I Needed To Drink Its Inky Blood An Evening with Arundhati Roy

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A live event with Arundhati Roy is not a conversation, it's a strategy.

As well as one of the great joys of my life!

Caroline Darian’s book is such an honest account of the traumatic discovery that her father Dominique Pelicot was a uniquely depraved criminal

But “chemical submission” is far from unique

Now she is on a powerful mission to change how justice works

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Fahrenheit 451 I knew about the book burning but actually I think this is an even more prescient message…

Finally got around to reading Fahrenheit 451

It’s so prophetic and not necessarily in the ways I expected…

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I think you’re confusing me with someone else x

Loved meeting you!

Excited for this today
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social The Invisible Doctrine is 🔥🔥🔥

Whats the difference btw #Canada + now #Australia, where #elections show voters rejecting Trump-like self-destruction

& #America + #Britain, where they're running towards it?

We're seeing difference btw countries that have a sense of hope and self-belief vs those embracing their terminal decline

Stalin’s legacy. A monster. The work we put into this series I mean, I’ll let you judge the man for yourself… #Legacy #podcast #listen #everywhere @peterfrankopan.bsky.social

Such an important piece by my brilliant colleague @sandytolan.bsky.social

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Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”

— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Great Regression: Trump's Presidency Has Real Consequences For UK Women Today, President Elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. There's much for us all to be concerned about and women in the UK aren't exempt, says Afua Hirsch

That moment where I realised my visa might not get renewed if I write this… before I remembered who I am and the entire point of me, and published it anyway
🤷🏽‍♀️
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Intriguing! What comments?

Who made this 🤣

We are all living in the wrong era
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BBC - African Renaissance When Art Meets Power Episode 2 Senegal Dailymotion video by Documentary World

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Ironically African liberation is always helped by French arrogance and failure to acknowledge past wrongs

A history #Macron keeps repeating

As former French President Jacques Chiraq, no left-winger, said in 2007

"Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third world power"

When Sembène and assistant director Clarence Delgado were filming Camp de Thiaroye decades after the events, the French military refused to cooperate and spied on the production. Then banned the release of the film in #France

#neocolonialism
#Film
#freespeech
#colonial
#crimes

If you haven’t seen Camp de Thiaroye, by the legendary Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène
you need to

This 1988 classic depicts the true story of how, even after serving France, black African troops were met with racism and brutality by the French state
#OusmaneSembène
#Senegal
#film
#classic

#Macron says Africans forgot to say thank you for French imperialism

Nope. It’s the other way around
From my 2019 series #Africa Rising
#Senegal

Musk is weaponising the real trauma of sexual violence to groom low information social media consumers, sniffing out their vulnerability to disinformation abuse, and exploiting it.
It's also predatory. And very, very dangerous.

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'I think, because Elphaba's otherness is about the colour of her skin, I immediately feel connected to it as a Black woman…”
I talked to Cynthia Erivo for Elle! about this film you might have heard about, it’s called Wicked…

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Thank you! 🙏🏽

Why I feel so gross about the Jay Z allegations

What is the true legacy of #Churchill?
Latest series of our chart topping podcast - all eps available now where you like to listen
#Legacy @peterfrankopan.bsky.social
@wonderymedia.bsky.social

Thank you! ☺️

My unexpected cultural journey continues :)

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This headline got me
Imagine taking the time to *know* something before forming an opinion 🤷🏽‍♀️

✍🏽

🙌🏽

Wondering what’s wrong with #BandAid ? Or as many of us call it, that stupid song..
Compare it to an African gaze, courtesy of #EshetuTireneh

#AfricanRenaissance #documentary