Danny Vincent
@dannydudlow.bsky.social
Pianist, songwriter, accordionist.
Refugee Engagement for the Bristol Refugee Festival.
Coordinator of Lorraine Ayensu Refugee Arts.
Refugee Engagement for the Bristol Refugee Festival.
Coordinator of Lorraine Ayensu Refugee Arts.
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Danny Vincent
@dannydudlow.bsky.social
· Nov 18
The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
1. When Languages Die - K. David Harrison, 2007
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
1. When Languages Die - K. David Harrison, 2007
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Shocking!
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Shocking!
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“…detailed legal review led by shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson of Tredegar concluded that the ECHR placed "significant constraints" on the government.” >>> Well, duh, what do they think a human rights instrument is meant to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“…detailed legal review led by shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson of Tredegar concluded that the ECHR placed "significant constraints" on the government.” >>> Well, duh, what do they think a human rights instrument is meant to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Illustration to Milton`s L`Allegro and Il Penseroso https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-l-allegro-and-il-penseroso-1820
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Illustration to Milton`s L`Allegro and Il Penseroso https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/illustration-to-milton-s-l-allegro-and-il-penseroso-1820
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This.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
The assertion of human rights is normally unpopular with those in power. That’s why we have them.
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
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We're joining our friends at Sudafest along with @refugeeweek.bsky.social to start building a network for a Refugee Week in Bath. You can join us this Friday 10am at the Roman Baths for a planning meeting. To register your interest, please email Sudafest at the address on the poster.
March 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
We're joining our friends at Sudafest along with @refugeeweek.bsky.social to start building a network for a Refugee Week in Bath. You can join us this Friday 10am at the Roman Baths for a planning meeting. To register your interest, please email Sudafest at the address on the poster.
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Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
www.newstatesman.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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In-text plate (folio 4) from Poésie de mots inconnus, 1949
March 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In-text plate (folio 4) from Poésie de mots inconnus, 1949
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“For an oligarchy to remain in power, the people must . . . be divided so they cannot overthrow their oppressors.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaraman
Ganesh Sitaraman looks at what two recent books – Classical Greek Oligarchy by Matthew Simonton and Oligarchy by Jeffrey Winters – can teach us about defending democracy from oligarchs
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“For an oligarchy to remain in power, the people must . . . be divided so they cannot overthrow their oppressors.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa
A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thanks to bluesky folks I figured out how to mostly disable this. Here's how for a Mac: bsky.app/profile/mali...
And here's how for a PC: bsky.app/profile/mali...
And here's how for a PC: bsky.app/profile/mali...
January 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thanks to bluesky folks I figured out how to mostly disable this. Here's how for a Mac: bsky.app/profile/mali...
And here's how for a PC: bsky.app/profile/mali...
And here's how for a PC: bsky.app/profile/mali...
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This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.
AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
Today I opened up Word and now on every freaking line there is an icon for Microsoft's Copilot AI tool, always asking me to use it to write. WTF. After googling, it appears IMPOSSIBLE to remove. I cannot use Word with an AI tool. I'm a professional fucking writer. I don't want it inserting shit.
January 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.
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Exactly this. The process of writing is creative construction that forces nebulent ideas into defined, defendable structures
Even if you’re writing a short email to someone trying to explain a problem, the fact you have to think about how to express that clearly and precisely is a process by which you come to understand it more deeply yourself.
January 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Exactly this. The process of writing is creative construction that forces nebulent ideas into defined, defendable structures
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Abandoning Syrian Kurds will derail Trump’s agenda www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3284...
Abandoning Syrian Kurds will derail Trump’s agenda - Washington Examiner
Trump has so far shown more discipline than in his first term; he sidesteps distractions and many of the political fights that hampered his first-term agenda.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Abandoning Syrian Kurds will derail Trump’s agenda www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3284...
The Helios exhibition at the Assembly Rooms, Bath.
January 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Helios exhibition at the Assembly Rooms, Bath.
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The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread
January 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread
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‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
‘The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw.’
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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In an age of mis- and disinformation, Dr Parcak's point here—"what else is he BSing?"—is really, really important. Michael Crichton talked about Gell-Mann Amnesia: the way we recognise nonsense about our own specialism(s), but then often treat other claims from the same source with credulity
January 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In an age of mis- and disinformation, Dr Parcak's point here—"what else is he BSing?"—is really, really important. Michael Crichton talked about Gell-Mann Amnesia: the way we recognise nonsense about our own specialism(s), but then often treat other claims from the same source with credulity
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The rise in how solitary we are is a huge change with fascinating implications to think through. This article is focused on US - but a deep and super interesting discussion
I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society.
I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
January 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The rise in how solitary we are is a huge change with fascinating implications to think through. This article is focused on US - but a deep and super interesting discussion
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Le Pen was ALREADY an extreme-right MP when he volunteered for service in Algeria. He'd been selling extreme-right publications on the street as early as the end of 1944.
In 1957, the now-deceased Jean-Marie Le Pen — who became the founder of France’s far-right National Front party — fought in Algeria as a young paratrooper. Here’s how witnessing France’s dying empire inspired his unlikely political rise.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
How the Battle of Algiers Made Jean-Marie Le Pen
The views of France’s firebrand far-right politician were formed after a brutal stint as a paratrooper in Algeria
newlinesmag.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Le Pen was ALREADY an extreme-right MP when he volunteered for service in Algeria. He'd been selling extreme-right publications on the street as early as the end of 1944.
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In the context of the unfair levels of grief, stereotyping and villainisation that young people are subjected to in this country, this in Leeds is lovely. The kids are alright
January 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
In the context of the unfair levels of grief, stereotyping and villainisation that young people are subjected to in this country, this in Leeds is lovely. The kids are alright
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Less than a handful of seats left for my Bath show this weekend.
They are almost all gone!
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They are almost all gone!
Book here
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January 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Less than a handful of seats left for my Bath show this weekend.
They are almost all gone!
Book here
They are almost all gone!
Book here
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It’s not just that the Shadow Justice minister claims Muslims are an “alien” & “medieval” culture & that Muslim migration has caused mass sexual violence.
It’s not just that he’s still in post.
It’s not just that it seems not to be news.
It’s that we’re expected to think this is all quite normal.
It’s not just that he’s still in post.
It’s not just that it seems not to be news.
It’s that we’re expected to think this is all quite normal.
This nakedly racist outburst from Jenrick ought to be a sacking offence, and a bar from mainstream media, in any halfway healthy political culture, so I guess we’ll see if that’s what we’ve got
January 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It’s not just that the Shadow Justice minister claims Muslims are an “alien” & “medieval” culture & that Muslim migration has caused mass sexual violence.
It’s not just that he’s still in post.
It’s not just that it seems not to be news.
It’s that we’re expected to think this is all quite normal.
It’s not just that he’s still in post.
It’s not just that it seems not to be news.
It’s that we’re expected to think this is all quite normal.
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A reminder that there are FOURTEEN TIMES more Lib Dem MPs in Parliament than there are Reform MPs. Three times as many independents. And nearly as many Greens.
We should not be paying so much attention to them.
We should not be paying so much attention to them.
January 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A reminder that there are FOURTEEN TIMES more Lib Dem MPs in Parliament than there are Reform MPs. Three times as many independents. And nearly as many Greens.
We should not be paying so much attention to them.
We should not be paying so much attention to them.
Just had a look at the other place and saw lots of people who have been supporting divisive public figures are suddenly upset that there's a lot of divisiveness flying about.
January 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Just had a look at the other place and saw lots of people who have been supporting divisive public figures are suddenly upset that there's a lot of divisiveness flying about.