And then came the fallout. The BBC was roundly criticised for airing Bob Vylan’s set (and, in fairness, for censoring Kneecap’s appearance). There was swift condemnation from politicians and pundits alike that either had been booked at all, and Avon and Somerset Police announced it was launching a criminal investigation into comments made from the stage during both performances.
By Monday the BBC itself had released a statement describing remarks made as “incitement to violence”. Many were quick to point out that inciting violence against a literal army, not least one almost 4,000km away, perhaps stretches the definition of that term, and that the BBC explicitly rejected calls for a similar apology in 2020, when a panellist on Have I Got News for You suggested dropping a bomb on Glastonbury to kill Jeremy Corbyn supporters.
No matter. Between then and Wednesday morning, my TV viewing included half a dozen BBC News bulletins, every one of which gave the outrage over the chants higher billing than the 200 Palestinian civilians killed in those intervening 48 hours, half of them while seeking food at designated aid sites, across several attacks that also targeted a school, as well as a cafe crowded with women and children and hosting a birthday party at the time. If moved to discuss distractions, we should really start and end there.
It would have been nice to use the BBC’s mostly excellent coverage to reminisce about my one trip to Glastonbury, in 2015, during which I watched Christy Moore watch Kanye West, and managed to avoid passing a solid bowel movement for four straight days; to wax lyrical about music festivals, or the joy I now feel watching them – for free, excellently rendered and produced in full high definition – from my couch rather than while covered with mud, sunburn or both in a series of increasingly large fields I’ve paid £400 to sweat in.
But the main story of the BBC’s Glastonbury 2025 coverage will now, and forever, be this self-made morass of missed points and moral cowardice. To focus solely on the music, and the BBC’s superlative presentation of it, would overshoot complacency and enter the realm of complicity.
“Apart from all that unpleasantness,” we might ask, “how did you enjoy the play, Mrs Lincoln?”
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Thank you so much for paying us a visit Anca! It was a pleasure to hear more about your work 😃
19.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So looking forward to this!! @dacretu.bsky.social will be giving a paper to the Humanitarian History Seminar at @hcrinstitute.bsky.social on her new book, Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal (Stanford University Press, 2024). www.sup.org/books/histor...
14.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to discussing Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods and the construction of success in humanitarian medicine this Sunday at @aahmhistmed.bsky.social. Historical perspectives are all the more relevant in this moment, which has highlighted the precarity of the global aid infrastructure.
02.05.2025 19:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social
01.05.2025 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An interesting development from the MSF Access Campaign challenging the lack of transparency in R&D from pharmaceutical companies.
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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 ‘𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥’ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞?
@kristinajenei.bsky.social latest research explores how
@who.int Lists of Essential Medicines have evolved and political challenges that shape decisions today.
Read more: bit.ly/4iboTUy
14.04.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Check out the Call for Papers for the Irish Conference of Historians to be held in Maynooth 12-13 September 2025 on the theme of 'Inner Lives and Outer Realties'. Deadline 31 March. We have two wonderful keynotes, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) and Prof M'hamed Oualdi (EUI)🚨
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Home in Dublin for the weekend so had to get some Bear coffee to bring back to Manchester 🐻 fingers crossed it fuels some book writing productivity!
17.02.2025 17:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check it out (and the other blogs by my colleagues on the Developing Humanitarian Medicine project) if of interest :) @hcrinstitute.bsky.social
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DHM
I wrote a blog post post ('Historicising state-NGO relations in global drug access campaigns: the case of the Bangladesh drug policy of 1982'), which is a reflection on a wealth of documentation I came across in the War on Want archives in SOAS last summer. www.dhm.manchester.ac.uk/blog/histori...
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Visited Irish Museum of Modern Art in Royal Hospital Kilmainham for the first time yesterday!
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Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social) | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | most recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP) |she/her
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture • 17th and 18th century studies • assistant professor • mountain lover #nelbetancur
Trustee at Manchester City of Sanctuary | Patients Not Passports Campaigner 🩺🍉
www.clippings.me/camboyle
Working towards a world where the universal right to health is achieved.
actionforglobalhealth.org.uk
We're Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM), a 5-year project at the University of Manchester’s HCRI. We explore how humanitarian medicine has evolved—from patient care in emergencies to global health diplomacy.
🔗 Learn more: www.dhm.manchester.ac.uk
Specialist NHS Library & Knowledge service for all staff and students based at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. We also maintain the Christie Research Repository: https://christie.openrepository.com/ #christieresearchers
Assistant Professor at LSE International Development | Research on humanitarianism, conflict, health, displacement 🇨🇩
Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies
Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
MD turned historian of medicine, science, food, environment | author of WONDER FOODS (@ucpress.bsky.social '22) http://shorturl.at/nuGP7 | @gastronomica.bsky.social | living in Amsterdam | #histstm #histmed #foodhistory #foodstudies | she/her
The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
Dean, Queen's Law. Lover of health care law and policy and public law. Research lately is focused on the governance and adoption of of AI into health care, higher education and legal systems.
Exploring modern Irish history through diplomacy. www.difp.ie
An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
humanityjournal.org
Updates on the work of Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins.
https://linktr.ee/PresidentIRL
Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
Incoming associate professor of law at @nyulaw.bsky.social. Director of the Science, Health & Information Clinic (SHIC). He/him. https://chrismorten.com/
