News | Cambridge University transfers ownership of 116 Benin bronzes to Nigeria Move could have a ‘domino effect’ among other western institutions, says federal body Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

A lot of people will think ‘good for them! But this is a gutless intervention that says nothing about Andrew and uses ‘focusing on the victims’ as a way to deflect how the institution they are primary beneficiaries of allows abuses of power like this to take place and remain beyond justice.

Imagine discovering that the entire structure of state secondary education was about to collapse, and musing "Ah well, we'll always have Eton, Harrow and Winchester..." This is basically how the political class thinks about higher education.

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

It’s an indication of how the right wing has rehabilitated racism that, in the 2010s, the Daily Mail thought it would gain credibility by appearing to back a Black family seeking justice. Now it seeks credibility by being as overtly racist as possible. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Arsenal fans can be very annoying online but I don't think there's any other fanbase that gets as frequently and purposefully provoked by the British media. And also very indicative of how most journalists seem to live on twitter and so compile all their opinions from how people act on there

He earns £500,000 per day. That's £100,000-a-day for every rape and sexual assault accusation that's made it into the public domain since he was 19.

Margot Robbie is wearing Mughal queen Nur Jahan's necklace. It was gifted by her husband King Jahangir (r. 1605-1627), Akbar's son. Cartier acquired it (harummmph). Cartier's president later gifted it to Liz Taylor..blah blah. Colonial loot around your neck. 'The obliterated shall be remembered'.

MPs, experts & campaigners have called on King Charles to make a formal apology for transatlantic slavery, after research in THE CROWN’S SILENCE highlighted how the British crown & Royal Navy extended & protected the trade in enslaved African people for centuries. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

Happy 🇬🇧 UK pub day to THE CROWN’S SILENCE—a deeply researched narrative history of the monarchy’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This is the new history book the far right loathes. Please buy it b/c it’s important history but—also—it will really piss them off if it does well in the UK!!😉😘

A reminder that racist historian David Starkey, said in 2020: "Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived." He's speaking at this year's How The Light Gets In festival.

This is why the Government's strategy is doomed. The British public's view of immigration is completely disconnected from reality, and copying the last government by pursuing increasingly vicious crackdowns on legal migration is delivering the same outcome. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Y chromosomes in women who had given birth to sons. An extraordinary aspect of pregnancy. Also yet another indication of the complicated nature of our genetic makeup that does not fit within the binary oversimplifications of so many people peddling hatred as biological law.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Farage chose Greenwich as the green screen backdrop for his divisive pitch because of its naval and imperial associations. Between 1824 and 1841, 45 Black sailors were admitted to its hospital. From Africa, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, they are an integral part of British history & identity.

Yes she was an animal rights activist, but we should honour the dead by highlighting *all* their activism. Bardot faced French courts five times and was convicted on each occasion for “incitement to racial hatred”, and she called Muslims “invaders” who are “destroying us, destroying our country”.

The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct. It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

More than half of ethnic minority Brits say the England flag has now become a racist symbol, with Brits of all colours now tending to say the raising of the flag is mostly about expressing anti-migrant, or anti ethnic-minority sentiment

Flag raisers have complained they’re misunderstood. Their real intention was the benign expression of national pride. No hint of racism. Since they’re well-intentioned I wonder how many will take them down once they know how they’re seen by NHS workers? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump has threatened to bomb or invade 7 countries with a shot to play in the 2026 World Cup. He *has* bombed one (Iran) and said he'd deny them visas. He's preparing for war with another (Venezuela). He has summarily executed citizens from at least 3. He has imposed tariffs on nearly all of them.

A post on Reddit that asks an important question: Why is there so much anti-indian sentiment/racism in London? Today, i was walking past a group of white 20yr olds in Soho and one of them said 'this isn't india, get out'.

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really important reminder of how Reform aren’t just Little Englanders, but part of an international far-right network which wants to take away fundamental rights we all take for granted - and wants to use “free speech” as a lever

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Unfortunately Labour can quote deportation figures all they like but the Reform voters will not be satisfied until there are no Black and Asian people visible on the bus. And also anyone that looks like they might be Polish.

So let me get this straight: people are draping themselves in flags to demonstrate their hostility to the presence of Afghan women and girls fleeing persecution at the hands of the Taliban because they want to protect women and girls? www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

On anti-prejudice norms, I agree 100%. Nothing has done more to erode these over the past 10 years than the "legitimate concerns" narrative that whitewashed racism and xenophobia as mere "fears" and "concerns" while deriding anti-racism as the preserve of privileged cosmopolitans.

'When people think of themselves as the 'good guys' regardless of the violence they inflict, there is ultimately no atrocity they are not willing to justify.' Textbook example of how the debate on genocide is not a debate about evidence or interpretation - it's about cognitive dissonance...

Far right demagoguery - thanks to crucial, repeated validation from the political mainstream - has painted a target on the back of every man of colour in this country. Everyone knows what is likely to happen next.

The biggest barrier to social cohesion in this country is this: a news agenda framed by a stream of pseudo-research “reports” from right wing think tanks with the pre-determined conclusion that immigrants and Muslims are intrinsically a threat to our country.

They set fire to a hotel where refugees were forced to live, attacked mosques and homes, stopped people driving into an area if they weren’t white. “grievances” remember violent racism is always our fault

Nothing is going to pierce the egos of people who refuse to understand, until it‘s too late, that for most Reform voters the perfect number of non-white people in England is zero.

Best explanation of why energy prices are so high in the UK you will find in the media. Watch this ⬇️ (Spoiler alert: it’s not green policies that are the problem)

The whole thing is also putting many of us (cis & queer) Black women who do not look femme enough for the Eurocentric beauty standards, further at risk. We are ALREADY disproportionately stopped and searched.

Also this is what The Critic is referencing. A 21st century textbook which suggested the British Empire was good because it apparently stopped those barbaric brown and black people from eating each other, which I think even C19th audiences would have struggled to believe. They pulled it in response.

This is how Kent County Council spends its money.

Trans people exist, they're beautiful, and Arsenal are going through tonight x

This is a really telling chart and emblematic of the political era.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.