Oliver Basciano
@olibasciano.bsky.social
Writing, reporting, criticising. Mostly in south of the world.
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Yes! Just 40 minutes of madness outside and then it was all over bar a very wet weekend!
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yes! Just 40 minutes of madness outside and then it was all over bar a very wet weekend!
Incredible local women going out amidst gun battles to demand peace. bsky.app/profile/vozd...
Durante o confronto nos complexos da Penha e do Alemão, moradores saíram às ruas e becos pedindo paz. O ato ocorreu em meio à troca de tiros que marcou a operação policial na região.
🎥 Reprodução
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October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Incredible local women going out amidst gun battles to demand peace. bsky.app/profile/vozd...
I don't know who Ben is. *been, afff
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I don't know who Ben is. *been, afff
From the much-missed TWR: George Szirtes interviews Krasznahorkai www.thewhitereview.org/feature/inte...
Interview with László Krasznahorkai - The White Review
László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954, and has written five novels and several collections of essays and short stories. Until recently, at least in the English-speaking world, he wa...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From the much-missed TWR: George Szirtes interviews Krasznahorkai www.thewhitereview.org/feature/inte...
Thank you for taking the time to read and for your beautiful thoughts on the book!
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thank you for taking the time to read and for your beautiful thoughts on the book!
If it is the island I think it probably is, D'Arcy, it has a very dark history: many Chinese labourers ended up there in C19th, "accused" of having leprosy, basically to get rid of them after they had laid Canada's railways (I'm simplifying for brevity!).
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If it is the island I think it probably is, D'Arcy, it has a very dark history: many Chinese labourers ended up there in C19th, "accused" of having leprosy, basically to get rid of them after they had laid Canada's railways (I'm simplifying for brevity!).
Vietnam won with this cybergoth trad rapper www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySi...
PHÙ ĐỔNG THIÊN VƯƠNG - ĐỨC PHÚC | 🇻🇳 VIỆT NAM | WINNER OF THE INTERVISION 2025
YouTube video by ĐỨC PHÚC OFFICIAL
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September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Vietnam won with this cybergoth trad rapper www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySi...
Nick Hedges was never sure if anything had really improved, but his photographs for Shelter were pivotal in improving post-war housing. www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
Nick Hedges, photographer whose exposé of slums in 1960s Britain changed housing policy
Using his photographs, the charity Shelter lobbied for the official numbers of homeless to include those in homes ‘unfit for habitation’
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September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Nick Hedges was never sure if anything had really improved, but his photographs for Shelter were pivotal in improving post-war housing. www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
As did the life of Pop artist Peter Phillips: all swinging sixties japes. www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
Peter Phillips, ‘most straightforward’ of the pioneers of British Pop art
In 1965 he invented a faux market research company which sent out 137 ‘research kits’ to create the consensus-led perfect ‘art object’
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September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
As did the life of Pop artist Peter Phillips: all swinging sixties japes. www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...