Kemi Badenoch has accused Keir Starmer of not supporting the initial strikes in Iran for fear of upsetting Muslim voters “whose political loyalties are swayed by conflicts in the Middle East, not the British national interest.” That’s quite the claim, and pretty inflammatory.

John Soane’s “country” pad (Ealing!) now a short hop on the Elizabeth Line. #London

Replacing my “Rootless Cosmopolitan” t-shirt with”Over-educated Urban Leftist.

Splendid episode.

I blogged about “Just Objects?”, the event I ran with @drhick.bsky.social about inclusion and belonging in public space, at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle. Photo courtesy of panellist @draflint.bsky.social www.catherinemax.co.uk/just-objects/

Starmer set himself up as Macron. Today he looks more like Biden or Hollande. And why claims of the rise of sectarianism in British politics ring hollow. Apparently British Muslims, uniquely, aren't allowed to decide who best represents them. New substack from me open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Always been intrigued by this mural. How interesting! And well done!

Good News Friday: A prominent 1960s sculptural mural in Cambridge depicting a 16th century rebellion has been saved from demolition, and will be relocated as part of a scheme led by Bennetts Associates. The sandstone bas-relief of ‘Kett’s Oak’ was created by Austrian artist Willi Soukop in 1962-63.

#victorian #drinkingfountains seem pretty niche now but if you lived in the 1850s, without access to piped water & only the pub to go to when you got really thirsty, they were an absolute marvel. As I'll explain @thevicsoc.bsky.social in #manchester next month www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victorian-...

Following J*** B*z**'s decision to sack all the journalists, I am glad the books coverage at the Washington Post is in safe hands i.e. the hands of someone who owns the world's biggest audiobook provider. #fancythat

Not again!

Hi, if you’re asking AI to write your book you’re not actually writing. You’re poking a Frankenparrot fashioned from rotting flesh on stolen bones covered in the feathers of a million other birds. You’re condoning theft. You’re trashing our planet. You’re robbing yourself of the chance to grow

This is a serious and worrying failure by media - Reform need to be pressed on the core legal and moral issues at stake here

Quibbling isn't good look I know, but doesn't the Modern Period start in 1500? That not only gives plenty of examples of royals being arrested, but also shows a fairly consistent outcome for those concerned. Just saying.

Trump repeals EPA climate change regulations in move scientists say is a “rejection of the laws of physics” | The BMJ

The news about students seeking compensation from universities for COVID teaching has made me quite sad. I can't say what happened at those universities, or what those student's experience was. My present university did not appear to be in the list. But what I can say is...

Every child needs to hear this, and remember it, as a teen, as an adult, when they are very old. Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson

Powerful stuff.

This is the most devastating interview and she is an extraordinary MP

"History is women following behind with the bucket." So Morgan McSweeney has been replaced by Jill Cuthbertson and Vidhya Alakeson. Antonia Romeo is about to take over from Chris Wormald. Steph Driver may return to fill Tim Allan's vacancy. Sense that now there's a mess to mop up, get the women in

Tellingly announced via Insta by @faberbooks.bsky.social but not here (unless I missed it) #FullStop (See what I did there?)

UK based sociologist of health? @fshi.bsky.social funding round for grant development, workshops, postgrad conference travel and post docs now open - closes 27th march www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

I wrote about the powerful men who sought out Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice and went to him to help navigate their own sexual misconduct scandals after his 2008 conviction on child sex abuse charges. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I just do not understand why the Mayor of London refuses to do this. I’ve asked him many times. TfL is a public body and public purpose should be rippled through it like a stick of rock. Taking adverts for fossil products like cars on the TfL network only undermines his transport strategy. 🤷‍♀️

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

oh, they post 'deportation porn' videos like trump does

Chilling and powerful. "The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don’t know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."

Scandals can be corrected. That's why they're often titillating - think 18thc sentimental comedy, think Profumo, JFK, etc...Scandals are transgressions that reset norms The Epstein files are not a scandal. They're proof of the violent misogynist contempt that structures wealth and power.

6 February 1907 | A Jewish woman Kornelia Neumann was born in Turnišče in Slovenia. During the war she lived in Szombathely, Hungary. In July 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- 📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

@pronouncedalva.bsky.social is spot on here Senior women in the Labour Party have been concerned about this since well before the 2024 general election

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This made me laugh out loud, which *sweeping gesture* is not a frequent occurrence these days.

Lovely read.

One of the problems with Starmer's triangulation is he is roughly aiming at where the average person but that person doesn't listen to political speeches. And it annoys everyone who does. Then the average person catches the bad vibes.

Excellent read; big thanks to visionary Mike, Carla and Laura for all they have done and do for our children and our planet

Let’s notice that these geniuses are all men (and that women are never described as the geniuses at the heart of anything, however clever they may be), but also that the idea of genius itself is tenuous at best

straight up Gestapo shit

31 January 1933 | An Italian Jewish boy, Mario Calò, was born in Rome. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. He was among 839 people murdered after selection in gas chambers.

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

This is such a facile argument. Sure, let's have a conversation about how universities should be funded. But let's also talk interest rates, debt that functions like an extra tax, repayment thresholds, and what that's actually doing to millions of young people who did everything they were told to do

In our new FOI study we found that Budweiser directly urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to intervene and "ensure" that DHSC removed alcohol marketing restrictions from the NHS’s 10 Year Health Plan. Health policy should be protected from industry influence. www.ias.org.uk/report/now-y...

Londoners! Public transport fans! Healthy ageing advocates! I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Protect the Freedom Pass . Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/protec...

Nope. Son of Holocaust survivor. My father was 11 when the Nazis invaded his hometown in eastern Poland. He survived only by fleeing to a different city with a false baptismal certificate. The comparison is apt. Carry on.

One of the stories of British politics over last 15 years has been Conservatives and Labour valuing narrower and narrower ideological coherence over their historic, broad coalitions and then being astonished that their vote shares keep falling. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

And I did! Got what read like a personal acknowledgment too.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #goodnewsstory