Audible are doing a Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) audio drama with Daryl McCormack as the lead. The poster for it is just his face. Beautiful shade. Someone in their marketing team deserves a raise 🤭
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Audible are doing a Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) audio drama with Daryl McCormack as the lead. The poster for it is just his face. Beautiful shade. Someone in their marketing team deserves a raise 🤭
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‘In late December, as demonstrations swelled across Iran, I was frantically trying to get in touch with my family when a friend returning from the protests wrote to me:
“We are full of hope. There is no going back.”’
By @taraaghdashloo.bsky.social
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“We are full of hope. There is no going back.”’
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Tara Aghdashloo | No Going Back
In late December, as demonstrations swelled across Iran, I was frantically trying to get in touch with my family when a...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM
‘In late December, as demonstrations swelled across Iran, I was frantically trying to get in touch with my family when a friend returning from the protests wrote to me:
“We are full of hope. There is no going back.”’
By @taraaghdashloo.bsky.social
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“We are full of hope. There is no going back.”’
By @taraaghdashloo.bsky.social
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February 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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‘Too often we treat national security assessments as solemn expressions of a neutral truth by the elected guardians of the people. Yet the case of Peter Mandelson shows just how lopsided and politically motivated those assessments can be.’
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Daniella Lock | Unlawful
The High Court has ruled that the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action – which has led to the...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
‘Too often we treat national security assessments as solemn expressions of a neutral truth by the elected guardians of the people. Yet the case of Peter Mandelson shows just how lopsided and politically motivated those assessments can be.’
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I love Freddy D 'cause he's brilliant, flawed, messy, and fly. So totally human, which means he's also immensely frustrating at times.
My goodness the man could stare down a camera like nobody's business.
Courageous, clear-eyed, and hopeful about our "glorious liberty document." 🖤
My goodness the man could stare down a camera like nobody's business.
Courageous, clear-eyed, and hopeful about our "glorious liberty document." 🖤
Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
February 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I love Freddy D 'cause he's brilliant, flawed, messy, and fly. So totally human, which means he's also immensely frustrating at times.
My goodness the man could stare down a camera like nobody's business.
Courageous, clear-eyed, and hopeful about our "glorious liberty document." 🖤
My goodness the man could stare down a camera like nobody's business.
Courageous, clear-eyed, and hopeful about our "glorious liberty document." 🖤
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Sean Dyche out at Forest, but this is what happens when the owner of a club holds absolute power, I guess.
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Nottingham Forest head for the little seen "Four-Manager Season"
Nottingham Forest have sacked Sean Dyche, who some might argue is exactly the manager they need to get them out of the position that they're in right now.
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February 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Sean Dyche out at Forest, but this is what happens when the owner of a club holds absolute power, I guess.
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The amount of bandwidth spent in this generation on essentially having a 1950s Headmaster approach to everything and being zealots around making sure “young lefties”* must have nothing and like it.
* - am using that term extremely broadly
* - am using that term extremely broadly
It's devastating to me how much public money is being wasted in the British legal system purely on maintaining maximally destructive stances on human rights in service to the political ideology of the regime.
February 13, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The amount of bandwidth spent in this generation on essentially having a 1950s Headmaster approach to everything and being zealots around making sure “young lefties”* must have nothing and like it.
* - am using that term extremely broadly
* - am using that term extremely broadly
Haven’t changed my mind that there’s a good case that every senior member of staff on the men’s side should have been sacked.
One day there will be a reckoning for how Arsenal Football Club dealt with this case. And I’m afraid that includes the manager
February 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Haven’t changed my mind that there’s a good case that every senior member of staff on the men’s side should have been sacked.
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I'm holding a flash sale for annual subscriptions to my newsletter Proximities! Also, new rates for students.
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Proximities flash sale! Plus student rate
Grab it while it's hot
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February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I'm holding a flash sale for annual subscriptions to my newsletter Proximities! Also, new rates for students.
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👇🏾 Also notable that for all the grief Arsenal men get online, I don’t ever see any about this. It’s probably the one fair criticism you can have of the club.
We'd like to say or think this dark episode with Partey is over for Arsenal as a club but the reality is we should be far from it, and there needs to be some accountability had for the way we protected and promoted this man, and the message we have sent to women & girls.
February 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
👇🏾 Also notable that for all the grief Arsenal men get online, I don’t ever see any about this. It’s probably the one fair criticism you can have of the club.
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The other day a Ukrainian volunteer at the #WinterOlympics cried as she told me how, in the middle of a bitter winter, people were saving their power of their generators so they could watch their athletes compete.
This decision seems like a slap in the face for an invaded and suffering people.
This decision seems like a slap in the face for an invaded and suffering people.
Mykhailo Heraskevych, father and coach of Vladyslav Heraskevych of Ukraine, reacts after Vladyslav got disqualified from the Winter Olympics for wearing a helmet in tribute to athletes who have died amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. Read more: reut.rs/46Jcqo0
February 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The other day a Ukrainian volunteer at the #WinterOlympics cried as she told me how, in the middle of a bitter winter, people were saving their power of their generators so they could watch their athletes compete.
This decision seems like a slap in the face for an invaded and suffering people.
This decision seems like a slap in the face for an invaded and suffering people.
Kinda feels like Bunny is throwing shade at Gareth Taylor here 🤭
February 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Kinda feels like Bunny is throwing shade at Gareth Taylor here 🤭
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‘Our opponent is tricked out with military gear, staying in Hilton hotels and renting Enterprise cars, with technological support from Palantir and Amazon Web Services.’
NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis
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NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis
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Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis
I live in one of the south Minneapolis neighbourhoods that ICE and CBP have been pummelling for the last few weeks. This...
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February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
‘Our opponent is tricked out with military gear, staying in Hilton hotels and renting Enterprise cars, with technological support from Palantir and Amazon Web Services.’
NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis
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Today in Proximities:
- Sudanese children “wasting away as we watch”
- 53 people, including 2 babies, drown off coast of Libya
- Hong Kong leader says Lai deserved sentence for "evil deeds"
As always, you can read it in under two mins
www.proximities.news/p/sudan-liby...
- Sudanese children “wasting away as we watch”
- 53 people, including 2 babies, drown off coast of Libya
- Hong Kong leader says Lai deserved sentence for "evil deeds"
As always, you can read it in under two mins
www.proximities.news/p/sudan-liby...
Sudan, Libya, Hong Kong
Today's three stories you should know
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February 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Today in Proximities:
- Sudanese children “wasting away as we watch”
- 53 people, including 2 babies, drown off coast of Libya
- Hong Kong leader says Lai deserved sentence for "evil deeds"
As always, you can read it in under two mins
www.proximities.news/p/sudan-liby...
- Sudanese children “wasting away as we watch”
- 53 people, including 2 babies, drown off coast of Libya
- Hong Kong leader says Lai deserved sentence for "evil deeds"
As always, you can read it in under two mins
www.proximities.news/p/sudan-liby...
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Dismissed after a strike ballot notice. Tribunal this week. ✊🏾 A Sudanese kitchen worker at Draughts games bar fights victimisation & defends the right to organise.
👉🏾 Read more uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
#UVW #MigrantWorkers #HospitalityWorkers #UnionStrong
@gamestransformed.bsky.social
👉🏾 Read more uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
#UVW #MigrantWorkers #HospitalityWorkers #UnionStrong
@gamestransformed.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Dismissed after a strike ballot notice. Tribunal this week. ✊🏾 A Sudanese kitchen worker at Draughts games bar fights victimisation & defends the right to organise.
👉🏾 Read more uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
#UVW #MigrantWorkers #HospitalityWorkers #UnionStrong
@gamestransformed.bsky.social
👉🏾 Read more uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
#UVW #MigrantWorkers #HospitalityWorkers #UnionStrong
@gamestransformed.bsky.social
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I live in a highly diverse neighborhood in Saint Paul, and ICE has routinely targeted our community for over a month. Some neighbors have launched a mutual aid fund to help impacted residents who can’t safely leave home cover food, rent, utilities and essentials.
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Donate to Emergency Mutual Aid in Frogtown, MN, organized by Frogtown Mutual Aid Fund
Hi, my name is Lara Christley, and I’m a Frogtown neighbor working along… Frogtown Mutual Aid Fund needs your support for Emergency Mutual Aid in Frogtown, MN
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February 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I live in a highly diverse neighborhood in Saint Paul, and ICE has routinely targeted our community for over a month. Some neighbors have launched a mutual aid fund to help impacted residents who can’t safely leave home cover food, rent, utilities and essentials.
www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...
One that’s totally self-inflicted. You can’t dine out on your past (cough, Stephen Lawrence, cough) when your current actions make it look like you’re embarrassed of them.
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
One that’s totally self-inflicted. You can’t dine out on your past (cough, Stephen Lawrence, cough) when your current actions make it look like you’re embarrassed of them.
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The first of a new weekly round-up of the weekend, from the Premier League down to the National Leagues North & South. Focus this week is on bringing everyone up to speed with where we are at the top - and in a couple of cases bottom - of everywhere.
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Feedback Loop: A North London Double, Treble, or More
The first of this new weekly round-up of the weekend's football starts with the now-rapidly dawning realisation that Spurs are involved in a relegation fight.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
The first of a new weekly round-up of the weekend, from the Premier League down to the National Leagues North & South. Focus this week is on bringing everyone up to speed with where we are at the top - and in a couple of cases bottom - of everywhere.
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The housebuilding revolution is essentially a timebomb.
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
The housebuilding revolution is essentially a timebomb.
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‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’
Yiyun Li on the blog.
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Yiyun Li on the blog.
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Yiyun Li | To Remember in America
When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...
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February 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’
Yiyun Li on the blog.
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Yiyun Li on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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This weekend's match was Burgess Hill Town vs St Albans City in the Isthmian League Premier Division, with photography by Dylan, aged 10.
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Burgess Hill Town 0-1 St Albans City: Like a Home Away From Home
I haven't lived in St Albans for a quarter of a century now, but I first went to see them play in 1982 and my distance from the club hasn't dulled my fondness for them.
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February 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This weekend's match was Burgess Hill Town vs St Albans City in the Isthmian League Premier Division, with photography by Dylan, aged 10.
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Basements are diaspora heritage when it comes to Black music 🫡✊🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=96v9...
February 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Basements are diaspora heritage when it comes to Black music 🫡✊🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=96v9...