Could you honestly even begin to imagine Labour, the Tories or Reform standing up for exploited people like this…? The establishment parties straight up don’t care.

Human Rights Watch director resigns and says he has 'lost faith in our senior leadership’s fidelity' after they spiked Israel report By @skwawkbox.org www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Harriet Harman does herself a disservice in leaving herself out of the list of those who were the architects of New Labour; one of the first defining acts of Blair’s government was her taking away benefits from single mothers. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Le Monde has revealed that in the summer of 2025 a French criminal court issued indictments against two French-Israeli Jewish citizens for complicity and incitement of genocide due to their repeated attempts to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. It seems to be the first case in Europe.

Speaking of the progression of Aristotle's thought, I recently came across this new SEP entry on The Transmission of the Aristotelian Corpus: plato.stanford.edu/entries/aris... Super interesting stuff!

A devastating review of Douglas Murray’s bankrupt polemical pot-boiler on Gaza from Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/do...

Perhaps more than in any other recording, this new one shows just why Webern so admired the total integration of singer and orchestra in Das Lied and how it stands on the cusp of New School modernism. The control of timbre is astonishing. And Lemieux is wonderful.

A yet further reason why marriage to Russell was not without its irritations.

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet, with the growing toxic cocktail with major #PublicHealth implications www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Last year Petrenko gave a powerful performance of Bruckner 5 that revealed moments of wit in the score. That ability makes him an ideal Schoenberg conductor. Kopatchinskaja is bold and mercurial. Fantastic disc.

Interesting take on why it could be a very costly mistake to integrate your systems with a product for whose production tyre is as yet no business model. (Those who like things to get to the point should skip the first few minutes). #AISlop #Genai youtu.be/9KrLURAg_OY?...

The kind of endorsement of academic values that’s worthy of Matt Goodwin

Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?” Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”

In this interview with Adrienne Buller I explain the nature of money, the fact that unlike a commodity, money is not scarce, and that because money is a social construct, trading it across borders is risky, which is why global financialisation causes crises.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMM...

New trick discovered today: an LLM-generated essay, saved as a PDF, with a tiny white space between each letter. This makes it impossible to paste quotes into a search engine, prevents text-matching in plagiarism checkers, & means URLs in bibliographies can't be clicked on. A lot of my time wasted.

Oxford people please sign!

Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion." Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social

Astonishing story indeed from @rnaudbertrand.bsky.social on the other site. Here’s the link to the Substack: arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/the-incred...

On March 11th my paper "Things Gone Wrong: Aristotle on Deviations and Failures in Art and Nature" will appear in this great volume on the concept of "against nature" (παρὰ φύσιν) in Aristotle.

Rus in urbe Stepney

How is this not Apartheid? www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260122-kne...

Read and weep.

A happy new genre on the other site

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

"Even if you don’t speak the language in question, always take at least a look at the original text in the form of a critical edition. This gives you information on how the text was actually established, whether there are variants or emendations and such like. A text is never a given." #Philosophy

Read the letter: prisonersforpalestine.org/read-our-let... Sign the demands: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ad... Spread the word: prisonersforpalestine.org/resources/ Take action: directactiontraining.org Write to Umer:

‘How did you deal with tricky characters?’ asks Victoria Derbyshire of Jeremy Hunt. Well, we know how dealt with Trump last time —stealing Venezuela’s gold. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

Old Western values

❗️The government is refusing to say how many US military personnel are now at its major UK bases. This is while Trump is using Lakenheath and Mildenhall to move military forces to the Middle East, possibly to attack Iran. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-secrecy-o...

It's time the UK government backed these efforts to bring global tax affairs into the light, and stop giving our tax money away to U.S. billionaires in dark room negotiations. taxjustice.uk/blog/uk-gove... 9/9

The euphemistically titled new “side‑by‑side system” is a green light for US companies to keep playing this game of hide-and-seek with their profits. Making the “two sides” in the system: 🇺🇸American megacorporations who won’t have to pay taxes Vs. 🌍everyone else who does. 5/9

The UK & other rich countries just gifted U.S. corporations’ a major exemption from int'l tax rules. The UK was already haemorrhaging an estimated $9 billion a year to tax-cheating US megacorps. 🧵Here’s what the latest capitulation to Trump’s bullying means... 1/9

I trust there are serious people at the Treasury and the BoE working with a sense of urgency to make preparations for when Trump decides to weaponise SWIFT against recalcitrant allies. It would be very inelegant to be panicked into asking Russia for advice or help.

Spirit of 1953.