Reposted by Linda GrantSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe 54608176
Reposted by Linda GrantThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/10/2026The history of Zionism includes varied conceptions of the Jewish state—and could offer a path for Israel’s future, Adam Kirsch argues:bit.lyWhat Is Zionism?To understand what the word means today, you have to go back to the beginning of the story. 0102
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I thought Marco Polo brought noodles back from China 110
Reposted by Linda GrantGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party. 3571353212
Reposted by Linda GrantLinda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gary Younge on Zionism and antisemitism 35516
Reposted by Linda GrantMichele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It 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. 0171
Reposted by Linda GrantDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In the wake of the “Zionism is Racism” UN motion spearheaded by the Soviet Bloc & Arab League in 1975 (repealed in 1990), there was a concentrated campaign at universities around the UK to ban Jewish societies.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. 15513
Reposted by Linda GrantAlistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This 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 · 04/10/2026The "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. 42510145
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 · 02/10/2026www.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. 010
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-... 0246
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 · 14/09/2026How will they build the robots if they don’t have physical form? 110
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 · 31/08/2026HL uncovers almost nothing about her personal life. 010
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Thanks for the heads up. He had a complicated relationship with her. See also the decline and death of Anita Brookner in Hermione Lee’s new biography. 110
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I was at the northern premier at the Royal Court in Liverpool with my mother. We were in the stalls, the Beatles were in the front row of the dress circle looking down and waving. Fabulous film. 130
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. 193354115285
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. 45121515977
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
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I read that. It was very courageous of her to write this. I hope she finds a path back to a happier life. 000
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