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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 14h

Delighted - and honoured - to be welcomed as the guest of @eui-eu.bsky.social today. @britishacademy.bsky.social

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who will speak for me when I can no longer speak for myself? So enjoyed talking to David Runciman about the politics of old age and Beauvoir's astonishingly prescient 1970 book on Old Age - La Vieillesse.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would like women to have whatever colour hair they'd like. I would also like accurate data on: 50+ female unemployment rates; number of 65+ single women on/below poverty line; percentage of 50+ women unpaid carers; impact of austerity on all the above. And for that data to be headline news.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Restore saying the "sublime" part of ideology out loud in its Camden election "campaign": vote for us with the reassurance that there's no way we could actually win.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My boy started at TCD today (IP Msc), and I couldn't help think how proud his Brandywell/Bogside great nan would have been. Bursting proud - and probably very surprised!

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coming soon in our Mid-Century OUP series. How beautiful is this cover?

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have done the mandatory on-line courses that were in my in-box. Forgive me for taking so long. They were.... nothing like plums.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Uhm, gently: I'm not sure yet another mandatory on-line training course eating up valuable time and emotional energy is the answer to increasing levels of stress experienced by HE colleagues....even if the course is on... stress.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was such - in the Arendtian sense - FUN.

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Sheryl Gervais @sherylgervais.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So looking forward to this book!

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mss delivery day! OLD WOMEN: A HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE Jonathan Cape, June 2027 Scribner, September 2027 *pours drink.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mss delivery day! OLD WOMEN: A HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE Jonathan Cape, June 2027 Scribner, September 2027 *pours drink.

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode about 20th century philosophy and biography David talks to the historian and literary critic @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social about the life and thought of Hannah Arendt. What did it all mean for the human condition? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is an absolutely fabulous discussion. Thanks @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social. One for you @lilyrchadwick.bsky.social.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was such - in the Arendtian sense - FUN.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Current Malteser-to-word ratio also totally out of control.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have graduated from the writing in your pyjamas stage of book-finishing to the the writing in the the pyjamas that you put have put on backwards stage of book-finishing.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yesterday evening, my father finished watching the cricket, went upstairs, and then quietly died. He was always very clear about his priorities and I couldn't have wished him a better death. #cricket

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Iris Murdoch would have been on this plot in heartbeat. The story would not end well.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And the woman. The woman pulling the other woman's hair with clear intent to cause pain. We see her.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Were I not manically finishing a book, I would write a piece on how James Orr connects up with other rightwing, nationalist, authoritarian, Heideggerians. And why his Husserl and Edith Stein are different from mine.

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to philosopher & biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about the life & thought of Simone de Beauvoir. How was Beauvoir shaped by her childhood & was she a reliable narrator of her own history? Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Laurie Herring was my son's best friend, and my friend too. "Nobody has the right to obey!" Laurie quoted Arendt on his last ever insta post. Charles Foster's searing @thetls.bsky.social review of Andy Herring's account of his son's death explains why that matters. www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...

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A matter of life and death

In October 2019, Andrew Herring’s seventeen-year-old son, Laurie, a boy prodigy, tried to take his own life. It came out of the blue. Just forty hours earlier, he had scolded his father for putting sa...

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When you are 61, it seems, you can no longer run your way out of a hangover. ☹️

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My favourite Hannah Arendt book fan mail is from ppl like J, 82 y-0, from Oregon, who wrote this morning; a Vietnam War combat medic & member of Veterans for Peace, J likes to disobey by breaking up military shows that "celebrate murder." HA would have liked J in her mailbox too. 💙🚬 #Arendt

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"What convinces the masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.” - Arendt

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What a culture of spite and cruelty we've grown to tolerate.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Some states claim their sacred right to parts of the earth's surface so emphatically that it is hard to believe that human beings have a home at all." Re-reading the ethnographer, refugee, (and one time lover of Iris Murdoch), Franz Baermann Steiner who died much too young.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The distinction between writing "lightly" and writing superficially when writing a trade book is so so so ... difficult.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kudos, though, to Chatto & Windus for not handing over early electronic versions of her texts for scientific analysis after Murdoch's death in the late 1990s.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Trying to wrap my head around a spiky review of Iris Murdoch's last novel by man named Hugo Barnacle who apparently is not a character in an Iris Murdoch novel, but very much should have been.

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Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

👋 @britishacademy.bsky.social is launching a new international policy programme on ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’. 🎬 We are starting with a call for discussion papers. Proposals are welcome from practitioners, policymakers and researchers from anywhere in the world at any stage of their career

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Real intelligence is inextricable from organic embodiment, from being a feeling organism passing through time and space shaped in every moment by its needs, fears, desires." Excellent essay by Carmody Grey in today's @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“America, I told him, was torn between paradise and hell, and it was not suffering, it was numb.” - Etel Adnan

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I find dense histories tricky to keep straight, but ideas-based audiobooks really work for my brain. Naomi Klein's Doppelganger, Marina Warner's Sanctuary, and Rebecca Solnit's Orwell's Roses, Lyndsey Stoebridge's We are Free To Change and Philippe Sand's East West Street are really well recorded.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Flying back from French semi to English semi, to discover that nobody in London is really that interested in my story about how I watched the 1998 final with Etienne Balibar. ETIENNE BALIBAR.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just a reminder that unless you're a priest and you have her consent, women over 60 are not yours to "bless". Thanks loves.

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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘Government must urgently rethink this decision and restore funding to arts courses to meet its own growth strategy and allow students from all backgrounds to pursue their creative career ambitions.’ www.ism.org/news/univers...

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Decision to cut HE arts funding is ‘devastating’ - Independent Society of Musicians

The Independent Society of Musicians calls on government to rethink decision to cut funding for music and arts university courses

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We're* going to the Drag Show earlier this evening because they've postponed the Chicken poetry reading - an event to celebrate the arrival of the communal chickens hosted by the maternelle (elementary school) - because of the heat. *We live in a village of 350 people. 🐔 💃

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