Jane Babb

This piece about listening suddenly turns up again out of nowhere in my notifications @susancain @livequiet

🇮🇪 | DANIEL BABB | Ipswich Town • Ipswich Town youngster Daniel Babb has returned to the club this week following the conclusion of his 'one-month' loan spell at AFC Sudbury. • The Irish 19-year-old, right-back, joined AFC Sudbury at the end of November & made three appearances for Tom Austin’s side and was unbeaten during his spell, featuring in one win and two draws. • Babb has now returned to Ipswich after completing his first loan spell in England. He joined Ipswich Town in February 2024 from UCD, where he had made 10 senior LOI appearances during the 2023 season. • Capable of playing at right-back or centre-half, Babb has since become a regular for Ipswich Town U21 side this season... 📹 Credit : AFC Sudbury

@MarkBroomy Thanks for protecting my good name and reputation Mark! I’m glad it brought you good karma 🤣. Keep up the good work! Happy Christmas.

🇮🇪 | FutureofIrishFootball • As Christmas rolls around, just a genuine thank you to ye all 🎄 I started this account three years ago after a random WhatsApp question about whether Daniel Babb (of UCD at the time) was related to the legendary Phil Babb... Somehow ye followed, & three years later, I’m still here for reasons I still don’t fully understand myself... • I took a complete break from X/Twitter at the start of the year, got back to enjoying going to the games every week without posting – but since coming back, the messages, interactions, retweets & support have been class lads... Really appreciate it... • Have a peaceful & brilliant Christmas with family & friends & here's to an even better 2026 💪 🇮🇪 ⚽️

@BecksHunter @IrishTimes A wonderful piece Rebecca.

My essay on the decline of Ireland’s seas and what can be learnt from literature, in ⁦@IrishTimes⁩ Weekend Review. Ireland is not the Emerald Isle - it’s sapphire.

Town U21 were beaten 2-0 at Watford this afternoon. ⚽️ Read the match report below. ⤵️

Go on David Walsh! 💪🏼

Town U21s began 2025 with a 5-1 win over Cardiff City this afternoon. 🗞️ Well in, lads! 👏

@j_amesmarriott @mollscroll Fierce Appetites by Elizabeth Boyle

@mollscroll oh great will look out for that too - thank you. Did you read any good non-fiction on the subject?

Have been on a strange magical streak of extremely good books over Christmas. I think this - about a nunnery in the fourteenth century - is one of the best historical novels I've ever read. Possibly the best.

@mollscroll @j_amesmarriott Matrix by Lauren Groff is wonderful.

@j_amesmarriott I love it and became mildly obsessed with medieval monastery life. Which led me to Claire Gilbert’s I Julian, a novel about the life of Julian of Norwich. Stunning.

In Beauty Queen of Jerusalem all the British soldiers are named after jazz and blues musicians: Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, James Brown, Stanley Clark - does Sarit Yishai-Levi explain why anywhere?

@annieryan849 It’s like the Olympics. Can’t wait for the 2028 campaign.

Thanks everyone for the kind messages we received tonight. Donal is overwhelmed and very grateful. 2020 on left. Slightly older and wiser tonight! Xx ♥️

@DJReady2Rock Beautiful answer. Pure John Hume.

Caught my eye 👁️ in Waterstones 📕shop. My A: I think so but brought about only by peaceful means with the consent of a majority of the people, democratically expressed, in both jurisdictions in the island.

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 - Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

De Villepin sets out neatly here how we might protect the rule of law and rules based international order.

@StorylineLit @IpswichTown

Niche rural joke: What did the tractor wife do when she was leaving her tractor husband? . . . . She wrote him a John Deere letter.

@mrsjaneymac This is weirdly the most hopeful thing I have seen today. When we remember that we were taught to think this way for 200 years there is still hope that we can change the paradigm yet.

Never underestimate the abiding power of racism and misogyny, and those two things combined. Two of the founding principles of the “Western” world.

Lauryn Hill performs an acoustic version of “Ex-Factor” in Amsterdam.

🔢 Tonight's Town U21s team to face Brentford: Gray, Babb, Lewis, Mazionis (C), O'Connor, Turner, Davis, Okunowo, Boatswain, Taylor, Nwabueze. Subs: Fleischer, Jambang, Towler, Ayoola, Mendel-Idowu. Watch live on TownTV. 📲⤵️

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Always said that kid had a good head on his shoulders.