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Alex Renton

@axrenton.bsky.social

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Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy - slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip - abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners. alexrenton.com

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 23h

St Giles Cathedral just now, the celebration service for a great (and lovely) man, Sir Geoff Palmer.

Memorial service Geoff Palmer St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 1d

Funny… no. 1 story in the Guardian’s top ten most read.

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 2d

The current Duke of Argyll is a Torquil, to his friends. ‘Your Grace’ to everyone else.

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social for keeping eye on the mad, racist right-wing media so we don't have to.

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 5d

what’s the punchline?

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 5d

But, punks? early Goths, surely? (Tho their thrash version of Ziggy Stardust)

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 6d

Supporting the liberation of Palestine, while loathing antisemitism. As ever.

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 8d

London, ordinary cafe, modest breakfast for two - £57.12.
Two blinking cups of rosy cost nine quid, cor blimey, ows-yer-farver etc...

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 21d

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 22d

'Trump is the enemy.' Max Hastings shines on BBC R4 Today this morning, saying what the real lessons of the Trump visit are: every cavilling, cowardly, appeasing politician take note.
From 2hrs 52.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 19/09/2025 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · 23d

1st October, St Pancras New Church, Euston, London at 7pm - free, but register below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rivers...

The Rivers of Repair

This Black History Month UK 2025, A powerful live event exploring Britain’s 400-year involvement in the Caribbean, through Word & Music

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Sep 6

I haven't tried it yet... Thinking maybe I should do it on TikTok with music so it becomes a 'challenge' and goes mega-viral. Statement of opposition to sell-by dates and ageism.
Am consulting younger people...

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Sep 6

President Trump - why stop with Department of War? Department of Ill-Health. Failed State Department.
Department of Homeland Insecurity.
I've got more ideas. Sir.

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Sep 3

Seal intact, sell-by date 2017. A dark mahogany... Lethal, or delicious? Alcoholic? Will report, if I survive.

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Do I have hope? I've been asked that for 10 years. No. But if I knew that the world was going to shit, it was all going to burn, I would still fight."

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 16

'We are in a season of cowardice now.' On international reaction to the genocide in Gaza.

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 16

'Why do white people need us? Because they are not white without us.' Ta-Nehisi Coates on white supremacy and African-American identity at Edinburgh Book Festival just now @edbookfest.bsky.social

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 15

Well done - it's hard work getting a complaint through IPSO, and positioning of correction is rarely satisfactory. I got a correction of a malicious untruth in a J Clarkson Sunday Times column. But it was buried - should have appeared in or under his next column.

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 15

Well done - but agree with you about

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 12

@anitaanand.bsky.social... A mention to your and Sam Dalrymple's Edinburgh book fest audience today? 6pm in Princes St, by Waverley Station.

Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 12

Edinburgh, Waverley end of Princes St, 6pm tonight

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 11

Another violent brute from Edinburgh Academy goes down. Well done the brave survivors, and credit to BBC Radio 4 for backing the initial exposé of the abuse and cover-ups at Edinburgh Academy & Fettes College.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Former teacher found guilty of abusing boys at Edinburgh Academy

Judge finds John Young assaulted pupils as young as 10 while head of PE between 1966 and 1993

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is very good indeed
... out early next month. Brilliant work by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Israel bombed and killed 5 Al Jaxeera journalists and camera operators

They were in a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Israel has killed 237 journalists since 2023 and won't allow international journalists into Gaza

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

www.theguardian.com

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