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Robert Rotifer

@robertrotifer.bsky.social
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Still the same one I was over there and there and there. (It’s not my bike!) Posting mainly from anywhere.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve watched NAZA for @fm4.orf.at, and here’s why I think you should watch it too (auf Deutsch). fm4.orf.at/story/naza-d...
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Die israelische Doku „NAZA“: Man hat davon gewusst
Der vieldiskutierte Film „NAZA“ von Yuval Abraham und Rachel Szor dokumentiert die dreijährige Zerstörung des Gazastreifens aus der Perspektive israelischer Soldat:innen und Geheimdienstmitarbeiter:in...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 11h
For a deeper understanding of what’s going on in post-Berlin local elections discourse around the Left, recommend Eva von Redecker’s piece in the Guardian which doubles as a potted version of her fascism analysis & counter-strategy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von Redecker
Die Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right, says writer and philosopher Eva von Rede...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 12h
For those who like long German words, here’s a Vorbestellungsempfehlung
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People in Europe are always surprised when you tell them that the good old moderate UK normalised the idea of stripping people of their citizenship for political reasons back in 2019
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Okay, I’m biased here, but this is great www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/eva-m...
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Eva Menasse über den Antisemitismus bei der Berliner Linkspartei: „Ich finde die Instrumentalisierung jüdischer Ängste unerträglich“
Ein Gespräch mit der Schriftstellerin Eva Menasse über den offenen Brief von 150 Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden für ein Linksbündnis und warum sie ihn unterschrieben hat – obwohl sie an Elif Eralps Pläne...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘The result is the mainstreaming of a politics of enmity, desolidarisation, separation, sacrifice and elimination as the dominant response to today’s economic, ecological and geopolitical crises.”
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Legitimised to sign this by the Halacha, so I did. docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Offener Brief: Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden für eine soziale und sichere Stadt
Offener Brief: Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden für eine soziale und sichere Stadt English below Berlin, den Tag nach der Wahl Wir sind Berliner Jüdinnen und Juden und kommen aus unterschiedlichen Milieus;...
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Christian Cargnelli @chrisl7000.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent @robertrotifer.bsky.social show feat Scott Fagan, Mulatu Astatke, British Birds (remember "Sunshine of your love"? 😉), Die Brüder, Dritte Hand, Trá Pháidin, @themagfields.bsky.social, Go-Betweens, Meg Lui, Tommy James & The Shondells, Arborist, Richard Thompson. fm4.orf.at/sendung/1029...
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Heartbeat
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT, goes off on a couple of tangents to make the sort of connections algorithms won't find cause they're based on the stuff humans write and sing about, not likelihood or similarity. Here's another playlist then: www.instagram.com/p/DdjeLSCs2G...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Still new to Berlin and learning, but I have to say the legitimisation of plain old hatred of foreigners by putting whole communities under collective suspicion of antisemitism is one of the most irresponsible, cynical and outright dangerous political fads I’ve come across.
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Quentin Lichtblau @lichtblauq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ich warte ja immer auf die "Warum wählen so viele junge Menschen links?"-Berichterstattung aber im Gegensatz zu den 3000 Storys über AfD-Teens kommt die irgendwie nicht ???
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My first elections in Berlin, babes
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not the expertise that he has to offer, just the cheapest way to make the governing party look silly when they were about to get uppity.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thought this just happens to me.
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Dillon @freeyourradio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I played on the title track of Helen's album as well, it's a brave, haunting song about the abuse of women in the punk era. One of those that needed to be written. Come along to the gig, is what I wanted to say...
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Someone on BBC news on the radio there talking about how one of the venues to have cancelled Macklemore for alleged antisemitism has still booked Kanye, and describing this apparent hypocrisy as 'confusing.' But it is not confusing.
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Christian Cargnelli @chrisl7000.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another fine @robertrotifer.bsky.social show: Austrian indie (Holli, Sofie Royer), classics (Television), retro singer-songwriters (Sam Burton, Owen Duff), best Fleetwood Mac impersonation ever (Meg Lui) & everything else (Rotes Haus, Beck, @sqrrlflwr.bsky.social). fm4.orf.at/sendung/1027...
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Heartbeat
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’ve written this for @fm4.orf.at about the Saxony-Anhalt elections v the Farage continuum and “polite” new blackshirts and what to do about it all. Auf Deutsch. fm4.orf.at/story/farage...
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Radikal, aber anders? Reagieren auf die Rechtsextremen
In Sachsen-Anhalt gewinnen die Rechtsextremen, in englischen Küstenstädten terrorisieren sie die Straßen – es gibt einen politischen Notfall in Europa, und die Antwort darauf sind nicht neue „Erzählun...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“hodgepodge”, Christian calls it… It’s weird but I can always hear if something is music for the show (v much not the same as whether I like it or not) or will sound right in that context. Like @jonathancoe.bsky.social’s Peer Group working so well next to Matthew Edwards (both Birmingham I suppose)
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mrs Norris changes trains…
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat is getting underway in less than half an hour. It feels wrong to recommend one's own show, but then I do it every other week, so I’ve become numb to the embarrassment. Playlist is here: www.instagram.com/p/Dc_2L5wx6b...
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Robert Rotifer on Instagram: "Recording today’s radio FM4 Heartbeat, on air & stream from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT, found myself yet again carried away by the endless riches of the music making world: You ...
4 likes, 0 comments - robertrotifer on September 7, 2026: "Recording today’s radio FM4 Heartbeat, on air & stream from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT, found myself yet again carried away by the endless riches of...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Occasionally feel like I must have missed something when the unbelievable is reported as commonplace, but that last paragraph IS astonishing, right? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband promises ‘comprehensive reset’ of UK policy toward Israel
Foreign secretary tells MPs he will try to stop illegal settlements carving up the West Bank
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sending records across the Atlantic in the 2020s has become a thing of utter unpredictability. This one rebounded before it finally made it to Canada (not just the US that’s difficult!) Oh, and thanks for ordering, Wally! x
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Christian Cargnelli @chrisl7000.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Heute vor 76 Jahren erschien diese kurze Besprechung eines Auftritts von Georg Kreisler in der New Yorker Monkey Bar. Variety, 30. August 1950. #GeorgKreisler #Exil @robertrotifer.bsky.social
"George Kreisler has an intelligent approach to his material. There's much subtlety in his tunes. He has a polished sense of satire and a mature delivery that's order-built for eastsideries. Goes over excellently."
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seems this is far-right propaganda, so far, as Ghent University has not yet decided on Cofnas’s case. Still, the fact that the U.S. ambassador actively intervenes in this specific case is yet another loud a warning call for Europe.
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Christian Cargnelli @chrisl7000.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Excellent and, as always, very informative @robertrotifer.bsky.social show feat Nina Linder-Wind, Teenage Fanclub (yes, they can still do it!), @kristinhersh.bsky.social, The Tubs, Arborist, Jo The Man The Music, Biita Houdei, Westside Cowboy, Curbs, Ibibio Sound Machine. fm4.orf.at/sendung/1024...
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Heartbeat
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tonight's @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, from 22:00CET/9pmGMT, for u Nurds, from The Roches (pictured) via Nasser Bouzida, Nina Winder-Lind, Kristin Hersh, Beck, Arborist, Biita Houdei to Teenage Fanclub, Julia Holter, Lambchop, Sir Richard Bishop & then some. Playlist: www.instagram.com/p/Dca13qPsAx...
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Robert Rotifer on Instagram: "Tonight’s radio FM4 Heartbeat, from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT, and as usual I don’t know where to start until I get carried away: There’s tiny Davy Jones trying to sell a song ...
14 likes, 0 comments - robertrotifer on August 24, 2026: "Tonight’s radio FM4 Heartbeat, from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT, and as usual I don’t know where to start until I get carried away: There’s tiny Davy ...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
By now everyone’s written a column about Jason Arday and/or about how everyone writing a column about him was responsible for his death. Mine’s more about structural racism in British academia and bad faith in culture war debates. For @fm4.orf.at auf Deutsch. fm4.orf.at/story/jason_...
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Jason Arday und die Wahrheit hinter den Krokodilstränen
Eine Woche nach dem Tod des Cambridge-Professors Jason Arday umschifft der wortreiche Diskurs um ihn immer noch die Essenz des Falls. Nämlich, was er uns über das britische System der strukturellen Un...
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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Actually sad what AI has done to the world of souvenir fridge magnets, postcards, etc. It's kind of microcosmic of the whole issue: the people in charge of fridge magnets don't seem to care that fridge magnets actually matter to people who collect fridge magnets.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A whole show about the Radical Friendship Theory album. Thanks, Johann Kneihs!
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As I keep saying: there is a class of people who have absolutely radicalised themselves to very extreme political positions, completely taken leave of their senses. And we know about this because they write about it for a living, they can’t wait to tell us all about their new epiphanies.
((Dan Hodges))) @ @DPJHodges•4h
So on the asylum brochure debate someone posted something genuinely interesting. And apologies, I just lost your post so can't credit.
They said we should restrict asylum to women and children. And I think there's potentially something in that.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Awaiting German & Austrian discourse about how this is 1) a mistranslation, 2) he's only fringe so it doesn't matter, 3) he's actually right anyway because some WWII analogy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israel’s Ben-Gvir posts video of gallows site for hanging Palestinians
Far-right minister says those convicted in military courts of terror offences will be executed after passing of death penalty law that does not apply to Jewish extremists
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On another timeline elsewhere, I'm still being fed Spectator clickbait, and though I know the way is to ignore it, the sheer crassness of this... (Where is the link? Ah, of course...)
What Cambridge should have learned from the Milli Vanilli fiasco  - Jonathan Maitland, The Spectator
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Proud to be featured on Goetz Steeger's ByteFM Popkocher podcast where the hits are taken to bits, track by track, and lovingly reassembled. popkocher-podcast.podigee.io/58-radical-f...
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Radical Friendship Theory – Listen To The News
Im August widmet sich der PopKocher dem Song "Listen To The News" von Radical Friendship Theory.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Massive thanks to @gidcoe.bsky.social for playing Listen to the News from the Radical Friendship Theory album on his BBC 6music show last night.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@misik.bsky.social, Hi Robert, ganz deine Sache, wen du blockst, aber Simon ist so gut wie gar nicht bösartig und wollte nur dein Buch promoten. Schöne Grüße
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
German radio listeners: About to go on your DLF Kultur to talk about Jason Arday and how the system of elite education demands people from minorities to be fantastic superheroes to come through.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For understanders of German: Interessante Fragen und Rudern um Antworten.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wrote something for @fm4.orf.at about the Clacton by-election, and how I really don’t see what everyone is being so smug about. Auf Deutsch. fm4.orf.at/story/clacto...
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Der Mülleimer des Widerstands – Wie man den Rechtspopulismus im UK nicht besiegt
Hat der britische Rechtsdemagoge Nigel Farage sich diese Woche nun souverän gegen einen Mülleimer durchgesetzt – oder sich durch sein wahltaktisches Manöver selbst erniedrigt? Jede:r sieht, was sie:er...
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Christian Cargnelli @chrisl7000.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fine @robertrotifer.bsky.social show w Nora Stanley, Ed Askew, Eels, Family Stereo, British Birds, Liam Hayes, Television, Alex Burey, Zeronic, Jaybirds, Railcard, Shannon Lay and Linda Perhacs's "Parallelograms", produced by legendary film composer Leonard Rosenman! fm4.orf.at/sendung/1021...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tonight's @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, on air & stream from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT, is 2 hours of joyful proof that despite popular claims to the contrary, people still write interesting songs that tell unusual stories, change tempo or modulate wildly. Playlist found here: www.instagram.com/p/Db3Uf3Ws3b...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The whole dynamic described in Jason Okundaye’s very good piece reproduces the traditional British educational idea of the rare deserving individual pulled out of the lower classes to validate an elitist exclusive system, but with some progressive rhetoric on top. Basically it’s The Scholarship Boy.
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Audio Antihero (Josaleigh Pollett LP Out 7/24!) @audioantihero.bandcamp.com · 04/08/2026
Been really enjoying the new @robertrotifer.bsky.social album since it arrived. robertrotifer.bandcamp.com/album/radica...
CD copy of Robert Rotifer’s ‘Radical Friendship Theory’ with an action figure of Willow Nightingale, who is a friend to all.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lovely piece on Radical Friendship Theory in Austrian weekly profil. www.profil.at/kultur/pop-f...
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Ein Pop-Juwel: Robert Rotifer bringt seine „Radical Friendship Theory“ zur Blüte
In seinem jüngsten Pop-Projekt entwirft der Musiker Robert Rotifer eine Theorie der radikalen Freundschaft. Sie klingt bestens – und very british.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Radical Friendship by Radical Friendship Theory, with a video by genius German graphic novelist Barbara Yelin. Watch this, then buy all her books (and our record, obviously) youtu.be/vHVEc0xOjuY
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Radical Friendship by Radical Friendship Theory
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Audio Antihero (Josaleigh Pollett LP Out 7/24!) @audioantihero.bandcamp.com · 31/07/2026
This is great.
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s release day for the Radical Friendship Theory album out now on Spinout Nuggets. Very excited that people finally get to hear it. Thanks to Kenji, @ianbutton, Helen McCookerybook, The Zew and John Howard for being part of the gang.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thanks to this piece I have discovered there's a business called Artists Included, and I cannot think of a more hideous waste of everyone's time and the earth's precious resources.
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