Judith Knott
@judithmknott.bsky.social
Researching 19th-century German letters - when I’m not learning Estonian, knitting or playing piano.
FRSA, ex-civil servant and uni governor. (Pronoun tema.)
FRSA, ex-civil servant and uni governor. (Pronoun tema.)
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Judith Knott
@judithmknott.bsky.social
· Sep 22
Excited to announce I have a German article in Vol 24 of the Mendelssohn-Studien, due out in November.
“Der Rest ist Schweigen”: Zwei Briefe von Rebecka Dirichlet an Johanna Kinkel.
www.wehrhahn-verlag.de/public/index...
(picture is Rebecka’s sister Fanny Hensel)
“Der Rest ist Schweigen”: Zwei Briefe von Rebecka Dirichlet an Johanna Kinkel.
www.wehrhahn-verlag.de/public/index...
(picture is Rebecka’s sister Fanny Hensel)
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European countries propose Ukraine peace plan radically different to Trump’s
European countries propose Ukraine peace plan radically different to Trump’s
Kyiv-friendly counterproposal for ending war omits a number of pro-Russia points
www.irishtimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
European countries propose Ukraine peace plan radically different to Trump’s
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Sand, sea and snow, Luskentyre
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sand, sea and snow, Luskentyre
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"I think that the government are increasingly aping the likes of Reform."
@joshbabarinde.bsky.social on the importance of approaching asylum policy without needlessly dividing our communities. #BBCQT
@joshbabarinde.bsky.social on the importance of approaching asylum policy without needlessly dividing our communities. #BBCQT
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"I think that the government are increasingly aping the likes of Reform."
@joshbabarinde.bsky.social on the importance of approaching asylum policy without needlessly dividing our communities. #BBCQT
@joshbabarinde.bsky.social on the importance of approaching asylum policy without needlessly dividing our communities. #BBCQT
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
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More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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It’s intolerable. What a goddam failure of media and politics. To have Brexit’s biggest champion and Putin-pal, Farage, now leading in the polls is beyond anything remotely sane or democratic. An utterly disgraceful collapse of responsibility.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It’s intolerable. What a goddam failure of media and politics. To have Brexit’s biggest champion and Putin-pal, Farage, now leading in the polls is beyond anything remotely sane or democratic. An utterly disgraceful collapse of responsibility.
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
Wondering if a close relative who introduced me to Foucault’s Surveiller et punir might be interested in this addition to the genre for Xmas …?
Nicolas Sarkozy, le millionnaire graphomane, gratifie les listes de Noël de son nouvel opus où, pour ses amis de la grande bourgeoisie, il va raconter ses 21 jours de privation de caviar.
Va-t-il reverser l’argent de ce pensum à l'Observatoire international des prisons ?
Va-t-il reverser l’argent de ce pensum à l'Observatoire international des prisons ?
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Wondering if a close relative who introduced me to Foucault’s Surveiller et punir might be interested in this addition to the genre for Xmas …?
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Today's walk to Crummock Water
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Today's walk to Crummock Water
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BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Who knew.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Who knew.
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BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
This is uncanny. I remember lying in bed at some point very early in the Covid fiasco and calculating how many deaths a week’s delay might have caused. Wasn’t far off this, though it seemed preposterous at the time.
The one thing the useless incompetent Boris Johnson clung on to for his failed premiership was the UK’s Covid response. Turns out he killed 20,000 people.
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is uncanny. I remember lying in bed at some point very early in the Covid fiasco and calculating how many deaths a week’s delay might have caused. Wasn’t far off this, though it seemed preposterous at the time.
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Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
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Walking in a winter wonderland on Latrigg today
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Walking in a winter wonderland on Latrigg today
I’ve been steeped in 1849 Prussia today and I must say it’s wonderful that they had the foresight to make their constitution, rules for indirect voting via electoral colleges in each district etc etc available online in such an easy-to-use format.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’ve been steeped in 1849 Prussia today and I must say it’s wonderful that they had the foresight to make their constitution, rules for indirect voting via electoral colleges in each district etc etc available online in such an easy-to-use format.
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Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Alf Dubs is a 92 year old man who spent his life fighting for refugees, and in particular for refugee children. He fought the Tories tooth and nail during their last three terms, only to see Labour adopt far-right policies on immigration.
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
“But to use children as a weapon ... I’m lost for words.”
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Applying the changes to settlement to refugees already here would be particularly cruel and will create so much anxiety.
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Applying the changes to settlement to refugees already here would be particularly cruel and will create so much anxiety.
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
@stellacreasy.bsky.social is quite right when she says "the Home Secretary needs to come clean asap as there will be refugees with jobs and mortgages that could be affected.”
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Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
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So the so-called intellectuals who spent the last 8 years writing "Has DEI gone too far?" columns were all sleeping with each other or sexually harassing or assaulting junior colleagues?
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So the so-called intellectuals who spent the last 8 years writing "Has DEI gone too far?" columns were all sleeping with each other or sexually harassing or assaulting junior colleagues?
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.