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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h
Wealthy use loophole to conceal value of £300m in Scottish land sales
Wealthy use loophole to conceal value of £300m in Scottish land sales
Prices paid for large estates not being disclosed on official register, land reform advocates say Land reform campaigners are alarmed at the increasing use of a legal loophole that allows landowners to conceal the price paid for Highland estates from the public register. Andy Wightman, a land reform analyst, said the loophole meant the prices paid in more than £300m-worth of Highland property transactions were not disclosed on the register. Continue reading...
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 6h
MLK’s daughter.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h
The first Palestinians returned to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing this week, after being stuck outside Gaza for two years or more. They described grueling interrogations, intimidation, and threats by Israeli soldiers at the crossing.

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#Palestine #Israel
Handcuffs, interrogation, humiliation: Palestinians describe Israeli treatment at Rafah crossing
The first Palestinians returned to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing this week, after being stuck outside Gaza for two years or more. They described grueling interrogations, intimidation, and...
mondoweiss.net

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 17h
Gaza doctors say Israel delivered mutilated corpses and bags of human remains to al-Shifa. Surgical cuts in the skulls and organ theft

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Israel sends 55 mutilated bodies, 66 bags of skulls to Gaza hospital
Gaza doctors say Israel delivered mutilated corpses and bags of human remains to al-Shifa. Surgical cuts in the skulls and organ theft
www.thecanary.co

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Dr Craig Dalȝell @thecommongreen.scot · 17h
In Common column repost

Common Weal celebrates the Scottish Government’s support for our policy of creating a National Housing Agency. We will now campaign to make sure that it is done properly.
The new National Housing Agency must serve people, not profit
Common Weal celebrates the Scottish Government’s support for our policy of creating a National Housing Agency. We will now campaign to make sure that it is done properly.
thecommongreen.scot

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 21h
I want more people to be able to put down roots in Scotland’s rural and island communities.

That’s why today I have launched a new Rural and Island Housing Grant, helping more first-time buyers and families afford a home.
Securing homes in rural and island communities
Funding for housing, farming and agricultural businesses.
www.gov.scot

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 1d
Deepening starvation in Sudan - Joint NGO statement following IPC alert on Sudan (5 February 2026) #Refugees
Deepening starvation in Sudan - Joint NGO statement following IPC alert on Sudan (5 February 2026)
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Stop Ecocide International @stopecocide.bsky.social · 1d
Scotland moves one step closer to making history as MSPs vote to advance the #Ecocide (Scotland) Bill!

The bill would make Scotland the first UK nation to introduce #EcocideLaw.

Learn more: www.stopecocide.earth/bn-2025/scot...

#StopEcocide

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d
🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Now available on pre-order
Wild Goose publications have surpassed themselves with their gorgeous production values for our second poetry collection based on our work with Cultures of Sustainable Peace www.ionabooks.com/product/fold...
Folding a River
Explore the powerful themes of migration, memory and the fragile work of hope in 'Folding a River'. Let these poignant poems inspire you.
www.ionabooks.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, of course Epstein had extensive Israeli connections, but the Russian ones are just evidentially more extensive — that was where the money and trafficable women were

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Our article is now fully published in volume 25 (6) and open access after online publication early in 2026

It was the most read paper in the journal in 2025 @khawlabadwan.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship
The article explores the notion of stunned languaging in the construction of poetic cries as a genre of grief in times of unspeakability while witnessing the online streaming of the Gaza Genocide. ...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
“In their article, Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ): […]Khawla and Alison talk about using language to help us process what we are seeing in our screens. We need to stretch and distort language, they say, to make it scream in order to express the horror.” Aspa Paltoglou www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... 2/
When there are no words, we’d better find some | BPS
Chartered Psychologist Dr Aspa Paltoglou on the responsibility of Psychologists to care about and speak up for the Palestinian people, through a book review.
www.bps.org.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ) - A piece we should never have had to write. Scholarship when every hope is gone and out of the failure of our disciplines

We invite you to read our piece again

@khawlabadwan.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d
Morning.

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 2d
We invite you again to this urgent yet daunting work which introduces a scholarship of heartbreak through stunned languaging.

The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.

A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship
The article explores the notion of stunned languaging in the construction of poetic cries as a genre of grief in times of unspeakability while witnessing the online streaming of the Gaza Genocide. ...
www.tandfonline.com

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d
Six Palestine Action activists have declared victory after being cleared of committing aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israel-based defence firm’s UK site
Activists celebrate victory as all 6 cleared in Israeli arms factory trial
www.thenational.scot

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 3d
❗️BREAKING -- Palestine Action protesters found not guilty of burglary at Elbit weapons factory in Bristol.

The six activists were also not convicted of other charges, having spent 18 months in jail awaiting trial.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d
Pleased to see the jury make this decision.

We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.

People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Eades @drmichaeleades.bsky.social · 3d
Heartbreaking piece here on the closure of the University of Essex’s Southend campus. Unlike much that’s written about universities, it really captures the deep emotional connection between university and place, and what it means when that’s lost: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com

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aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d
Israel suspends evacuation of patients via Rafah crossing: Red Crescent https://aje.news/qx8xy1
Israel suspends evacuation of patients via Rafah crossing: Red Crescent

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d
Trump to Kaitlan Collins after she pressed him on getting justice for Epstein survivors:

"No wonder CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she‘s a young woman. I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen you smile. I‘ve known you for 10 years. I don‘t think I‘ve ever seen a smile in your face."

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d
Al-Shifa Hospital director says blocking medical evacuations through Rafah crossing could be 'death sentence' for many https://aje.news/s1x9ou
Al-Shifa Hospital director says blocking medical evacuations through Rafah crossing could be 'death sentence' for many

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 3d
You guys literally will believe a dead pedophiles emails before you believe the women who survived him.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 3d
1000s of women gave repeated testimony of how a wealthy group of predators raped and abused them. And when the files to prove it come out, society gives all the credit to conspiracy theorists “for being right.”

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4d
Medical evacuees from Gaza entered Egypt on Monday as the Rafah border crossing reopened, marking a key step in the weak Israel-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic one
First medical evacuees leave Gaza for Egypt as Rafah crossing reopens
www.thenational.scot

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d
JUST IN | Israeli forces detonated & destroyed the Morag Water Station in Rafah today, a facility that supplied water to roughly one-third of the city’s residents before the war, Palestinian investigative journalist Younis Tirawi Reuters w/ footage purportedly circulated by Israeli soldiers. The...
JUST IN | Israeli forces detonated and destroyed the Morag Water Station in Rafah today, a facility that supplied water to roughly one-third of the city’s residents before the war, Palestinian investigative journalist Younis Tirawi Reuters with footage purportedly circulated by Israeli soldiers. The station, inaugurated in 2010 with funding from the Turkish Red Crescent, served around 70,000 people and has been assessed for urgent repairs by Oxfam and Gaza’s water utility in February 2025. See new posts Conversation Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi Rafah | Israeli troops blew up the Morag Water Station today, which according to Gaza’s water utility supplied water to roughly one-third of Rafah’s residents prior to the war. Soldiers captioned it : “We specialize in paint jobs, and small renovations. Details on DM"

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Chris Chang-Bacon @chrischangbacon.bsky.social · 4d
Calling all researchers and practitioners in multilingual education. RJME would love to see your work! Check out Rjme.org to see the range of pieces we're interested in (we accept a variety of formats). Feel free to reach out to me or the other co-editors with questions! @rjme-journal.bsky.social

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 5d
Our statement on the Government’s immigration proposals @uofgunescoriela www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
UNESCO RIELA statement - re: 'earned settlement'
‘Earned settlement’? Another dangerous shift away from protection
www.gla.ac.uk

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 5d
Rough translation: "Too many powerful people are suspects - including my bosses - so, we're not going to investigate. To hell with the victims. To hell with justice."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Todd Blanche says review of Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case ‘is over’
Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’
www.theguardian.com