May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza

Yvette Cooper and Starmer need to go over this.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

“Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies “the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw—and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken.””

Israel is a top 10 global arms exporter. In 2024 arms exports rose to $14.9 billion, with 54% of those purchases made by Europe (MOD data). The UK spends millions of pounds each year on “battle-tested” arms from Israeli companies. This 👇 is what "battle-tested means".

I just. The depravity. I… May they all see justice.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

"Government ministers, including former home secretary Yvette Cooper, lied to the public in an attempt to manufacture consent for the draconian ban"

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

Look at this amazing textile map of hidden empire that one of my students made!

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

UCL walkout for Palestine. 12th February.

Great

Israel told the UN to stay away from those areas for 9 hours while it kills all plant life. This is a war crime, and Israel is so comfortable committing war crimes that they announce them in advance.

“no one who has witnessed over two years of genocide in Gaza is likely to disagree with either Hammad or Said that the intellectual class has utterly failed to fulfill its social function”

He wrote FUCK ICE with his own urine.

Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Name them shame them

trayvon martin would be 31 today 😢

We've launched our new migration masters @uclgeography.bsky.social – Migration, Politics and Society Full of creative and critical approaches, and taught by really good people. Please pass on to students who might be interested! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

We've launched our new migration masters @uclgeography.bsky.social – Migration, Politics and Society Full of creative and critical approaches, and taught by really good people. Please pass on to students who might be interested! www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'“The actions taken by our whole university community over the past 12 months have been instrumental in moving us from an underlying deficit position of −£3.2m in 2024 to a small underlying surplus position of £0.8m in 2025,” Norman said.' 'The actions' include redundancies, suspending music...

Thinking of writing a stupidly rangy book that combines all my things and call it music is geography and geography is music

chop chop from the top

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Fun new-to-me Black History Month fact that I just learned while listening to public radio: Langston Hughes, the famed poet and activist, was also a composer! WQXR is doing a special tonight on his music www.wqxr.org/story/271251...

Yes free arts education www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Scenes from today's teaching (on unsanctioned collectivities and communities of method)

This @haymarketbooks.org event in London looks so great events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Tomorrow's teaching

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Watching higher ed just completely fucking melt and smell like a plastic toy in the microwave as part of this epoch is on the one hand totally predictable viz historical patterns of fascism etc and on the other keeps surprising me anew in ways I didn't know I had in me

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe. The three editors discuss their recently published anthology. Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽 undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/ Spread the word.

The results were so (unsurprisingly) cool and inventive and fierce and personal and generous

Deportation is state violence. Policing is state violence. There are long histories of struggles waged against state violence that can and DO inform the contemporary moment. Solidarity with organizers across borders today seeking to end violence and usher in more liveable futures for all.

“It did help me realize how important it is that we’re still at the point where people run to danger, and where people assist and help when someone’s being taken, and that we’re not at the point where people turn their eyes or are too afraid to see what’s going on.” lithub.com/everything-w...

Never Again Is Never Again For Everyone

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Today's the start of a new semester for a lot of us - if you have job security and live in a reasonably safe state (not everyone, obviously, but if it's you), put the fascism that we're living under on your syllabus. It is hugely important to offer your students this education, no matter your field.

#AcademicFreedom | @cnn.com has published its coverage of the #UsamaGhanem case at KCL, including comments from Lewis Turner, BRISMES co-vice president and chair of BRISMES CAF, on academic freedom and #freedomofexpression. Worth a read 👇 edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/e... #HigherEducation

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.