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David Storey
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Human Geographer (retired, sort of);
Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
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Scenic grazing on the Malvern Hills
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Useful piece by Ciara Smyth on manufactured panic, the 'politics of affect' & the structural causes of displacement
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about
‘Politics of affect’ stokes anxieties about immigration, allowing Government to then respond
www.irishtimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Evening light
#Severn #Worcester
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by David Storey
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Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)
Panel One: A sportscaster speaks to a television camera "You join us just in time for the annual booksellers versus librarians tug of war." Panel Two: We see the participants warming up as he continues... "Two very strong teams this year, they’ve both been in training since February. As always, the real skill in this match is not to start chatting about boo-" Panel Three: "Too late!! A pair of librarians are discussing the new Margaret Atwood! A crowd is forming! The booksellers are joining in! It's all over!!" We see all the participants chatting. Panel Four: The sportscaster finishes up to the camera: "The rope lies untouched! The discussions continue! We have a draw for 325th year in a row! Join us again next year!" End. Bonus alt-text Content: Fun fact! The first tug of war was between the staff of Cranston Library and those of Daniel Midwinter Booksellers www.cranstonlibraryreigate.com/ www.blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscripts/2017/11/10/booksellers/
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Oppressive language and humanitarian complicity:
Heidi Mogstad on the tendency of humanitarian actors to adopt language that erases power and history, misrecognises political rights & agency, and diverts attention from more just & transformative responses
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
www.manchesterhive.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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"We need a wholesale reimaging of the role of academics and researchers in society.... standing in opposition to established power, rather than being complicit with it"
Ian Sinclair on the co-opting of academic research and expertise
@mstaronline.bsky.social
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/acad...
Academics or consultants?
WE NEED to talk about the consultancy work many academics undertake for governments and corporations.We need to talk about this because it’s the dirty secret of policy-focused academia that no-one men...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Phoney wars, confidence tricks and unrequited love
@frankie49.bsky.social with stories that may (or may not) ring true!
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Ring of untruth – Frank McNally on how the Irish language gave ‘phoney’ to English
A link with telephones was also suspected
www.irishtimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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squirerachael.bsky.social
States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.

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November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A piece that gives due reference to the work of @stuartelden.bsky.social
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"Venezuela is not just some chess piece in an abstract game of geopolitics.... We are talking about real people, and as very recent history shows, countless lives are at stake"
Daniel Mendiola on Trump’s extension of the war on terror
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘war on terror’ has killed millions. Trump is reviving it in Venezuela | Daniel Mendiola
After decades of terrorizing civilians in the name of fighting terror, the White House is trying to do it with even less oversight
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
davidstoreygeog.bsky.social
"Venezuela is not just some chess piece in an abstract game of geopolitics.... We are talking about real people, and as very recent history shows, countless lives are at stake"
Daniel Mendiola on Trump’s extension of the war on terror
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘war on terror’ has killed millions. Trump is reviving it in Venezuela | Daniel Mendiola
After decades of terrorizing civilians in the name of fighting terror, the White House is trying to do it with even less oversight
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Time in Cork is always relative. #AboutNine
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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"It’s using identity as a way to elevate and uphold stories that can be wielded in the service of authority, not to challenge it"
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the cynicism and opportunism of Shabana Mahmood
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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"Just as a mosquito requires stagnant pools of water in which to thrive, so their stagnant social circles provide the perfect breeding ground for increasingly toxic strands of bigotry"
@okwonga.bsky.social on Farage and the purveyors of division
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Musa Okwonga
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Celtic revival: The growth of Gaeilge in Britain
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Celtic revival: The growth of Gaeilge in Britain
There's been a significant surge in interest in learning the Irish language in Britain, according to those involved in teaching it. One of the largest online education providers in the UK, City Lit, s...
www.rte.ie
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Defensible space and territorial fears: Belfast's peace walls
www.thetimes.com/uk/northern-...
97 ‘peace walls’ still divide Belfast. Will they ever come down?
Twenty-seven years on from the Good Friday agreement, miles of ‘peace walls’ still separate Protestants and Catholics in Belfast. Some people want them built higher
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A tournament for all?
@jdnalton.bsky.social on a far from inclusive World Cup
@mstaronline.bsky.social
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tour...
Tournament for all, except the banned
ANOTHER break for club football arrives on the back of one of the most memorable international windows of World Cup qualifying around the globe.Close to home, Scotland and Ireland each produced dramat...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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History "will not remember the plan as a diplomatic achievement. It will remember it as yet another entry in humanity’s flightlog of preventable tragedies-authored by people who mistook stolen power for permission"
@colinivan.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Colin Sheridan: Under Trump's plan, a VIP lounge of powerful nations is carving up Palestine
The UN Security Council 'increasingly resembles an Epstein Island of nations — a sun-bleached VIP lounge of the powerful.'
www.irishexaminer.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Good pub advertising in Great Malvern!
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Inequality of mobility:
Ranking passport privilege
www.henleyglobal.com/passport-ind...
The Official Passport Index Ranking
The Henley Passport Index ranks the strongest and weakest passports globally. Research is conducted by our research department. Explore our ranking.
www.henleyglobal.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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"Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious. Behind the dull facade lay a slippery, clever operator. Franco’s ambition was underpinned by an iron will, a glib indifference to violence and unbounded self-esteem"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The Gaza 'peace plan' as colonial-style protection racket
@jonathan-cook.bsky.social
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
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Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realised – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell
middleeasteye.pulse.ly
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"The BBC exhibits symptoms of the West’s wider moral breakdown over Gaza – the failure even to name genocide, let alone stop it, when a Western ally is the perpetrator"
@trillingual.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.social
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"For a section of Britain’s political class...support for Israel is not merely a matter of expedience; it is a gauge by which allegiance to Britishness itself is measured, because it sees Israel as the West’s outpost in a savage neighbourhood"
@trillingual.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"For a section of Britain’s political class...support for Israel is not merely a matter of expedience; it is a gauge by which allegiance to Britishness itself is measured, because it sees Israel as the West’s outpost in a savage neighbourhood"
@trillingual.bsky.social
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Cristiano Ronaldo faces backlash after meeting Trump at White House dinner
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'Ruining your legacy': Cristiano Ronaldo faces backlash after meeting Trump at White House dinner
The footballer’s appearance at a high-profile US-Saudi dinner has sparked debate over his political associations
middleeasteye.pulse.ly
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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It’s World Philosophy Day today so here’s a poem in celebration of that.
Nihilism Means Nothing to Me   Hegel, when you left me, you put me through the mill. I kant think clearly anymore – your marx are on me still.   The hobbestacles are everywhere. Unlocke your door and be my guide. Life is dull when you’re not arendt, I nietzsche by my side.   You said I bourdieu senseless. You claimed I drove you nuts. But I adorno other – My head spinoza much   The rawls of love I just don’t get, I don’t know where to sartre. I plato win but always lose – come back, exhume my heartre. Brian Bilston
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM