You could set up a 24/7 hourly shuttle service and the overall number of people wanting to seek asylum in the UK would hardly change, I know you know this. Those making out that absolutely everyone wants to come to the UK are deluded.

Desperate, desperate stuff once again. ✅ legitimises far-right obsession with small boats ✅ bound to disappoint target audience as goes nowhere near the “solutions” they’d be impressed by ✅ drives them to Reform, or worse ✅ unlikely to have any effect on anyone’s behaviour ✅ alienates everyone else

A new paper 'Ruptured Atlas' documents the complex spatial and lived experiences of the #Yazidis in the aftermath of the 2014 genocide. 📝 by @sanamurrani.bsky.social, Kimbal Bumstead, Zoé Paris, Ghazi Ismael, Jameela Rasho & Omeed Joqey. eprints.lse.ac.uk/128743/

It looks like Starmer will do anything apart from serious condemnation, disarming and sanctioning. Mind blowing levels of complicity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

ICYMI: The Sociological Review magazine’s new issue includes: ‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs & building solidarity Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps & refuge Interview with lecturer turned TV writer Jayshree Patel ...and much more buff.ly/y8o76RY

"Drawing on a two-decades-long study of refuge place-making in Iraq, she talks to curator and fellow architect George Kalivis about the rupturing of geographies during and after war, highlights parallels with the Palestinian genocide, and discusses the making of deep maps as a research method."

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring: Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture ‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity Illustration by Tim Marrs ...and much more. buff.ly/y8o76RY

Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Absolutely this! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How on earth is this slaughter still allowed to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

If the UK government wants to defend Israel militarily, put it to a vote in Parliament. Let the country see which MPs support a genocidal state.

F**k right off! Both the unnecessary war and the genocide have to end! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Words have lost their meaning. We live in an Orwellian world in which war is peace and love is hate. Keir Starmer, once again, beating the imperial bullsh*t drum like few others.

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s June issue. Featuring: Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge + rupture ‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses + building solidarity Illustration by Tim Marrs ...and much more. buff.ly/y8o76RY

“Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” — Elton John (1976)

Thank you to the Image-Maker in Residence team at @thesociologicalreview.org for my interview: Towards an Alternative Spatial Practice: Deep mapping off the map. It is about my book, Rupturing Architecture, and my mapping practice. thesociologicalreview.org/image-maker-...

To watch the entire West back Israel's non-existent 'right' to board a vessel in international waters and abduct its crew and passengers on the might-is-right principle is to witness the Death of International Law - again! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

They called it a “Humanitarian” agency, they changed the core meaning of what it is to be humanitarian… shame on all governments around the world for allowing war crimes to unfold every day.

An amazing review of my Rupturing Architecture has just dropped. Thanks to Frazer Macdonald Hay for taking the time and for his exceptionally beautiful words! 🙏 www.uniformnovember.com/single-post/...

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

Omg, they just pulled their finger! About effing time of not too late.

“UN relief chief Tom Fletcher said a joint plan by the United States and Israel to replace international aid mechanisms in Gaza was a “waste of time” as more than 160,000 pallets of aid are “ready to move” at the border, but blocked by Israel.” @tomfletcherun.bsky.social

Some of us will never forget that the world stood watching while genocide and ethnic cleansing took place again and again and yet again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Also part of the calculations of slow, severe torture visiting everyone desperately trying to get aid in as we watch in horrified accompaniment of parents seeing their children become malnourished, emaciated, knowing that under starvation conditions children die first

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

Ooh you can review my book…

I wrote a blog post for @bordercrim.bsky.social about that ridiculous Home Office video of a deportation : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Alive

Just a reminder that @oxfordcrim.bsky.social has a three year lectureship. Details here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental... and I’m the named info person, so feel free to email me if you have questions abt the post

Anyone know why the deportation video seems to show HO staff doing the escorting? No Mitie insignia visible. The only ‘branding’ is “immigration enforcement”. The uniforms do look like HO. I know they sometimes assist but are they running whole operations now? Footage v similar to US govt’s DVIDs 😳

Warm thanks to @sanamurrani.bsky.social for a fascinating talk last week drawing on her book, Rupturing Architecture, which examines the spatial practices of refuge in response to war, violence & displacement in Iraq, 2003-23. If you missed it, you can listen now: soundcloud.com/refugeestudi...

Peeps, this will be my 10th talk about #RupturingArchitecture & I am turning the notch a bit. Talking at TheBritishAcademy hosted by TheBritishInstitutefortheStudyofIraq who funded me. There’ll be a mini exhibition of 15 trauma-stories with a book sell (discounted): www.bisi.ac.uk/event/lectur...

Peeps, this will be my 10th talk about #RupturingArchitecture & I am turning the notch a bit. Talking at TheBritishAcademy hosted by TheBritishInstitutefortheStudyofIraq who funded me. There’ll be a mini exhibition of 15 trauma-stories with a book sell (discounted): www.bisi.ac.uk/event/lectur...

Newly published accounts for Cardiff University - which has announced massive job cuts and School closures - reveal that its overall surplus increased by nearly sixfold in a year and that its unrestricted cash reserves are as high as £500m ✍️Martin Shipton

📣 Shouting out to #EarlyCareerResearcher in the #UK and #Iraq with research interest in #climatechange and #women’s #resilience in Iraq, I’m part of this project. If interested please apply! Details on the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social link below. Pls spread the word 🙏🏼

@livingmaps.bsky.social Invite you to join us online for our first 2025 seminar - Emilio Vavarella presents a series of projects on new forms of counter-mapping that exploit the errors and glitches of digital mapping technologies. For more information and to book tickets, click on the link below!

Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay. This slaughter was enabled by accomplices—arms suppliers must face trial, media defenders disgraced. Without accountability, worse atrocities will be normalised. By @owenjones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join us for the next talk in this term's seminar series! 📆 29 Jan, 5pm, in Oxford @sanamurrani.bsky.social will talk about her book Rupturing Architecture, which examines the spatial practices of refuge in response to war, violence & displacement in Iraq 2003-23. www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...

Great book launch and seminar for @mfbosworth.bsky.social's new book, Supply Chain Justice, about the UK's detainee escorting system. You can buy the book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Oxford peeps, I'll be talking next week at @refugeestudies.bsky.social about Rupturing Architecture @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Refuge-Making, Mapping and Iraq. There will be physical creative outputs/things you can leave with after the talk! Details are here: rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/refug...

Thank you @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social for your support 🙏🏼

[New Blog 🖊️] Alannah Travers and Dr. @sanamurrani.bsky.social critique the UK-Iraq border security pact, exposing its devastating impact on Iraq’s displaced communities. They address the UK's destructive legacy in the region and its punitive approach to displacement: https://buff.ly/4gZXvsj

Thank you @bordercrim.bsky.social team at Oxford 🙏🏼 Co-wrote a blog post with Alannah Travers about the new UK-Iraq border deal. Based on #RupturedAtlas project. We had the privilege of working with 15 Iraqi Yazidis, for more stories, please go to: ruptured-atlas.shorthandstories.com/ruptured-atl...

And another talk -- this one in Feb by me about my new book, in Cambridge:

I have thought about him all day. The #Hanukkah theme should resonate for many who want to be inspired by light in the darkest of moments: resilience will triumph, and perseverance will be the spiritual flame in the face of adversity.

“We acknowledge that we should have been clearer” comes the apology 45 days late “and that the use of the footage here was intended to illustrate the general disorder, and are happy to correct the record.” Unlike the Christ child We were not born yesterday.