Jenny Edkins

"Identifying the bodies is not just a question of restoring dignity to the dead; it is also necessary for the health of the living... [Pauline Boss] described the unresolved grief of relatives of the unidentified dead as an “ambiguous loss”

"Hundreds of families queue every day at hospitals and offices ... seeking information about missing relatives. Mughir said that at the civil defence headquarters in Gaza City alone, upwards of 30 families a day ask for help trying to locate and recover their loved ones."

“The whole world has seen the equipment that was brought in to retrieve the bodies of Israeli hostages [including bulldozers and excavators],” said Dr Mohammed al-Mughir, “We also need the same equipment to retrieve our bodies.”

The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job

Missing persons in Gaza: The pain of ambiguous loss and the task of recovery

After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
-- Wislawa Szymborska

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Dyna’i diwedd hi, Nôs Galan Gaeaf hapus oll ! / and that’s the end of things on the west coast - happy Halloween all ! #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales

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'Alternative ecological futures: Art climate change & the radical imagination' new event with Environment and Climate Politics Working Group 🌳

Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟

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#Caerphilly by-election

Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:

"Caerphilly matters because Wales is Reform’s next big target. If Reform wins, it’s going to boost their chances of winning the Senedd next May. And if they do, it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
#Caerphilly

@stevebasnett.bsky.social

The death of Welsh Labour As the party loses its grip on power, progressives must find a new vehicle to defeat Reform

Ac wele...

www.newstatesman.com/politics/wal...

Caerphilly Senedd by-election: thread 🔽

I wasn't aware of that. It's complicated, and I can't speak for England, but in Caerphilly now the split vote between Plaid and the Greens may well lead to a Reform win which could be huge momentum-wise. The Senedd electoral system changes for May 2026 so whoever wins now won't be in post for long.

As I remember it, the problem in Ceredigion Green Party then was new arrivals who objected not to tactical voting but to Plaid's supposed 'nationalism'. Now GPEW and Plaid both support an independent Wales. And both are vehemently opposed to Reform, so Caerphilly makes no sense...

Exactly. And a formal joint campaign can be very successful. Cynog Dafis was elected as a joint Plaid Cymru–Green Party MP for Ceredigion in 1992.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Why is the Green Party in Caerphilly not supporting the Plaid Cymru candidate in Thursday's by-election?

#NoKings Miami!

Happy #Caturday!

Benjamin Zephaniah reading his poem People Need People on the One Show June 2020 in lockdown after George Floyd was killed, and talking about multicultural Britain

QED:

British.

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 14/10/2025

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
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‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains

The search for the missing in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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Worth a read. A study of working class perceptions of “government of the people, by the elites, for the rich”. Is this why the approach of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party resonates?

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Heading for 1.5 million signatures now
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

At last.

Happy to see our latest work together published in Millenium. After disaster a return to the status quo isn't inevitable. It can be an opportunity to resist journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Always a joy to work with
@kandidapurnell.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social

YouTube video by Media Education Foundation Studying the Conjuncture - STUART HALL: THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE

"A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us." ‪Lisa Diedrich‬
‪@lisadiedrich.bsky.social‬
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A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.

I didn't see another good article @ailsahenderson.bsky.social and @richardwynjones.bsky.social which considering the unusually large concentration of St George's Crosses yesterday is required reading. You can feel the frustration in their writing.