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Sigrid Rausing

@SigridRausing

Editor and publisher of Granta. PhD post-Soviet anthropology. Books: academic monograph OUP/Everything is Wonderful/ Mayhem F.R.S.L.

Doesn’t Starmer’s repeated reference to ‘working people’ exclude all those who for whatever reason are not working? Do they not matter anymore? Perhaps they never did.


My article about historic anti-Zionism and its contemporary expression in the human rights sector, published today. thetimes.com/article/c7760a…


Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation announced - goo.gl/alerts/58bACF #GoogleAlerts my late friend Johanna Ekström’s work affirmed by the Warwick prize win


BBC Media Action is fundraising for investigative journalism, yet the app BBC Sounds is now blocked for listeners abroad. Why fund the BBC, with such limited reach? Britain’s influence is waning by the day - a spectacular own-goal.


SRT Executive Director Job Description - The Sigrid Rausing Trust sigrid-rausing-trust.org/srt-executive-…


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I’m interviewing @SigridRausing at @edbookfest about this powerful book - the final notebooks of Swedish author Johanna Ekström; edited, translated and responded to by Ekström’s dear friend, Rausing. 2.15pm today - come along!

CaoilinnHughes's tweet image. I’m interviewing @SigridRausing at @edbookfest about this powerful book - the final notebooks of Swedish author Johanna Ekström; edited, translated and responded to by Ekström’s dear friend, Rausing. 2.15pm today - come along!

SRT is charitable trust - we can’t complete these requirements without a consultant, absorbing resources that would otherwise go on grants. Insane bureaucracy, to what end? Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) - GOV.UK gov.uk/guidance/energ…


Putin said captured Ukrainian soldiers would be treated like ‘terrorists’, and reports of summary executions, systematic torture, rape and mutilation of prisoners of war give us an idea of what that means. His statement is a blatant justification for war crimes.


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The new US special relationship with their allies…. Really? We’re doing this?

RoryStewartUK's tweet image. The new US special relationship with their allies….
Really? We’re doing this?

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And the Walls Became the World All Around by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing review – a dying writer’s journal 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/4ZDgqrR


After all the critique of colonialism, why do UK and US leaders still talk as if they owned the world, and were capable of managing it?


Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Writers' Trust of Canada goes to Martha Baillie for her exquisite memoir of navigating mental illness in the family, There is no Blue (Granta). writerstrust.com/awards/hilary-…


And the Walls Became the World All Around — reflections on a life via @FT In memory of Johanna, my closest friend. She would have loved this. on.ft.com/48QTSCa


Congratulations to Granta author Han Kang, whose spare and steadfast lyricism has made her that rare thing: a Nobel prize winner addressing profound themes of human existence who is also a best-selling author.


Needless to say, this is a scam. But thanks.

Subject: Ladies and Gentlemen, 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm Mrs. Sigrid Rausing, a Swedish investor and philanthropist. Your email address was randomly selected by Google Inc. as an active user on the network. 𝗬𝗼𝘂…



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No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

bmay's tweet image. No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

Finally a defence of human rights - I feel profoundly relieved.

Not all politicians are the same. We’ve bagged a good one here. After the last several years this is pure poetry.



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