Er, no. No, it's not. He fell a long time ago, but his mates didn't want to admit it, so kept pretending that he was a stand up guy. That's why, when he was made he Ambassador, everyone just said, he'll not be in that post long. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Salmon aquaculture isn't feeding the world — it's depleting it. “As a former veterinarian for a salmon farming company in Chile, I’ve seen firsthand the effects and damage the carnivorous aquaculture industry can cause.” -Oceana's Liesbeth van der Meer, DVM. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Just a reminder that after the Nazis took over Germany, Anne Frank was declared as an illegal alien and the Gestapo were arresting Jews in the streets every damn day putting them in concentration camps and working camps The comparison is not "false" or "exploiting" in any way (1/2)

'Oversight' of a fascist militia is kinda missing the point. You have to disband it, disarm it and then prosecute relentlessly. And rescue all those who have managed to survive its crimes too, of course.

This just goes on and on and on, paid for by American tax dollars, using US bombs, sustained by a blizzard of propaganda and denial. Mountains of dead civilians, maimed children, obliterated families. Are Americans just blind to this inhumanity or afraid to speak up for humanity? Afraid of what?

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “President Trump's idea of ​​sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted — But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice"

Very obvious to anyone who was paying attention; but the political/media class are nothing if not oblivious to normal people. #Palestine

On this, really interesting piece on X’s “ideological ratchet” by @jwherrman.bsky.social: the platform is pulling users to the right, even elites who thought they were immune to radicalisation nymag.com/intelligence...

Andrew Mountbatten also charged the taxpayer for his golf trips. Neither monarchies nor golf have a right to exist.

Phillipson's argument seems to be that a lot of this shouldn't require specialist plans – it should be built into general education. I agree. But whilst you build up that accessibility (which takes time) it's unconscionable to leave disabled kids who need it without individualised support.

Yusuf: "When Nigel is prime minister, there will not be a judge in the country that will be able to prevent flights from leaving." Worth noting that the political precedents for saying, 'The judiciary cannot in any way check the powers of the executive' is not a happy one.

At a violent, racist protest in Manchester this weekend, police arrested eleven people, some of whom were counter protesters. Last year, at a single silent sit in protest, police arrested almost five hundred peaceful Palestine Action campaigners. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

From the proposed changes to #PIP, through the cuts to the #motability scheme, to the new #SEND restrictions, via the "overdiagnosis" lie/rhetoric, this government's hatred of #disabled people has always been openly on display. If you vote #Labour, you are telling us a lot about your own hatred.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

And how exactly is it that people with ILR make this country ‘unsafe’, please? Is it our significant fiscal contribution? Is it the valuable, higher-than-average skills we bring to this economy? Is it the richness we add to the UK’s cultural fabric? Do tell! Gobshitery of the highest order.

Some interesting facts here about medieval marmalade trading!

Hardly surprising, given that the monarchy is, *by definition*, a white supremacist gang, but still ... she was scum. All this "Elizabeth was decent" pish. Stick it. I don't want to hear it. #AbolishTheMonarchy #BringMeTheGuillotine

Britain is never going to have a serious conversation about the fact that one of the queen's final acts in life was to knowingly spend millions protecting one of Jeffrey Epstein's top collaborators just because he was mummy's favourite special boy. She was a cruel, out of touch piece of shit.

These things never work for poetry (if the only Milton book you've read is The Complete Works, then, well...), but otherwise: Lewis Trondheim Johann Sfar Jacques Tardi Tillie Walden Riad Sattouf

For the British, this is very much conditioned by whether you've been abroad, because all our fruit is shit.

Last week at Broken Frontier... Preview: Muslim Futures – Diverse Muslim Storytellers Come Together in New Comics Anthology Crowdfunding on Kickstarter. www.brokenfrontier.com/muslim-futur...

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

"UK awarded a £10 million contract to Pearson Engineering, a UK-based we-pons firm now owned by the Israeli company Rafael which “operates under the authority of sanctioned minister Bezalel Smotrich,” according to a report by Declassified UK (@declassifieduk)." via Bilal Maraqa

Frankly my dear I like the frankness

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Has an electoral coalition ever been so misunderstood?

Farage's 46 mentions in the Epstein files (released so far) are interesting. Epstein stood to profit through Bannon backing Farage. Did Farage, as an MEP and now as an MP, act in our interests, or Bannon's interests?

Applies to probably every sector.

the entire video Lowe put out is even more ominous (the semiotics of Restore propaganda are deeply fascinating, if not evil)

Plenty have clocked how Nigel Farage talks to women journalists — pure condescension: “listen, love,” “go write your silly little story.” Know your place. No shock from a man who praises Andrew Tate. The real surprise? It’s only being called out now.

“In 2023, the OBE-nominated businessman sent out a tweet saying “someone should kill Sadiq Khan”, and announced plans to move to Spain or Dubai to avoid tax, but now is considering returning to the UK to stand as a Reform councillor because he fears Labour’s tax plans. “

Do you reckon that this collective not-vegan chef brain fart regarding avocado on vegan cooked breakfasts is going to die soon? It's genuinely bizarre. #veganlife

Wait what theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Last chance for voters in #Gorton & #Denton to show that you are anti-fascist. Vote #Reform or #Labour, and you are telling us that you aren't. #Greens #gortonanddenton

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Considering how long, in a political sense, this story has been running, and how much worse it gets as more information is revealed, it is quite telling about how weak Starmer's position is that he hasn't done more to distance himself further from Labour Together. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Far right and anti-trans activism on UK campuses supported by Russian- and Hungarian-funded networks. goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...

Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers dismissed Private Eye as “an absolute rag of a publication” Perhaps it was because @privateeyenews.bsky.social was publishing articles like this about Lord Mandelson's links with Epstein as long ago as March 2009!

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

Tesla made suppliers tool up for 120k units/year of this turd, it sold a third of that in year one, and then sales fell by 50% in year two. Biggest flop in modern automotive history, and it isn't close.

‘gender critical’ transphobes have brow-beaten the MHRA to raise the minimum age of the puberty blocker trial to 14 - making blockers pointless for many trans kids already a significant way through puberty! 😤 They’re trying to stop kids transitioning ANY way they can! 👉🏻 www.gov.uk/government/n...

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

"The Future of Here gathered and presented imaginary artifacts from the everyday life of a future people that might one day inhabit the landscape of this city we now call Baltimore, once our own civilization was long gone."

This isn't what SCOTUS *said* (they said nothing) BUT the Court's "passivity"-deciding not to decide or say anything - helps the executive branch aggressively characterize & implement the Court's orders. My draft paper "Passive Vices" goes into this (Law Review editors- it's looking for a home!)