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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 1h

Just finished watching the Hack. A complex story to tell and felt too tricksy at first but it works. Toby Young as Alan Rusbridger not so much...

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 2h

Likewise assuming you're following

Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 4h

Not a wasted follow then.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 8h

Hello Emma, fellow human.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's Lapid or someone else, there is a post Gaza War future for Israel, Palestinians and the region and it could be this

archive.ph/2025.10.07-1...

archive.ph

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day of grief. Absolutely.

Those who celebrate violence & suffering are edgelords. We need more people who have internalised this wisdom.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 1d

This is so important. Atrocities deserve outrage. But social media has fed an addiction to outrage that obliterates commitment to solutions.

Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 1d

Been rereading old posts that I & others wrote on October 7. This thread was from November 2023, just one month after the attack. It contains thoughts that have haunted me since, and will for many years to come, I suspect.

It’s about the role of graphically violent images & echo chambers of gore 🧵

Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 1d

This is important.

Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 1d

Been rereading old posts that I & others wrote on October 7. This thread was from November 2023, just one month after the attack. It contains thoughts that have haunted me since, and will for many years to come, I suspect.

It’s about the role of graphically violent images & echo chambers of gore 🧵

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 2d

when the antidote to Orientalism is Occidentalism; when the counter to cultural imperialism is moral relativism; when it's better to be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron; when Foucault decides for us that Iranian women and democrats can go to hell – the Ayatollah is just too damned exciting.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 2d

And went on to say "The road to this squalid reaction to 7 October has been a long one, with many a disastrous turns leading the far left into ever more dangerous and bankrupt territory. It is what happens when dogma becomes more fashionable than critical thought; when radicalism trumps reason;

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 2d

You wrote that Nick. It says it all.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 8d

I just finished this extraordinary book. I am wrung out. Utterly brilliant achievement.

Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Book promotion klaxon 🚨The Traitors Circle comes out next week - this gives you a flavour of what it’s about, along with some of the early responses. (Sound on) You can get the book here linktr.ee/jonathanfreedland

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12d

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.

Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 14d

While so much news coverage of Israel and Palestine just bobs along with the prevailing current we still have a few seasoned journalists who are worth reading. Not many though.
open.substack.com/pub/markurba...

A Palestinian State has Never Seemed Further Away

But here's how it might happen...

open.substack.com

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 20d

Your Party. No! MY party (Sultana). No! MY party (Corbyn). What party? (everyone else).

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22d

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was:
* successful at everything he tried
* genuinely intelligent & insightful
* desired by women
* envied by men
* an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with
* a tireless, lifelong philanthropist
... and he died peacefully in his sleep.

10/10 life. No notes.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 24d

Define success

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Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek.com · Sep 8

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A newsletter explaining the bills MPs are voting on each week

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · Sep 2

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.

It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.

Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk