A vote for Labour is a vote for more genocide, pure and simple.

I was interviewed by the dulcet-toned Laura McGhie from BBC Radio Five Live about the new book yesterday. Am waiting to find out when it will be broadcast. www.amazon.co.uk/Years-Travel...

Vote for THIS nasty party to stop THAT nasty party because if, as a result, THIS nasty party get into power they'll think it's because they successfully emulated THAT nasty party and will be empowered to be more like THAT nasty party from thereon... so you effectively have THAT nasty party in power.

"The mass slaughter of Muslims really doesn't bother our government." Anyone thinking this lot are preferable to Reform needs a serious attitude adjustment.

The only duty of cosplay parasite The King is to enshrine and entrench classism and privilege. He is a professional benefit scrounger.

Filmed at the University of Portsmouth on 11 April 2024, this video captures key moments from the conference Teaching Peace in Higher Education: Building a Culture of Non-Violence and Demilitarisation in Universities. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrTs...

Looking forward hugely to appearing at Arts University Bournemouth's Writing the Earth 2026 symposium on 22nd April. It's open to all-comers but please do book via this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...

Something I wrote to coincide with publication day. www.goworldtravel.com/anxious-trav...

Perhaps if Sir Kid Starver condemned this criminal and crazed war rather than participating in it then we might be spared some of the worst economic repercussions. But he's been a loyal drudge of US imperialism since he was Director of Public Prosecutions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

You could be an imbecile much less a counter-terrorism expert to know that Iran posed no threat to the US from the get-go. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/....

Great presentations at the Penning Ethnicity event I contributed to last week.

Some struggles for national liberation are more equal than others. www.blackagendareport.com/gaza-donbass...

Also another way of ensuring a one-sided narrative that downplays the damage Iran is doing in response to the criminal and lunatic assault on it by US and Israel. www.detainedindubai.org/post/breakin...

In today’s instalment, travel writer and author of Small Earthquakes, Shafik Meghji discusses how he’s dealt with anxieties that have arisen when travelling solo in challenging places from India to Syria to Latin America. intrepidtimes.com/2026/03/the-...

A seamless transition from one far-right party to another. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer's downfall emulating Blair's but in fast forward? Betray the electorate and your own party members, kick lumps out of public services, demonise minorities, indulge in corruption and dirty tricks, then top it all off with a disastrous war. Starmer's Iraq could be Iran.

Only 27% of Americans support what would be a reckless and casualty-heavy attack on Iran. Most Democratic politicians are in full support of Trump's attack plans. This is the 'democracy' that them lot over there are so jealous of and would love to have installed at gunpoint. youtu.be/zCH6i5kwgiw?...

Join me and researchers from across the University of Portsmouth for a unique event spanning various disciplines and methodologies. Historians, film scholars, creative writers, media experts and a puppeteer will reflect on how anxiety figures in their research. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-years-...

The Years of Travelling Anxiously about, er, anxious travel, available to pre-order now. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Just 24 hours to go before this fun event. www.eventbrite.com/e/tarticulat...

Ain't this so true of today?

Wonderful to chat with the Colonial Dept about Tangled Saviours, my genre-bending novel of magic, colonialism and generational trauma, set largely in the Philippines. open.spotify.com/episode/2vbm...

Making a statement like this at this time has to be as crackbrained as believing that the Cornish secretly run our banking system or that germs don't exist or that shape-shifting manatees control our weather.

If you think that the genocidal, corrupt, billionaire-worshipping, paedo-complicit Labour Party can be redeemed then you have no right to call anyone to your left or right mad, bad or stupid.

Open AI's board has banksters, Trumpsters, CIAers, Zionists and Iran-Contra apologists on it. Delightful. youtu.be/wBXe4KeSusE?...

Please give generously - Abood and his family have been through hell and we don't want them to go back there. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Atlanta dérive 1.

Mishra remains the smartest guy in the room. harpers.org/archive/2025...

Diosa Labiste and I could not have imagined that our critique of the Ressa Brand would by now have garnered over 4800 reads. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Russia ... has neither the means nor the interest to conquer Europe. In Ukraine, despite hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed in four years of war, it has conquered only a few tens of thousands of square kilometres of territory. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

4)...in a nuclear furnace. "We must love one another or die," wrote WH Auden.

3)...present-day Europe, at the start of another risky phase of history, that is enabling yet more genocide, exploiting and beggaring the poor world, smothering its one citizens in austerity and trying to scrounge together the resources for an unwinnable war that would only get itself devastated...

2)...involves the erasure of Europe's own history of barbarism (two world wars, numerous religious conflicts and persecutions, genocides against those considered lower breeds within and without the continent, the very existence of Emmanuel Macron etc etc) and an almost catatonic denial of...

1) This new Eurocentrism - with the emphasis on political centrism - is foolish, dangerous and undoubtedly racist. It's hugely disappointing to see so many supposedly educated and empathetic people signing up to it. The 'defending ourselves from the barbarism to the east and west of us' fustian...

Is the insurance industry, for the most part, pure, unadulterated evil - or is that being too soft on it?

Tangled Saviours is out now. Set in multiple times and places it's a novel of magic, curses, redemption and cultural connection. #booksky www.collectiveinkbooks.com/roundfire-bo...

It is nothing short of obscene that the Filton hunger strikers are not being covered by the state-corporate media. No wonder trust in these outlets is at an all-time low. www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

"...neither the ‘Reset’ nor the redundancies resulting from it were financially necessary given the University’s significant monetary reserves. In total 43 staff members lost their jobs due to compulsory redundancy. 74 colleagues took voluntary severance." www.starandcrescent.org.uk/2025/11/14/p...

This critique of the Maria Ressa 'brand' now has over 4500 views and 12 Altmetric citations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....