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Euan Lawson

@euanlawson.social
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Academic GP, Lancaster Uni. Editor, British Journal of General Practice. Research: working with people who use drugs. Chair FPH Drugs SIG. Dailyish fell/trail runner in Cumbria. My views etc… linktr.ee/euanlawson

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
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We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 31/05/2026
BTW, just while I am feeling a bit mardy, here's a short post about my feelings on 'red flag' emails. And, please let me know if you have ever flagged an email as 'low importance'. (Though it might, on reflection, be the best/snarkiest approach to a red flag email.) euan.is/raging-about...
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Is there ever justification for 'red flagging' emails?
I have to admit, when I get an email with a red flag stating it is 'important', it raises antibodies with me. I strongly suspect the person at the other end ...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 31/05/2026
“Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.” Best response here is to read Sarah Wynn-William’s book, Careless People, and recommend it to everyone. @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - I’d be very happy to buy someone a copy via yourself, if you still do that.
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 20/04/2026
Great to see the Levellers getting some love. Part of my life since 1990 and looking forward to seeing them at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool later this year. #levellers
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Banned from the radio after Princess Diana died: how Levellers made What a Beautiful Day
‘Its release seemed timely as the Tories had just left office. But then Diana died and all cheerful songs were taken straight off the radio. Boom! It disappeared’
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Brief update from the battlefields of attacking extreme wealth concentration (we're still far from making any progress) crookedtimber.org/2026/04/09/e...
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Extreme wealth concentration — as strong as ever — Crooked Timber
Short answer: today that number is 5 million dollars per hour.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Another version of "never fucking surrender" aka hope in action.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 04/03/2026
Go on. Delete it right now… (This is mostly about authoritarianism but perhaps the most grim sentence I read this week on AI and war was how it “shortens the kill chain”.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 25/02/2026
“Labour are clearly flailing…” as @zackpolanski.bsky.social accurately notes. People going to the Greens certainly care about nature - but what people want is progressive social policies that are environmentally sound. It’s not really about beavers, you muppets. (As welcome and as cute as they are…)
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Lost species to be released as Labour seeks to stave off Greens’ election threat
Push for good nature news before polls with reintroduction of white-tailed eagles, pine martens and beavers in England
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.
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Sonya Bushell @sonyabushell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Seeing my research in print is so exciting, and it's featured in the BJGP editorial too! So grateful to all at @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social
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An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board
to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , kabbasi@bmj.com      Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , tbloom@bmj.com      Head of research, Elizab...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 03/01/2026
Lovely article from David Misselbrook on the “pings and the bongs of regulatory micromanagement and guideline hypertrophy” and the erosion of the patient-doctor relationship. “For at least the last two decades we have all had a DHSS sponsored buffoon sitting in our consulting rooms.” 🤣
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 26/12/2025
Oh, that’s a nice surprise - my article, featuring the fabulous @deevybee.bsky.social, is included on the list. Thank you to the wonderful editors for all their support 🤩
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SAPC @sapc.ac.uk · 05/12/2025
Brighton & Sussex Medical School is seeking to appoint a practicing GP as Associate Professor or Professor of General Practice jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/cde88946... @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social #academicprimarycarejobs #primarycareresearch
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Clinical Associate Professor or Professor of General Practice Ref: 42195 - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In this blog, we explain why we need to have an Extreme Wealth Line, just like the Extreme Poverty Line. Also, having a line as a social indicator does not necessarily commit one to a limit on wealth possession via taxation only; it's a regulative ideal. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
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Let’s be clear – an Extreme Wealth Line is not a cap on wealth
An extreme wealth line (EWL) defines a level where the harms associated with extreme wealth become socially unacceptable. It is not the same as a cap on wealth
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Andrew Papanikitas @gentlemedic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
FYI @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social @euanlawson.social @drtomround.bsky.social @timsenior.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 08/10/2025
At a conference? Why not check the speaker against the Disclosure UK database? They might be paid thousands of pounds from the pharmaceutical industry. I think we can agree transparency is important - but I suspect many (?most) doctors don't know about it. search.disclosureuk.org.uk
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Disclosure Search
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...
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How can we keep GPs in the job? New review points to relationships, meaning, and learning
New research shows GP retention depends on how services are organised, not just individual resilience. Meaningful work, strong relationships, and learning cultures help GPs stay in post and deliver be...
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 25/09/2025
Listen to the full audio interview with BJGP Editor, @euanlawson.social‬, for editorial insights into journal impact and real world applicability. www.bjgplife.com/212 #ResearchMethods #PrimaryCare #GPsky #Medsky
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Inside the BJGP and editorial insights: Euan Lawson on the future of publishing and how to get published
Quickly and easily listen to BJGP Interviews for free!
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 09/09/2025
My thoughts with the good people at @releasedrugs.bsky.social but also, especially, with the people who are being targeted by the far-right. As they say “Solidarity is key when under attack…” www.release.org.uk/blog/office-...
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Our office was attacked
Release’s offices were subject to an attack over the weekend. Members of the right targeted our building between the 5th and 6th of September, painting a Cross of St George on the front of the premise...
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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Govt needs to go much further on private school reform if it wants to reach its goal of ‘smashing the class ceiling’
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John Launer @johnlauner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social. bjgplife.com/encounters-w...
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Encounters with three remarkable women
"Although I knew so little about them at the time I met them, it now feels an extraordinary privilege to have encountered these three remarkable women." A slice of memoir from John Launer
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 23/08/2025
Nick Clegg - here he is, again, rationalising the staggering malignancy he has blithely facilitated. Austerity and its litany of deaths. Tuition fees and the disintegration of HE. Facebook and the tech bros. If there is a social ill or moral void seems we'll find him greasing the wheels.
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‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures
When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 20/08/2025
Read the issue dedicated to #QualitativeResearch, with an editorial from Prof. Carolyn A Chew-Graham‬ plus a celebration of qualitative research from @euanlawson.social‬ bjgp.org/content/75/755
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British Journal of General Practice: 75 (755)
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Rebecca Henderson @rebecca-henderson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The review also found a lack of evidence about who is most likely to be missed, highlighting the need for more research to understand and prevent inequalities at this crucial point of care. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PalliativeCare #Research #GeneralPractice #BJGP
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Equitable inclusion of patients with cancer on the palliative care register: a systematic review in primary care
Background GPs are instrumental to palliative care in the UK and most practices maintain a register of patients with palliative care needs. However, many people with incurable cancer who could benefit...
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Helen Atherton @h-atherton.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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What people really want from their GP – it’s simpler than you might think
Patients are being clear about what they want but nobody’s listening.
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Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Our paper on repeat prescribing duration is in this edition of @bjgp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... Lots of great articles beyond ours, including a thoughtful editorial from @euanlawson.social on co-proxamol I'll write more next week !
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/06/2025
‘Most drug users have to be coaxed into the Thistle, and treated carefully so that they come to trust the workers.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the UK’s first legal controlled drug consumption room: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms
For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 18/06/2025
The impact factors for 2024 are published today - *sigh* - so this is a good moment to send people to the editorial I wrote last month about them, the BJGP, and QRPs/journalology. #primarycare #BJGP bjgp.org/content/75/7...
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Medical journalology and questionable research practices
The BJGP is the world’s leading journal in primary care and general practice. I’m happy to defend this assertion but the temptation is to reach for a metric to support the case. And of course, the obv...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 12/06/2025
Oh - that is such sad news @releasedrugs.bsky.social. I didn’t know Peter personally though had been on the occ meeting with him. He did remarkable meaningful work for people who use drugs - from a place of real compassion and he leaves a powerful legacy. www.release.org.uk/blog/peter-k...
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Peter Krykant
Photo by Nigel Brundson. It’s with a heavy heart that we share the news that Peter Krykant has passed away. Peter was an incredible campaigner for the rights of communities that use drugs. The opening...
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 30/05/2025
Let's never forget eh? "Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life." (Gift article: so no paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
politicians often say that there’s no point in being idealistic because you can only do things when you are in power. But now they’re in power. But not doing the things that Labour supporters want. Hey guys, you won! Stop appeasing the opposition
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is also a good read for those of us who read a great deal of research, because many forms of p-hacking can be seen with a careful read of methodology and analysis...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our new paper! With @oohgpwales.bsky.social Digital Maturity: Towards a Strategic Approach We propose a simpler, more practical way of assessing the digital maturity of healthcare organisations, and argue that support should be tailored the organisation’s maturity level. bjgp.org/content/bjgp...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’m giving the Edith Pechey lecture in Leeds tomorrow (6th May) at 5.30 pm UK time on how digitalisation increases health inequities. Join in person (from 4.30 for drinks) or online from 5.30). medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/eve... medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-/eve...
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Edith Pechey Lecture 2025 - How digitalisation increases health inequities
Edith Pechey Lecture 2025 - How digitalisation increases health inequities with Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford
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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour need to say over and over again that Reform want to abolish the NHS. They are not your friend.
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I can't comment on the validity of the claims made by Patrick Galbraith in his new book or the counter claims made by the campaign group @righttoroam.bsky.social but this rebuttal letter from them is a masterclass in how to stay objective, focused & rational. www.righttoroam.org.uk/patrick-galb...
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Response to Patrick Galbraith's Uncommon Ground
Falsities, errors and misrepresentations
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 23/04/2025
I keep my own wee list of books that are ‘Not Yet Published’. Love it when they roll around and, excitingly, tomorrow will bring us @rutgerbregman.com’s new book Moral Ambition which could be the perfect book for these times. Is there a (German) word for this ‘book anticipation’ feeling? 💙📚
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 18/04/2025
Working out of hours GP today and called up to sort an ambulance for a patient needing admission. Was asked: are they ‘bariatric’? Took me a moment to realise what was meant - not helped by me immediately thinking ‘barometric’.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 15/04/2025
Hannah Fry on the BBC’s One Show just telling a story about a chicken - she was quick to reassure us that the chicken not hurt in any way. Heaven forfend. We kill something like 1.1 billion chickens every year in the UK. We really do have some weird social norms around animals.
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 10/04/2025
@thegreenrunners.bsky.social I might be going mad - but has your 'Become a member' page lost its link to join? There are links to a couple of articles but otherwise there seems to be nowt else... thegreenrunners.com/become-a-mem...
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Become a member - The Green Runners CIC
We are The Green Runners and we are so excited you are considering joining us on our quest to take the (carbon) footprint out
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Rebecca Payne @oohgpwales.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This early career summer school is going to be amazing - (and not just because you’ll get the chance to hear about robots!( www.bangor.ac.uk/events/healt...
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Health and Care Research Summer School
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Helen Reid @helenreid.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Themes absolutely don’t emerge in quali research @bjgp.bsky.social - these badges a favourite gift from one of our postgrad researchers!
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BJGP @bjgp.org · 01/04/2025
Highlights from the BJGP Research & Publishing Conference. Full review in the linked podcast #BJGPRC #PrimaryCare @nadakhan.bsky.social bjgp.org/conference
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Euan Lawson @euanlawson.social · 01/04/2025
The April issue of the BJGP is now out. My Briefing 'Resisting in the liminal space' attempts, in under 500 words, to go from liminal spaces to Gramsci to political resistance. I may have over-reached... @bjgp.bsky.social
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Resisting in the liminal space
The liminal space is often used to describe the experience of the ‘in-between’ when one finds oneself on the threshold of change but we are not yet transformed into our future selves. One example, rel...
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