just listen to what one of the ICE agents says about Renee Good moments after his colleague has murdered her

Those were the days!! #Manchester (From City Life Magazine, 1988)

Imagine James Joyce’s great Cape Town novel

It cannot be the case that the people with the loudest megaphones in the moment only use them to timidly tsk as people are being murdered.

In a very real way the muted response to the racism stoking this state violence which made Minneapolis a target can no longer be tenable for anyone claiming to oppose this.

Here’s an eyewitness account from @mprnews.org

a weirdly large amount of energy dedicated to attacking Jason Wilcox here www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Edna Bonhomme @jacobinoire.bsky.social has joined the world of bluesky! Follow her, innit.

Please read my latest article in @thebaffler.com, where I reviewed Ellen Huet's book, Empire of Orgasm. As the title suggests, the text details the sexual rituals of One Taste, an organization that was investigated for its cultish tendencies and abuse allegations. thebaffler.com/latest/diffe...

It has always been totally clear to anybody with more than two neurons in their brain that when Trump expressed disdain for the international order, he didn't mean that the international order needs to be be made more just - he always meant that the US should not be bound by any kind of rules.

@grok Rewrite this online argument so it looks like i won

You could argue that Farage has offered more substantive criticism than Starmer at this point. His clear endorsement is stronger than Starmer’s implicit one, but he does at least state that the action is illegal.

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

The abduction of a head of state and the unprovoked attack on Venezuela are extremely dangerous. This is the most naked form of imperialism, which - if unopposed and unresisted - puts every country and government at the mercy of the US, and any other powerful country that tries to copy it. 1/

Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela - the shredding of international norms and conventions by terror states with unimaginable supplies of weapons

Starmer’s only achievement is going to be that he’s a compelling cautionary tale

EILT! Ich bin da was ganz Grossem auf der Spur: selbst-organisierte Migrant:innen und Juden treffen sich in nem Laden in Kreuzberg. News hook: die bangen um ihren von Google subventionierten Mietvertrag, der bald neu verhandelt werden muss. PS. Sie haben ihr Awareness Concept redigiert!1!!

Deutscher Investigativjournalismus à la Potter einfach minuziöseste Kontaktschuld. So kann die eigene Obsession mit unliebsamen Migrant:innen und Juden vom Hobby (scrolling and snitching) zum Job werden, ausgezeichnet mit dem ELNET-Preis.

On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹

give it Tony Pulis til the end of the season

Brilliant article that not only paints a more honest picture of this human rights defender but puts our right wing press to shame. The arc of this story proves their willingness to foreground racist far right activists’ propaganda. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

amusing that a club so obsessed with its Class and History branding consistently scores such snide goals

I think the way the players around Gabriel celebrate that, turning towards the ref as they do so, suggest they know what’s up with the goal

Tweets sent 15 years ago by a person who was then living in a different country and was not a British citizen, should make that person liable to prosecution, apparently.

This latest shitshow is another reminder why Starmer needs to go - not in May but now. He is not willing or capable of playing the role of PM. He is vindicating the far-right and demoralising the left. He should be removed for being bad for the country not merely losing Labour elections

In this day and age it does my head in that there are news and opinion articles which consist entirely of 'this person's tweets are controversial / objectionable', where the content of all of the contested tweets is not shared in full.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

Ah, what happened to the concerns about wasting police time over tweets?

“The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel’s conduct.” — Bruno Maçães

Today, 1.25 million kids will spend the holiday without their parent because of mass incarceration.

“Since the announcement of their hunger strike on 20 October till 10 December 2025, the hunger strike by jailed Palestine Action activists was mentioned a total of 12 times in the British mainstream newspapers.” That is so damning and grim.

Car drivers have unilaterally decided that pavements are for cars, then get annoyed with you when you walk on the road with a pram because they have left no space

when your "Innellekshuals! Learn from Amurka" text opens with 3 paragraphs citing the Great Mind Thomas Friedman whose 40+ yr career of mangled tech-metaphor belching is taken seriously only by the kind of crashing transatlanticist bore who knows nothing about contemporary American political thought

Absolute *chef's kiss* to put these two things in the same editorial "Death to Arabs" - welcome to England, friends "Globalize the Intifada" - get in the van, scum

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Great example of half-arsed provision for parents. (Read closely)

If you believe this list, Gyokeres is better than every one of his Arsenal teammates bar Declan Rice...

I think that would be a worthwhile contribution to what should be a mutually respectful dialogue in which no one is talked over and in which everyones humanity & fears are acknowledged and understood. I'm sure no one appealing to those principles would want to exclude Palestinians from that dialogue

Bearing in mind what Edward Said had to say about who has "permission to narrate", it would be good to hear from Arabic speakers in general and Palestinians in particular about their word and concept for "uprising", what it means to them, and what they make of the Western debate about that word.

the only thing more ridiculous than a professional Yorkshireman is a professional Yorkshireman who’s actually from Watford www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Includes me exposing the myth that Cambridge somehow earned its way into its leadership position in UK life sciences. It didn't. Leeds was in the lead, and then the Medical Research Council in London picked Cambridge and London as winners because it was their mates.

For those of you just waking up - Leeds mass transit has been cancelled.

Interesting numbers, but how will this play with the imaginary voter Morgan has made up in his mind

unbelievably tinpot "Russia Russia Russia" is a highlight for me

Police (under extremely blatant political pressure) have announced that they will arrest people for an “offence” that the CPS has told them they can’t prosecute. The situation potentially developing here sounds a lot like Berlin at the moment. 🧵

my solidarity over a gap of 238 years to the men I just wrote about who escaped from the Philadelphia prison in 1787 via the city sewers, and were only recaptured after "a long and vigilant subterraneous pursuit."

At the risk of hugging the third rail, the truth of the academic job market, at least in history or classics, is neither DEI or anti-DEI. It is that that 1) there are no jobs and 2) our hiring culture treats candidates like they 'spoil' after a few years. No one knows who is mediocre or not.