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Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X
Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X
Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X
www.independent.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X
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Tuesday 27 January: to mark what would have been Edward Said’s 90th birthday, the London Palestine Film Festival and SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies will screen ‘Edward Said: The Last Interview’, Mike Dibb’s extended conversation with Said.
Tickets & more info:
www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-sai...
Tickets & more info:
www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-sai...
January 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Tuesday 27 January: to mark what would have been Edward Said’s 90th birthday, the London Palestine Film Festival and SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies will screen ‘Edward Said: The Last Interview’, Mike Dibb’s extended conversation with Said.
Tickets & more info:
www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-sai...
Tickets & more info:
www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-sai...
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Utagawa Hiroshige, Procession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa, 1857.⠀
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One of a few Hiroshige prints we've got for sale in our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige
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One of a few Hiroshige prints we've got for sale in our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige
January 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Utagawa Hiroshige, Procession to the Torinomachi Festival in the Rice Fields of Asakusa, 1857.⠀
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One of a few Hiroshige prints we've got for sale in our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige
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One of a few Hiroshige prints we've got for sale in our shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige
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‘Gaston Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · Spellbound Gloaming: Bachelard’s Dreamwork
Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 10:50 AM
‘Gaston Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘On 3 January, Trump boasted of having “superseded” the Monroe Doctrine: “They now call it the Donroe Doctrine.”
In reality, he has merely remodelled the Roosevelt Corollary for the age of drone warfare and social media.’
Tony Wood, online early from our next issue
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In reality, he has merely remodelled the Roosevelt Corollary for the age of drone warfare and social media.’
Tony Wood, online early from our next issue
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · On Venezuela
The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
‘On 3 January, Trump boasted of having “superseded” the Monroe Doctrine: “They now call it the Donroe Doctrine.”
In reality, he has merely remodelled the Roosevelt Corollary for the age of drone warfare and social media.’
Tony Wood, online early from our next issue
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In reality, he has merely remodelled the Roosevelt Corollary for the age of drone warfare and social media.’
Tony Wood, online early from our next issue
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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These rebus-style Buddhist texts were made for illiterate people. Each picture, when sounded out in Japanese, would approximate the Classical Chinese syllables in which the sutra or hymn should be recited. More here: https://buff.ly/3reC8vg
January 6, 2026 at 5:47 PM
These rebus-style Buddhist texts were made for illiterate people. Each picture, when sounded out in Japanese, would approximate the Classical Chinese syllables in which the sutra or hymn should be recited. More here: https://buff.ly/3reC8vg
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‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 11:35 AM
‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘In Netanyahu’s twisted vision, the Jews are always on the verge of catastrophe. Either you become a killer or you die. One thing seems certain. If you accept these terms, there will never be enough corpses to go around.’
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
‘In Netanyahu’s twisted vision, the Jews are always on the verge of catastrophe. Either you become a killer or you die. One thing seems certain. If you accept these terms, there will never be enough corpses to go around.’
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Jewish Council urges 'pushback' against divisive rhetoric after Bondi attack - and adoption of the Human Rights Framework NOT Segal’s authoritarian report.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/jewish-cou...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/jewish-cou...
Jewish Council urges 'pushback' against divisive rhetoric after Bondi attack
Both Jewish and Muslim groups report surge in abuse since massacre
www.deepcutnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Jewish Council urges 'pushback' against divisive rhetoric after Bondi attack - and adoption of the Human Rights Framework NOT Segal’s authoritarian report.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/jewish-cou...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/jewish-cou...
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Brad Battin faces spill after group of Victorian Liberal MPs loses confidence in his leadership
Brad Battin faces spill after group of Victorian Liberal MPs loses confidence in his leadership
Sources say shadow treasurer Jess Wilson has received enough support to test leadership of the party a year out from state poll
A group of Victorian Liberals MPs have told the party leader Brad Battin they no longer have confidence in his leadership, paving the way for a vote on whether to replace him.
The intervention on Monday afternoon – delivered almost one year before the state goes to the polls – could trigger a ballot on his position as early as Tuesday morning. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Brad Battin faces spill after group of Victorian Liberal MPs loses confidence in his leadership
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The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Australian Government for the past five years has been pushing weapons sales into the UAE at an astonishing scale. This is the result. Australia tying itself to more appalling war crimes, now in Sudan.