"ICE placed more than 10,000 ppl in solitary confinement between April 2024 & May 2025 ... Immigrants, inc those experiencing medical & mental health crises, are placed in isolation for days, weeks &, in some cases, months, which U.N. says amounts to torture" www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/he...

This is a piece I wrote for PhD students on strategies for doing doctoral work committed to political consciousness, anti-racism and social transformation. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

"This is what the United industrial complex has always demanded: more turmoil, more upheaval, more bloated failure and waste matter for the detritivores of the MUFC cinematic universe to consume." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Police to deploy dedicated drone team for Carnival www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Our foreign secretary no doubt believes that the impunity traditionally enjoyed by western leaders and Israel itself will protect him and his colleagues for ever. That assumes the winds will never change ... That is quite the bet." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"IPC had warned that Gaza was on the verge of famine, but now says for the first time that the events of the past few months – new Israeli offensive, increased displacement & weeks of total Israeli blockade of the territory – have made famine a reality in Gaza" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

"The Atomic Bowl" filmmaker Greg Mitchell calls Gaza a "slow-motion Nagasaki." www.democracynow.org/2025/8/6/hir...

"We must not allow the hell of the atomic bombing to be recreated. I feel a sense of crisis" - Hiroshima, never forget, never again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My new article for Sociology on how PhD work, in resisting the neoliberalism of HE, may salvage an insurgent sociology. The piece reflects on my time completing a PhD committed to anti-racism, prompted by Mark Duggan's killing, the anniversary of which is today. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

"I'm proud and ashamed Every fourth of July You got to know the truth Before you say that you got pride" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykcs...

"We shouldn’t forget the real purpose of the action at Brize Norton – to draw attention to British military collaboration with the Israeli govt..British complicity in Israel’s war is a matter of public interest that is too often either ignored or under-reported" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid evolutionary changes that have contributed to cod roughly halving in average body length since the 1990s, from a median mature body length of 40cm in 1996 to 20cm in 2019" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Palestinians are starting to see GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] distribution hubs as “execution sites”, considering the repeated attacks there" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

"The biome breathing, buzzing, humming in the heat..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1L...

Why is LA protesting? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"More than anything, this is just a sign of how dangerous it is to put billions of dollars, even the lives of astronauts, the whole future of the American economy and the political scene, in the hands of two sole human beings." truthout.org/video/trump-...

“Starling societies aren’t just simple families, they are much more complex, containing a mixture of related and unrelated individuals that live together, much in the way that humans do” www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

"When your deceptions finally fail, we will inspect the remaining entrails: narcissistic, Machiavellian, sadistic, straight-up Orwellian." youtube.com/watch?v=cKnK...

Blair Peach. Never forget.

"Jean Charles De Menezes’s family say his shooting was as a result of “police incompetence”. The truth, as far as the shooting of De Menezes is concerned, is that “incompetence” is the right word." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Sven Lindqvist would have turned 93 today. His work remains essential.

50,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed in Gaza. This Is How It Happened, Day by Day. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"Hollow slogans, devoid of humanity, are repeated by people who want to soothe their conscience towards Gaza. The tragedy & suffering of Gaza’s exhausted people have been reduced in their mouths & minds to an empty celebration of their “legendary steadfastness”" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"The same systems that excluded black children from mainstream education decades ago still exist today – just in different forms...black children are still disproportionately pushed into PRUs & alternative provision, feeding into the school-to-prison pipeline" www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"What we're putting into the songs now, probably reflects more despair than 30 years ago when we had similar perspectives, but with strands of hope & naïveté. Now it's the existential dread of eking out a life worth living in this completely failed society" exclaim.ca/music/articl...

"The Trump administration makes an intentional target of South Africa’s health policy. The deadly cruelty is the point" - Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"On Tuesday, Israel dropped a huge number of bombs across Gaza without any forewarning ... Officials say that Israel’s bombings wounded at least 562 people. At least 174 children are among those killed" truthout.org/articles/isr...

"Propagandhi have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called At Peace and will be out on May 2 via Epitaph Records" www.punknews.org/article/8505...

New Propagandhi song, At Peace youtube.com/watch?v=CDhT...

"Most schools — up to 85 percent, according to some estimates — [are] either completely destroyed, partially damaged, or burned. The few that remain have been turned into shelters for displaced families with nowhere else to go" - This Is High School in Gaza. truthout.org/articles/bur...

"At Southwark, they reckon they lost 16,000 homes over decades through right to buy. About half of those are rented privately to tenants who might otherwise have got them from the council, with cheaper rents & more secure contracts" - Call it Thatcher’s timebomb www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Being chained to a male prison officer [during birth] made me feel humiliated and degraded...My treatment has had a lasting impact on me...I feel as though I will never be able to move past this" - Utterly disgraceful, demeaning & dehumanising www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/pris...

"The number of rough sleepers in London had risen from 3,107 in March 2023 to 4,612 by December last year ... More than a third are under 35, meaning they are over-represented compared with the population average of 27% of adults in England and Wales." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Crooked cops plus crooked judges, don't equal justice. Free all political prisoners. Racist cops plus racist judges, don't equal justice. Free all political prisoners." youtu.be/cqEItOqDQUk?...

“Today I am finally free! They may have imprisoned me but they never took my spirit!” www.democracynow.org/2025/2/19/le...

Mike Davis' "sharp analysis and glittering prose criss-crossed over urban studies, political economy, social theory, and US history to reveal the ravages of global capitalism on people and planet as well as areas for resistance." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

"Longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison today after spending nearly 50 years behind bars." www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/he...

"It is part of the responsibility of people who have the privilege to be teachers...to seek resources of hope in the world...to seek shards of hope, the fragments of hope in the world. That is responsible conduct" - Happy birthday @bungatuffie.bsky.social

"We know that dismantling the Department of Education is really about imposing what professor Henry Giroux has called “the violence of organized forgetting” — erasing history and replacing knowledge with state-based propaganda." www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/jes...

Introducing 'England's Military Heartland', published on 28 Jan by MUP. This book 'should be read by anyone concerned with the UK's military posture and will be an eye-opener to many,' according to Paul Rogers, writer for OpenDemocracy and DeclassifiedUK.

“There is nothing like being in your homeland, no matter the challenges. We grew up and lived here. This is where we belong.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Birthday present from Pam (my mother)

"The neurodiversity campaign does not accept that autistic people and other neurodivergent people are inherently ‘disordered’ compared to the rest of the population. It asserts that these neurotypes are simply less common forms of neurocognitive functioning" www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

"To trans people, and to the most vulnerable people in society, Trump has only one promise — to make their lives even worse...The violence promised by Trump isn’t accidental. The cruelty is the point." truthout.org/articles/tru...

"This year’s Peace Ball featured author Angela Davis, who spoke of the power of “infinite hope” to fight against injustice. “I want us all to generate the kind of collective hope that will usher us into a better future,” said Davis." www.democracynow.org/2025/1/20/in...

I just learned that Errol Lawrence recently passed away. I met him only the once in 2017 and he was very kind. His remarkable contributions to this special book shouldn't be forgotten, and remain essential for making sense of the mess we find ourselves in today.

My review of Our History Has Always Been Contraband, edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

"When we think of airstrikes, we imagine traumatic injuries ... But the impacts of an airstrike go far beyond the initial damage it causes. Survivors are exposed to toxic building material, smoke & chemicals – which can be absorbed by the body in different ways" www.thenation.com/article/worl...