www.ft.com/content/efb8... Looking forward to this next Monday

Book chapter!

‘The problem with the interpretation of the verb “support” by the police and courts in Britain today is that the state accepts no limit to its meaning.’ David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!

A thoughtful post in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on Diane Abbott, antisemitism and the complex ways in which race is imagined and understood. By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/diane-a...

The joy of buying second hand books

My brother and I climbed Ben Nevis with John Hartson a few years ago. It's hard going but the views make it worthwhile. I'd imagine 22y.o is at least four beers deep by now.

Some more images from Ben Nevis.

22y.o did Ben Nevis today.

‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Glasgow graffiti

Only in Glasgow

"Completely unacceptable" is what you say to a toddler throwing a tantrum not a powerful nation committing genocide.

Any institution, he writes, involved in the ‘allocation of resources within a system of property rights regulated and guaranteed by governments ... ultimately rests on the threat of force’.

Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden

Always worth hearing what Anna has to say www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/07/30/a...

‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact

I always think @carneross.bsky.social is worth listening to youtu.be/rLN7SrfTeZ4?...

It'll be interesting to see if @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social new venture gets the same media exposure as Farage and Tice. I won't hold my breath.

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, ‪@craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ @lydiajean.bsky.social‬ & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitio...

www.thespec.com/opinion/cont... History teaches that fascism does not arrive overnight. It creeps forward under the guise of patriotism, law, and “common sense.”

Shock Therapy was once used to cure patients. It always made the patient worse yet some 'experts' claimed the solution was even more shock therapy Many economists now do the same saying the solution to Neo-Liberalism's decades of failure is even more Neo-Liberalism.

The process of colonial theft doesn't end when you finish extracting people's wealth and resources on their soil at gunpoint. It continues when you then deploy violent borders to shut out people from those countries so you can keep the proceeds of that theft for yourselves

‘The army were on the streets – and we were bored’: Stiff Little Fingers on making Alternative Ulster One of the songs that changed my life www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

At @academicdiary.bsky.social gaff today

Brian Jackson at St. Lukes. But where were you? @academicdiary.bsky.social

www.bbc.com/news/article... This is the real "island of strangers" the wealthy pulling their ladders up behind them.

Ever since Labour abandoned clause 4 there's been no alternative to Capitalism. Disabled people are seen as a disposable population by all political parties. This is just another varation on the austerity theme.

David Graeber went on an visit to the West Bank, spending time in Nablus and elsewhere. He gave his views on the Occupation as well as many interesting cultural insights. You can read his write-up of the visit here! davidgraeber.org/articles/hos...

Here are details of my talk at Ulster University on Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:00 - 13:00 BST Please come along if you're around www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-cant-af...

If you're looking for something to listen to over the weekend, how about this documentary on BBC Radio 4 (Saturday at 20.00, and thereafter on BBC Sounds) with our own @academicdiary.bsky.social

I saw Frank McAvennie buying headache tablets in Glasgow airport

Peace go with you brother. youtu.be/xag5RKD0VHk?...

www.ticketweb.uk/event/gary-b... Bucket list gig

This is so true that the current government actually created a whole new kind of data to collect and obsess over as part of the "closing the attainment gap" stuff. It's awful data that tells us almost nothing while poisoning the system, but THE DATA IS WHAT MATTERS.

Russell Martin gives me heavy Glenn Hoddle vibes

21y.o is in Rome and found a ❤️ of cobbles @itsmotherswork.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=HGep... Junior Byles Beat Down Babylon

youtube.com/watch?v=D5zO... Bobby Lennox.