Jude

@judeinlondon.com

Writer, Campaigner, Loudmouth. Please hire me I need to pay bills.

Continuing on the food theme - can someone please recommend me a good restaurant in Canterbury and I do mean good not mid my bro is graduating today and nobody in this family remembered to book a restaurant HELP

My dear friend Jeremy passed away yesterday after a ferocious battle with an incredibly rare and aggressive cancer. He was an amazing father and person and we are all going to miss him terribly, but he’s no longer in pain. RIP friend x

‘“Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes,” the Lady Chief Justice said. But the suffragettes were if anything more violent.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on British complicity in Israeli aggression, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Selma Dabbagh | Annexation with a Sales Pitch

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a call...

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‘When Jude Bellingham catapulted England into the semi-finals, Lowe posted his name on social media, as if we’re expected to pretend that Restore’s immigration policy wouldn’t see Bellingham swept up in their deportation pogroms.’ @judeinlondon.com on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Jude Wanga | Limited Leave to Remain English

English identity is a funny business: we can be one thing to ourselves and something else to others, and that changes...

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Wrote this on how the conditionality of Englishness by the rabid horde of anti-immigration sentiment means you can’t be surprised when people don’t want to support England.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago

‘Englishness feels like a conditional status. Limited leave to remain English. For all the problems back in Kinshasa, one thing that has never been said to me there is that I am not really Congolese.’ @judeinlondon.com on Englishness with inlimits, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

‘My childhood best friend was confused when I told her that I was not supporting England. Of course she was aware of institutional racism and could understand my discomfort, but she was surprised that I no longer feel English.’ @judeinlondon.com on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Jude Wanga | Limited Leave to Remain English

English identity is a funny business: we can be one thing to ourselves and something else to others, and that changes...

lrb.co.uk

The whole of England can identify with Argentina tbf, half the country is financially unstable and the other half is racist.

Suspect that, outside the fringes of the hard right, most people want to like the BBC, even to love it, and to defend it against threats of defunding. The problem is that its news and current affairs division is making that extremely hard just now

As haters and critics circle, will anyone speak up for the BBC? Yes, a huge, loyal army of ordinary Britons | Lindsay Mackie

The BBC debate seems dominated by its foes and commercial rivals, but a new survey reveals a hitherto silent majority in supportive voice, says writer and campaigner Lindsay Mackie

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When Wissa’s equaliser went in yesterday I cried like a baby. First goal and point in World Cup history, what a moment. I will never besmirch bald men again.

Boyzone pausing in the middle of their farewell concert to lead 59,967 women and 33 men in reciting the Our Father might be the most peak Dublin Catholic it gets