This gets to my suspicion of Burnham’s expression of mild regret around Gaza. You’re the party who dragged Britain into Iraq. If you want to show you’re serious about ‘mistakes’ over Gaza then tell me who’s facing arrest or which Israeli arms manufacturers you’re going to kick off British soil.

Coming soon! The @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social team have chronicled the way the west has armed the wars in Yemen and Gaza. Book launch and tour coming end of the year - watch this space

🚨 NEW: Our new analysis has found that the funding settlement issued with the Defence Investment Plan will lead to a net loss in jobs in the UK. 📑 Buying the Dip: The Defence Investment Plan Will Produce Domestic Unemployment Our key findings 🧵👇

Thanks to @politicalquarterly.bsky.social for the opportunity to review Peter Oborne’s excellent “Complicit” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is subtended by the violent functions of statecraft. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social www.theindiaforum.in/internationa...

Examples are piling up of how the $1 trillion Pentagon budget is enabling unpopular data centers across the country. Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis + Mississippi (www.democracynow.org/2026/6/17/he...), the Box Elder data center in Utah, and one in Ypsilanti for the Los Alamos nuclear lab.

It's a full "Week in Arms Trade Publications" newsletter... check it out for recent works and upcoming events @explosiveweapon.bsky.social @minemonitor.bsky.social @iainoverton.bsky.social @brankamarijan.bsky.social @rcw4disarmament.bsky.social + many others mailchi.mp/forumarmstra...

"In a deeply interconnected global arms industry, where divisions between the private and public sector are structurally obscured, alliances and responsibilities become blurred." @annastavrianakis.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...

*person studying civil rights movement* I don’t get it, what’s so important about eating lunch at this one place.

#MustRead by @annastavrianakis.bsky.social: Arms markets: a look at the world’s largest military industries phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...

As of *a month ago*, the US has lost 39 aircrafts in their war on Iran (this is Rep Ed Case speaking to the Pentagon CFO):

👉 NEW — ‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’ By former defence contractor The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor www.declassifieduk.org/i-had-heard-...

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

Brilliant opportunity

Thank you James and Sam and the @lrb.co.uk for a stimulating conversation!

🚨BREAKING: The High Court has just ruled the ban on Palestine Action to be UNLAWFUL. Turns out opposing genocide ISN'T terrorism.

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

The Pentagon says AI is the future of U.S. military dominance. History says otherwise. In a new piece at @inkstickmedia.com, William Hartung and I unpack the rush to roll out military AI at “wartime speed,” and why sidelining oversight should worry us all. 🔗 inkstickmedia.com/the-pentagon...

We have put together three recent issues, which we consider to be essential reading for strengthening our readers’ understanding of and commitment to the global anticolonial struggles. Three issues at a special discount, accompanied with a complimentary tote! thefunambulist.net/shop/anticol...

Morgan McSweeney has resigned Lots of reasons for it but among them is our revelation on Thursday evening that McSweeney’s think tank paid a PR firm to investigate journalists. McSweeney was across that decision. Still so many questions to answer about it

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

Nor are we surprised that many male colleagues will continue to insist that sex, gender and race are irrelevant to politics

The fabulous @declassifieduk.org team in action! Great to hear them talk first hand about their work

Two postdocs and a graduate research assistant position at Sussex with @lindsaycclark.bsky.social on "Technology and the (future) Human in War"! Postdoc: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...; RA: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/b62df692... - apply by 11 Feb!

👇 Come and do my job at Spotlight! It's a fantastic opportunity to work with brilliant people tackling an important issue that affects us all. #anticorruption @charitycomms.bsky.social

Colleagues overseas, check this out:

@tkbarnes.bsky.social is a superb journalist: and I love this latest post of revealing tidbits. I agree that "every day is a day to report on and read about the people and places tied up in the $1 trillion Pentagon budget"! inkstick.substack.com/p/the-reveal...

UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales with Israel and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire 👇

Brilliant research from Open Secrets in South Africa: UAE selling armoured vehicles to Sudan, DRC, as 'made in the UAE' but actually South African-designed, built by South African engineers using South African parts, in Emirati free zones - www.opensecrets.org.za/how-an-sa-ar...

British-made weapons were used by the US to attack Venezuela on 3rd January. Starmer, instead of condemning these violations of international law, cheered it on. Shameful.

Thanks to @pollypw.bsky.social and Judith Koch for this conversation! Great to talk all things arms trade for an hour.

How you manufacture consent.

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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

🧵Collection of concerns expressed about US actions in #Venezuela today (Jan 3, 2026) -- from Congress, civil society, and others. Feel free to share and add on. (The Forum does not take responsibility for these statements. It does share them for public awareness)

It's terrifying that today might be the day a hunger striker dies - allowed to die by the state, for demanding a fair trial: www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

This, with Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah, looks amazing. Can’t wait to listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

SGR’s campaigner Laura Shewan documents how UK universities are clamping down on student protests while deepening ties with the arms industry. www.sgr.org.uk/resources/di... 🧪

Wanna figure out why the world is such a mess? Join us to study and find out! Online Sussex open day 29 November - www.sussex.ac.uk/study/visit-...

What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

A case was brought against UK arms exports to Israel by Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq & the Global Legal Action Network, but High Court judges refused their case. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social explains why the government was taken to court. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/why-the...

When peace and security mean arming genocide. @annastavrianakis.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, explains why the UK government was taken to court over arms sales to Israel, and makes the case for a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org

Today! I am delighted to be a fellow of the TSP - tune in to hear what the project is all about!

Why we need a two-way arms embargo on Israel: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/why-the...

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM @visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

And for our Italian-speaking friends! www.vignarca.net/2025/09/lett...

1/ 🧵 shadowworldinvestigations.org/statement-in... This letter, out today, has been endorsed by a number of experts listed by the Forum on the Arms Trade. The Forum itself does not take positions. Partial list of endorsers includes:

Hundreds and hundreds of protesters at the DSEI arms fair today, of all ages, races, genders and faiths, making their presence felt as the suited and booted, mostly male, mostly white delegates went for their big jolly - www.middleeasteye.net/news/protest...