Bring forth the guillotine!

Tonight! 📖 personally I can’t imagine what else you’d like to do with your beautiful warm evening in Oxford.

Ahead of today's immigration stats, here's something I wrote a couple of years back about they don't tell the full story. Whichever direction numbers go, likely down, we will still hear calls for "greater restrictions", to the detriment of everyone. www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-m...

Every UK poll shows that there are still MORE people who don't want to vote Tory or REFUK than there are who do. But Labour's whole policy package is built on appealing to the latter. Every day, they do something to make anyone who believes in social justice shudder. Every. Bloody. Day.

JUST INTRODUCE FUCKING RENT CONTROLS.

'Defence not Defiance': the banner of the Northwich & District Amalgamated Society of Salt Workers created in 1893 with a rare early depiction of a female worker bottom right. Now on show in the Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich.

About the level of intellect among the flagpole community in England.

“they called us bottlers… NOW WE’RE HOLDIN THE BOTTLE”

Arsenal have ended their longest run of seasons in the top flight without winning the title - 22 years!

The AFC in AFC Bournemouth stands for Arsenal Football Club

Just got out from a work event! Woop Woop! 🤍❤️

One thing worth noting about these attempts to block reparative gestures, let alone concrete measures, for Western complicity in slavery: it’s always about the slave trade in which Africans were complicit, never about the Atlantic plantations & their pioneering racial capitalism.

“If Bournemouth can get anything at all against Man City tonight, we win the league. I love a bit of drama, but I’ve had enough this season already.” Ha! *precisely* how 99% of Arsenal fans feel. I must have looked like Frankenstein walking back from the pub last night, I was so stiff with tension!

My friends figured out how much it would cost to acquire a full set of stickers a few years ago - and decided to draw their own instead bsky.app/profile/nosc...

£2 a packet of football stickers?!!! 5p a pack when I were a nipper! Fucking rip off. (And ‘eff Fifa!)

Football [Arsenal] is exhausting 🫠❤️🤍

The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the most pleasing culinary rituals if at home on a Monday morning is making chicken stock.

Impressive that Rupert Murdoch turned up. (Photo by Jeff Pitcher)

They will have the U.S.A. for breakfast.

#OtD 17 May 1649 three Levellers - democratic rebels during the English Civil War - were executed by Oliver Cromwell in Burford for leading a mutiny. 400 troops refused to fight the Irish and instead rebelled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8910...

It’s mostly all dreadful fascistic sounding trill. A competition for the times.

Bleak House at number 12?! Good grief! What’s your biggest ‘good grief’? (There’s a few).

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

“Photogenic socialist” That’s where we are. I try to love the world, but …

Calling all teachers, educators, learners – and anyone who wants to engage with themes of migration sensitively and with confidence: We are delighted to share our new Teaching Migration History Toolkit, co-produced with @britishlibrary.bsky.social.

Did Ant and Dec use Jeff Goldblum's Fly machine?

Aldous Harding. Fucking hell (again)!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤 youtu.be/vyKaSM1FJ8w?...

“A reward for campaigning for Brexit” // "wasn't political in any sense at all" The UK Press like to position themselves as being able to take down anybody. That they don’t pursue even the logical circumstances around this shows that they determinedly support NF. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Slimey I-me Narcissistic Politician Party wouldn’t struggle to field candidates would they?

Spots are still available for my CalRBS online summer course on feminist bibliography! Spread the word and come explore with me! 📜 📚

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Football *these days*

LOL. #ianwrightwrightwright

Me and my brother’s favourite song youtu.be/Eu3i0CqCTAA?...

You can try and garrotte him, pull his shirt off - but you will not beat him fairly. C’mon the Arsenal! ❤️🤍

My ‘travelling library’ of sorts. All these books are formative, illuminating and crucial for the development of my thinking around cultural heritage, British history and its ‘national story’. These books, these writers, they go everywhere with me in the mill of my mind and I’m thankful to them.

Ha ha.

Losing myself in this world is becoming too much of a knee-jerk reflex to losing myself to this world

or if you endorse border policies that harm women fleeing sexual violence, or if you refuse sanctuary to women from countries that enforce gender apartheid, then you are not a feminist. Because all women are human, all women deserve safety, all women should be equal. #FeminismforaWorldonFire

Aha, I've just read a nasty review of my new book, Feminism for a World on Fire. Kathleen Stock takes umbrage at my argument that feminists should be 'pro-immigration'. Yes, I do believe that if you call yourself a feminist but you are prepared to strip refugee and migrant women of their rights

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Who know this muppet was Starmer all along?!

I’ve quite quickly moved my life ‘philosophy’ from “the key to happiness is forever lowering your expectations” to “the key to sanity is forever lowering your expectations”.

Today, I feel like listening to Nina Simone.

This is a Threads post from Kent. If you value art, culture and creativity be careful of what you vote for.

From fomenting colonial discontent with British rule in the 1700s to the No Kings rallies of today, posters spread messages and question authority. At the Boston Public Library, visitors are learning the art of making their own signs.

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