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trillingual.bsky.social
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
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The response to this has been amazing... irl tix sold out so you can now book to watch online: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

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A speck in the ocean: standing in line at a south London sandwich shop three years ago this week while messaging a friend in Kyiv trying to work out if it was safe enough for her to cross town to get to the station.

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This is the undertone to the wider far right "Judeo-Christian heritage" talk too... "support us in our quest to carve up the world between a bunch of ethno-nationalist bullies - or else".

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In much of Europe there appears to be a roughly 15-20% constituency for the far right. It's bad but imo it's still in the territory of "mainstream parties handling this poorly is what's going to make this a disaster". Obvs in Germany there's the heavy symbolism but it seems in line with the trend.

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This is the undertone to the wider far right "Judeo-Christian heritage" talk too... "support us in our quest to carve up the world between a bunch of ethno-nationalist bullies - or else".

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New life goal (based on discovering a new word in Italian): become an umarell.

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Someone intently reading BS Johnson's Albert Angelo on the District Line, strong look.

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Just got used to being older than Homer Simpson only to find out I'm the same age as Alan Partridge in his Linton Travel Tavern era.

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Unsurprisingly, Labour chasing after Reform has led to Reform demanding something even more extreme.

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Come to our event on 2 March! We have a banging line-up of speakers giving readings in support of Palestinian rights and culture, in response to Israel's raid on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem last week. Tickets going fast so don't miss out... actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

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Come to our event on 2 March! We have a banging line-up of speakers giving readings in support of Palestinian rights and culture, in response to Israel's raid on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem last week. Tickets going fast so don't miss out... actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

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Underappreciated 90s album imo (though Live Through This will always have my heart).

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Ok so I am a massive nerd for this stuff, but it always blows my mind that I'm crossing the Forum every time I get the 149 up from London Bridge. You can feel it on Gracechurch St where the hill flattens out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The question I would like to see politicians asked is: what do you think happens if every country tries to ban refugees from taking "dangerous journeys" without providing alternatives? International displacement is primarily an international issue not a national one.

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Can't tell if it's a good sign or bad that I'm using a thesaurus a lot more than usual for the piece I'm currently writing.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Working on some other projects at the mo and no longer covering UK migration politics so often, but I had a chat with @archiebland.bsky.social for this morning's Guardian newsletter about Labour, if you want to know my thoughts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Hunter and hound chasing a hare, from a Roman tombstone found at Bath.

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Great way to tell people "vote Reform if you want us to notice you". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

What's writing like? It's like building a chair, taking it to bits, reassembling it as a table, then deciding you liked it better as a chair after all.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

It's Saturday night and these four turn up at your house, wyd?

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Reading material I picked up in The Hague today.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I wish Primo Levi was read and discussed more - especially The Drowned and the Saved, which unsparingly examines the layers of human complicity in atrocities like Auschwitz. A Divina Commedia for the 20th century (and ours).

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

This morning's listening: Scott Ross proving he is the most punk musician of all by recording the entire set of 555 Scarlatti sonatas on harpsichord.

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This suite by Janacek is probably my favourite piece of piano music to play... half-heard voices, distant church organs, forest sounds, painful and warming memories... it's all in there.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Pleased to get an advance look at @lanre-bakare.bsky.social 's new book - a history of Black Britain beyond London. Great insight into some untold and under-told stories... think my fave is the 1970s doc on Bradford deemed too controversial for UK and US tv...

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Lots of thoughts about this.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Not a jazz fan (much) but this is class.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

This piece has stayed with me since I first read it more than a year ago. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

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Thank God. Ceasefire seems to be moving forward. But also a reminder that ceasefire is not enough. We deserve more than just an end to slaughter.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The Troubles Legacy Act is back in the news... amid the noise about Gerry Adams, just a reminder about who else it affects.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

V good piece which makes the link between Badenoch's "peasant" comments and her earlier ones about northern Nigeria (from the infamous sandwich interview - but which were far more revealing than her lunch preferences imo). Poisonous rhetoric whose effects will likely outlast her political career.

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This happened in the full glare of the world's media. Our government supported and made excuses for it. Lots to be said about how to end conflict and achieve equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis, and how people here might contribute. But it has to begin by facing these facts.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

It's a Jim O'Rourke kind of morning.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Here we go again.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting thread

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A ceasefire is still - more than a year on - the most urgent need. But the amount of cynicism (made possible by the failure of centrist politics) lying beneath these brief details is jaw-dropping.

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Watching The West Wing so I can remind myself what peak neoliberalism looked like.

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