UCU has condemned the University of Sussex management's threat to cut 200 jobs, with around 600 staff placed at risk of redundancy. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1452...

Is Andy Burnham about to become Prime Minister? Maybe. Will he lead us out of the valley of darkness? I can’t see it by @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Have a new piece out on American Paleocons and French New Right... on deception.. on how radical right ideology involves the feeling of being constantly deceived... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So this corrupt bastard with multiple houses overseas has his passport returned to him and is released from bail, while young actionists are kept imprisoned without bail for years? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

🔴‘Why I Joined the Gaza Aid Flotilla as a Journalist’ The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues @mathildamall.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/g...

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

Superb piece from the ISRF on the Great University Crisis: all financial changes to Higher Ed should have to undergo an open and public Educational Impact Assesment. Great to see an actual new idea in what passes for the 'debate'. isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...

The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

Remarkable how many otherwise humane people still seem unable to acknowledge what is happening here.

Sick of this reductive framing as religious/biblical hate/conflict. It makes it irrational, equal(ly so) & understandable but untouchable by logic or law. It's a modern case of settler colonialism & genocide by a state abusing the memory of the Holocaust & using hi-tech weapons & PR.

Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it. Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.

Israel could kill 14,000 babies in 48 hours if it doesn't allow food into Gaza A UN chief has shared an "utterly chilling" statistic, warning that Israel's ongoing blockage of aid into Gaza could cause mass killings www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

16 months after the International Court of Justice ruled that Palestinians in Gaza were at ‘plausible risk’ of genocide, the UK government has still not explained why it hasn’t acted on this. 65 parliamentarians are demanding it publishes its current assessment of the risk of genocide.

Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day

"People Are Starving to Death": Oxfam Warns Israel's Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic

Did Nigel Farage write this speech? Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.

Burnham warned against 'The Suicide of the West'. Now his acolytes in the Trump administration are busy bringing about America's decline. New piece in the Conversation, with Michael C. Williams theconversation.com/how-donald-t...

Can we have a ten year moratorium on handbooks please 🙏

Gaza is “on brink of catastrophe” as aid runs out and prices soar. Within hours of the ceasefire ending in March, Israel blocked food, fuel, and medicine from entering Gaza. Aid warehouses are now empty. This is collective punishment by any other name. 2 million Palestinians are being starved.

The second article is also out! @lcornelissen.bsky.social and @cibled.bsky.social trace Louis Rougier’s ties to the far right, arguing that his racialized neoliberalism bridged neoliberal and far-right ideologies, making the latter a natural ally to the former. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very timely. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just your daily reminder that when govts say they can’t track parts for weapons systems being used by Israel in a genocide, we should call bullsh*t. Text courtesy of Miriam Pemberton, Six Stops on the National Security Tour

Powerful statement from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social: no matter how hard the Netanyahu regime & its backers try, they can never entirely wrench Gaza’s population away from humanity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Trump’s Rose Garden announcement made few references to specific industries that he thought that his measures would assist or create in the US. This isn’t surprising: the tariffs weren’t informed by any new research into the actual condition of US industrial sectors.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

Two Birmingham University students face disciplinary action for protesting genocide Despite mounting condemnation - including from Zarah Sultana - Birmingham University has pressed ahead with punitive measures against pro-Palestine students www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

On Starmer, labour and the MAGA playbook bylinetimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

Fascism on the rise, domestic violence kills thousands of women, rape is effectively decriminalised, COVID corruption goes unpunished, hate crime and child sexual abuse are rampant. But the police, those faithful servants of capitalism, are arresting peaceful protestors against climate breakdown.

Very glad our VC is taking a robust stance. Don't imagine that what is happening to US higher education can't happen here as well. Either the whole sector takes a united stand now or the right-wing culture warriors will try to pick us off individually.

As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

Happy International Women’s Day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️!

One month after Israel began bombing Gaza, its former top military officer held private meetings with Guardian editor Katherine Viner, BBC director of news content Richard Burgess, and FT editor Roula Khalaf. www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian...

Oh dear. Let’s hope Musk’s political career doesn’t suffer the same fate.

Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

... a whole host of anti-egalitarian, ethno-nationalist and racist beliefs can be hidden within a legal rhetoric which speaks in terms of the ‘common sense’ defence of individual liberty and ancient constitutional values. journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...

Just Stop Oil trio found GUILTY of walking too slowly 🙄 Another day, another judge showing just how ridiculous the justice system is in the UK - as three Just Stop Oil supporters found guilty under the repressive Public Order Act www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

If, like me, you are a UCU member and agree the union should stop wasting time and effort on a fruitless round of pay strikes at a time when tens of thousands of academic jobs are at risk, then please consider signing this open letter (link early on the document): ucucommons.org/2025/02/13/m...

🚨Attention UCU members in HE: we have started an open letter for you to sign in support of a motion we're bringing to the meeting on Weds 19th which calls for a focus on defending jobs, reforming HE, & calling off a national ballot. docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Struggling to understand the world of conspiracy theory and libertarian and right-wing claims that state institutions are fundamentally oppressive and illegitimate? Then my new piece on conspiracy and 'sovereign citizens' is for you.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What should concern us is that Labour has proven unable to respond to the many crises facing the UK, has continued down the path of austerity and mainstreaming of far-right ideas www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

University leaders are guilty of penalising staff rather than fighting back against government too. UCEA and the OFS are not fit for purpose