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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 21h

This will be a proper one-off, the RFT band featuring Kenji, Helen, Ian Button, Allan Crockford, Ruth Tidmarsh and myself.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, about to start at 22:00CET/9pmGMT, wishing belated happy birthday to the man with the mallets in amongst this intergenerational playlist: www.instagram.com/stories/robe...

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I mean, it would help make me not feel quite so dizzy with disbelief if one of those Israel stan accounts I get pushed at me didn’t use the occasion to post this grossly antisemitic, demonic distortion of Zack Polanski’s face to make out that he’s an er… Jewish antisemite. What times!

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apart from being a huge own goal in lending fuel to endless told-you-sos, it really is just what it sounds like: a lot of feedback noise from the social media loop, a lot like the way the right come up with their policies now. And that’s bad news.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Read the text of the Greens’ Zionism=Racism resolution now, and I’m afraid it reads like an average “simple as that” FB rant by someone’s uncle, all rhetoric, no sense of history. If you’ve never heard of, say, Hashomer Hatzair you shouldn’t pass judgement like that, least of all as party policy. /

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Jan Hestmann @jotdot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kollege Robert Rotifer hat einen sehr starken Text über einen sehr wichtigen Film geschrieben, den ich diese Woche auch schon sehen konnte, und der mich zuerst einmal sprachlos gemacht haben. Morgen reden wir dann auch auf @fm4.orf.at in der Sendung OKFM4 ausführlich darüber.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So much of this recognisably copies the way Corbyn era Labour was monstered in 2017-19, but we’re a few pages on in the playbook.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 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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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

fm4.ORF.at: Berichte und Kommentare zu Musik, Popkultur, Film, Literatur, Games und Politik.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(Pic is The Genesis from Luton around 1967, in a park, underdressed)

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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

Add to that the ultra-cynical way this is being used as a convenient way to tarnish the more immigrant-friendly Left. Having been round the block a few times, as a rule I would not take any lessons on antisemitism from the right.

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(and I’ve spent three decades in the UK witnessing the run-up to the Iraq war, Brexit, the monstering of Brown, Miliband & Corbyn, the whole Johnson era…)

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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

“Wart einmal ab in den Zwanzigerjahren, was da alles noch kommt”

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mystifying! They must have run out of space

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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interesting, but there must be a bit missing, surely?

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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

Of course this happens at the same time that I see people openly saying that they’d typed a question such as “is this filmmaker Hamas?” into an AI and calling this “research”, then going, “Why aren’t the media on to what my research has found? What else are they hiding?”

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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

My new album that Helen mentions is Radical Friendship Theory, this time performed by Kenji, Helen, Ian Button, Allan Crockford, Michael J Sheehy, Ruth Tidmarsh & me. Been a while since I posted the wonderful watercolour video of the title song by artist Barbara Yelin www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHVE...

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Radical Friendship by Radical Friendship Theory

YouTube video by Robert Rotifer

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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

fm4.ORF.at: Berichte und Kommentare zu Musik, Popkultur, Film, Literatur, Games und Politik.

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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 · 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 · 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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