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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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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 5h
“On the contrary, the evil of our time had become so gigantic that it had virtually outstripped the symbol and become autonomous, unrepresentable, beyond comprehension.” (Wink, 1986)

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 6h
Reposting this glorious headline from 2017 in Brian’s honour. @scotnational.bsky.social

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 6h
Thirty years a member of our Iona Community associates then family group: The Blessed Brian Quail

May you rest in the peace that is the justice you loved into being
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: Tributes have poured in following the death of a prominent Scottish independence and peace activist
Tributes pour in after death of 'leader in Scotland's peace movement'
www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: Tributes have poured in following the death of a prominent Scottish independence and peace activist
Tributes pour in after death of 'leader in Scotland's peace movement'
www.thenational.scot

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 10h
Lent discipline:

Unsubscribe.

Following ‘the fast required’:

Especially the cultivation of a love of mercy.

Also a reread ofWalter Wink’s Powers Trilogy @alastairmci.bsky.social

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 10h
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 11h
Bodies believed to be migrants wash ashore in Italy after storms #Refugees
Bodies believed to be migrants wash ashore in Italy after storms
www.infomigrants.net

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 19h
Israel demolishes the HQ of a UN agency in Jerusalem, and the UK government's response is to "condemn", "urge", "reiterate", and "call on" Israel.

With no sanctions or policy changes.

#DCUKparliament

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 20h
Ramadan kareem to and the same discipline of spirit and repentance to all of us observing Lent.

What a complement of fasting and prayer 🙏🏾

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 20h
Ash

My words are
burning my
mouth

My poetry
is starved
of the breath
with which
to form vowels
with which to
break fast
and make
fast

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 20h
Really looking forward to reading this Hanno @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21h
Israel has systematically destroyed Palestinian culture & history. Ethnocide

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Local and regional
economic collapse - Labour doing with little more than a Reform
-Style objection to foreign students what Thatcher and her Tories did to Steelworks and mines in 1980s - in hatred of any structures of opposition. Those communities NEVER recovered and I should know.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
🙏🏾

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 1d
I cover the Horn. Reporting on 🇵🇸🇮🇱 is generally not part of my mandate.

But the beats have aligned. Six months of work later, this weekend I'll have an investigation go live & it addresses Israel's genocide in Gaza and the African continent.

Coming to @aljazeera.com, hope you'll tune in.

🇰🇪🇿🇦🇪🇹

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d
"Jesse Jackson Made It Possible for Democrats to Speak About Palestine"

Activist James Zogby pays tribute to his late friend, who was the first politician to welcome Arab Americans into the Democratic Party - and even met with Yasser Arafat when others wouldn't.
Jesse Jackson Made It Possible for Democrats to Speak About Palestine
Activist James Zogby pays tribute to his late friend, who was the first politician to welcome Arab Americans into the Democratic Party - and even met with Yasser Arafat when others wouldn't.
zeteo.com

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d
Concerned that the UK—not the US, which remains far more resilient than everyone thinks—is the test case for what happens when you build a system of mass higher education then take it apart: it has happened far more quickly and is far more fragile here.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d
What Marco Rubio conveniently left out of his "ode to empire" at Munich over the weekend.

I brought some receipts about the human costs of Western imperialism in my latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 1d
Eek. "In controlled experiments...AI systems successfully swayed political views in ways that should alarm anyone concerned about democratic integrity. The most unsettling part though was that the most persuasive models were also the ones spreading the most inaccurate information."
How AI Chatbots Changed 26% of Voters' Political Views
Why AI Conversations Outperform Billions in Political Advertising
substack.com

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Texanna @texannadeb.bsky.social · 1d
I couldn't forward the article but I think the headline says it all.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: ‘It’s a coup’.

One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.

NB: They’re still not.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The US coup: one year on
I re-publish my piece from a year ago. It's not yet over. But it's nearly there...
open.substack.com

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 1d
AOC on Randy Fine: “This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official — It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this — Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept & normalize it”
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. speaking to a crowd (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 1d
It appears that the Government is finally waking up to the harm from misinformation and disinformation, at least for public health and measles vaccination.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
She is. She is.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
Crucial article by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the dimensions of a major scandal. A public inquiry is essential.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 – Starmer has nowhere to hide | Peter Geoghegan
He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
www.theguardian.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
He really was

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Just by way of encouragement. The world hasn’t ended because my metrics are based on wonky algorithms. My apple trees blossom. The harvest is plentiful.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
So unsubscribe first - maybe gradually. Reduce dependence. I’m accidentally locked out of a fair few platforms as I happen to share my name with another Prof and so we both get daubed with ‘impersonation’- She’s wonderful. Neither of our citation metrics are remotely correct. If they exist at all.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d
“The defining feature of modern life isn’t surveillance per se—it’s dependence. You don’t need to be watched constantly if your ability to participate in society is routed through systems that can be selectively turned off.” Thomas Karat open.substack.com/pub/karat/p/...
When Access Stops Being a Right
Here’s a quiet shift most of us haven’t fully clocked yet.
open.substack.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d
The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84.

See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f
Jesse Jackson 1941-2026 A photo of Jackson in his later years wearing a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition pin.