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AHRC M4C scholarship funded doctoral researcher: genocide prevention. Doc producer/author www.chrishalemedia.co.uk

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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Germany’s Far Right Claims Its First Statehouse Speaker Since 1945 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Germany’s Far Right Claims Its First Statehouse Speaker Since 1945
After winning a state election last month, the Alternative for Germany is the first far-right party to oversee a state legislature since the Nazi era.
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sample 'Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East' by @marcowenjones.bsky.social here & pre-order the paperback 👉 tinyurl.com/yjs6br2e
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Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East | Hurst Publishers
A probing study of how the Gulf’s authoritarian regimes hoodwink citizens across the world in digital propaganda wars.
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well this interesting, although not it would seem to greens
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The key point is that the Greens have written off a two state solution - this is neither legal nor of any value to Palestinians let alone Israelis.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They can't say this anymore after yesterday's motion. The call for one state is in direct contradiction to international law leftfootforward.org?p=174085
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Only the Green Party’s stance on Gaza is based in international law and human rights
Carne Ross explains the Greens' position, including support for a ban on arms sales to Israel
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A fungus (Agaricus cepæstipes): two fruiting bodies. Wellcome Collection, 1888.
Illustration of this fungi on pale blue-grey background. Watercolour.
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Half an hour????
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very much looking forward to Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social talking about the Jamaican uprising of 1832 this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social All welcome, either in person or online, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📢 Our Spring/Summer 2027 catalogue is here! Books on private cities, British Muslim politics, Václav Havel & much more. Highlights below 🧵 Browse ➡️ tinyurl.com/32ztccrx @vickenche.bsky.social @glandsbergis.bsky.social @stefanauer.bsky.social @craiginfosec.bsky.social @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Caroline Lucas 👇🏽
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I assume they would deny that this is a ‘vote about Jews’. I would ask what does this matter have to do with constituency issues - and, if the greens have a foreign policy - why ethnonationalist states such as Sudan and Myanmar - which are also accused of committing genocide - are excluded?
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It really is
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Biljana Plavšić, the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity in the Bosnian War, has died. How did an internationally recognised scientist end up running a vengeful ethno-nationalist movement that killed tens of thousands? To learn more, see Prof Olivera Simic's bk ➡️ tinyurl.com/5afs92wu
Madam War Criminal book cover showing a grainy image of war criminal Biljana Plavšić
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Daniel Hannan has been spectacularly wrong about everything to do with Brexit, so this is hugely encouraging for all #RejoinEU voters. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is for some reason not on my anxieties agenda
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 01/10/2026
“Few noted the absence of Keir Starmer... Instead, people seemed present-minded and excited for what Burnham was going to announce. There was a good feeling in the air—good vibes you could say”, writes Kathryn Schoon
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‘We sound more like Labour’: Burnham brings good vibes to Liverpool
The leader’s speech has reinvigorated a party hungry for a message of hope
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OUT NOW, updated & in paperback: ‘The Retreat from Strategy: Britain’s Dangerous Confusion of Interests with Values’ by David Richards & Julian Lindley-French. @thetimes.com 'Book of the Year’ Sample & purchase at 20% discount with code RETREAT20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mw2hxmsc
A pile of paperback copies of 'The Retreat from Strategy' on a bookshelf showing spines and the front cover.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
Moed Tov! Суккот муборак! Today I joined Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov in Kew Gardens to distribute free food to New Yorkers in honor of Sukkot. Thank you to Rabbi Nisanov for the reminder that community and service deepen our most joyful holidays.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Superb series www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners - 1. Profit and Loss
Documentary about the abolition of slavery. Huge sums of money were paid out in compensation, not to slaves, but to slave owners.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Evidence from Australia suggesting the Tories’ latest scheme to punish further the poorest people won’t work. Mixed results for Australia’s experiment of restricting welfare www.thetimes.com/article/765d...
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Mixed results for Australia’s experiment of restricting welfare
Schemes mostly affecting impoverished Aboriginal people blocked spending of benefits on alcohol and tobacco but critics claim it has harmed families
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why Reform UK's increasing embrace of the 'blackshorts' is likely to kill off Nigel Farage's last remaining hopes of ever becoming Prime Minister adambienkov.substack.com/p/how-the-fa...
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How the Fascist ‘BlackShorts’ Will Bring Down Nigel Farage
Reform’s embrace of this new violent racist street movement risks ending Farage’s last remaining hopes of ever becoming Prime Minister
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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I recommend this superb account of what is at stake when we in the West allow authoritarian, racist leaders to hide the traces of the past. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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White Minority Rule in Rhodesia Reexamined: Urgent Lessons from the Past | African Studies Review | Cambridge Core
White Minority Rule in Rhodesia Reexamined: Urgent Lessons from the Past
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well said: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In our debate on British reparations for slavery last night Nigel Biggar preferred to deflect to the “Arab” slave trade & castration. It’s gruesome but here’s a useful study of castration - widespread in Christian, Chinese, & other Eurasian societies too: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Fuel prices are surging. Trump’s Iran war has spread to Yemen and the Red Sea. Russia is engaging in so-called gray-zone attacks in Europe,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “Yet for many of these problems, the United Nations is becoming almost irrelevant.”
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Opinion | The U.N. Is Terrible. We Need the U.N.
Trump’s attack on global institutions leaves us helpless before a growing array of challenges.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is very good
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Powerful, Jaime - thank you
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exclusive: I asked Andy Burnham about the gangs of masked thugs marauding around parts of our country and asked if he and his government should be doing more to call out their actions He called them ‘poisonous’ amongst other strong words. His condemnation was unequivocal. Full story here 👇
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Burnham slams 'poisonous' masked gangs & praises Liverpool solidarity
The Prime Minister was unequivocal in his condemnation of those sowing intimidation and division on the south coast as he arrives in his Liverpool, which he says has a proud history of fighting discri...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Tonight, we are mourning the loss of one of our own after NYCHA employee, Leighton Brown, died while at Cypress Hills Houses in Brooklyn. My thoughts are with his entire family as they deal with this unimaginable loss. May he rest in peace, and may his service to our city never be forgotten.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Shameful and saddening from Simon Schama. What is happening in Gaza is not the Holocaust. But it *is* genocidal, perpetrated by an explicitly and openly genocidal government, and he knows that. This denialism demeans him and his record as a great historian. www.jewishnews.co.uk/simon-schama...
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Simon Schama: Anybody accusing Israel of committing genocide should be ashamed - Jewish News
In speech at HET appeal dinner, the historian and professor says 'We, the victims of the greatest genocide the world has ever seen, are being called perpetrators of genocide'
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not quite Simon Schama, is it?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great documentaries, like life, happen while the director is busy making other plans. I’ve written a little bit about Up in the FT Weekend:
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The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece
This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Which of Gatwick or Heathrow should be London's hub airport, a debate on which one side you have: Gatwick has more land that it owns, is cheaper, already has direct rail links to the South outside London, is less a logistical nightmare versus Heathrow is older
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is extraordinary that Netanyahu mentioned Hassan Piker and Mamdani in his speech; in a speech in which he also held up a pager... A deranged and utterly shameless genocidaire who has been basically given a carte blanche by the US and Europeans.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of the lobbying has talked about how important it is for Heathrow to be a hub aiport, and it has never been adequately explained to me why this should matter to anyone who does not own Heathrow
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Sascha Schmidt @saschaschmidt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Diese Abstimmung ist ein Skandal. Und vor dem Hintergrund der - zum Teil berechtigten - Vorwürfe der CDU in Bezug auf Antisemitismus in der Linken, umso mehr. Die CDU sollte auch den Antisemitismus in den eigenen Reihen angehen.
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Internationales Auschwitz Komitee @auschwitz.info · 24/09/2026
Heidenau: AfD und CDU wollen Stolpersteine aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannen und das Gedenken auf den Friedhof verlagern. Ein durchsichtiger und schäbiger Versuch, die Opfer der Nazis erneut aus der Stadt hinauszuwerfen. Dass CDU-Abgeordnete der AfD dafür die Hand reichen, ist ein Skandal.
Drei Stolpersteine im dunklen Straßenpflaster erinnern an Alice David, Hedwig Eppstein und Paul Maximilian Eppstein. Auf den Steinen liegen rote Rosen. Alice David wurde 1942 durch Verfolgung und Entrechtung in den Tod getrieben. Hedwig Eppstein wurde nach Theresienstadt deportiert und 1944 in Auschwitz ermordet. Paul Maximilian Eppstein wurde nach Theresienstadt deportiert und dort 1944 ermordet. Foto: KGS für IAK Berlin.

https://www.auschwitz.info/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/presseinfo-einzeln/lesen/ein-schaebiger-angriff-auf-die-erinnerung-auschwitz-komitee-verurteilt-stolperstein-antrag.html
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When Benjamin Netanyahu berates New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during his UN address for calling him a war criminal, it will only increase Mamdani's popularity. The overwhelming majority of the democratic free world wants to see Netanyahu face trial in The Hague.
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Chris Hale @chrishalemedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is this not libel?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can sample @caitjan.bsky.social's new book 'Healthy Scepticism' here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr3fakd7 Use code SCEPTICISM20 to get 20% off
Book cover of 'Healthy Scepticism' showing a stethoscope in the shape of a question mark. Being held up above a cobbled street.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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