Does it stop the genocide? No. But this is how fascists should be treated. They don't deserve the respect of an audience. They deserve the shame of one walking out on them.

As is always the case, Manchester is lulling it's freshers into a mischievously misleading false sense of the weather in the city with wall to wall blue skies all week. I do love my city ❤️

"OMG TRUMP HAS SAID SOMETHING STUPID AND CONTROVERSIAL" - yes he knows, and it is part of a broader strategy to deflect from other topics or to simply keep control of what is said. Impartiality of democratic media doesn't work with fascists, they're playing a different game.

The media really do need to learn to stop fucking reporting every piece of crap Trump says about EVERYTHING - yes he's a politician so we have to hear his ill formed views on politics. But the media simply shouldn't go around irresponsibly reporting easily debunked crap on paracetamol & MMR vaccines

There's been plenty of anti-fascist graffiti on mainland Europe for at least a decade, it shouldn't really surprise us that the fascists are now actually taking power

If they can't even work out their differences, personal annoyances and areas of solidarity between just six people, they are an absolute joke of a party... 🙄 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It was never about “freedom.” It was always about who was in control.

I think Owen Jones doesn't quite give weight to the fact that in the moment Rayner may not have reasonably recognised Mr al-Neder: fear (which Rayner has a reasonable claim to) easily disengages cognitive clarity but al-Neder is right to do what he did & Labour is morally corrupt for doing nothing.

No words.

10 years old and still one of the best music videos ever youtu.be/KWZGAExj-es?...

Another free link to this, in case people have going to bed reading requirements on.ft.com/3K1ZFg3

I also find it terrifying people are being told how they MUST mourn a man who ACTIVELY argued for a form of free speech that allowed for insulting people. That aside, in the UK when Thatcher died (albeit not assassinated) "celebrating" her death was at worst considered uncouth... The USA is fucked.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

I find it hard (impossible?) to mourn the death of someone who is so reprehensibly racist, misogynistic etc. I'd also never heard of him before seeing him shot dead on social media whilst answering a question about gun violence. I feel like I've found a limit in myself that I didn't know existed.

Violent fascists are the driving force behind this... What a surprise 🙄

Just in case anyone is any doubt about who’s behind this. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

It was amazing to work with a brilliant collection of authors & my fellow co-editors. Fully agree it's a strong set of books. My personal favourite (after our own of course 👀) is @susannahrfox.bsky.social Rebel Health, I already have it lined up for my module in May '26. Good luck everyone!

What an honour to have our book on HIV and COVID nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness with such amazing books including the fab Selling Immunity! @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social

Attacking a negotiating team in Qatar (basically the Arab version of Switzerland) is absolutely atrocious and tells you everything you need to know about Netenyahu.

"If, as these works suggest, queer theory is finally ready to talk about sex, we must be prepared for a confusion of tongues." Jordan Osserman explores the possibilities and contradictions inherent in certain queer subcultures and practices. lareviewofbooks.org/article/cruising-as-moral-practice/

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you want to hear me talking about The Moral Lessons of Chemsex book check out my interview with Dr Dallas Bragg 👇 the book is open access too! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... open.spotify.com/episode/4cKz...

Amazing review on @nagingtonuom.bsky.social’s The Moral Lessons of Chemsex boom in the LA REVIEW OF BOOKS! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 lareviewofbooks.org/article/crui...

The London HIV Prevention Programme has published a landmark report: Towards Equity: Reimagining HIV Prevention for London’s Black Heritage Communities. It highlights inequalities in HIV outcomes and calls for anti-racism, cultural competence & community leadership in prevention. bit.ly/465flq1

It's such an honour to be featured and to have Jordan weave his personal experiences together with João and Liz's most recent work in this eloquent revhew You can find my @routledgebooks.bsky.social "Moral Lessons of Chemsex" book open access here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Jordan Osserman just wrote the loveliest and deeply engaged review of mine, and João Florencio and Liz Rosenfeld's new books for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social you can read it here lareviewofbooks.org/article/crui... My book is available open access from www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Calling it out for what it is. There's a few good policies in there (rail nationalisation stands out) but apart from that there's just no drive behind this Labour government to actually address social issues head on (child poverty comes to mind).

Reshuffle it how you like, Starmer’s ‘grownup’ Labour has the Tory whiff of spiteful incompetence | Nesrine Malik

A politician who uses the language we are all using... And is on the left? It's a start.

Compelling narrative, clever even, and exceptionally well delivered

Oh he can piss right off, we have academic freedom. If he wishes to change what is taught there is ONE route in the UK: spend 8+ years studying, enter academia, and do some teaching. Otherwise, and I say this from this highest fucking point of my ivory tower: fuck off

On the same day in the Telegraph:

How would we feel if say, Saudi Arabia decided to bomb a British ship full of alcohol (very illegal in Saudi) ALLEGEDLY headed eventually for its shores? We'd be fucking furious, and rightly so. Have we expressed any fury at this brazen act or violence? Have we fuck.

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

So now apparently Liz Truss thinks it's a really good idea for her to have been in control of... everything 🤣 OMFG she is the idiot that just keeps on giving Https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-calls-for-trump-style-revolution-in-the-uk-after-blaming-bank-of-england-for-her-downfall-13423955

It's not fucking hard to find wonderful refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants. I know dozens. It would be vanishingly easy for Labour to do some sort of positive messaging. Have they? Have they fuck. They've lost my vote for a very long time.

Keir Starmer says he has the England flag in his home. Yvette Cooper’s shed is covered in Union Jack bunting. The far-right continue to weaponise the St George’s Cross and the government does nothing. Where is the pushback?

Precisely this - acts of omission, denial and also delaying of care can very easily be harmful, those risks have to be assessed and professionals must held accountable via the various means available where harm does occur. It's very simple and applies to all care.

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Volume VIII, part 2. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Annual of Sexual Intermediaries. Until now, a treasure trove of LGBTI history buried in the German language. Eight volumes now in English 1899 to 1906. Early #GermanGayMovement #lgbtqHistory #MagnusHirschfeld www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBG5BRSD

This just made going on holiday 100x better 🍆💦

Currently outside the Online Safety Act jurisdiction... 👀 Just er... Saying... 🙃

Just at Manchester Airport, listening to @theirrepressibles.bsky.social "Yo Homo" track and my eye fell upon two guys... they were giving off homo vibes and I was juuuuust trying to read all the signs to come to a conclusion when I saw their *still attached* Manchester Pride bands... 👀🤣

I love Manchester (well parts of it)

Jesus fucking Christ...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer salaries have deflated by at least 10%* since I started in UK academia in 2013, house prices in my area have gone up by about 25%* *Both inflation adjusted for CPI

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

One may have thought that as someone who has just started a research project titled "The Social Production of Chemsex Art" I may have heard of this (apparently rather famous) book written literally across the road from me... 🫣 I had not... And thankfully neither had the person reviewing my grant 😂

Rachel Reeves is finally looking in the right place to find the money we need to invest in our public services and make life better for people. But now isn't the time for caution, it's time to be bold and root out the injustice at the heart of this country

Perfectly formed words with an elegant conclusion by @carladenyer.bsky.social well worth a few minutes of your time to read all of them www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mp-cal...