This sort of absolute vandalism is why we have been on strike. In what world does dismantling chemistry , materials science, and East Asian Studies make sense?

Remind me again, what’s the job spec of a university? Just horrifying wilful destruction.

Happy 98th Professor Wynter. Thanks for the courageous and luminous thinking and writing, and esp this: “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument” The New Centennial Review, Vol 3, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 257-337.

Shabana Mahmood has asked the PM to ‘consider’ his position. Really? My word, after leading the cruelty brigade from the front, this from Mahmood is almost surreal and even hilariously disingenuous. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“This is why they’ve gone after critical race theory, because critical race theory says… discrimination, exclusion can happen in any number of ways that are presumably race-neutral”. Thrilled of course, that Professor Crenshaw is coming to @lsegender.bsky.social to launch her new book ‘Backtalker’!

“This is why they’ve gone after critical race theory, because critical race theory says… discrimination, exclusion can happen in any number of ways that are presumably race-neutral”. Thrilled of course, that Professor Crenshaw is coming to @lsegender.bsky.social to launch her new book ‘Backtalker’!

Just in case, you’re looking to come up for some *air* today. This is a marvellous 🎂 appreciation of a very special human. And, it helps if you’re a fan of Jarvis, I guess. So there… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vl8n?partner=uk.co.bbc

On the train going home to vote before the polling closes! 🗳️

It’s good to see work that tracks the inclusion of the global poor as citizens via financialised debt. The 📕asks if neoliberal welfare can repair historical & racial injustice? And how do recipients, in this case, Black South African women push back against these? www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...

05 May 1818 Happy Birthday Karl Marx.

Here we go again: The authoritarian right tightens its grip in the world’s largest electoral democracy. 154 million vote in 5 States—9 million could’ve voted but disenfranchised; 30% were Muslim. For the first time since 1977, no Left govt in any state in India. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/w...

How to strengthen interdisciplinary teaching, learning and scholarship? See below 👇🏽👇🏽 @lsegender.bsky.social

“If I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.” Yes, that too. Good point! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

“The Court’s judgement is a …devastating indictment of the impartiality and competence of the OfS, implicating its operations, leadership, governance, and strategy. It raises important and urgent questions for the government as it plans to grant ever more powers to the regulator”.

In the UK (and not just the UK) university sector, we're living, working, thinking and being made redundant (sic) with and by emergencies. Join Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by Paul Gilroy and John Sabapathy, for 'Learning in Emergency States'. 5 June. 1/2

Leading the free world…

“…the hatred of theory threatens not only to reshape universities ideologically but to replace them with a data-driven “machine empiricism. “‘

The systemic intersecting oppressions experienced by Palestinian refugee women are “underpinned by [an] anti-Palestinianism, a settler-colonial framework that normalizes Palestinian displacement, erases their history, silences their narratives, and subjects them to structural violence”. 👇🏽👇🏽

My latest in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the illegal US-Israeli war on #Iran: a war not only on a state, but on Iran’s sovereign development and the social achievements built by generations of Iranians. jacobin.com/2026/04/isre...

Go Hungary! 👏🏽 And, now, for those other right-wing authoritarian rulers… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Apposite for the moment to bid farewell to India's B'wood singer Asha Bhosle who passed today. This was a hit in the late 90s; a tribute to her by the diasporans who made home in Britain. It's so 90s. Rest easy Asha Bhosle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBn...

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime. No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India that “among the many people and races who have come in contact with Indians and influenced India’s life and culture, the oldest and most persistent have been the Iranians.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on: Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory April 24-25, McGill University Pre-registration required: forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh...

Border-Academic-Industrial Complex. ‘This report exposes how universities are embedded in the EU’s border regime, driving the militarisation, surveillance, and externalisation of migration control’.

London, you beauty!

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

Every European country abstained from voting on the UN General Assembly resolution on slavery

The comment of the far right Vox party at the end of the report, though. Not surprised in the least, but still. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✏️📚 PROGRAMME SPOTLIGHT: GENDER (RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS)   This programme provides in-depth knowledge of the epistemological, conceptual, and empirical contexts in which gender and human rights operate.   Find out more about our MSc programmes and apply via our website! @smrodriguez.bsky.social

The Mackay Lecture Series, Dalhousie University. If you’re in Halifax in April. www.dal.ca/faculty/arts...

To note: The UK government has awarded Palantir a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform. Beggars belief.

The Mackay Lecture Series, Dalhousie University. If you’re in Halifax in April. www.dal.ca/faculty/arts...

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“ This lawless war has to stop.

To note: The UK government has awarded Palantir a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform. Beggars belief.

Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic (women)—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters” Explains why the right is decimating the humanities & the social sciences.

Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social trace the transnational patterns of anti-gender and anti-trans politics worldwide, and the solidarities pushing back. Read their introduction here (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog: truethings.naghmehs.com

Lovely to come to work and see the department taking over LSE‘s homepage! Celebrating the fantastic achievements of our student Mahnoor Omer and Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social, as well tomorrow’s event with @sarahowen.org.uk and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social 🎉 More here: www.lse.ac.uk

A good time to read @lalehkhalili.bsky.social's book 'Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula'. Or if you don't have time to do that, how about the review-essay I wrote about the book on my Substack during a previous war-related shipping crisis:

I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth

As ever, important writing from Ratna Kapur. From Necropolitics to Piety: TWAIL and the “Other” Subject of Human Rights

“The questions of militarism and imperialism are at the central axis of political life today. In them…lies the key to the political situation…” (Luxemburg, Rosa, ‘What Now?’ ( Die Gleichheit, February 5th, 1912). True then, true now. Happy Birthday, Rosa Luxemburg.

My Dad escaped the Nazis in 1939 on the Kindertransport. He went to night school then University, trained as a physicist. Married my mum, brought up 3 kids, all work in public sector. Under these proposed rules, he would have been deported. 100% 'performatively cruel' @stellacreasy.bsky.social

Really necessary set of essay about this moment: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.