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UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow

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Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more

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UK for UNHCR @ukforunhcr.bsky.social · 1h
In northern Mozambique, families have endured years of insecurity and repeated displacement.

Now violence is spreading again.

The world must keep its eyes on Mozambique.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 1h
The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/07/t...
The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland
The big reveal that Malcolm Offord would be joining Reform UK was framed as a breakthrough moment for the far-right party. Without any real base here in Scotland, and safe in the knowledge that run…
bellacaledonia.org.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2h
“But far stranger than having a friend transformed overnight into a global icon was having a friend, a colleague in the publishing business, a holiday host, deliberately assassinated by a government in cahoots with my own”

Exactly how it feels to have lost this friend this way
Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
electronicintifada.net

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 7h
This is why a Job Guarantee can ONLY work if there is also a Universal Basic Income.

www.commonweal.scot/articles/8826
Jobs or Security, or Both? — Common Weal
Craig Dalzell - 10th March 2022 Back in 2017, I  wrote a policy paper  imagining various potential social security policies that  Scotland could explore once independent. It...
www.commonweal.scot

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 11h
‘Poverty is a human rights violation. We cannot realise our own human rights until we address tax’

I talk to Scotland’s human rights chief who says poverty is trashing citizens rights to food, warmth, education and healthcare. ‘It robs people of dignity’.

My Big Read @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Sickened human rights chief reveals how poverty is destroying Scotland
The head of the Scottish Human Rights Commission steps forward to say that poverty is robbing citizens of their dignity. She talks candidly to our…
www.heraldscotland.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 13h
Twas ever thus

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13h
Another weird billionaire with too much power
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Holy smokes! If you acted like Palantir CEO Alex Karp in a corporate meeting, they would report you to HR. Just saying.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 17h
My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all

www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Alison Phipps: Monolingualism was invented to serve capitalism and colonialism
THE majority of the world’s mother tongue is multilingual. The vast majority of the world’s people are multilingual people. Indeed, the idea of…
www.thenational.scot

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21h
Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now

The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech

The EU is the enemy of both

pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance
It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech
pdjukes.substack.com

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 1d
Miles of rubble and deep trauma in Gaza, even as lifesaving aid has been moving again in recent weeks after months of blockages.

We must continue the progress, and scale up further in the face of massive needs.

My interview with @jimsciutto.bsky.social on @cnn.com from DC.

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 1d
My latest for @aljazeera.com
"Why Qatar lives rent-free in the far right’s head: Conservative influencers are playing a central role in a new campaign of weaponising Islamophobia"
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202... #lauraloomer #tommyrobinson

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 1d
This is an extraordinary film - weaponising water in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpx...
How Israel is weaponising water in Gaza | People & Power Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.

Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d
Farage arrives in Scotland today, and it should make our collective stomach heave that this repulsive, dangerous extremist has crossed the border. Amid scapegoating schoolkids and allegations of antisemitism anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
"Farage in Falkirk? It should make our stomachs heave to have him in Scotland"
Nigel Farage’s Falkirk visit sparks outrage, with many Scots saying his presence north of the border should make “our stomachs heave”.
www.heraldscotland.com

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 1d
via @theferret.scot
Far-right agitators stand accused of stirring up trouble at asylum hotel protests. But anti-racists are standing firm
Following a sharp rise in far right activity, we’ve spent the last three months attending protests, speaking to activists under threat, and tracking anti-asylum seeker demonstrations across Scotland.
www.theferret.scot

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 1d
‘Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children… On average, Israeli weapons now kill seven people a day’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
www.theguardian.com

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow evening! Come and join us:
buytickets.at/sdhepress/19...
#WeKeepTelling #KeepTellingOfGaza #Poetry #Prose

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
www.theguardian.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d
Source: Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on YouTube

www.youtube.com/live/Y9E3z3g...
Sudan's Silent Genocide: An Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster
YouTube video by Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School
www.youtube.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Sorace said: “There are schools and teachers that really encourage children’s natural curiosity about each other’s languages and this is very positive not only for bilingual children, but for monolingual children. www.thenational.scot/news/2567627...
I'm an expert in bilingualism ... Nigel Farage's attack shows profound ignorance
NIGEL Farage has shown “profound ignorance” of the benefits of having multilingual children in classrooms, an expert has said ahead of his visit…
www.thenational.scot

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Consistently over the last two years one newspaper alone has shown moral leadership and journalists have stood in brave solidarity with their murdered colleagues @scotnational.bsky.social

www.thenational.scot/news/2567355...
A full timeline of Israel's repeated Gaza ceasefire violations
TWO months ago, a ceasefire was supposed to have brought Israel’s genocide in Gaza to an end ...
www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d
David Lammy has been urged to meet with prisoners on hunger strike calling for the de-proscription of Palestine Action
David Lammy urged to meet Palestine prisoners on hunger strike
www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d
Ferry passengers are set to get the chance to cross in even more comfort with the introduction of ‘lie-flat pods'
'Great opportunity': Island ferry service to introduce 'lie-flat pods'
www.thenational.scot

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d
Report by NGOs also finds healthcare system largely not functioning in Khartoum, months after city recaptured by army.
Sudan’s Khartoum needs ‘urgent’ help due to severe food shortages: Report
Report by NGOs also finds healthcare system largely not functioning in Khartoum, months after city recaptured by army.
bit.ly

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d
A charity has slammed the UK Government for 'ignoring' migrant children in its plan to tackle poverty
UK Government slammed for 'ignoring' migrants in child poverty plans
www.thenational.scot

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
You never know

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 2d
🔴I spent time getting to know the Pink Ladies, a group of 'ordinary mothers' who are funded by Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe and whose leader shared a stage with a prominent neo-Nazi. It was...eye-opening.

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 2d
It´s Friday, it's raining- and most of us have a safe place to stay, away from the rain and the cold. Palestinians do not have this luxury, the situation is catastrophic and wishing it away won´t help. But you can help by sharing and donating, you can offer real, tangible help. Please do.
looking through a child´s caleidoscope, slightly blurry golden shapes that look a bit like petals

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 2d
Useful reminder:
1) Migrant scientists already contribute to the NHS with their taxes like everyone. Abolish NHS supercharge!
2) why are only rich scientists welcome in the UK? What has wealth to do with science?

Colonial mentality is strong & alive

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy
Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is "shooting itself in the foot" with its visa system for researchers.
www.bbc.com