Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Gill was a Ukip MEP 2014-18, then Brexit Party 2019-20 and the Reform leader for Wales until he left the party in 2021 He admitted 8 counts of bribery for specific speeches/tasks but denied a longer-running conspiracy and only spoke to enter pleas in court today. He will be sentenced in November

Nathan Gill, then a Brexit Party MEP, was paid to make pro-Russian media appearances and statements in the European Parliament He organised a presentation on a Ukraine "peace plan" written by a politician who met Vladimir Putin and praised the event the very next day www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration

📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Assata Shakur, a political refugee in Cuba, has reportedly died. RIP hoodcommunist.org/2024/03/07/a...

A very good thread from an expert

This. Plus, given the ways that anti-refugee hatred is caught up in stories about phones (free phones, etc), I feel a new conspiracy theory will develop pretty soon.

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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

Paul Nolan has finally been jailed. He has spent the last 18 months harassing and intimidating asylum seekers and posting evidence of his crimes online under his own name. Glad to see this happen but unsure why it took so long. jrnl.ie/6827359

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

Physicians for Human Rights (Israel): Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is imprisoned by Israel without charges, is in serious medical condition. Since his arrest in Dec 24 he has lost 25 kg. He suffers from scabies and heart problems but is not receiving medical treatment.

Uurgh. This gives me the heebie-jeebies. Digital surveillance by the state & whichever tech corporation gets the lucrative contract, social exclusion of people who are not IT literate, woeful track record of public IT projects, risk of hacking... Sorry, no I don't want this.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

They've lost the 9yos

This is really starting to get out of hand. A reminder: if you use GenAI to write, or rewrite, your article, it will be rejected from this journal.

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are 4.24m people with Indefinite Leave to Remain (or equivalent). 82% are in work, compared with 74% of Britons 3.8m are in relationships with Britons They have about 2.4m British-born children. This bullshit is never going to happen. Again. But... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open! The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies." Dates: 8-10 July For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

New Word of Mouth podcast with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @jessaiston.bsky.social on language and the ‘manosphere’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #linguistics

So the two state solution is now viable! Britain to the rescue! Woop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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omg this reads like satire

In town this weekend? If so we'd highly recommend you making a trip to see the 'Relic' exhibition by Kid30 and friends . It's open til Sunday, free to get in and likely to be one of those 'we were there' moments... leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

A new scandal grips the land as British Universities are linked to peddling *clutches pearls* RESEARCH and KNOWLEDGE

Having a pink day

My former teacher R’ Avidan is no stranger to sudden arrest and police violence— he founded a small NGO called Yanshoof, dedicated to creating moral limits on Israel’s international arms sales. Bibi is afraid of the shofar, of a call to accountability? Clearly.

*whispers* there is no group, it's just people who are against fascism. if you are against fascism Trump is trying to designate you as a terrorist

Swisher: "Nexstar is trying to do a very large merger with Tegna, and so they will do whatever it takes." Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

Classic Corbyn move too. 'oh you voted against decriminalising abortion, you've said some questionable things about transpeople and you're a career Lib Dem? Don't worry, you're definitely with me because you also don't like Israel.'

omg how do you unsubscribe from ResearchGate? Every day it's another crappy email from them, I hit unsubscribe and nothing happens. Who do I report this to?

Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

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If it was a Black man who killed 9 white Church goers he'd remember. But of course that's never happened in the USA.

It’s coming fast and furious now. If you are going to read one thing about my book and my work, read this unbelievably rich piece in The 19th News. Jasmine Mithani gets this book, and my aims, on a cellular level. 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid. The #CFP will be launched soon. We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information. Follow us there & help us spread the word! #CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

A very good summary of the march and the current Labour shitshow

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

I picked just less than a kilo of hops from the allotment, half of which will be going into my second green hopped beer of this year

Excited to give a talk as part of the Online Selves - Self Online series tomorrow. Thank you for the invitation @coocho.bsky.social! My talk is titled "Caveman Theories, Modern Misogyny: Evolutionary Psychology in Incel Fora" - and addresses how pseudoscience normalises misogyny. Abstract below ⏬

Reclaiming the flag, one team at a time (with thanks to Queer Brewing)

This weekend we witnessed one of the most disgraceful and distressing demonstrations of racism in British history. Speakers including Elon Musk directly incited racist violence, calling for British people to ‘fight back’ or die. Read our full statement 🔗 www.runnymedetrust.org/news/stateme...