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@orwellprize.bsky.social@orwellprize.bsky.social → @orwellfdn.bsky.social@orwellfdn.bsky.social → @orwellprize.bsky.socialCan we develop a shared sense of nationhood that transcends the narrow and exclusive version offered by national populism? Thank you to @orwellprize.bsky.social for co-hosting this debate on 'Englishness, Britishness, and the Populist Challenge'. Listen:
Show PostBack in 2019, Jessica, the student I was mentoring for @artsemergency.bsky.social won the @orwellprize.bsky.social with a dystopian short story about a near-future Britain where kids are separated into bands depending on their predicted employability. Was not expecting reality to catch up so soon.
Show PostRead insights from the debate 'Englishness, Britishness, and the Populist Challenge' presented by The Political Quarterly and the Orwell Foundation, written by @orwellprize.bsky.social's Sam Taylor Hill politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/english...
Show PostTonight's @orwellprize.bsky.social lecture just underway with @profrosiecamp.bsky.social Pippa Catterall @jydenham.bsky.social @roswynnejones.bsky.social @tommctague.bsky.social
Show PostGreat to see Daniyal Mueenuddin’s This Is Where the Serpent Lives on the shortlist of the @orwellprize.bsky.social for political fiction.
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