David Storey

David Storey

@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

Human Geographer (retired, sort of); Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things

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The Bell report "is riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions. It weaponises antisemitism rather than tackles it, and yet the government has uncritically accepted its recommendations" @owenjones.bsky.social zeteo.uk/p/debunked-t...

zeteo.ukDebunked! The Antisemitism in Schools Report Is Based on BS NumbersSir David Bell’s report is riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions. It weaponises antisemitism rather than tackles it, and yet the government has uncritically accepted its recommendations.

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"Place names form part of our intangible cultural heritage...They shape our geographical imaginations and the way people perceive and understand the world" @derekgeographer.bsky.social @reubenroseredwood.bsky.social & Frederic Giraut on Trump’s 'toponymic narcissism' time.com/article/2026...

time.comThe Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Are Not Trump’s to RenamePlace names that are changed arbitrarily should not be recognized by the international community, write Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Frédéric Giraut.

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@colinivan.bsky.social on olive groves and the erasure of land, memory and people

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It "carries memory because generations have cared for it. It represents endurance because it continues to feed them & when a farmer stands before a threatened tree, what is at stake includes the possibility that a child will one day return to gather beneath it. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

irishexaminer.com‘You don’t cut down a blessing’: Why Palestinian olive trees represent family, history and resistanceAs settler attacks and restrictions threaten Palestine’s olive harvest, novelist Susan Abulhawa explains the trees’ deep ties to family, identity and survival
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"You live in a big house on a farm with a whole lot of poor people, who are there as a direct result of that history and are impoverished as a direct result of that history.” Wine and enslavement in South Africa www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.com‘We built this land’: descendants of enslaved people are reclaiming their history across South Africa’s vineyardsSlavery was integral to the country’s wine industry, now a handful of wineries are addressing its legacy and righting the wrongs of the past
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@colinivan.bsky.social on olive groves and the erasure of land, memory and people

David Storey@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

It "carries memory because generations have cared for it. It represents endurance because it continues to feed them & when a farmer stands before a threatened tree, what is at stake includes the possibility that a child will one day return to gather beneath it. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

irishexaminer.com‘You don’t cut down a blessing’: Why Palestinian olive trees represent family, history and resistanceAs settler attacks and restrictions threaten Palestine’s olive harvest, novelist Susan Abulhawa explains the trees’ deep ties to family, identity and survival
David Storey
@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

It "carries memory because generations have cared for it. It represents endurance because it continues to feed them & when a farmer stands before a threatened tree, what is at stake includes the possibility that a child will one day return to gather beneath it. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

irishexaminer.com‘You don’t cut down a blessing’: Why Palestinian olive trees represent family, history and resistanceAs settler attacks and restrictions threaten Palestine’s olive harvest, novelist Susan Abulhawa explains the trees’ deep ties to family, identity and survival

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flyingrodent
@flyingrodent.bsky.social

I’d say his greatest political trick was destroying most of the Gaza Strip while the world’s most stridently malicious liberals relentlessly screamed abuse at anyone who objected to it

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"I think that the European Union, both as it is and into the future, has been severely damaged by the absence of any moral position. "How can these people be aware of all of this and not call it a genocide?" - Michael D. Higgins

David Storey
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"Place names form part of our intangible cultural heritage...They shape our geographical imaginations and the way people perceive and understand the world" @derekgeographer.bsky.social @reubenroseredwood.bsky.social & Frederic Giraut on Trump’s 'toponymic narcissism' time.com/article/2026...

time.comThe Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Are Not Trump’s to RenamePlace names that are changed arbitrarily should not be recognized by the international community, write Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Frédéric Giraut.
David Storey
@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

The Bell report "is riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions. It weaponises antisemitism rather than tackles it, and yet the government has uncritically accepted its recommendations" @owenjones.bsky.social zeteo.uk/p/debunked-t...

zeteo.ukDebunked! The Antisemitism in Schools Report Is Based on BS NumbersSir David Bell’s report is riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions. It weaponises antisemitism rather than tackles it, and yet the government has uncritically accepted its recommendations.
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The 'media has expressed more outrage about a Green Party motion that branded Zionism as a racist ideology than it has ever expressed about the crimes Israel has committed in Gaza. The hypocrisy would be breathtaking if it wasn’t so predictable' @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/10/gree...

jacobin.comThe Green Party Will Regain Momentum if It Keeps Its NerveZack Polanski’s leadership of the Green Party is facing its biggest challenge to date. But the Greens can weather the storm if they stand their ground against deceitful attacks from Andy Burnham’s Lab...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
@seamas.bsky.social

It's rare you see a post that manages, entirely accidentally and so perfectly, to achieve the logic and rhythm of a Viz letterbocks entry. I had a sausage sandwich this morning. Contrast that with man landing on the moon.

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Just read this. Lyse Doucet's evocative account of Afghanistan's recent tumultuous history framed through the shifting fortunes of the Intercontinental Hotel & foregrounding the lives & experiences of its staff

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Rob Kitchin
@robkitchin.bsky.social

Our 3D model of central Dublin in action - data are map projected on. Model is 3.5m (7km) by 2m (4km). This clip is building use, planning applications, population density, house prices & airbnb properties shown in time sequence. Visit exhibition to see in full fictions-frictions-evictions.ie

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"Govts...are now unapologetic in imposing restrictions on free expression & peaceful protest....Police violence at pro-Palestinian demonstrations has become the norm & those whose only crime is to speak up publicly for Palestinian rights are increasingly criminalised or made the target of suspicion"

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"Gaza has exposed how Europe’s supposedly universal commitment to human rights is now conditional on whose suffering is recognised, whose resistance is considered legitimate and whose demands for justice are considered worthy of attention" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comHow Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada IslamSolidarity with Palestine’s suffering is punished but MEPs allow a witch-hunt of European Muslims, says Brussels-based commentator Shada Islam

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"The injustice of slavery cannot be consigned to the past. They are about the present. They are about the inequalities that centuries of colonialism created – and that still exist today" @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @mstaronline.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/repa...

morningstaronline.co.ukReparations are about more than artefacts – it’s about justice“I DO hope that, as friends who have gone through so much together since those darkest of times, we can move on from this painful legacy and continue to build for the future.” 
David Storey
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"Rooney’s publishing arrangements matter because they expose something about the political order surrounding that destruction: the things it accommodates, the relationships it preserves, and the dissent it decides it cannot tolerate" @colinivan.bsky.social

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"Jewish people are not synonymous with the Israeli govt. Palestinian solidarity is not evidence of hatred towards Jews. Intelligent, unbiased broadcasters ought to be capable of holding those thoughts without requiring a commercial break" @colinivan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

irishexaminer.comColin Sheridan: Sally Rooney's critics are missing the point — our focus should be on PalestinePalestine Action’s proscription is the political decision at the centre of this, while the plight of the people of Palestine should be where we focus our attention
David Storey
@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

"Jewish people are not synonymous with the Israeli govt. Palestinian solidarity is not evidence of hatred towards Jews. Intelligent, unbiased broadcasters ought to be capable of holding those thoughts without requiring a commercial break" @colinivan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

irishexaminer.comColin Sheridan: Sally Rooney's critics are missing the point — our focus should be on PalestinePalestine Action’s proscription is the political decision at the centre of this, while the plight of the people of Palestine should be where we focus our attention
David Storey
@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

"The injustice of slavery cannot be consigned to the past. They are about the present. They are about the inequalities that centuries of colonialism created – and that still exist today" @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @mstaronline.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/repa...

morningstaronline.co.ukReparations are about more than artefacts – it’s about justice“I DO hope that, as friends who have gone through so much together since those darkest of times, we can move on from this painful legacy and continue to build for the future.”