Eleanor Porter
@eleanorporter.bsky.social
Reads, writes, teaches English Literature and Creative Writing, walks Malverns, mostly with dog; hopes things will get better. Books:The Wheelwright’s Daughter & The Good Wife
What’s your map is great. Just listened to Dwayne Fields one
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S1 Ep2: A Journey to the Top of the World with Dwayne Fields
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November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What’s your map is great. Just listened to Dwayne Fields one
@jerrybrotton.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7zm4...
@jerrybrotton.bsky.social
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Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had reportedly sung disgusting antisemitic songs and been vilely racist at school - it’d be all over every newspaper and tv station in the country.
(Of course even the idea of it is ridiculous)
(Of course even the idea of it is ridiculous)
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had reportedly sung disgusting antisemitic songs and been vilely racist at school - it’d be all over every newspaper and tv station in the country.
(Of course even the idea of it is ridiculous)
(Of course even the idea of it is ridiculous)
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
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Palestinians across Gaza are cold and soaked following recent rains. Frustration grows as floods rise and what little they have is destroyed.
UN and partners are mobilizing to help, but much more is needed.
Remaining restrictions must be lifted to urgently get more aid in.
UN and partners are mobilizing to help, but much more is needed.
Remaining restrictions must be lifted to urgently get more aid in.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Palestinians across Gaza are cold and soaked following recent rains. Frustration grows as floods rise and what little they have is destroyed.
UN and partners are mobilizing to help, but much more is needed.
Remaining restrictions must be lifted to urgently get more aid in.
UN and partners are mobilizing to help, but much more is needed.
Remaining restrictions must be lifted to urgently get more aid in.
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An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
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A very good analysis of how the violence and thuggery of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and other hooligans before, during and after Maccabi lost 5–0 to Ajax on 7 November 2024 got misrepresented as “anti-semitism”
Framing violence: How Israel shaped the narrative and its impact on Dutch politics | The Full Report
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A very good analysis of how the violence and thuggery of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and other hooligans before, during and after Maccabi lost 5–0 to Ajax on 7 November 2024 got misrepresented as “anti-semitism”
This is just excellent
Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’
This week, Alona is joined by Omer Bartov, the Israeli-American historian and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
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This week, Alona is joined by Omer Bartov, the Israeli-American historian and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
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Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’
Podcast-Folge · The Prospect Podcast · 08.10.2025 · 33 Min.
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October 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is just excellent
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Ok. But are there any downsides?
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ok. But are there any downsides?
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Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
This is such a nuanced, compassionate response. So impressive
‘I don’t call on anyone to stop protesting’: Polanski on pro-Palestine marches
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‘I don’t call on anyone to stop protesting’: Polanski on pro-Palestine marches
We spoke to the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski, who has been addressing his party's annual conference in Bournemouth.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is such a nuanced, compassionate response. So impressive
@lewisgoodall.com on @newsagents.bsky.social last night said Israel has ‘allowed’ a genocide to take place- this is so disappointing. Israel hasn’t simply ‘allowed’ the genocide - they’ve deliberately engineered it.
September 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@lewisgoodall.com on @newsagents.bsky.social last night said Israel has ‘allowed’ a genocide to take place- this is so disappointing. Israel hasn’t simply ‘allowed’ the genocide - they’ve deliberately engineered it.
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Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.
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I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.
From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.
From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
Ten things you can do to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.
guyshrubsole.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.
From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.
From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
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Compelling read in today's History Can't Hide substack by Kahlil Greene: "Thousands of Gen Z’ers Don't Feel Bad About Charlie Kirk's Murder. Here’s Why." Fascinating, complex, makes you think a little harder about what just happened and why.
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Thousands of Gen Z’ers Don't "Feel Bad" About Charlie Kirk's Murder. Here’s Why.
The online reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals a generational (and partisan) disconnect on issues of gun violence, systemic injustice, and the nature of political hatred.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Compelling read in today's History Can't Hide substack by Kahlil Greene: "Thousands of Gen Z’ers Don't Feel Bad About Charlie Kirk's Murder. Here’s Why." Fascinating, complex, makes you think a little harder about what just happened and why.
historycanthide.substack.com/p/thousands-...
historycanthide.substack.com/p/thousands-...
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
Profoundly moving episode (thanks - always such a reliably good podcast) - open.spotify.com/episode/0JTN...
Gaza Doc Vows To Return Despite Horrific 'Double Tap' Attack
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September 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Profoundly moving episode (thanks - always such a reliably good podcast) - open.spotify.com/episode/0JTN...
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August 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The question bears repeating: why are the establishment UK news media continuing to claim that mass anti-migrant protests are erupting across the country when they are simply not?
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
August 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The question bears repeating: why are the establishment UK news media continuing to claim that mass anti-migrant protests are erupting across the country when they are simply not?
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While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
August 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
