Qatar and Egypt urge Israeli withdrawal to secure next step in Gaza peace deal

UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to

Something is #rotten in Europe... #Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?! #genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

“Trump’s willingness to strong-arm Netanyahu was the key to achieving this latest deal. The US president will need to sustain that pressure on Netanyahu to make sure he doesn’t blow up the ceasefire, as he did in March, and resume Israel’s genocidal war” — my latest for @theguardian.com

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

I went to a literature festival event today and was very aware of being the only non-white face in a large tent not normally an issue, but very aware of it now, each time someone seemed to look at me, thanks to this kind of language becoming 'legitimate concerns'

🚨Security Policy and Practice Working Group AGM🚨 On the 13 October this will be an opportunity to reflect on the work the group has done in the last year & shape the activities and priorities of the group! 🎉 Sign up now 👉 https://ow.ly/KWne50X492T Elisabeth Schweiger

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

Ah yes if black and brown people throw a party we need to scan their faces. White supremacists organising a hate march do not need to worry about their privacy. The police have them covered. This btw is also why everyone arguing for digital id in this country is either naive or dangerous.

⭐️Watch the recording of the recent event from our Security Policy and Practice Working Group "Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy" ! bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @elischweig.bsky.social

Great to see our article on the limits of national security orthodoxy published. With Nick Ritchie and Thomas Martin, we explore the mechanics of how a silent consensus on security can be reproduced… (1) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Meta allows ads crowdfunding for IDF drones, consumer watchdog finds

🕊️ Support the Helsinki +50 People’s declaration on common security and human rights The Declaration calls for a renewed global commitment to common security, human rights, disarmament, and climate justice. 🔗 Read & support the declaration: bit.ly/Helsinki50-d...

Huge crowd gathered in rainy Edinburgh right now to demand a stop of military violence. They’re chanting ‘we will not be silenced’ #Palestine

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Colonial crimes as crimes against humanity, arguing that the concept of crimes against humanity should not be read simply through the prism of the Holocaust. doi.org/10.1093/jicj...

How a new Corbyn/Sultana-led party can win voters as Labour flounders

@sara-de-jong.bsky.social has co-written an article in The Conversation about the Afghan data leak, you can read the article in full here: theconversation.com/afghan-data-...

🚨New Blog article: NATO endorsed a Human Security approach in 2022 but this year's Hague Summit was silent on it. @alexgilder.bsky.social of Reading University & @rusi.bsky.social makes the case for Human Security staying on NATO’s agenda. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/15/h...

Invoking the political and legal force of the terrorism category to suppress civil disobedience and to silence inconvenient political actors has been a strategy of authoritarian and imperial actors for a long time

UPDATE: The Interim "Prevent" Commissioner has published his review This year the Home Secretary appointed Lord Anderson KC as Interim Independent “Prevent” Commissioner to do two case-specific reviews, and identify shortcomings. Here's 5 takeaways 🧵

A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:

Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.

Nearly 60 Labour MPs call for UK to immediately recognise Palestinian state

Security Policy and Practice WG event 🎉 🚨'Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy'🚨 Offering an opportunity to discuss the analysis and policy directions set out in the National Security Strategy 🌎 Sign up now 👉 buff.ly/n5QPttD @elischweig.bsky.social

The UK’s forgotten war: British drone strikes continue against ISIS - Latest on Drone Wars UK dronewars.net/2025/07/02/t...