Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

The invasion of Venezuela is one thing, but Trump’s proposed plan to invade Cuba could seriously damage the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

What Polanski has said is that taxing the assets of the richest *1%* would enable the government to *fund universal free childcare, special needs education and rural bus routes.* That's a million miles from 'Sensible' Jack Dromey's grotesque misrepresentation.

Israel announced it will suspend the work of over 20 humanitarian organizations in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, under new vetting rules demanding disclosure of staff, funding, and operations—measures aid groups warn endanger workers and obstruct life-saving relief.

A "Labour" government awarded honours to a person who pushed through devastating redundancies of @ucu.org.uk members at his university, including redundancies that were found to be illegal at tribunal. This is a slap in the face for the labour movement. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...

"Scholarly exchange and academic freedom are aspirations, not business as usual, when we consider the knowledge and expertise economies of colonialism.” Colleagues and I reflect on criminology, conferencing and complicity at this year's Eurocrim link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Nearly half of the journalists killed this year were murdered in Gaza by Israel. Since the beginning of its genocide, Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Read the Reporters Without Borders report: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

We are at the stage of British politics where David Lammy and Keir Starmer are seemingly willing to let hunger strikers in prison die. The situation is extremely concerning. They have been in prison, without trial, for over a year. www.instagram.com/p/DSVg7zFiOi...

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

Runoff in the Chilean presidential election. Far-right candidate predicted to win. Hard to overstate how VERY VERY BAD this is.

This is so disgusting.

I've written a piece for Abolitionist Futures' fantastic series on gender-based violence. This piece came out as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence #acttoendviolence abolitionistfutures.com/latest-news/...

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

I had a great conversation on this podcast. Hopefully it's also a good listen! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vxzcw...

This is what it sounds like when liberals politely launder genocide.

📣 NEW EVENT! Members, sign up for the first LEX Seminar event of the academic year with Dr. Molly Ackhurst and Professor @tanyaserisier.bsky.social on the 30th of October at 2 pm GMT! Limited places available! Sign up here ➡️ www.lexnetwork.org/lex-seminar-...

Full solidarity to @leicesterucu.bsky.social fighting horrendous cuts and a vicious punitive management.

From Spain to Palestine

This is a very useful read BUT I am still stunned that the press feels no need to ask Palestinian legal scholars this question

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

BREAKING Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors. This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent. www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

Very happy to be a signatory to this important open letter. There is a sign up link at the end of the article. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.

I honestly do not understand how you are able to ban the spreading of gender stereotypes if you are also to ban any encouragement for children to question gender. None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.

Our union on the authoritarian attacks on Palestine solidarity action. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

This Friday morning at Birkbeck, a public lecture by transformative education organisation Makan on pinkwashing, gender and sexuality in Palestine. Come along! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The government's plan to extend terrorism laws by banning Palestine Action is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵

'To labour in the university today is to work in the midst of violence – not only the overt violences of war, genocide, and occupation, but also the slow, cumulative violences of exploitation, extraction, and institutional capture.' Reflections on fugitive labour in @flsjournal.bsky.social

We feed you. They hunt us.

No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

Matthew Miller was an active part of the genocide in Gaza. This is not an exaggeration. He stood there day in and day out telling journalists citing journalists and human rights reports about Israeli war crimes and he denied them time after time after time. news.sky.com/story/former...

My inaugural lecture recording is now available. It was a really useful process for me to reflect on and think about my research and career and might be of interest to others. youtu.be/KeCglzSyEfQ?...

Next Tuesday evening at Birkbeck we are screening 8 amazing short films as part of Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025 - No Pride in Genocide. Booking link here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

If someone asked me this question in a meeting, with the stated goal of being productive, I would walk out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The depravity here cannot be overstated. A recent poll found: - 82% of Israelis support forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza - 56% support forced removal of Arab Israeli citizens - 47% support IDF murdering *all* inhabitants of enemy cities they occupy www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...

We almost couldn't get out of the tube. London showing up for #FreePalestine #NoMoreNakba

What could have possessed Joseph Conrad to write a book about the very worst Belgian rubber agents he could find?