Rhian E Jones
@rhianejones.bsky.social
Red bluestocking. Writer, journalist and broadcaster on history, politics and culture. Co-editor @RedPeppermag.bsky.social Welsh.
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Rhian E Jones
@rhianejones.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Hiya to all new followers! I'll pipe down about my new book soon and then you can expect grumpy analysis of politics and pop culture old and new, plus the odd drunken indiscretion.
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
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Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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New CFP from Paper Trails here:
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Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
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November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
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Interesting ("interesting") too of course, to see media constructions swing this easily and uncritically away from characterisations of "the left behind" - a shifting of political blame for the effects of austerity - and back to the type of rhetoric used to justify austerity in the first place.
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Interesting ("interesting") too of course, to see media constructions swing this easily and uncritically away from characterisations of "the left behind" - a shifting of political blame for the effects of austerity - and back to the type of rhetoric used to justify austerity in the first place.
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Again: 'immigration' is not a real political topic.
'Immigration' is a container, for all of the problems of late stage neoliberalism - underfunded public services, degraded housing, low pay, social disintegration etc - all packaged together, and blamed on the very least powerful people in society.
'Immigration' is a container, for all of the problems of late stage neoliberalism - underfunded public services, degraded housing, low pay, social disintegration etc - all packaged together, and blamed on the very least powerful people in society.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Again: 'immigration' is not a real political topic.
'Immigration' is a container, for all of the problems of late stage neoliberalism - underfunded public services, degraded housing, low pay, social disintegration etc - all packaged together, and blamed on the very least powerful people in society.
'Immigration' is a container, for all of the problems of late stage neoliberalism - underfunded public services, degraded housing, low pay, social disintegration etc - all packaged together, and blamed on the very least powerful people in society.
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Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan | Peter Sagar
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Civil war in Sudan: the UK’s deadly connections
Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Examining the role Britain plays in the war in Sudan | Peter Sagar
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The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism - Red Pepper
The rhetoric of the rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger mask authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi
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November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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From the archive:
Perceptions of bias at the BBC are on the rise. Natalie Fenton of the Media Reform Coalition puts forward the case for reform
(1 October 2019)
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Perceptions of bias at the BBC are on the rise. Natalie Fenton of the Media Reform Coalition puts forward the case for reform
(1 October 2019)
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BBC: the case for reform - Red Pepper
Perceptions of bias at the BBC are on the rise. Natalie Fenton of the Media Reform Coalition puts forward the case for reform
www.redpepper.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
From the archive:
Perceptions of bias at the BBC are on the rise. Natalie Fenton of the Media Reform Coalition puts forward the case for reform
(1 October 2019)
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Perceptions of bias at the BBC are on the rise. Natalie Fenton of the Media Reform Coalition puts forward the case for reform
(1 October 2019)
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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"Today many anarchists support consumer and producer co-operatives, bicycle shops, intentional communities, communes and bookshops."
Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking
www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...
Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking
www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...
Key words: Dual Power - Red Pepper
Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking on how to overthrow capitalism
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November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"Today many anarchists support consumer and producer co-operatives, bicycle shops, intentional communities, communes and bookshops."
Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking
www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...
Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking
www.redpepper.org.uk/key-words/ke...
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A 15-strong group fuses traditional Iranian instruments with contemporary stories of diaspora, community and hope. For member Freesia, folk music can build connection and understanding across difference.
www.redpepper.org.uk/the-spark/mo...
www.redpepper.org.uk/the-spark/mo...
Moving music: an interview with Hamsaz Ensemble - Red Pepper
For member of 15-strong group Hamsaz Ensemble Freesia, folk music can build connection and understanding across difference
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November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A 15-strong group fuses traditional Iranian instruments with contemporary stories of diaspora, community and hope. For member Freesia, folk music can build connection and understanding across difference.
www.redpepper.org.uk/the-spark/mo...
www.redpepper.org.uk/the-spark/mo...
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Revisiting a modern classic ahead of its anticipated expanded edition, Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice
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www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Mutual aid – review - Red Pepper
Darcy White explores the Dean Spade's study of mutual aid, and how it must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice
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November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Revisiting a modern classic ahead of its anticipated expanded edition, Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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“Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.”
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The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“Here’s what we don’t say out loud: There’s no money in journalism anymore. No fame, no glamour, no prestige. But there’s lots and lots of money in media—in being a brand, an influencer, a personality. We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.”
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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Talking here about what happened to the reporter who revealed the incredible scale of tax evasion and avoidance by the super rich in the Panama Papers. I’d guess she was murdered by car bomb because that’s what would happen in a conspiracy thriller film, and a lot of dumb people have no imagination.
Blown up with a car bomb, just to underline the almost comical evil of it
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Talking here about what happened to the reporter who revealed the incredible scale of tax evasion and avoidance by the super rich in the Panama Papers. I’d guess she was murdered by car bomb because that’s what would happen in a conspiracy thriller film, and a lot of dumb people have no imagination.
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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The right does not get to own nihilism. Here's a thread of alternative nihilisms. Feel free to add your own.
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Peggy Lee -- Is That All There Is? 1969
YouTube video by peggy4AL
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November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The right does not get to own nihilism. Here's a thread of alternative nihilisms. Feel free to add your own.
youtu.be/LCRZZC-DH7M?...
youtu.be/LCRZZC-DH7M?...
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Call for papers #CFP
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Call for papers #CFP
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
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Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward.
Why can't Labour just say this?
Why can't Labour just say this?
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward.
Why can't Labour just say this?
Why can't Labour just say this?
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Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
Warfare's waste is welfare's loss - Red Pepper
Labour's increased spending will funnel money to private contractors that should fund public services argues Richard Norton Taylor
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October 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"The abuse hurled at her by critics on the right take her back to the only childhood she knows, one rife with her mother’s insults."
In her first memoir, Arundhati Roy grapples with the complex forces which formed her writes Nandita Lal
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In her first memoir, Arundhati Roy grapples with the complex forces which formed her writes Nandita Lal
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Arundati Roy: Mother Mary Comes to Me - Review - Red Pepper
Arundati Roy grapples with the complex forces, both global and close to home, which formed her – not least her remarkable and often abusive mother
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October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
"The abuse hurled at her by critics on the right take her back to the only childhood she knows, one rife with her mother’s insults."
In her first memoir, Arundhati Roy grapples with the complex forces which formed her writes Nandita Lal
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
In her first memoir, Arundhati Roy grapples with the complex forces which formed her writes Nandita Lal
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From the archive:
"Capital, in this view, is a meatgrinder that crushes human lives into sellable commodities"
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand and overthrow it?
(31 October 2021)
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
"Capital, in this view, is a meatgrinder that crushes human lives into sellable commodities"
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand and overthrow it?
(31 October 2021)
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
The rule of the flesh eaters: capitalism through a horror movie lens - Red Pepper
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand – and overthrow – it?
www.redpepper.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
From the archive:
"Capital, in this view, is a meatgrinder that crushes human lives into sellable commodities"
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand and overthrow it?
(31 October 2021)
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
"Capital, in this view, is a meatgrinder that crushes human lives into sellable commodities"
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand and overthrow it?
(31 October 2021)
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Following an extensive community consultation, the new look Red Peper Media has been guided by our readers – and is set to reshape the left media landscape
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Red Pepper Media: a community-led redesign - Red Pepper
Following an extensive community consultation, the new-look RPM has been guided by our readers and is set to reshape the left media landscape
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November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Following an extensive community consultation, the new look Red Peper Media has been guided by our readers – and is set to reshape the left media landscape
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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From the archive:
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perseverance writes Tim Gee
(6 June 2014)
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Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perseverance writes Tim Gee
(6 June 2014)
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
Shirkers and conchies: how governments tried to silence First World War resisters - Red Pepper
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perserverance writes Tim Gee
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November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
From the archive:
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perseverance writes Tim Gee
(6 June 2014)
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perseverance writes Tim Gee
(6 June 2014)
www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Never knew about this before. Great to see - and fun to spot the numerous anachronisms if, like me, you enjoy a bit of pedantry.
londonist.com/london/art-a...
londonist.com/london/art-a...
The Tolpuddle Martyrs Mural: A Colourful Celebration Of Trade Unions
A tribute to six men who were deported for forming a trade union.
londonist.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Never knew about this before. Great to see - and fun to spot the numerous anachronisms if, like me, you enjoy a bit of pedantry.
londonist.com/london/art-a...
londonist.com/london/art-a...
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Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now
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A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Short Cuts: Woke Conspiracies
A British equivalent of Fox News, wherever it may come from, would have its own distinctive character – less...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...