Lyndsey Stonebridge
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
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Writer, professor, botherer. 'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love & Disobedience', 2024. 'Old Women: A History of Our Future', coming 2027. https://lyndseystonebridge.com/

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA FEA is an English scholar and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence on the mind in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a regular radio and media commentator, writing for publications such as The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, and New Humanist. .. more

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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Monday feelings with Louise Bourgeois.
proufos.bsky.social
Writing something triggered by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social's book on Arendt & her arrival in Marburg in 1924. The story includes (ordoliberal) Wilhelm Röpke & the murder of 15 workers by a fascist student militia in Mechterstädt during the days of the Kapp putsch. Interestingly, Röpke was part of >

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I've been to the US 2 times since Trump took office and both times I got ill (norovirus in May, Covid last week) which meant I looked at the country in a state of febrile panic and discomfort, which I think almost makes me American.

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"Imagination alone enables us to see things in their proper perspective." - Arendt.
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Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).

Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social
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My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Reposted by Steve Peers

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why do taxi drivers think it's ok to shout at women and when will the patriarchy end.

Reposted by Michael Larkin

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Beautiful letter in @theguardian.com from my University of Birmingham colleague, John Fagg, capturing - in the way metrics and league tables never could - the friendship that emerges from shared intellectual endeavour.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Learning to live with the loss of a friend | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an article by Justin Myers and share their own experiences of grief
www.theguardian.com

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Just terrible. Such a clever, funny, generous man.

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"bourgeois parents" v the Tate brothers.

Whatever will the Spectator be advocating next? Abolition of the propertied classes with their disproportionate wealth? Private ownership of the means of production? Lace tablecloths & scented candles?
youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be
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you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

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It is possible to support assisted dying without being an unimaginative twat about the condition of old age.

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Oh no - mine still asks if I saw the goal (he's 23). THANK YOU. That means much. (And PP was probably my favourite book ever to write....)

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Hooray (hope you like it....🫣) 🙏
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In between things, with some time to kill, a nice park and an English bookshop in the vicinity … very nice to see this in the shop window (and finally buy it) @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
Judith Butler:"It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are..invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal & rising authoritarianism. It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized" www.chronicle.com/article/when...
Opinion | When Universities Become Informants
A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.
www.chronicle.com

Reposted by S. J. Holmes

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It was in just such weeks as this that it was so so good to hear the wise, wonderful & witty voice of Conor Gearty.

He will be missed greatly. Thank you Conor.

Here is that voice again via @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
Are we losing our civil liberties?
Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
It was in just such weeks as this that it was so so good to hear the wise, wonderful & witty voice of Conor Gearty.

He will be missed greatly. Thank you Conor.

Here is that voice again via @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
Are we losing our civil liberties?
Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Same - our quite online current affarirsy 23-y-o is very very concerned.

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"The practice of violence changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world."
- Hannah Arendt