Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Exeter has a phenomenal track record of literary studies research AND enrollment. The unbundling of the two will sabotage them both. And that is by design. The fewer research-intensive humanities departments there are, this thinking goes, the easier it will be to censor what they produce.

Jos Charles "A Song [I was want]" poets.org/poem/song-i-...

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Somewhere like the Globe was never gonna make a definitive version of MOTHER COURAGE, but this was a fun way to end a hot day - and it did manage to hit a real sense of menace and complicity in those final scenes.

The Iranian soccer team treats Los Angeles with more respect and graciousness than the 47th President of the United States. The GOP owes America an explanation.

Like I said yesterday, if you stop people being worried about money they often find their hatred of the other is less important to them. (Until they become rich enough to insulate themselves from 99% of the population)

For anyone curious about why Starmer is going this thread is great. You might even say… *lowers shades* forensic

Don't want to be picky, but isn't the Pope "America's most powerful Catholic" being as he is both American and - how to put it? - the actual Pope? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The idea that every human is a life deserving of fundamental rights, dignity & care—irrespective of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, or ability—*is* the common ground. It is the ground of the universal. People opposed to this aren't interested in common ground.

Very important now for all of us who work with young people to make it very clear to them that they can still come to us about things they see online that scare or concern them, even if it's something they are banned from accessing, and we won't be angry with them.

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Post liberal Catholicism is when you defeat the pope on the market place of ideas.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

My grandparents generation used to kill fascists, we cannot even get our government to stop using their tech

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

Young men are the second most left leaning social group in this country after young women!Your base is racist pensioners! Incredibly revealing that they assume people can only radicalise right and also how they are now just implicitly leaning on the idea young men are inherently violent.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

a modest proposal for catholic evangelism: a Corpus Christi-themed novelty record called MONSTRANCE MASH

Keir Starmer is out here sobbing that the HR consultants in Ealing who actually vote for him aren’t racist enough, meanwhile Rhun ap Iowerth looks his 98% white rural constituency in the eye and announces he wants immigration policy devolved so he can let Cardiff Uni issue more student visas

A reminder, as we enter into this difficult period for trans ppl in the UK that most of the work that actually makes a difference in the day to day lives of trans communities cannot be posted online. Just because people aren't shouting about what they're doing, doesn't mean they're doing nothing.

I wish we actually did have societal standards that applied to everyone and I guess it's good that some people keep noting the ways in which they're being disrespected by the far right but also: it doesn't matter, they make up their own rules and then nothing happens so they never have to learn 👍

The Government's response is just deteriorating year on year as well, 2024 was a very clear response condemning the riots, 2025 was talking about legitimate concerns, 2026 they have just decided to ignore agitation and continue to flounder.

one of the infinite ways in which the existence of trans people makes the whole world better is the way my transmasc friends have totally reframed for me what masculinity can look like when it busts out of that prison and it’s beautiful actually

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

funny part about this posturing is that Reform's 2024 voters are the least likely of any party's to regularly attend church

A crucial article by the great @rachelshabi.bsky.social . To defeat the monster of antisemitism we must also defeat the monster of Islamophobia, and all forms of racism and hate. substack.com/home/post/p-...

yes of course I got Rowan Williams in that Anglican theologian quiz, I know I'm basic I'm working on it 🙄

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

Most of Britain thinks net migration is still rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters From our new 2026 @britishfuture.bsky.social study of public attitudes to immigration, published online here www.britishfuture.org/britain-thin...

"This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath. We also encourage and defend these general social standards when we hold others to them, and not just ourselves."

I hope he makes it clear that there is no justification for clergy to use AI in their work

He also cites this powerful speech from Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, Bishop of Willesden, at Sunday's rally against antisemitism. "We cannot be neutral in the face of antisemitism" "Because ultimately this truth remains: No one is safe until everyone is safe" www.jewishnews.co.uk/silence-has-...

Rising antisemitism is the UK is real, but mainstream commentary on its meaning and causes has been worse than useless. We spoke to Barnaby Raine about the moral panic deployed by those who claim to be "protecting Jews". www.equator.org/articles/goo...

I've been reading a lot of work on hauntology lately, and having just done fieldwork in place teeming with ghosts - where interacting with the dead is a common and everyday practice - all I can say is that the 'spectral turn' is Eurocentric af. Not every ghost is uncanny...

One of my form, a 13yo once said to me (god knows why) 'I hate immigrants.’ I said calmly 'I'm an immigrant' & he went red and apologised. I said 'It's ok but watch this.' Asked my form (who just thought I was being random as usual - didn't want to humiliate him) how many of their parents- (1/4)

tfw when you achieve 💫 mystical union 💫 but only in yr emails

"Where do I put myself, if public life's destroyed" (Denise Riley)

Fascinating that British political discourse is still haunted by the ghost of The Dinner Party: an event that's shifting, protean, always happening somewhere, capacious enough to hold all your enemies' decadent iniquities, and never happening either at your house or that of any your friends

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

This is a fabulous, frank and honest thread about what reading Prynne is like. (I'd add Luke Roberts and John Clegg, in different registers, as respectively among his great UK readers, for ground-clearing and access-granting respectively.)

...sweet joy befall thee is by rotation been and gone into some world of light exchange, toiling and spinning and probably grateful, in this song. RIP J.H. Prynne

Counterpoint: many people who write poems today are quite poor, and - even if that's not the ideal you or they really want - you can be generous enough to exchange those poems for money.

Kinda cute that Robert Todd Giffin - the offshoot-of-an-offshoot Continuing Anglican bishop who's pouring all his diocese's funds into Facebook advertising - has exhausted all his 19th-c. ritualist manuals and is now just sharing cartoons by that noted bastion of traditionalism, Dave Walker.

i just think it’s really sad that we just accept greenwich mean time and never think about greenwich kind time

“No one wants to talk about the white working class!” says the dude who just said he has a best selling book about it

One down!

That there Pusey House doesn't hire itself...