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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Rojava: Much needed and deserved info
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The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger. That has consequences for us all | Natasha Walter
For a decade, the autonomous territory in Syria has been a bastion of gender equality. It holds important lessons for the fight against authoritarianism, says author Natasha Walter
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Repatriate the Children - Sweden @rtc-sweden.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Hamza was taken to IS as a child. Now, he remains indefinitely detained. A staff member at Orkesh said the biggest challenge comes once [the children] turn 18. “It doesn’t make sense to bring them to the camp or prison: the answer is to repatriate them.” www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
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‘A black legal hole’: Europe criticised for leaving young citizens trapped in Syria
Western countries accused of washing their hands of their own citizens held in Syria
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
After five years of reviewing translated fiction for @irishtimes.com this is my last column. It has been a real privilege and I have loved doing it, but I need to focus on my writing and lighten my workload. Thanks sincerely to @martindoyle.bsky.social for the opportunity and to all the readers 🙏
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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Betty's Bar on the Clydeside, in the 1970s. Dust Bowl Blues legends Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston played there in July 1944, while awaiting a ship back Stateside, after their ship was sunk off Utah beach after D-Day.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Handy primer on how the politics of Danish approach to asylum played out in the actual Denmark ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
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Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 16/11/2025
"Situated six miles off Northern Ireland’s northern shore is a success story — and Stormont has had a significant role." ✍️ @sjamcbride.bsky.social
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The Rathlin experiment: How a tiny island could have a big role in how we live our lives
Situated six miles off Northern Ireland’s northern shore is a success story — and Stormont has had a significant role.
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“Since long waiting lists have made it all too easy to convince some voters that immigrants are the reason they can’t see a gp, rather than the reason they even have a “gp ….”
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Wes Streeting's gamble with the NHS is greater than any play for Downing Street | Gaby Hinsliff
The health secretary has embarked on a high-stakes reorganisation. It could be a model for rebuilding public services – or a nail in his and Labour’s coffin, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Congratulations to Professor Mark Lawler who has been awarded the prestigious Business Post Healthcare Leader of the Year Award. The award recognises Professor Lawler's work in cancer research, addressing cancer inequalities and advocating for patients' rights. Amazing work, Professor Lawler!
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Queen’s researcher honoured as Healthcare Leader of the Year
Professor Mark Lawler from Queen’s University has been awarded the prestigious Business Post Healthcare Leader of the Year Award for his outstanding work in cancer research across the island of Irelan...
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We're very pleased to have TWO translations on the American Assoc of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages (AATSEEL) shortlist. Max Lawton for Red Pyramid, the short stories of Vladimir Sorokin. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler for Chevengur by Andrey Platonov
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Prizes
AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship (deadline November 15, 2025) The AATSEEL Publications Committee is responsible for overseeing the appointment of editors for the AATSEEL Newslette...
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Chevengur is a wonder.
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A must read
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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 12/11/2025
Don't care what the question is, Wes Streeting is not the answer
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Marvellous to have Lynne Barber back.
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The redemption of Anthony Hopkins | The Observer
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@frankmcnally Known in England as Tin Tabs, such churches are still around, though rare now, often converted to other uses. In Battlehill, the townland in Co Armagh, where I grew up, there was one, an Apostolic church, turned a mellow green, and still in use in the 50’s.
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‘This is a godforsaken place’: A despairing letter from a garda stationed in Tipperary in 1940
Written in the outpost of Rearcross, the letter is a bleak portrait of human misery worthy of Samuel Beckett
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
@UHSussex Just home from 2nd visit to EACU, EmergencyAmbulatory Care Unit, in Brighton. I had terrific care from everyone and want to sing praises loud and clear. Important to acknowledge in these days when so many A&E news items are horror stories. @AOlssonBrown @BreastDocUK
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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 04/11/2025
Looking to speak to a cyclist who has been affected by long Covid (for a Cycling Weekly piece). If that's you, please get in touch 🙏
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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We need clarity on big pharma’s tax breaks | Letters
Letters: Pharmaceutical giants like GSK should be more transparent about the generous tax breaks they get from the UK government, says Mike Lewis
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This is absolutely marvellous www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home
Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A compelling read:
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/10/2025
‘“If you asked me what was the most significant moment in my career,” Farage said later, “there’s absolutely no question about it – getting elected to the European Parliament.” Blair had given him his platform.’ David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem
From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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House of Guinness on Netflix review: Wildly unfaithful retelling is like Succession with shillelaghs
Television: Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, shows his understanding of Ireland under colonialism is rudimentary at best
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism
Reform has been accused of lacking policy: its critics say it’s a party of Farage and his epigones, with few firm...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It's incoherent & because it's incoherent it's also politically inept, as it fails to appeal to voters attracted by the populist message and to those repelled by it. 2/2
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We really need Starmer to say this, but what's the point when, in announcing the ID card policy (whatever its general merits), he frames it solely in terms of, precisely, the populists' "lies" & “industrialised infrastructure of grievance” about "uncontrolled" migration & asylum seekers? 1/2
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Prosecution of Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh dismissed in London court www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Prosecution of Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh dismissed in London court
HMKNEECAPFRI
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Sad but true
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"now .the only books programme on British tv"
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Discussing Dirty Linen on France 24 ahead of my evrnt with Neil Hegarty at the @centreculturelirlandais on Thursday as part of my month’s residency. If you’re in Paris , come along www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
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Perspective - 'Some wounds have never been allowed to heal': Author Martin Doyle on the Troubles
The author of a new book which tells the story of the troubles in Northern Ireland that spanned three decades has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how his aim was to create a microhistory of the period by ho...
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2025
A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
There seems to be a lot of people who mocked ‘hurty feelings’ currently very angry about their own ‘hurty feelings’
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a close up of a cartoon character wearing a blue cape and mask .
ALT: a close up of a cartoon character wearing a blue cape and mask .
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Detained people without lawyers are only given a few days' notice of the intention to send them to France. In this time they need to find a lawyer, who will then need to gather evidence and consider whether there is a claim. Of course court applications are being made only shortly before removal.
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Some rather lovely decorative tiles from a tenement close in the Thornwood area of Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tile #tiling #tenements #tenementtiles #glasgowtenements #thornwood
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
BREAKING: 🎶 Flash mob takes over King’s Cross Station in a protest against climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field. Rosebank’s future is undecided. But together, we can stop it. @climatechoirs.bsky.social have used their voices - will you use yours? 📣 Join us 👉 bit.ly/rosebankchoir
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
‘Gotcha’ claims about Heather Humphreys’ husband have no place in modern Ireland www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Ed Burke: ‘Gotcha’ claims about Heather Humphreys’s husband have no place in a shared island
Why should the Humphreys family apologise for their historical connections with the Orange tradition?
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Good to hear this from a member of the Treasury team. The sky will not fall in if ministers speak for their politics,nor indeed against the legitimisation of violence against migrants, minorities and democratic politicians.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 14/09/2025
The cognitive dissonance (which is perhaps generous) from the government on the state of free speech comparing its response to the far-right against those protesting the proscription of Palestine Action is increasingly hard to comprehend, as govt belief moves into govt (in)action.
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Such a terrific newsletter:
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So shocked Conor Gearty has died He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...
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Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon) - Matrix Chambers
It is with shock and sadness that we mourn the sudden passing of our valued colleague, and a founding member of Matrix, Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon). Should you wish to leave a message of condolenc...
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
An update today on this story: The Irish government today saying that 185 of these Syrian refugees have still not been brought to Ireland from Lebanon. "Further arrivals are scheduled for September & October. These follow the arrival in June of a group of 26." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...
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Abandoned in Lebanon: How Ireland offered Syrian refugees a route to safety, then left them in a war zone
Two years ago about 375 Syrians were interviewed in Lebanon by Irish officials and told they would be resettled in Ireland before 2024. They’re still waiting - amid bombs, deprivation and discriminati...
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Shabana Mahmood and the rise of English white nationalism
The generosity of our moral imagination has collapsed, and been replaced by taunts and bigotry.
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Carolyn Robb on X: "Patient/carer involvement in design of ratings? Contributions to data via e.g. lived experience of services and care? Surely we can find more meaningful ways to evaluate hospitals. And maybe less punitive too? https://t.co/j4ZrYvkKUu" / X
Patient/carer involvement in design of ratings? Contributions to data via e.g. lived experience of services and care? Surely we can find more meaningful ways to evaluate hospitals. And maybe less punitive too? https://t.co/j4ZrYvkKUu
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
If only Labour leadership were listening …
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Michael D Higgins’s poetry album Against All Certainty: To hell with policy wonks for president, get a few bards
The President takes us back to an era of scarcity, warmth and unspoken love
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carolynrobb.bsky.social @carolynrobb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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She listened to Grenfell’s bereaved and then acted. Rayne...
Unlike her predecessors as housing minister, she confronted the issue of the tower and demolition has started
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