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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 12h

Among the 'undesirables' sent to their death in August 1942 were neighbours Camille Jourist (7), Simon Felner (8), Abraham & Regine Hirsz (15 & 8), Maurice Gutfrajnd (9), Paulette & Esther Kosiorowski (6 & 12) & the three Cybula children (10 to 14). 2/2 endaliamodoherty.substack.com/p/doing-the-...

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Doing the Nazis’ Dirty Business

Rounding up the ‘undesirables’: the French police and the ‘dictators’ international’

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 12h

Foreign workers were welcome in France after the manpower losses of WWI. But after the 1929 crash they faced hostility as 'undesirable aliens'. In 1942 radical measures were taken and many 'undesirables' deported to Auschwitz. endaliamodoherty.substack.com/p/doing-the-... 1/2

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Doing the Nazis’ Dirty Business

Rounding up the ‘undesirables’: the French police and the ‘dictators’ international’

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

But if the EU gets less money surely it'll be harder for FN/RN to embezzle it from the European Parliament to funnel into their party funds? What's the French for cutting off your nose to spite your face?

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Anyone remember Kenny Everett's 'lousy links'? Dr Finlay's Casebook takeoff: Janet: Did you hear? Charlie McDonald's been taken tae hospital in Edinburgh. They don't know what ails him, but when they opened him up they found he had four kidneys. Dr Cameron: Don't be silly woman, Charles hasnae four!

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So JFK would have said that Tricky Dicky had ohnts in his pohnts?

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen: We are not dwarfs. There's a dwarf that behaves like a giant. That's true. And that's Russia.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/09/2026

Access to culture is a right, not a privilege. Keeping museums free means millions can continue to explore, learn and be inspired, regardless of their background or income. That's good for London, and good for ensuring cost is never a barrier to discovery.

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Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain

The announcement by Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, came after recent discussions of introducing admission fees for overseas visitors

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨 Meta blocked President Lula’s Facebook page and campaign ads two weeks before the election While also failing to block 87% of disinformation ads targeted against him. A handful of companies shouldn't have this much power over a country's democracy.

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Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign Ads

The page is now back online, but Lula's electoral coalition says Meta's actions harmed the president’s campaign.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At least one of these is not any kind of old. The fluffbag, mind you, looks as if s/he might be ready for pipe and slippers.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Swiss overwhelmingly reject a referendum initiative intended to reinforce neutrality supported by the far right and characterised by opponents as pro-Russian.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Colm McCarthy also said both the DART and the Luas would be disasters but sure look I guess he will be right about something one day.

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

reading london falling at the moment and it resurfaces one of the all timer quotes about the police from former Met Police Commissioner Robert Mark: "The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than it employs, and the Met is failing that test."

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've heard there's a five-hour one on Michael O'Leary.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sacha Zala, historien : « La neutralité suisse est devenue une construction identitaire, presque religieuse ». Le Monde analysis of today's Swiss referendum, sponsored by the far right. Curious that in Ireland the equally quasi-religious fervour over 'defending neutrality' comes from the left.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'And I thought Nancy Pelosi was a pain in the ass.'

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Shit sandwiches are actually very popular in parts of the UK right now.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Worrying for those of us who live within a half-mile of the Aras, close enough to fear becoming victims of a slight targeting error.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is quite unfair, because people of Irish heritage have made a quite significant contribution (see 'Pink Ladies') to far-right racist movements in Britain ... and this is the thanks we get! Saxon bastards.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - I may be oversimplifying him - thought that 'Man' was essentially good, but was corrupted by society. (He hadn't read 'Lord of the Flies'.) I might have thought something similar when I was seventeen but I've since found that people, on both the right and left, like to snarl.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This gets us back to Hillary Clinton's much reviled (and misquoted) remark about 'deplorables'. Did she have a point? Does it make sense to concentrate all one's fire on far-right populist leaders and ignore far-right populist followers? Have they no responsibility for their resentment and hatred?

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Jesuit boys I have known have all been great at the arguing. They'd wear you out.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A significant figure, as a 'Radical', in Italian politics in her day.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sixty per cent of newspaper columnists didn't have a thought that was original last year. WHAT ARE THEY DOING ALL DAY? Recycling hoary old populist tropes, obvs, then going to the pub.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Originally 'Im Westen nichts neues' (nothing new), which the Irish follows closely rather than the English 'All quiet'.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

JFC, this hideous horror really isn't hiding it at all now, is he

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn’t one white face in security or airport services. The Home office is staffed by the type of people we are trying to keep out! What hope?

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes, I think you're right: thinking required. A recent article in Le Monde suggested (very briefly, too briefly) a bit of plain talking about the ways in which society is changing and what will have to be done if we are not to be steamrollered by the tech bros who tell us this or that is inevitable.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The losing strategies against the far right pursued by Merz in Germany and Macron in France. Fourteen paragraphs. Twelve on what is being done wrong, two on what *might* be done instead, not untypical for articles from the 'intellectual left'. Maybe they should try inverting those proportions.

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The worst part came before that when he described Ed Miliband as "of Jewish heritage". The word he was looking for is: Jewish. Disgusting. Many (most) journalists would be sacked for this and rightly so. I hope Miliband makes a formal complaint.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Quite similar in France, where there is little support for RN in cities. Possibly because white people there have long been living and working with dark-skinned people and don't find anything wrong with them. But if you live in a small village and get your 'news' from talk TV (mostly on crime) ...

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Or should that be lad? Sheep biology is not my forte.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eat up your seaweed lass, it'll make your horns curly.

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Founded by Sylvia Beach, and situated from 1921 at rue de l'Odéon, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company was a favourite haunt of many famous authors, including James Joyce, whose 'Ulysses' Beach published in 1922. In 1951, a shop of the same name was opened on rue de la Bûcherie and still operates.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And, blowing the one on the right up a bit, under Dolly Parton, I see. An honour, even a privilege.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That doesn't, for me, mean ignoring the phenomenon (not 'problem') but rather pointing out that immigration is necessary and potentially enriching and suggesting ways in which recently arrived people can be helped to acclimatise to a different culture and their children enabled to prosper.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is one talking of the tribalists who put up flags to mark territory or of a wider group who may vaguely think 'Yeah, fine, but maybe we've gone a bit too far'? Let politicians of the right do what they want (it won't work for them), those on the centre left and left should refuse xenophobia. 1/2

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The alternative to expressing hostility and populist manipulation of 'fears' about immigration is not, as some of the sneaking regarders who speak of 'legitimate concerns' suggest, 'doing nothing' or 'ignoring the elephant in the room'. It is introducing sensible policies to facilitate integration.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One might offer a non-traditionalist label - opportunist. I think Wagenknecht might be unique in Europe in naming her left-right party after herself. I mean what else is it?

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Erik Satie never used to open the letters he received, but he always answered them.” ~ Enrique Vila-Matas

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Perceived by whom, and perceived by what analysis? In the UK, the hardline home secretary seems to base her policies on the notion that if the government appears tough people will not be tempted by the far right. This hasn't worked, either there or elsewhere. Many people prefer prejudice to fact.

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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is Stella's idea of being tough. Doesn't she look threatening??? :)

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Up in the morning’s no for me, Up in the morning early; When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw, I’m sure its winter fairly. (Scots Resistance Army - Serious Burns Unit)

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The RNLI are providing what is a taxi service for illegal immigrants. What is that but abetting the invasion of our country?' - Farage. My mother has passed away so I think I can say this now. What an absolutely, incredibly COUNTRY (approx) remark, from an absolute (approx) COUNT.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is the very best thing I have seen in years. Close, but not very close, was her last thing, on writing and revising. Get in there and you can say that you noticed her before she became a huge star.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is an elephant in the room, Rabbi. It is the vast number of deaths of Palestinian civilians: men, women, children. Don't ignore it.

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glasogliath @glasogliath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You may be as tired as I am of 'Fair enough, but Aer Lingus used to charge £300 to fly to London.' O'Leary, for some years, has been charging what he likes, or what the algorithm likes. Try being Polish in Ireland and going home in Christmas week. GOUGER.

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