Ian Hunt
@ianhunt.bsky.social
art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006) https://www.barquepress.com/media/12/pdf/ian_hunt_green_light.pdf
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The right bangs on about mythical no-go zones in our towns and cities.
There are now real no-go zones, and the right is responsible..
#Racism #UKPolitics #NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There are now real no-go zones, and the right is responsible..
#Racism #UKPolitics #NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The right bangs on about mythical no-go zones in our towns and cities.
There are now real no-go zones, and the right is responsible..
#Racism #UKPolitics #NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There are now real no-go zones, and the right is responsible..
#Racism #UKPolitics #NHS
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Marsh Sow Thistle, Sonchis palustris -- I think! -- have seen it growing here in the flowering season but not in the seed stage before. Angel Marshes, River Blyth. Approx 1.5m tall. Reasonably rare and interesting plant in Asteraceae, tolerates some salt. #WildflowerHour #Botany #SuffolkNature
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Marsh Sow Thistle, Sonchis palustris -- I think! -- have seen it growing here in the flowering season but not in the seed stage before. Angel Marshes, River Blyth. Approx 1.5m tall. Reasonably rare and interesting plant in Asteraceae, tolerates some salt. #WildflowerHour #Botany #SuffolkNature
'The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank . . .' Chapter XIX. #VanityFair #Thackeray
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank . . .' Chapter XIX. #VanityFair #Thackeray
What is the black stuff on the side of entertaining Southwold terrace, bitumen, as weatherproofing? You rarely see black in such expanses and with this quality. It's velvety, warm, soaks up light. #vernacular #architecture
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
What is the black stuff on the side of entertaining Southwold terrace, bitumen, as weatherproofing? You rarely see black in such expanses and with this quality. It's velvety, warm, soaks up light. #vernacular #architecture
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We’re back in the High Court in London this morning for a permission hearing to see whether our legal challenge against Planning & Infrastructure Bill can proceed. Court room is rammed - lots of interest in this decision #ParliamentaryPrivilege
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We’re back in the High Court in London this morning for a permission hearing to see whether our legal challenge against Planning & Infrastructure Bill can proceed. Court room is rammed - lots of interest in this decision #ParliamentaryPrivilege
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This is such poor politics. The contribution is a loan at slightly below market rates, with a very modest risk attached (into a Facility managed by the World Bank). So it’s really modest. And could be a game-changer for forest protection. V. odd that the UK is burning its political capital on this.
This is absolutely appalling.
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit."
Absolutely pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is such poor politics. The contribution is a loan at slightly below market rates, with a very modest risk attached (into a Facility managed by the World Bank). So it’s really modest. And could be a game-changer for forest protection. V. odd that the UK is burning its political capital on this.
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Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
I start to hate the word team. After 30 mins waiting to speak to someone (about my mother's mortage, taken out for her care) the person employed to actually answer cannot speak to the anyone in the appropriate team. I call social services, but again there is no one available from the right 'team'.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I start to hate the word team. After 30 mins waiting to speak to someone (about my mother's mortage, taken out for her care) the person employed to actually answer cannot speak to the anyone in the appropriate team. I call social services, but again there is no one available from the right 'team'.
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Massive congratulation to legendary Africanist political theorist Mahmood Mandami. I believe his son won some sort of election
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Massive congratulation to legendary Africanist political theorist Mahmood Mandami. I believe his son won some sort of election
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The right-wing press is predictably freaking out that the UK govt is going to - wait for it - improve teaching in schools on climate change and media literacy.
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The right-wing press is predictably freaking out that the UK govt is going to - wait for it - improve teaching in schools on climate change and media literacy.
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Ignore their frothing and read what the curriculum review by Prof Becky Francis actually says...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Hongera!
(I’m sure there are those who disagreed with Mamdani on policy, but given the tone and tenor of much of the campaign, it’s nice to see that New Yorkers rejected deranged Islamophobia).
(I’m sure there are those who disagreed with Mamdani on policy, but given the tone and tenor of much of the campaign, it’s nice to see that New Yorkers rejected deranged Islamophobia).
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Hongera!
(I’m sure there are those who disagreed with Mamdani on policy, but given the tone and tenor of much of the campaign, it’s nice to see that New Yorkers rejected deranged Islamophobia).
(I’m sure there are those who disagreed with Mamdani on policy, but given the tone and tenor of much of the campaign, it’s nice to see that New Yorkers rejected deranged Islamophobia).
There is a Laura Mulvey season at BFI southbank in December which looks great.
CRITICAL THINKING: THE LAURA MULVEY INTERVIEW
Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, she talks to Sight and Sound about her career and her influences. By Isabel Stevens.
Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, she talks to Sight and Sound about her career and her influences. By Isabel Stevens.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is a Laura Mulvey season at BFI southbank in December which looks great.
Seablite reddening, Walberswick. A white egret flew close by at our eye level, going slowly and steadily into the wind. Closest i have beento one
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Seablite reddening, Walberswick. A white egret flew close by at our eye level, going slowly and steadily into the wind. Closest i have beento one
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I'm giving an online talk tomorrow about the poets Holly Pester, Rachel Galvin & Maya Marshall. It's called 'Beyond Proleptic Pregnancy: Abortion and Miscarriage in Contemporary Poetry'.
DM me if you'd like to come along and I'll send you the link.
4-5 pm UK time, Tuesday 4th November, on Zoom.
DM me if you'd like to come along and I'll send you the link.
4-5 pm UK time, Tuesday 4th November, on Zoom.
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm giving an online talk tomorrow about the poets Holly Pester, Rachel Galvin & Maya Marshall. It's called 'Beyond Proleptic Pregnancy: Abortion and Miscarriage in Contemporary Poetry'.
DM me if you'd like to come along and I'll send you the link.
4-5 pm UK time, Tuesday 4th November, on Zoom.
DM me if you'd like to come along and I'll send you the link.
4-5 pm UK time, Tuesday 4th November, on Zoom.
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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Historical misogyny and a pardon for murdered women
I never thought that a simple letter that took just minutes to write would put Maidstone on the international map! I wrote the letter below to the Home Secretary calling for a pardon for the women murdered as a result of the Witchcraft Act and it…
I never thought that a simple letter that took just minutes to write would put Maidstone on the international map! I wrote the letter below to the Home Secretary calling for a pardon for the women murdered as a result of the Witchcraft Act and it…
Historical misogyny and a pardon for murdered women
I never thought that a simple letter that took just minutes to write would put Maidstone on the international map! I wrote the letter below to the Home Secretary calling for a pardon for the women murdered as a result of the Witchcraft Act and it has made national and international news. I've been on Politics Live, ITN, BBC Politics SE, and CNN (see below).
stuartjeffery.net
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Historical misogyny and a pardon for murdered women
I never thought that a simple letter that took just minutes to write would put Maidstone on the international map! I wrote the letter below to the Home Secretary calling for a pardon for the women murdered as a result of the Witchcraft Act and it…
I never thought that a simple letter that took just minutes to write would put Maidstone on the international map! I wrote the letter below to the Home Secretary calling for a pardon for the women murdered as a result of the Witchcraft Act and it…
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The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.
The genocide is ongoing
The genocide is ongoing
Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report
Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report
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November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.
The genocide is ongoing
The genocide is ongoing
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#C20BuildingOfTheMonth for June 2025: The Faris School, Egypt - Hassan Fathy (1957)
Zaina Abou Seif explores Fathy's radically alternative ethic to Euro-centric modernism, reasserting the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge - or ‘architecture without architects.’
➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
Zaina Abou Seif explores Fathy's radically alternative ethic to Euro-centric modernism, reasserting the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge - or ‘architecture without architects.’
➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
June 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#C20BuildingOfTheMonth for June 2025: The Faris School, Egypt - Hassan Fathy (1957)
Zaina Abou Seif explores Fathy's radically alternative ethic to Euro-centric modernism, reasserting the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge - or ‘architecture without architects.’
➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
Zaina Abou Seif explores Fathy's radically alternative ethic to Euro-centric modernism, reasserting the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge - or ‘architecture without architects.’
➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
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CULTURE & IMPERIALISM is selling like hot cakes at Maktaba at Ibraaz, along with A QUESTION OF PALESTINE & Said's beautiful, profound memoir OUT OF PLACE. Had two students encounter him for the first time yesterday! A lit student looking for politics & a politics student looking for cultural theory.
Edward Said was born 90 years ago in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine so there is a birthday to celebrate in all its contradictions, come on people who read, sometimes act, mourn, still look forwards. I just read Culture and Imperialism, 1993 - 'contrapuntal reading' has a future. #EdwardSaid #litcrit
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
CULTURE & IMPERIALISM is selling like hot cakes at Maktaba at Ibraaz, along with A QUESTION OF PALESTINE & Said's beautiful, profound memoir OUT OF PLACE. Had two students encounter him for the first time yesterday! A lit student looking for politics & a politics student looking for cultural theory.
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Just learned that Edward Said was born 90 years ago today - one day after David Harvey. Here's a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career - progressivegeographies.com/2025/05/25/t...
The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift
Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s lit…
progressivegeographies.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Just learned that Edward Said was born 90 years ago today - one day after David Harvey. Here's a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career - progressivegeographies.com/2025/05/25/t...
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Good idea Ian, made me reach for 'Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community' as reprinted in Hal Foster's 'Postmodern Culture' - a book I read a lot 40 years ago, but not much since. Thank you - good way to start Saturday!
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Good idea Ian, made me reach for 'Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community' as reprinted in Hal Foster's 'Postmodern Culture' - a book I read a lot 40 years ago, but not much since. Thank you - good way to start Saturday!
Edward Said was born 90 years ago in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine so there is a birthday to celebrate in all its contradictions, come on people who read, sometimes act, mourn, still look forwards. I just read Culture and Imperialism, 1993 - 'contrapuntal reading' has a future. #EdwardSaid #litcrit
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Edward Said was born 90 years ago in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine so there is a birthday to celebrate in all its contradictions, come on people who read, sometimes act, mourn, still look forwards. I just read Culture and Imperialism, 1993 - 'contrapuntal reading' has a future. #EdwardSaid #litcrit
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"Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing." theconversation.com/south-africa...
South African writer Zoë Wicomb embraced humanity in all its complexity
Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing." theconversation.com/south-africa...
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Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...
edition 02: un/familiar | glut press
Discover edition 02 of glut literary journal: "Un/familiar".
www.glutpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...
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Looking at these suggestions maybe there’s a gap in considering film made by & with land-connected & displaced people. War, ecocide & climate impacts are so entangled in the longest affected places that it becomes maybe less a single/dramatic incident. E.g. Pumzi (Kenya), Atlantics (Senegal)…
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Looking at these suggestions maybe there’s a gap in considering film made by & with land-connected & displaced people. War, ecocide & climate impacts are so entangled in the longest affected places that it becomes maybe less a single/dramatic incident. E.g. Pumzi (Kenya), Atlantics (Senegal)…