Write to Keir Starmer using @PSCupdates online action to demand that he acts to cancel all government contracts with Palantir, which provides AI technology used in Israel's genocide in Gaza and the wider regime of military occupation and apartheid: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalant...

Did you know that vulture funds can sue countries in debt to make a profit? It's absolutely outrageous - sign the @debtjustice.bsky.social petition calling for an end to this predatory practice. act.debtjustice.org.uk/stop-debt-vu...

'Gaza war leads to 41% fall in births prompting allegations of reproductive violence' by Lorenzo Tondo www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

RMT takes its Action Against Assaults campaign to the Scottish Parliament and calls for a new law to safeguard transport workers in Scotland against a sharp rise in assaults.

Here's a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

You're 'learning lessons' about buildings in 2025. The Principal is an engineer. We've had buildings since 1123. How do you still not know about the cost of building? www.qmul.ac.uk/governance-a...

New statement from the Palestine Coalition welcoming the outcome of the Filton case. The real criminals aren't those protesting against Israel's genocide, it is those who are arming and supporting it who should be facing trial.

Leaflet wars just stepped up a gear: Mill reveal Reform UK have broken electoral law manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...

'Unions are battling an all-out assault on working-class education' by Glyn Robbins morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unio...

Starmer’s whole team follow Mandelson’s grubby example of taking favours from the rich. The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash says SOLOMON HUGHES  morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...

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I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.

📹 "We believe City Hall has been captured by the corporations." RMT General Secretary, Eddie Dempsey speaking at a protest outside City Hall on 4th February, 2026, intensifying pressure on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to honour his pledge to bring cleaners back in-house. youtu.be/45nJsPWvEMU?...

I have written to the Foreign Secretary urging action to support the renewal of the New START Treaty. You can too cnd.eaction.org.uk/RenewNewStar...

Ask your MP to say #NoWaronVenezuela vsc.eaction.org.uk/lobby/nowaro...

YAY Bruce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

When medical procedures are designed around male anatomy, women often pay the price – in pain, difficulty and dismissal.

RMT welcomes rail companies brought under GBR from Sunday RMT welcomed London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway services being brought under Great British Railways on Sunday but insisted outsourced workers must not be left behind. https://rmtunion.org/4q3m7o9

NOW: Thousands getting ready to march for Palestine 🇵🇸 Israel is still committing genocide and apartheid in Palestine and Britain continues to arm them. Join us to stand with the Palestinian people and demand our government end all complicity in Israel’s violence.

Despite a nominal ceasefire, Israel has carried out some of its deadliest airstrikes on Gaza in months, killing at least 30 Palestinians, some of whom were sheltering in tent cities for displaced people www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump to hike NHS drugs prices. The government is refusing to say how much this will cost or how it will be paid for. Tell Wes Streeting to come clean: act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-wes-str...

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The latest Open Access volume of Conflict and Society: Advances in Research has been published! View the TOC here: bit.ly/4qS0ecM Featuring research by: @corinnajentzsch.com @tavdhoog.bsky.social @angelinauhl.bsky.social @roysneha.bsky.social @pascaleschild.bsky.social @gordonogutu.bsky.social

🚨 Latest statement from the Palestine Coalition ahead of tomorrow's national march and rally for Palestine, and the UKIP march allowed by the Met Police to take place near by.

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take: osf.io/9sxnc/files/... We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

The British Government likes to model itself as a country in which free speech, protest, and civic engagement are protected as core rights. The reality looks increasingly different. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

It's shocking the number of US military bases in Britain. These bases put Britain on the frontline in Trump's reckless global wars. It's time to shut down US bases and kick out Trump's nuclear weapons. Britain needs an independent foreign policy without nuclear weapons! 

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How Wapping shaped today’s media and industrial relations: Marx House conference brings dispute back to life www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/how-...

HSE needs to be investigating every university.

Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

I've seen several popular movements in my lifetime and history now as someone who teaches comparative politics. When people show up in the dead of winter, on a workday, when it is the most inconvenient because of cold, it shows how strongly they are motivated against the government.

Breaking MS NOW: Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.

We're happy to announce the first wave of supporting organisations for our upcoming demonstration against Britain's nuclear expansion, including @ucu.org.uk and @fbunational.bsky.social! Join us at RAF Marham on Saturday, 28 Feb! More details: https://cnduk.org/stop-british-nuke-jets/

Greenpeace petition action.greenpeace.org.uk/stand-agains...

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Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest CALL FOR PAPERS 📝 "Digital politics of social movements: shifting mechanisms of participation, representation and governance" Submission and style guidelines: berghahnjournals.com/contention @claire-crawford.bsky.social

📢 Join Eddie Dempsey and John McDonnell MP at the protest at City Hall on 4th February at 9:30am. Insource the cleaners - End corporate capture at TfL.

Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science #ECPRMemberJobs 📚 Focus on politics and/or policy of the ecological transitions in/of Europe and the European Union 🏫 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social ⌛ Thu 5 Feb buff.ly/siQpBZc #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Leicester University UCU, who are today taking their 27th day of strike action over redundancies, send solidarity from their picket line to unions in Minnesota. Those striking today in Minnesota, challenging the racist onslaught by ICE, stand in the finest union tradition. Your fight is our fight.

Tell the EU to protect our biometric data from Trump action.eko.org/a/don-t-hand...

🚨 Deadline extended 🚨 #ecprprizes 🏅 Honour the best work in #PoliticalTheory with our £450 🏆 Political Theory Prize 📖 Nomination must be the author's debut book in political theory & published in 2024 or 2025 ⌛ Deadline: Fri 30 Jan

HSE heard that UoB staff routinely work evenings and weekends to keep up with demands. That raises serious questions about Working Time Regulations and basic safety

🚨 Latest statement from the Palestine Coalition in response to Donald Trump's Board of Colonisation plan. 🚨 📢Join the next march for Palestine on Saturday 31 January 📍 Assemble Russell Square, 12 noon

Palestine Action: Recovering hunger strikers ‘preemptively’ discharged from hospital Doctors warn of 'fraught moment' as process of 'refeeding' can have life threatening consequences if not properly managed www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

So I nearly just got caught by a book club scam. Someone pretending to be from the San Francisco Best Sellers Book club (they weren’t) and wanting to feature one of my books. The communication was so credible!! Watch out academics and authors!! medium.com/@claude.whit...

‘Fear explains it, fear of the Latin American revolution’. Cuba, despite the privations, remains a beacon of sovereignty and resistance to imperialism, writes BERNARD REGAN www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fear...