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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

Writing something triggered by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social's book on Arendt & her arrival in Marburg in 1924. The story includes (ordoliberal) Wilhelm Röpke & the murder of 15 workers by a fascist student militia in Mechterstädt during the days of the Kapp putsch. Interestingly, Röpke was part of >

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 2d

Monday feelings with Louise Bourgeois.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 5d

I've been to the US 2 times since Trump took office and both times I got ill (norovirus in May, Covid last week) which meant I looked at the country in a state of febrile panic and discomfort, which I think almost makes me American.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 7d

"Imagination alone enables us to see things in their proper perspective." - Arendt.

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).

Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 7d

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly what we need: careful, considered, funny intelligence squaring up to our catastrophic, deadly, age of stupid (with Arendt's help).

Excellent piece @will-davies.bsky.social

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 7d

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

www.theguardian.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 16d

why do taxi drivers think it's ok to shout at women and when will the patriarchy end.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 19d

Just released in Germany...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFza...

HANNAH ARENDT: Denken ist gefährlich - Offizieller Trailer, ab 18. September im Kino!

YouTube video by PROGRESS Filmverleih

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 19d

Beautiful letter in @theguardian.com from my University of Birmingham colleague, John Fagg, capturing - in the way metrics and league tables never could - the friendship that emerges from shared intellectual endeavour.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Learning to live with the loss of a friend | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Justin Myers and share their own experiences of grief

www.theguardian.com

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 19d

Gillian Rose was born September 20th, 1947. All of Rose's books are 30% off through the weekend, to celebrate what would have been her 78th birthday

Rose, Gillian

Gillian Rose (1947–1995) was a British philosopher and sociologist. She is the author of The Melancholy Science, Paradiso, Mourning Becomes the Law, The Broken Middle; Dialectic of Nihilism, Hegel Con...

www.versobooks.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 19d

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 19d

Just terrible. Such a clever, funny, generous man.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 19d

Conor Gearty's obit (dammit).

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Conor Gearty obituary

A skilled and persuasive human rights lawyer who fought for civil liberties in the face of over-reaching anti-terror law

www.theguardian.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21d

"bourgeois parents" v the Tate brothers.

Whatever will the Spectator be advocating next? Abolition of the propertied classes with their disproportionate wealth? Private ownership of the means of production? Lace tablecloths & scented candles?

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21d

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21d

It is possible to support assisted dying without being an unimaginative twat about the condition of old age.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 22d

Oh no - mine still asks if I saw the goal (he's 23). THANK YOU. That means much. (And PP was probably my favourite book ever to write....)

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 22d

In between things, with some time to kill, a nice park and an English bookshop in the vicinity … very nice to see this in the shop window (and finally buy it) @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 22d

Hooray (hope you like it....🫣) 🙏

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Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social · 23d

Judith Butler:"It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are..invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal & rising authoritarianism. It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com

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mnachos.bsky.social @mnachos.bsky.social · 25d

Be ungovernable.

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 26d

Rebel nuns breakout of care home & re-occupy their home.

As I've been saying: old women are the future.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps

Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.

www.bbc.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 26d

Rebel nuns breakout of care home & re-occupy their home.

As I've been saying: old women are the future.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps

Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.

www.bbc.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 26d

It was in just such weeks as this that it was so so good to hear the wise, wonderful & witty voice of Conor Gearty.

He will be missed greatly. Thank you Conor.

Here is that voice again via @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Are we losing our civil liberties?

Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 26d

It was in just such weeks as this that it was so so good to hear the wise, wonderful & witty voice of Conor Gearty.

He will be missed greatly. Thank you Conor.

Here is that voice again via @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Are we losing our civil liberties?

Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26d

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Sep 3

🎧: The Prospect Podcast is back from summer break! On today’s episode, Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban.

Are we losing our civil liberties?

Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 26d

No!

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