as AfD-adjacent. It is quite in keeping with the BRD political class's attityde twoards Palestine, and more broadly with the Zionism of contemporary fascists such as Musk, Trump, Netanyahu, Johnson, and Orbán.

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Merz is using an anti semitic phrase here to the rapturous applause of his listeners - one of whom, Berlin’s culture minister, cut a ton of funding to a leading arts venue he accused of suspected antisemitism. Am pretty sure this minister won’t call Merz out, though.

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Tomorrow is election day in Germany. The current parliament almost unanimously supports genocide against Palestinians. The next parliament will as well. The chancellor and his contenders are fighting over who will kick more migrants out. The far right, as a matter of content, already won a while ago

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It is not complicated. Giving a Nazi salute is a Nazi thing to do. Non-Nazis do not give Nazi salutes. (Yes, of course someone can in a drama, but then the character is doing a Nazi thing, etc.)

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Götterdämmerung, Regents Opera, 16 February 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/02/gott...

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No big deal, just my employer complying in advance on trans issues. thewellesleynews.com/20686/news-i...

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Mary, Queen of Scots, ENO, 15 February 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/02/mary...

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I have never encountered a ‘free speech advocate’ who was not actually a fascist attempting to eradicate freedom of speech and pretty much every other freedom. Not one. Those who would actually protect and further freedoms know and work with their complexities, rather than shouting vacuous slogans.

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So, Brexit is going well, then.

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No

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Götterdämmerung

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Mary, Queen of Scots

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Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

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Yep

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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

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Festen

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Tonight. Introducing… @royalholloway.bsky.social

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It's an outrage that in the Cayman Islands I can incorporate a company without any proof of ID. I can put any old crap in the incorporation documents. Nobody checks. Actually I fibbed. That's the UK. The Cayman Islands has had strict ID/verification rules for years.

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????

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Churchill in Moscow

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One might have thought active participation in genocide would have done that, or indeed any number of things before. The ‘liberal mind’ is a strange thing.

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