The Rapid Support Forces have backed US ceasefire calls in #Sudan after recently taking control of #ElFasher city. In response, the Sudan Armed Forces have been emphasising #RSF atrocities and urging international partners to classify it as a terrorist organisation. africa-conf.com/burhan-under...

Finally, a bit of a reality check from our 2024 election book (out soon!) for everyone hyperventilating about collapsing public trust in the BBC - free to air TV (mostly the BBC) is still the most widely consumed and widely trusted source of news - blows print, online & social media out of the water

11 November being both Armistice Day and anniversary of Rhodesia’s UDÌ was exploited by the far right. This 1971 Times article mentions the UK’s National Front, which supported Rhodesia, laying a wreath on Remembrance Sunday in memory of Rhodesian airmen.

Chana Joffe-Walt and @thisamericanlife.org doing a deep dive on the Afrikaner Refugees. It’s quite the segment: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...

Gilmore Place - free bay leaves. #edinburgh

If a self-identifying “left of centre” government with a parliamentary majority of more than a hundred seats won’t defend a vital public service institution you really have to ask why it’s in government at all.

Back on the pickets for week 4 of our strike action!

Do share this fully funded PhD (with stipend) in Architectures of the Global South as broadly conceived with people who maybe interested. It has Amit Srivastava, Peter Sciriver and Katherine Bartsch as supervisors in Adelaide University adelaideuni.edu.au/research/res...

@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

The 7 year closure of Edinburgh’s Radical Road is appalling. Having attended a site visit last month I fail to see why the partial reopening now planned in 2026 has taken so long. It needs to happen as promised and be the start of improvements in paths across the Park www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'No review can do this book justice. Anyone wanting to understand France’s role in Africa along with the background to the new wave of anti-French and anti-colonial feeling, especially in the Sahel, should give it a read.' liberationorg.co.uk/comment-anal... @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

👇👇 bsky.app/profile/edcr...

For some comfort to the family, the very least we can do is prevent this from happening ever again Protest! Thursday 13th, 8:30am, outside the City Chambers (for details, see replies)

“So now is the time to come to the aid of the BBC. It needs all the friends it can get (and that includes members of the current government, who might like to be a bit more voluble in their support). Because I promise you this: you’ll miss it when it’s gone.” By @robinlustig.bsky.social

Excellent commentary from @stephenbrown.bsky.social on the McLeod Group Blog about Canada's ill-timed cuts to its global aid responsibilities: "The World Needs Less Canada?" www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/11/the-...

But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.

50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm. The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. This is the story of this terrible tragedy. 🧵1/20

The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.

BREAKING: Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, Justice Department official says.

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2

For those interested in how the Victorian (and later) city dealt with its refuse, this thread is pure rubbish: 🗑️ threadinburgh.scot/2022/09/02/t...

Fuelling Sudan’s war, blockading Bamako, and misnomers in Gaza and Lebanon: The Cheat Sheet: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/11... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Pretty amazing light in Edinburgh just after sunrise this morning.

Can the world prevent a genocide in Sudan? theconversation.com/can-the-worl...

Amazing how often we say 'too many visitors' when what we mainly mean is 'too many cars' news.stv.tv/north/dunkel...

Active travel funding is being cut in Scotland. 😩

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

'It has become untenable for us to continue' – Premier Tech terminate Israel-Premier Tech sponsorship despite name change | Cyclingnews share.google/qijX0WhZ1BEZ...

Only 18% of Africans are in formal employment. The wealthiest evade most taxes, particularly on property ownership and capital gains, because states underinvest in property and company registries. Our states want taxes but don’t care to create formal jobs or invest in robust infrastructure.

Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

City of London lawyer Andrew Milne bought up hundreds of freeholds on homes across Sheffield before advising leaseholders that, if they didn’t pay him exorbitant sums (upwards of £25,000), he’d see them in court. Well done @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @joshiherrmann.bsky.social for exposing this.

18% of people in Britain identify as "woke" 18% of people identify as "anti-woke" 43% as neither 19% don't know what the terms mean [that was half in 2020] Kings Policy Institute latest study shows that the polarised tribes remain vocal minority segments, but perceptions of division are rising

a must-read on this topic

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I’m teaching a whole course this semester on basically this premise (although I hate the term ‘backsliding’).

Maine rejected a ballot measure that’d have restricted mail voting and imposed voter ID. By a large margin, 64/36. The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

“How many hours a month do you work on your ‘newsletter’? What is your real job?” When we asked Andrew Milne why he was sending 'very aggressive' letters to Sheffield leaseholders he threatened to take us to the High Court. But the distress of those we spoke to meant we had to publish. Story 👇

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Gonna be a tough one for the feds to swallow

SANDWICH TRIAL ENDS! Defendant ordered to go (free)

Help to get a nationally-important monograph printed. A pledge of £34 will get you a print copy of the Rhynie book + UK shipping if the full £10k is raised. A bargain price for what will be a very detailed account of this major Pictish site and its environs. (The ebook will be free.)

Reversing the highland clearances the sustainable way, nice!

Mamdani elected mayor of NYC, Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins governorship in Virginia, and California passes Prop 50. (gif from the archives)

House of Ypres A.Y. Jackson 1917

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol