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To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 6d

The Community Security Trust is one of the jewels of British Jewry which has its origins in the street fighting against the postwar resurgence of the Mosleyites and later the National Front. cst.org.uk/about-cst

About CST – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community

CST is a charity working against antisemitism and racism in British society. We are proud of Britain’s diverse and vibrant Jewish community, and protect its many achievements. We believe that re...

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 6d

I assume the conspiracy theories about the Manchester attack are in full force on X but I’m not going to look.

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 6d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Brian Patten

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 14d

I think the problem is you don’t see the people who have been hacked or hear their stories. That’s why it lacks the human dimension. And it’s woefully miscast.

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 14d

I bet Rusbridger is livid at getting played by Toby Jones when Ben Bradlee got Jason Robards

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 14d

Watching The Hack. With the casting of Toby Jones as Alan Rusbridger I expected Mackenzie Crook to turn up as Jonathan Freedland.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 15d

When people come out with that old saw, if voting changed anything it would be illegal I give you Trump’s speech to the UN.

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Sarfraz Manzoor @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social · 17d

I would love to know if there was ANYONE who was rich and/or famous who met Jeffrey Epstein and decided he was a sick creep.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 28d

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'He is such an awful man': Why readers are wrong about Mr Darcy

Mostly miserable and even "unforgivably cruel", Jane Austen's famous romantic hero is not what he seems, writes the author Sebastian Faulks, in an exclusive extract.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Roses is at heart a romcom which The Wars of the Roses definitely wasn’t.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 14

‘I have in my hand a piece of paper’ Anchorage Agreement

Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 13

The NHS isn’t broken. Parts of it are under immense strain, others are working very well.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Aug 13

I think the word “broken” is politically toxic, breeding despair, feeding populism, and disparaging people who work in those sectors

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 11

www.theguardian.com/books/2002/j... Bacck in 2002 I addressed the question so often asked - how could the Jews of all people behave like this to the Palestinians.

Linda Grant on tough Jews

Since the Holocaust, the idealised version of the Jew has been Primo Levi, a 'latter day saint'. But, argues Linda Grant, from Samson to Ariel Sharon there have always been tougher, more aggressive ro...

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · Aug 9

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 9

Finished. Glad to see the back of it.

Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 8

Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises for the first time since I was a teenager, the antisemitism and racism make the experience like chewing a mouthful of rocks.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you’re short of something to read (joke) I recommend Lore Segal’s Her First American.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Great Gatsby it ain’t.

Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · Aug 8

Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises for the first time since I was a teenager, the antisemitism and racism make the experience like chewing a mouthful of rocks.

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