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Jean McNicol
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Co-editor of the London Review of Books
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Launching today: James Butler’s (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) new podcast series ‘On Politics’ goes beyond the headlines and push notifications to get at the real forces transforming our politics here and abroad.

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September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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‘We spoke on the phone to one of the consultants at King’s. There was, he said, “a full set of escalations” we could make. Welcome to my last four years.’

@paullaity.bsky.social on the search for accountability after his daughter Martha died of sepsis in hospital:
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Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Jobs at the London Review of Books
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May 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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“William’s story was one of intergenerational trauma & of the lies Scotland tells itself about its treatment of its most vulnerable children.” My @londonreview.bsky.social longread on the Polmont suicides & our failing youth justice system is the culmination of 6 years’ work & means a lot to me.
Dani Garavelli · Jailed, Failed, Forgotten: Deaths in Custody
William had spent most of his life in the care of the state. His story was one of intergenerational trauma, common to...
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February 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Three lectures: Katherine Rundell on how children's fiction works, Anne Carson on Parkinson's disease and scriptural disintegration, and Perry Anderson on regime change in the West after 2008. www.lrb.co.uk/pages/standa...
The 2025 LRB Winter Lectures at Beveridge Hall
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November 28, 2024 at 6:59 PM