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‘Palestinians are told to wait for the next stage of the plan, while Israel’s gains become the baseline for the next round of negotiations. And the waiting never ends. Each phase is temporary, but every loss is permanent.’
Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller | Temporary Measures
The Yellow Line is supposed to be temporary, but history suggests otherwise. Under ostensibly transient arrangements,...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘Palestinians are told to wait for the next stage of the plan, while Israel’s gains become the baseline for the next round of negotiations. And the waiting never ends. Each phase is temporary, but every loss is permanent.’
Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
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Morally awful, administratively impossible & expensive.. and politically, the reverse of Starmer's panicked conference speech. A govt completely at sea, terrified & incoherent, throwing basic principles overboard in desperation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Morally awful, administratively impossible & expensive.. and politically, the reverse of Starmer's panicked conference speech. A govt completely at sea, terrified & incoherent, throwing basic principles overboard in desperation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza
My first memory of Gaza is an airstrike. My second is an Israeli checkpoint. My third is of frequent demonstrations. And my fourth is of my overcrowded UNRWA school for Palestinian refugees. Gaza i…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
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"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
In memory: Ian Hamilton Finlay, b. October 28, 1925
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In memory: Ian Hamilton Finlay, b. October 28, 1925
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Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...
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Was especially excited to write a bit about the sleeper hit of this year's festival: Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Was especially excited to write a bit about the sleeper hit of this year's festival: Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra
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Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated— and the internet worse in the process.
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
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October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated— and the internet worse in the process.
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'Vote Reform to die horribly in a sovereign Britain increasingly cut off from the world'.
Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.
Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'Vote Reform to die horribly in a sovereign Britain increasingly cut off from the world'.
Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.
Old people need to start understanding that Farage's immigration approach would directly impact the health service upon which they rely.
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
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Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza
My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team
apnews.com/article/leba...
My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team
apnews.com/article/leba...
Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza
Israel continues to launch near-daily strikes in neighboring Lebanon. That's despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war nearly a year ago.
apnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza
My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team
apnews.com/article/leba...
My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team
apnews.com/article/leba...
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Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono and Maurizio Pollini, ca. 1970s.
September 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono and Maurizio Pollini, ca. 1970s.
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I've never seen a word-to-insanity ratio like this before
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I've never seen a word-to-insanity ratio like this before
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This is a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility. A president posting something this insane and disgusting should be front and center in the news.
Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility. A president posting something this insane and disgusting should be front and center in the news.