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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I wrote about a Green politician who, if you haven't yet heard of her, you probably will soon novaramedia.com/2026/04/08/i...
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Is Zoë Garbett the Greens’ Secret Weapon? | Rivkah Brown
While Zack Polanski has catapulted the Greens to national prominence, Zoë Garbett has been chipping away at Labour’s base in Hackney. Has her moment finally arrived? Rivkah Brown finds out.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I wrote 3,500 words on the escalating attempts to portray the Green party as antisemitic, and why it's proving a struggle. Please enjoy them: novaramedia.com/2026/03/17/r...
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Replicating an Antisemitism Crisis in the Greens Is Proving Tougher Than Some Had Hoped | Rivkah Brown
Having a Jewish leader has not insulated the Green party from accusations of antisemitism. The Gaza genocide and the waning moral authority of the Greens’ accusers might have, however. Rivkah Brown re...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
SCOOP: The UK gave £90,000 to an Israeli report claiming that Hamas used sexual violence as a “weapon of war”. The Israeli government used the UK-funded report in a massive propaganda campaign, while Israeli officials called it a “significant public diplomacy tool”.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
After several recent setbacks in the courts (Maria Kelly, Sandie Peggie), the anti-trans movement celebrated a long-awaited victory last week when the Darlington nurses (mostly) won their case against the NHS. What does it mean for trans rights? Lawyers disagree 🧵
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Some incredible comedy last night at the Union Chapel in aid of the Gaza Sunbirds, Gaza's paracycling team – kudos to @mrnishkumar.bsky.social and the nine other comedians for performing for free! Expect to see me cycling around town in a Sunbirds jersey in approx 10 working days 📭
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Billionaire "rogue landlord" (a judge's words, not mine) John Christodoulou owes his former tenants £263,555.69. Instead of paying them, he's pressuring media outlets – including, unsuccessfully, @novaramedia.com – to remove negative coverage of him. My story: novaramedia.com/2026/01/16/t...
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This Billionaire Landlord Bullied Journalists Into Deleting Negative Coverage of Him
‘Rogue landlord’ John Christodoulou owes hundreds of thousands of pounds to former tenants. Instead of paying them, he is pressuring journalists to remove coverage of his unlawful behaviour. Rivkah Br...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
After six years in court and a reported £1m+ spent on legal fees, Allison Bailey – co-founder of LGB Alliance and a friend of JK Rowling's – has lost her appeal against Stonewall. Bailie tried unsuccessfully to prove that Stonewall had caused her chambers to drop her for her gender-critical views 🧵
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Last week, the media declared a “partial victory” for Sandie Peggie, who sued the NHS for letting a trans colleague use the women’s changing room. In fact, the case was a flop. The gender-critical movement might be persuading journalists, but it’s failing with judges 🧵
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct". 10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email. This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening. Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza. My report:
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Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda | Novara Media
Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
NEW: DESNZ cancelled a bake sale by staff for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, saying the charity was too politically sensitive. Union members wrote to secretary of state Ed Miliband citing "anti-Palestinian racism" and received no response. novaramedia.com/2025/09/18/g...
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Government Department Cancelled a Charity Bake Sale for Palestine | Novara Media
Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero cancelled a planned fundraiser after officials accused the charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians, of political lobbying. Rivkah Brown reports.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The belly flop is the signature move of this government. “Phase two of my government starts today,” Keir Starmer intoned on 1 September, signalling little more, it turned out, than his own hubris. A portrait of a PM in his final throes, by @joecguinan.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/09/15/a...
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Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face | Novara Media
Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Marie launched Changing Politics in 2018. If she thought McSweeney had no idea what he was doing, why did she write this 5 days after Starmer made him chief of staff?
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Glad mainstream journalists have finally asked Peter Mandelson some tough questions about his association with Jeffrey Epstein, which has been public knowledge since at least 2019. Here's me asking Epstein's beloved "Petie" about his late friend at 2023 Labour conference
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Big scoop from @novaramedia.com's Harriet Williamson: BBC Global News execs wrote to BBC News (the UK service) telling them to correct their claim that Anas al-Sharif worked with Hamas, as the BBC had no evidence for it. BBC News *ignored their own colleagues* and the article remains uncorrected.
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BBC Ignored Internal Request to Correct Claim Anas Al-Sharif Worked With Hamas | Novara Media
Exclusive: A leaked email shows that the BBC ignored an internal request to correct reporting that smeared Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, killed by Israel in August, as a Hamas operative. Ha...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The first move of new Green party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn't a policy (he'd already made a wealth tax his big thing) – it was a podcast. It's a sure sign of a leftwing leader who's learned from his predecessors' mistakes. Me for @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/opinion/zack...
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Zack Polanski is doing what Corbyn couldn’t: Play the media game
The new Green Party premier’s first move? Launch a podcast. It’s a sure sign of a leftwing leader that’s not about to repeat past mistakes, writes Rivkah Brown.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer were handed a combined 3.5 years for doing £8-10k of damage to the frame of Van Gogh's Sunflowers. Turns out the gallery spent just £150 retouching it. And we're really still talking about 2-tier policing? novaramedia.com/2025/08/22/t...
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The National Gallery Only Spent £150 Retouching Van Gogh Frame After Just Stop Oil ‘Souping’ | Novara Media
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer were jailed last year after being found guilty of causing between £8,000 and £10,000 worth of damage. Yet emails between gallery staff show the amount actually spent on...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A man claimed to be the victim of an antisemitic mob. His alleged assailants say he instigated the altercation, calling Arabic-speaking patrons ‘terrorists’. The Guardian printed one side of the story. This is how hysteria is manufactured. Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/08/11/w...
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Why Did the Guardian Run an Unverified Antisemitism Story? | Novara Media
A man claimed to be the victim of an antisemitic mob. His alleged assailants say he instigated the altercation, calling Arabic-speaking patrons ‘terrorists’. The Guardian printed one side of the story...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I had no idea that Fifa awarded the 1934 World Cup to fascist Italy despite Mussolini using the tournament as a propaganda tool. Just one of the many things *you too* can learn from Juliet Jacques's excellent @novaramedia.com peice about Fifa's revisionist history. novaramedia.com/2025/08/04/t...
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The Fifa Museum Is a Masterclass in Reputational Whitewashing | Novara Media
Handing world cups to fascist dictatorships, brown-nosing Trump, endless corruption scandals - there’s an awful lot of history on display at Fifa’s Zurich museum and absolutely none of the stuff that ...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Why was this story – which weaponises hostages' experiences to undermine Palestinians' claim to recognition – leading @theguardian.com's homepage until moments ago? “I suppose this is Kath [Viner, the paper's editor-in-chief] trying to both-sides a genocide again," one Guardian journalist told me.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Green leadership candidate Zack Polanski says would-be members of a rumoured new left party should "stop pissing about and join the Greens". My profile for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/06/25/z...
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Zack Polanski Is Done Talking | Novara Media
The Green politician’s surprise leadership bid has excited a rudderless left. Could he turn the Greens from a byword for well-meaning environmentalists into a mass movement? Rivkah Brown meets Zack Po...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Which do we prefer: cute with a hint of sneer or straight-on with a hint of babushka?
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
How are political prisoners treated compared to, and by, other prisoners? How do they adapt to confinement? What's the most popular vape flavour at HMP The Mount? This and more on episode 2 of Committed ⛓️ open.spotify.com/episode/655Q...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@clarehymer.bsky.social and I have spent the past 5 months interviewing Britain's political prisoners about life inside – and thinking about the kind of people that give up their freedom for a cause. Ep 1 of Committed is out today, listen here or on the NM podcast feed novaramedia.com/committed/
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Committed | Novara Media
Britain is locking up peaceful climate activists. You’ve probably heard of some of them – they’re the road-blockers, soup-throwers and spray-painters who’ve made headlines around the world with Just S...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Always blows my mind that Miriam Margolyes can be on the cover of Vogue one minute but the minute she opens her mouth about Palestine...............crickets
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Running an inflammatory headline from a 3-month-old report on antisemitism today, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is the kind of irresponsible, sensationalist journalism I'd expect from the Jewish Chronicle, not the Guardian.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Itsu said Jeremy Corbyn 4 PM
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
NEW: The Palestine movement is headed for a historic confrontation with police this Saturday as organisers say they'll go ahead despite a police ban. Police cite disruption to nearby synagogues – despite services finishing 2 hours before protesters arrive. novaramedia.com/2025/01/14/p...
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Palestine Marchers Set to Defy Police Ban | Novara Media
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has always cooperated with police, until now. Rivkah Brown reports on why the group is refusing to cancel Saturday's central London march, despite the Met doubling do...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
There has been a notable shift here in the approach of the PSC, which previously changed the start time of its marches to accommodate the police's demands – but is now doubling down on its plans. Clear emboldening of the Palestine movement. By contrast, rightwing Jewish groups 1/
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
NEW: 700+ British Jews have signed a statement criticising the Met's attempted ban on Saturday's Palestine march, calling it a "brazen attempt to interfere with hard-won political freedoms by conjuring up an imaginary threat to Jewish freedom of worship.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/b...
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British Jews Call Bullshit on Met’s Attempt to Ban Palestine March | Novara Media
Over 700 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption....
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Hugely enjoyed Allie Carr's thoughtful, vulnerable long read about falling in and out of love with Russell Brand novaramedia.com/2025/01/13/i...
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I Drank the Russell Brand Kool-Aid | Novara Media
His outsider status and unabashed spiritualism made TV star Russell Brand feel like a kindred spirit to a young Alison J Carr. As his alleged sexual misconduct and alt-right tendencies come to light, ...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
SCOOP: BBC News global director Jonathan Munro lambasted journalists who said they feared the BBC could be "aiding and abetting genocide" by suppressing the ICJ ruling, suggesting the ruling wasn't as significant as they thought. novaramedia.com/2025/01/09/b...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hisham was dismissed from his software company for calling for a ceasefire on LinkedIn. Disciplining him, HR told him that the CEO had a son who'd served in the IDF. He's now taking his former employer to court. Support his legal case: www.crowdjustice.com/case/got-ter...
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Fired for standing in solidarity with Palestine, CEO's son in the IDF!
I am Hisham, a family man. I am originally from Egypt with friends in Palestine (not that I needed to have any to advocate for Humanity). I am also a Muslim.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
3 years ago, DW fired 7 journalists from its Arabic service on inflated charges of antisemitism (including a post describing Israel as “IsraHell”). Now it emerges they let slide an employee who said egregious things about Muslims. Remind me who doesn't count? www.newarab.com/investigatio...
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Islamophobia vs. antisemitism: Deutsche Welle’s double standard
While DW fires journalists over antisemitism allegations, a leaked internal complaint shows it fails to apply the same standards in instances of Islamophobia.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"How and why have the progenitors and advancers of concepts like ‘critical consciousness’, ‘decolonise/decolonisation’, and ‘epistemic and cognitive justice’ fallen so short of the mark in speaking ‘truth to power’?" doi.org/10.1080/1476...
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Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities
This essay takes up Edward Said’s insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
People are tired of liberal identity politics, and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Trump proves it. @leninology.bsky.social's article debut for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...
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Identity Politics Is Dead, and the Far Right Knows It | Novara Media
People are tired of identity politics - and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Donald Trump proves it, writes Richard Seymour.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Starmer isn't just trying to out-Tory the Tories on protest policing – he's following in a proud Labour tradition. An excellent potted history by @francescanwtn.bsky.social
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Embarrassing watching liberal commentators try to distract from Owen Jones' 9k-word, months-long investigation on the BBC & Gaza by obsessing over him accidentally liking a comment underneath it. Thankfully most people aren't as weird and petty as James Ball. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/owen-joness-...
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Owen Jones’s non-apology for liking anti-Semitic bile
The Guardian columnist wrote a 9,000 word rant on the BBC’s sloppiness over the Israel/Hamas war, then failed to read a 37-word anti-Semitic comment – which he then liked
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A class act? He was *close* friends with a convicted paedophile! And also, incidentally, with Sopel's podcast co-host, Emily Maitlis. This kind of shameless, utterly transparent circling of the wagons by the liberal centre is the kind of behaviour that got Trump elected.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
What a tidbit: when Raffi Berg discovered that @owenjones.bsky.social was reporting on his allegedly biased editorship of Palestine coverage, he hired defamation lawyer Mark Lewis, former director UK Lawyers for Israel 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...
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The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza
The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wes Streeting weaponising his identity as a gay man to justify his puberty blocker ban, announced today and starting in January. Despicable.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Elon Musk is the perfect mascot for Trump's second presidency, writes @kojokoram.bsky.social: someone who promises not a return to a once-great America, but a glittering future rewired in the interests of the rich novaramedia.com/2024/12/10/e...
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Perhaps Hodge could start by investigating herself, and what she did with all that money she made from her family's apartheid-era South African business? She previously said she donated the money to charity, but can't remember which. Strange!
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Novara Media @novaramedia.com · 05/12/2024
Amnesty International has published a landmark report concluding that Israel’s assault on Gaza constitutes genocide, in a move that may normalise the term within political and media arenas, writes @rivkahbrown.bsky.social.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'd like to speak to disabled people making preparations for the potential introduction of assisted dying in the UK – perhaps changing your care plan, informing friends & family of your wishes, changing your will. Email me at rivkah@novaramedia.com 📧
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Every time I see Labour press releases leading the Guardian, I think of this
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It's good that Steve McQueen's latest film presents itself as a misty-eyed British war drama, writes Juliet Jacques – it needs to reach as big an audience as possible. novaramedia.com/2024/11/25/b...
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Blitz Is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film to Date – and That’s No Bad Thing | Novara Media
The former Turner Prize-winning artist’s latest work is racial history masquerading as a chocolate-box depiction of the second world war, writes Juliet Jacques.
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Billionaire media will never care about the symptoms of climate breakdown, nor liberal media about its causes. I'll be sharing these and other ideas at the European Green Academy in Brussels later today, provided I don't catch my death in the meantime 🥶
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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
After my April 2020 flight to Tokyo was cancelled (for obvious reasons), I'm finally going to Japan in the spring. What histories/fiction should I read?
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