Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires have signed a letter calling for increased taxes on the super-rich. Extreme wealth means extreme power - over our politics, our media, and our lives. When even the super-rich know it's time to tax them more, will Labour finally listen?

The Rafah crossing is expected to re-open. Alongside the desperately needed aid, journalists must be allowed into Gaza. Over 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza - but the crimes of the Israeli government and military must not go undocumented. Let the journalists in.

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?” Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

Many thanks to my brilliant supervision team @hildestephansen.bsky.social @adameldridge.bsky.social and Paulina Tambakaki and examiners @benpitcher.bsky.social and @gypjh2000.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to @csjresearch.bsky.social doctoral researcher Ed Hadfield @ed1900and86.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Place and publics: the role of social media in resistance to gentrification in London” today!

Today, I've closed my Barclays account with hundres of others in protest at the bank's complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians. Join the campaign to #BoycottBarclays: palestinecampaign.org/boycott-barc...

Now is the time for lawful sanctions. When thousands of our babies are looking death in the eye because the Israeli occupation is denying all goods from entering Gaza, including baby formula and essential medical supplies, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW! #SanctionIsrael loom.ly/mJggH_s

UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November. Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/ or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Hot off the press - the Westminster Sociology Dissertation Anthology 2023-24! sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/2...