"An Israeli strike has killed 3people ahead of a public screening of a world cup game in the Gaza strip. 2 children were killed.. along with a member of the Egyptian relief committee, which organised the event. The strike occurred moments before the Egypt match against Argentina"

cannot recommend highly enough this piece from simon skinner that covers the entire grand history of fifa corruption (and much more) — www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What's missing from the 'Manchesterism' hype is detailed analysis of Burnham's actual record in GM This report credits him with a programme of 'expanded council housing'. How many did he build? Why has Manchester's social housing waiting list increased by 84% to over 21,000 households since 2016?

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

As Nida' Ibrahim touches on, if this is how Israel treats international activists, how do you think they treat Palestinians?

Looking forward to this hybrid GlobalCORRIDOR workshop at the British Institute in Eastern Africa on Tuesday. I will be talking about road corridors, land transformations and rentier capitalism. Thanks to Catherine Gateri for the invitation! biea.ac.uk/events/globa...

Some reading and viewing for Nakba Day: our Interventions series on the Palestinian genocide antipodeonline.org/2024/03/01/i... and the 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives” antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2...

Artificial intelligence is "incredibly unpopular technology" that is essentially being forced on people, says writer @astra.bsky.social. New data centers are now facing stiff resistance, providing "local chokepoints where people can come together and push back on the billionaire Big Tech agenda."

"Water systems are no longer just collateral damage. They are increasingly part of military strategy. “Water is increasingly part of the battlefield,” "We see it being used as a weapon of war, with the effects falling primarily on civilians.” reflects Professor Mark Zeitoun. shorturl.at/FL5YM

🔓️ NEW in #UrbanStudies ✍️ @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social et al. discuss the changing relationship between #housing, #finance and #state through a global comparative perspective, adopting an urban statecraft lens to examine affordable housing production. 📖 buff.ly/eck82ap

We need to win big on May 7. Thousands of Green candidates are standing across England and Wales. This is a real chance to change politics - to give communities a stronger voice and challenge parties backed by big money. Support the campaign 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-deserve...

Affordable housing, finance and the state: Towards a global urban comparison New @urbanstudiesjournal.com article with a great team of authors We draw on research in six cities to discuss the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‘The image of luxury towers constructed above mass graves, with tens of thousands presumably buried under the earthworks, embodies the logic of 21st-century genocide.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Make some noise. Share this post. 🚨 The Israeli government has granted itself another means to dehumanise, suppress, and kill Palestinians. Israel is violating international law.

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm. Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.

‘War with Iran is a long-held ambition of Netanyahu’s, but Gaza is where he and his generals designed the playbook that is now being followed in that war.’ Online early from the next issue: Amjad Iraqi on Israel’s military playbook. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘The datacentre investment boom represents one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this or any era’ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

Worse than that, I’m afraid: we support wars of aggression and domination prosecuted by fascist supremacists.

The FIFA Peace Prize selection committee members nod solemnly and say they’ve never been more proud

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

One of the greats, RIP

Saturday. 10am. Denton. Biggest action day ever? We have to stop Reform. Let’s elect Hannah Spencer 💚 actionnetwork.org/events/big-d...

📢 Call for papers: Envisioning Labour-Led Urban Development by @globaldevinst.bsky.social 📍 @manchester.ac.uk / hybrid 📆 23-24th April 2026 ⏰ Abstracts by 31st January Find out more: buff.ly/r3tlxKt

On Tuesday, the Israeli military invaded Birzeit University, attacking students with live ammunition. Israel's scholasticide is a core part of its attempt to obliterate the collective life of the Palestinian people. We have written to Yvette Cooper urging the British government to take action.

⚡️NEW from Drop Site: Israel Kills Five Children in Surge of Attacks on Gaza “Safe Zone” Since the October “ceasefire,” an average of five Palestinians have been killed every day. Report by Abd Sabbah (X: @AbdSabbah91) and Sharif Kouddous (X: @sharifkouddous) www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaz...

‘Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom, despite all attempts at repression and aggression’ Solidarity with staff and students at Birzeit www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Campaign Against Arms Trade are a great source of reliable information and high quality analysis on UK arms sales. They have important resources on UK arms to Israel in the context of the Gaza genocide. Vital that we keep ourselves informed about these things. caat.org.uk/publications...

Good to see that this hunger strike is now getting some attention, at least in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"Qesser Zuhrah has been refusing food for almost 2 months now" #C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.

It is shocking that people have been pushed to take such serious action just to be heard. These events did not happen by accident. They are the result of the government misusing anti-terror laws.

1/AI chip sale to China strike a tectonic shift in US national security policy? Whats diving it:"It is a system that closely reflects what Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman have referred to as neo-royalism...The winning clique is clear: Nvidia, Trump’s inner circle" open.substack.com/pub/mileskel...

If you're concerned about the erosion of anti racist norms and the rise of the far right, you have to factor in two solid years of bipartisan British complicity in this genocide. What do you think our government's role in this racist bloodbath tells us about the state of our political culture?

🎉'Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics' written by Simin Fadaee, has been selected as one of CHOICE’s outstanding academic titles for 2025 @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177988/

"The genocide never really ended" Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza this morning.

Organised by Debolina Majumder and Michaela Collord, a workshop taking place 23-24 April 2026 will collectively envision the key features of what we call “labour-led urban development” in the Global South. Accepting abstracts until 15 Jan 2026: bit.ly/4ppGcph

The 'Manchester Model' in one story...public money subsidising private profit Renaker borrowed £700+ million from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) + its affiliates to build high end skyscapers... Now it's owner is fleeing with the profits to tax-free Monaco

This is fascinating and disturbing from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on rise of 'financial nihilism' (cc @aminsamman.bsky.social !) in the asset economy www.ft.com/content/c17a...

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Harvey at 90: A @versobooks.bsky.social series of short essays davidharvey.org/2025/11/harv...

Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two. Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire

BREAKING: Mass 'terror' arrests outside the Home Office of protestors holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". The government is guilty of protecting a foreign genocidal regime, over the lives of Palestinians and our rights. Lift the ban.