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Hadley Freeman retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
We have photos.
Delighted to be putting my lifelong obsession with literary adaptions to some use ☺️
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
For the Sally Rooney - Salman Rushdie parallel to work, a major Jewish leader would have had to call for her murder, gangs of marauding Jews would have had to burn down bookstores, and a Jewish extremist would have had to stab her eye out with a knife.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
This comparison with Salman Rushdie is pure luxury dilettantism. You can disagree with the politics that led to Rooney's books being withdrawn, but no one is threatening to kill her. Rushdie OTOH is under constant threat from Islamists, which is the opposite to Rooney's situation
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:
"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.
"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.
"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."
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Hadley Freeman retweeted
Let’s stop fetishising that decade. Back then everyone wanted to be in the 1960s thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Today’s @thetimes column is a very serious and important counterbalance to all the 90s nostalgia
Iffy music, funny smells: Nineties life was rubbish
thetimes.com/article/f3b814c…
And today’s @thetimes film review is of Case 137, an extraordinarily timely French film about the ethics of policing the gilets jaunes protestors. Plus a review of a documentary about Karl Lagerfeld
thetimes.com/article/670d030…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
Thanks for the heads-up Dennis - Hadley was superb
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Topic from 03:20.. Hadley from 08:05..
#NHS #WomensHealth #WomensRights
@HadleyFreeman
@LibVoice4Women
@WomensRightsNet
@SexMattersOrg
I'll be on @theJeremyVine's R2 show in a minute to discuss the NHS finally making wards and changing rooms single sex. Helen Webberly also on, offering the alternative perspective
Such an important article. Please read it to understand what’s really going on
There is the Middle East war we discuss out here, and there is what happens inside the room.
@brett_mcgurk's new book takes us inside the actual room, where it all looks rather different.
I interviewed him for @thetimes
thetimes.com/world/middle-ea…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
Here's the piece:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
Excellent from @BBCRosAtkins. (Less so from the women’s hour editor)
Hadley Freeman retweeted
After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, which is controlled by the Greens, wrote to various Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them.
I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety.
Synagogue rejects Green council leader’s attempt to ‘reassure’ them after “Zionism is Racism” vote
jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-r…
Hadley Freeman retweeted
Neither Israel nor Cable Street… what do Greens & other Palestine flag-wavers want from British Jews? My @thetimes column
thetimes.com/article/be74f77…
