Reposted by Linda GrantLinda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 17hGary Younge on Zionism and antisemitism 35115
Reposted by Linda GrantMichele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 11hIt makes a difference to me. What all my Jewish friends say is it's the silence from friends that is stressful. The not knowing what you're thinking about something we have to think about constantly. 0111
Reposted by Linda GrantDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 17hIn the wake of the “Zionism is Racism” UN motion spearheaded by the Soviet Bloc & Arab League in 1975 (repealed in 1990), there was a concentrated campaign at universities around the UK to ban Jewish societies. Not Israel societies. Jewish societies. We know where stuff like this leads. 14912
Reposted by Linda GrantAlistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 17hThis is so well put by Gary. I suspect some people think that to allow people to be Zionist is to necessarily imply that they themselves are Zionists. It isn’t. 112
Reposted by Linda GrantJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 18hThe "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly. 39492142
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gary Younge’s position on Zionism is racism 2002 www.theguardian.com/world/2002/f...theguardian.comGary Younge: Terms of abuseIf the left wants to win over the pro-Israeli lobby, it will have to start taking anti-semitism seriously. 241
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Source: GaryYounge.com ‘To declare "Zionism is racism" offers little in terms of understanding racism, anti-semitism or the Middle East. It is not a route map to debate, liberation or resistance but a cul-de-sac.’ Gary Younge 2002garyyounge.comGary YoungeGary Younge is an author, broadcaster and editor-at-large for The Guardian, based in London. He also writes a monthly column, Beneath the Radar, for the Nation magazine and is the Alfred Knobler Fello... 111
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who coined the phrase doom scrolling? I first heard it at the start of the pandemic 100
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Connections Puzzle #1202 🟨🟨🟪🟨 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟦 The New York Times connections people are bastards 030
Reposted by Linda GrantTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 17/09/2026Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believed timharford.com/2026/09/why-... 0236
Reposted by Linda GrantHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you were writing a satire about a kind of Micro-Rhodesia in an Oxfordshire village, Piddington is exactly the name you’d choose 2387
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI, which could wipe out the human race despite having no physical form, reminds me of teenage hackers who can take down the M&S website but can’t get a girl or buy a drink in a pub. 060
Reposted by Linda GrantLinda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I have a question about the AI apocalypse. Doesn’t AI need physical form to build the data centres and manufacture its components and generate the power it needs to function? 311
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I have a question about the AI apocalypse. Doesn’t AI need physical form to build the data centres and manufacture its components and generate the power it needs to function? 311
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.thejc.com/news/uk/jk-r... Back to the ghettothejc.comJK Rowling’s agent Neil Blair leads fightback against the boycotters with new imprint to promote Jewish and Israeli books - The Jewish ChronicleThe venture is a response to the post-October 7 chill experienced by some authors 010
Reposted by Linda GrantJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fiction is “the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease”, Edith Hope observes in Hotel du Lac. But which Anita Brookner novel should the ill-at-ease try first? My guide to her some of her best books, for @thebookerprizes.com:thebookerprizes.comWhere to start with Anita Brookner: a guide to her best books | The Booker PrizesAnita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you... 410828
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This Anthropic prediction that AI will destroy the entire human race within ten years is just a way to avoid paying authors the money they owe us in compensation for stealing our copyright. 120
Reposted by Linda GrantNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The dark irony of people pearl clutching about the ethnic cleaning statements is if you actually spoke to the average hill top settler they would tell you: yes, we are ethnically cleansing - that is exactly what we are doing 524159
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Department of Unreality. Listening to Nadine Dorries on Woman’s Hour boosting Nigel Farage as a feminist. 2311122
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sometimes #thearchers tries my patience. But like Anita Brookner I continue to put up with it. 020
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Another dimming of the light that made sisterhood powerfultheguardian.comRobin Morgan, child star who became feminist, poet and editor, dies aged 85Leading second-wave feminist co-founded Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem 042
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026There were several branches of second wave feminism in the 60s and 70s. Gloria Steinem's Ms magazine was very different from Spare Rib but it was glorious to have an icon like her in our new world. 0111
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... I’d like to see a meet-up between her, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the normcore afterlife.theguardian.comYayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations 110
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I’ve belatedly discovered that the UK and US editions of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust have completely different endings. In the US edition Tony Lastdoesn’t set off to South America and one of the bleakest denouements in fiction. 112
Reposted by Linda Grantderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress. 194354265285
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026For once in his miserable life Trump has done the right thing. 🇺🇸 020
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton and her husband used to go on vacation in a camper van without her wigs and costumes and no one would recognise her. 2142
Reposted by Linda GrantAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121535979
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 010
Reposted by Linda GrantRob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Reminded of this Will Self review of one of Rod Liddle's books, all the more damning for being scrupulously generous and fair www.theguardian.com/books/2014/m...theguardian.comSelfish, Whining Monkeys by Rod Liddle review – why is he so angry?Will Self marvels as the controversial columnist condemns himself over 200 pages 0254
Reposted by Linda GrantIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 02/08/2026We made our own entertainment in the old days 041794
Reposted by Linda GrantSimon Landau @simonl6.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Franco used it as a base for his revolt and they still have a fascist obelisk in the town. There’s another exclave down the coast. Another problem waiting to happen. 101
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’d never heard of Ceuta until this morning. Had to look it up on a map. It’s Spanish territory adjacent to Morocco. They share a beach. 120
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026‘The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.’ 181
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social North Wales, ‘I can’t think what we did for two weeks because there’s nothing there.’👏👏👏 100
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Reading the Emily Wilson translation of the Odyssey. Odysseus is a bit of a shit really. 060
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Never mind The Odyssey, Ann Droid on BBC iPlayer is the best comedy since The Detectorists. Sue Johnstone as a widow whose son takes out a 24 month contract on a second hand robot carer called Linda, a kind of mobile chatbot. Which I dare say is the future for all of us. 050
Reposted by Linda GrantDanielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Well, someone called Wilson would say that 217124
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026four years into government, Blair’s team had declared mission accomplished, with a count of 532 people on the streets, a reduction of two-thirds. Compare that to now: in London alone, 11,993 people were seen sleeping rough in 2023/24, a number up 58% in a decade. share.google/v4K3o3TsnP4g...share.googleThe inside story of how Tony Blair's New Labour all-but ended rough sleepingThis article by Greg Barradale, Senior Report for The Big Issue has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. Greg speaks to the key players in the last Labour government to fi... 021
Reposted by Linda GrantBen DuBose @bendubose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Well, this will be fun in a few minutes 1053895840
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I watch football once in a blue moon. The result is always the same. Goalless draw. Goes to penalties which the team I’m supporting lose. I’m very careful never to watch Liverpool. 030
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Reading the forthcoming biography of Anita Brookner. During the Six Day War she volunteered to fight for Israel and passed the medical but it was over before she could see action. She was also a council tenant who brought her flat under right to buy. 050
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I predict a guest appearance by Queen Camilla at the Borsetshire show tonight. She’s probably in the market for one of Bill Gordon’s vintage motors. #thearchers 150
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Motown. Summer in the city music that never dates or dies. 0112
