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Police make arrests at Palestine Action protest as demo goes ahead despite PM’s pleas

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Jot Down @jotdown.es · 4d

Cada nación cree que inventó el plato perfecto, pero al final todas terminan discutiendo por si la paella admite chorizo o si el kebab es patrimonio universal. La identidad se cocina en ridículo compartido.
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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 4d

Supporting Palestine and opposing genocide is not antisemitism. Criticizing the policies of the Israeli government is not attacking Judaism or Jewish people. In fact, the Israeli state has long distanced itself from the fundamental values and ethical principles central to Jewish religious tradition.

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 5d

Beating impostor syndrome: just say “I don’t know.” Supposedly a strength. For lawyers it’s career suicide — we bill by the answer, not the question. But maybe the real fraud is certainty itself. Socrates built a whole philosophy on that. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 5d

The welfare state dream is over. We pay high taxes but save little. £5 coffees, £20 pub mains, £100 family meals at fast-food venues — once small joys, now guilty luxuries. Inflation + tax hikes = bill shock. Is there a way out? @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social

For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Economic stress is one reason traditional gender roles have a political and emotional allure

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IALS @ials.bsky.social · Jul 18

LHub has published a number of calls for 2025/26, including for visiting academics at different career levels, visiting artists, networks, and more.

Details, deadlines and application forms are here at: ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu...

Wooden ladder placed against a wooden fence. Image is in black and white.

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 10d

The ‘tradwife’ fantasy, born (and mythologised) in the US, reminds us that “Instagram fantasies are no substitute for systemic change.” Most insightful reflection by @ranaforoohar.bsky.social at @financialtimes.com

The ‘tradwife’ fantasy

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 12d

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power on.ft.com/4pKeWlM

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

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Nigel Farage roundly condemned over plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 16d

Reform? Few things could be less English than tearing up the rights of people who came here legally. Farage’s proposal to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain offends the very principles of English law and equity. This is not reform. It is a direct attack on the rule of law.

Cross-party criticism after Reform UK leader threatens hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants with deportation

Trump’s retreat from Nato was priced in. But his humiliation of Qatar and India spells total chaos | Nesrine Malik

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 23d

Qatar and India are two of the latest countries to wake up to the fact that an alliance with the United States is not worth the paper it’s written on — they are just the newest of Trump’s victims.

Allies indulged the US president on the basis they wouldn’t be bombed or suffer economic damage. So much for that idea, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally – HOPE not hate

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 25d

Sad day today. Seeing such a big crowd cheering speeches that called for banning all public expression of non-Christian religions, demanded the “remigration” of legal migrants, pushed Covid conspiracy theories, and claimed Britain is being “invaded” and its population “replaced” is unprecedented.

Today saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for the “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Organised by Stephen Lennon —...

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 25d

The UK is seeing a resurgence of extreme-right activism. Today’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march is not just populist noise — it shows deep fears about immigration, identity, diversity and free speech. The challenge: defend liberty without letting it shield hate. Can we rebuild trust in time?

Police say 110,000 attending ‘unite the kingdom’ rally in London, with some in crowd attacking officers – UK politics live

Met Police say ‘difficult to estimate numbers in attendance’ but they believe 110,000 attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers

¿Por qué no cambiamos de opinión aunque nos demuestren que estamos equivocados?

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · 27d

Cambiar de opinión es refrescante. El problema es que los datos que amenazan nuestras creencias son difíciles de aceptar. ¿Por qué no cambiamos de opinión
aunque nos demuestren que estamos
equivocados? - elpais.com/elpais/2018/...

Los datos contrastados convencen menos que los mensajes emocionales. Diversos estudios revelan las limitaciones de la razón

How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · Sep 6

Un golpe para la economía europea: la extrema derecha desprecia la administracion, promete subsidios y recortes fiscales, y amenaza con estancamiento y crisis de deuda. Lo peor: los Populares les ceden su espacio y copian sus políticas.
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At best, the continent should expect stagnation, at worst a bond-market rout

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Bluesky vence a Twitter y Facebook: la rebelión contra los algoritmos ya ha empezado

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Jot Down @jotdown.es · Sep 4

«Apostar por @bsky.app, por los agregadores, por las visitas directas, no es un capricho romántico, es una estrategia de independencia. Significa que cuando publicamos un texto nuestra audiencia no dependerá de un cálculo opaco sino de la calidad del texto y del interés genuino de la gente»

Hipólito Ledesma estaba equivocado. Muy equivocado. Cuando en Jot Down publicamos aquel artículo en el que nuestro «colaboratrol» se reía de lo aburrido qu

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · Sep 2

Un panorama posible:
UE, Latinoamérica y Canadá deciden aceptar el nuevo orden multipolar frente al modelo iliberal de Trump.

El resultado:
• 75 % de la población mundial
• +55 % del PIB global

EEUU tendría que adaptarse, y el mapa del poder internacional cambiaría como no se veía desde 1945.

Xi aprovecha los errores de Trump

China saca partido en la cumbre de Tianjin a la hostilidad comercial y diplomática desplegada por el presidente estadounidense

Rich economies will need foreign workers to fuel growth, policymakers warn

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · Aug 24

While the far right demonises immigration, central bankers from Japan, Europe and the UK say the opposite: without foreign workers, there will be no growth or stability. Ageing societies make immigration a necessity, not a threat. on.ft.com/4lFKd6g

Central bankers say low birth rates in world’s largest economies pose threat to productivity and prices

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Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · Aug 20

Concerning that Sally Rooney could be arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for supporting Palestine Action. Unlike UN, EU, and US law, which define terrorism as violence against persons, the UK treats property damage the same way. Palestine Action’s protests do not meet that standard.

The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government

Here are the names of the journalists Israel killed in Gaza

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza.

Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

The world’s largest fund has divested its stakes in 11 Israeli companies and is reviewing more.

Norway wealth fund divests from several Israeli companies due to Gaza war

The world’s largest fund has divested its stakes in 11 Israeli companies and is reviewing more.

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Comentadora Tortuga @comentadortortuga.bsky.social · Jun 3

¿Todxs sufrimos violencia? Si, pero las razones son diferentes

➡️Argentina: el 40% de las mujeres son asesinadas por una pareja o ex pareja, mientras que esto es así en el 2% de asesinatos de varones (Min. de Seguridad, 2023)

Si no reconocemos el problema, será difícil solucionarlo
#3J #NiUnaMenos

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · May 19

Volver a España tras 25 años en USA, con 2 licenciaturas, 3 másteres, un doctorado, 20 años+ como profesora, 9 libros publicados, artículos y 4 idiomas y no la han llamado en ninguna Universidad. ¡Un país Incomprensible! Marina Perezagua — Queremos volver a España elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Queremos volver a España

Los que emigramos y ahora regresamos no reclamamos privilegios, sino el reconocimiento de un mérito adquirido con esfuerzo

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Javier Durán @tortondo.bsky.social · May 17

Todo me recuerda a Israel.

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Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · May 16

Se lo merece. Pero, conociéndolo, seguramente no le hubiese gustado la propuesta.

Mapa de la renta de padres e hijos: ¿En qué ciudades funciona mejor el ascensor social?

Fernando Del Canto @fernandodelcanto.com · May 14

Quienes se criaron en los ochenta en hogares de renta baja de Alcorcón o L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat ganan de media 5.000 euros más que los que se criaron en familias igual de pobres de Telde (Las Palmas), Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) o Dos Hermanas (Sevilla). elpais.com/economia/202...

Un estudio muestra la conexión entre los ingresos de millones de padres y los de sus hijos décadas después. Sus datos reflejan el peso de la familia, pero también del lugar donde se vive. Consulte los...