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Elise Bell

@eliseybell.bsky.social

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Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed. You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Nov 21

How’s this for a first post? My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art is available to pre-order.

Erotic Art is not just a story about sex, it’s the story of how desire has shaped civilisation. I hope you have a very sexy time with it

Link in bio!

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 21d

what is going on here

post from Your Party:

URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL YOURPARTY.UK SUPPORTERS

This morning, an unauthorised email was sent to all yourparty.uk supporters with details of a supposed membership portal hosted in a new domain name. Legal advice is being taken. That email should be ignored by all supporters. If any direct debits have been set up, they should be immediately cancelled.

The agreed process was announced on 1 August: the Independent Alliance Group of MPs Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, Iqbal Mohamed, Adnan Hussain, Shockat Adam and Ayoub Khan are stewarding and accountable for the foundation process for the new party, leading to an inaugural democratic conference in the Autumn.

Earlier this week, we shared new details about the roadmap to the launch, including our plans for mass regional assemblies and our founding conference. Soon, you will be able to turn your support into membership at yourparty.uk, and shape the future of our party and our country.

Jeremy Corbyn MP

Ayoub Khan MP

Adnan Hussain MP

Iqbal Mohamed MP

Shockat Adam MP

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Alex Howlett @alexhowl.bsky.social · 29d

My story for @service95stories.bsky.social on @sosmediterranee.org's Ocean Viking. The Libyan 'coast guard' opened fire, risking the lives of survivors and crew.

It was a privilege to see them in action - truly incredible people

#searchandrescue
#Mediterranean

www.service95.com/the-reality-...

The Reality Of Europe’s Border Crisis: This Is Life Onboard Migrant Rescue Ships

It was late afternoon, the heat thick and unmoving, when the call came through. I was the only journalist aboard the Ocean Viking, a search-and-rescue ship patrolling the Central Mediterranean, wh

www.service95.com

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Haven't been using this app but I am not going to be using it to effectively live broadcast my Masterchef thoughts from episodes that aired two weeks ago, I hope that is okay and allowed

Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Sep 5

The problem with people my age and younger going on Masterchef is that 90% of the time everything they cook feels a liiiitle bit too Mob Kitchen. The Ben Lippett effect needs to be studied.

Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Aug 5

Monogamy and Polamory both beautiful names for a baby girl

Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Aug 5

Obsessed with the name of this baby carrier.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jul 31

New @hepi-news.bsky.social report shows continued fall in foreign language study in England at A-level.

Language teacher recruitment consistently falls well below government targets – in 2024, just 43% of the target was reached.

on.ft.com/4l5SYX4
(Full report www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/n...)

Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds

Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German

on.ft.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 27

One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating.

Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies https://on.ft.com/3H9L154

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Jul 26

Incredible wall signage at the Titanic Immersive Experience

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Jul 24

Lot of big celebrity deaths of late. I feel in my waters a 2016-wave is approaching. We need to keep tabs on Al Pacino or so help me god

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 24

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.

Sign up at yourparty.uk.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · Jul 21

Terrible. When I got my AHRC PhD funding I applied directly to the AHRC with my own project. Now students are increasingly tied in to what universities and partner organisations want them to do, stifling research independence - plus fewer projects getting funded overall.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’

Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Jul 20

Friends getting married, what a concept!

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yesterday Palestinian mums & kids were queuing at a clinic to get nutritional supplements when Israel attacked. At least 15 people were killed, including at least 9 children.

James Elder from UNICEF tells how one of those young children had spoken their first word that morning - mama

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Jul 10

AI technologies and other techno-utopian potentialities are currently ripping through film, television, music and the platforms through which they are distributed. The last time I (a layperson) remember a similar story in the Noble Arts was NFTs, and no one’s talking about Beeple anymore.

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Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social · Jul 10

I also read this as a consequence of gig economy/doggedly monetising your hobbies. Obviously rich celebrities don't NEED the money, but I think now it's an expectation that you publicise/professionalise anything you do for 'fun'

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Jul 10

Maybe it speaks to an implicit, unspoken recognition of the devaluation of their original art medium (i.e. film, tv, music) and a retreat (however naive) to a medium of art perceived as more ‘concrete’, ‘traditional’ and resistant to devaluation by current trends?

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Jul 10

I'm sort of surprised by my own snobbish reaction (although I actually think Robbie's is the least soulless of all of them) but the works are so bad, and the media coverage so breathless, and we're reaching a 1-popstar-a-week status.

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Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social · Jul 10

Real trend at the moment re famous people (actors, musicians etc) releasing to the media news of their artistic practice, almost always some terrible version of abstract expressionism and/or cartoonish version of pop art. A way to get cheap clicks? Media boost with faux sense of intelligence?

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · Jul 4

"I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was absolutely ordinary up to the point that she wasn’t." Brilliant Patricia Lockwood piece on Sylvia Plath. Cracking intro, too. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath

I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Sodders @sodders.bsky.social · Jul 4

I think about this clip alot.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · Jul 2

I don’t know why and it’s simply not rational but those electric salt and pepper mills make me really angry, like you know when a dog hates something for no reason and barks every time they see it, that’s how I feel about them

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jun 24

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · Jun 11

seeing Heat in the cinema is a lifechanging experience

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