Alison Phipps
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Alison Phipps: How willow, wool and craft helped me carry grief (opens the original)
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WILLOW is tough. You have to pull it and poke it and soak it before it is pliable. Even then, it needs to be worked with determination and concentration before it forms a shape that can carry a load. Wool, especially as raw fleece, slides through your hands as it passes through different phases from carding, a process of teasing out and lengthening fibres through wire brushes, to spinning, leaving your skin soft with the natural oils, lanolin. It takes time, and a good deal of clumsiness in the
UK Government's Gaza statement was not enough â but a step closer to justice (opens the original)
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âWE welcome the Foreign Secretaryâs parliamentary statement on Israelâs ethnic cleansing, illegal settlements and settler terrorism,â went the statement from peace organisations across the country. âBut.â There is so much in that âbutâ. So much breath held and so much breath exhaled in the songs and protests on the streets. There are so many gasps of incredulity at the carnage and erasure of the people of Palestine. My Palestinian friends send me voice notes and messages full of
Why are Gaza students being denied the support offered to Ukrainians? (opens the original)
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THEY all begin the same way: “Dear Esteemed Professor, as someone committed to Palestine and the plight of Palestinian students …”. Three paragraphs usually follow, often drafted or finessed by AI, explaining why I should supervise the student and how my research relates to everything from engineering and computer science to corpus linguistics. Since the genocidal destruction of Gaza’s higher education sector began in October 2023, I have received a constant stream of emails from students seekin
Hate is winning out in so many places â but not at this Scottish festival (opens the original)
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âI HAVE something for you,â she says. We are sitting inside an Iron Age round house at the Scottish Crannog Centre. Iâve been crouching over a fireside at day-long Eritrean coffee ceremony, bringing people into the stories that accompany it with Eritrean friends and colleagues. âThis is very special. My grandmother made it. It is something from Yemen. If you put it in the fire the smoke will make your hair smell very nice.â My hair already smells of woodsmoke, frankincense, ginger and
Hate is winning out in so many places â but not at this Scottish festival (opens the original)
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âI HAVE something for you,â she says. We are sitting inside an Iron Age round house at the Scottish Crannog Centre. Iâve been crouching over a fireside at day-long Eritrean coffee ceremony, bringing people into the stories that accompany it with Eritrean friends and colleagues. âThis is very special. My grandmother made it. It is something from Yemen. If you put it in the fire the smoke will make your hair smell very nice.â My hair already smells of woodsmoke, frankincense, ginger and
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