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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1h

Getting drunk in Cork leads to visions of hell!! 😱
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How one man's drink-induced unconscious trip in 12th century Cork reshaped how the Western world imagines eternal damnation

www.rte.ie

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2h

"When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If a four-year-old can pronounce a name correctly, so can a politician | Arwa Mahdawi

When someone’s name is repeatedly botched, we shouldn’t give the perpetrators the benefit of the doubt. Just ask NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 6h

Jenrick’s "comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA & supercharged by bad actors on social media. Suddenly, a great many people...are keen on the racist idea that you simply can’t be English and non-white"
@sathnam.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 6h

Questions of sporting citizenship in Malaysia
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Malaysia rejects Fifa accusations it forged players’ citizenship and says it will appeal sanctions

Malaysia’s football association says it will appeal Fifa sanctions and fine after seven players on national team suspended for one year

www.theguardian.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 16h

Railway heritage
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2552132...

Commemorative plaque unveiled for station's 175th anniversary

Worcester Shrub Hill station marks 175 years with a commemorative plaque installed by West Midlands Railway and events celebrating its railway…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 21h

Two years on....
Lina AbiRafeh on the decontextualisation of October 7
linaabirafeh.medium.com/october-7-tw...

October 7… two years on

October 7… two years on Two years on, we are still counting the dead. Still counting the lies. Still counting the betrayals. And… look around… we are still standing. This awful day, and the …

linaabirafeh.medium.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 22h

Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure
@ncgeehan.bsky.social & @antoineduval.bsky.social
@josimarfootball.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...

More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com

Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.

josimarfootball.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

The erasure of Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble

www.theguardian.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

"Let us not pretend that we are talking about ways of reversing the genocide...Rather, the discussion is about more or less murderous ways of completing the destruction and replacement of Palestinian Gaza"
@martinshaw.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

'Donald Trump's Plan Will Not End the Gaza Genocide'

The author of The New Age of Genocide, Martin Shaw, on why Trump's 'peace' plan will allow the ongoing destruction and replacement of a Palestinian Gaza

bylinetimes.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like the basis for an article by @frankie49.bsky.social

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

Emiratis, expatriates and the ‘Dream of a Nation’: The changing composition of the UAE's national football teams -
Paul Radley
##FootballAndIdentity
www.thenationalnews.com/sport/footba...

Emiratis, expatriates and the ‘Dream of a Nation’: UAE football’s new identity | The National

Changing face of the national team means international children can aspire to represent the Emirates

www.thenationalnews.com

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

"Politicians and media outlets have barely concealed the lack of value they attach to Palestinian life....accusing people who are protesting against genocide of inciting hatred, while they are supporting those who are committing genocide"
@owenjones.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Only in modern football can you announce you’re against something by allowing it

www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Uefa’s ‘reluctant’ agreement to games abroad blows the future of football wide open

The governing body has agreed to two ‘exceptional’ requests and warned they will not set a precedent - but ripping up the rulebook opens the door to every disruptor to come

www.independent.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 1d

Why I'm leaving academia: A US perspective on academic precarity but with much wider relevance
@frankyfrancescannon.com
@truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/why...

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.

truthout.org

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2d

"If progressive or left-wing critics of government policy are portrayed as anti-government, their democratic role as checks & balancers gets blurred.. It significantly decreases the space for critical engagement"
@lucymichael.bsky.social on reductive media framings
open.substack.com/pub/lucymich...

The anti-Government candidate

The language of our media is worth watching right now - Describing Catherine Connolly as an ‘anti-government candidate’ misrepresents her role and the nature of Ireland’s parliamentary democracy.

open.substack.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2d

"We want hospitals not football stadiums"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morocco's Gen Z protesters: 'We need hospitals more than football stadiums'

Morocco will soon have the world's largest football stadium but this has angered many young people who want better services.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2d

"The point is not to claim that football supporters bear some special responsibility — it is rather to highlight how inextricably sport is entwined with the most violent and exploitative forms of politics"
@jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/kaga...

Football Shouldn’t Be a Billboard for the World’s Dictators

From Rwanda’s Paul Kagame to the Emirati monarchy, some of the world’s most brutal regimes have chosen to use soccer as a promotional tool.

jacobin.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2d

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises.
Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/five-uk...

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 2d

"Palestinians live with two omnipresent forms of violence: Israeli violence directly inflicted upon our bodies, land and society, and western violence, where only our erasure prompts the world to notice us and see our humanity – but only barely"
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 5d

"Once everything is about economic feedback, then the very purpose of a university is degraded: every element that cannot be shown to turn a ‘profit’ is eventually discarded"
@gsoh31.bsky.social
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 5d

"We all learned long ago on the playground that trying to appease a bully only makes things worse. It’s equally hard to imagine how higher education will recover if colleges and universities begin conceding to Mr. Trump’s illegal compact"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...