"The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards" Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab, asks Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo?

Rackham's is immense. Many foreigners here for the World Cup Soccer Match tonight.

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RIP Miwa. You drove Mishima deeper into madness with a withering insult, portrayed one of detective fiction's most iconic villains beautifully, and produced rare footage of Miyazaki actually smiling. Your power was immeasurable.

Our latest issue is live! Featuring a new forum of essays reflecting on the US-Israel war on Iran and how transnational media environments help construct and circulate the myth that foreign military intervention can bring liberation. Check it out! academic.oup.com/ccc/issue

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For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment. It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_s...

A thread on trends in violence against Muslims in the UK🧵 📆Since 2017, around 1/4 declared terror attacks in Britain have targeted Muslims or Muslim migrants ⌛Such attacks have become more frequent since 2022 ⚖️There have also been several plots targeting Muslims, including foiled attacks on mosques

NEW | Raging about stupid policy from a desperate PM… MAKING MEDIA STUDIES COMPULSORY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A SOCIAL MEDIA BAN Teach kids how to truly understand what they're bombarded; don’t pretend we can prevent them from encountering it. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/making-med...

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“Adopt now, think later”: that’s how tech bosses are asking us to deal with AI. Uncritical adoption of AI in higher education is helping the financials of big tech, but undermining the core mission and purpose of universities. I discuss this in my latest for @aljazeera.com #AJOpinion

On the racist pogroms and mainstreaming aurelmondon.com/2026/06/11/o...

‘The “populist wave” has become the go-to image or metaphor when one tries to understand what’s been going on. And I think it’s empirically profoundly misleading, and it’s also politically pernicious.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on myths of populism, on the podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

RIP Marjane Satrapi

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Adam Curtis, today, striding boldly past the racks of Paul McCartney CDs, heading straight to Inferno by Boards of Canada and then slapping his £20 note down, confidently, on the counter. Narrator: “But in the process of trying to avoid nostalgia, in reality Curtis had…”

Vale Steve Barrow. Thank you for passing on JA music and the education

‘People are willing to endure unspeakable tribulations as long as there is an end in sight. But when you tell them, this is your life permanently, you're stuck in this, it becomes an aggravated nightmare.’ @muhammadshehada.bsky.social on Gaza, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

‘The truth is that both ministers and vice-chancellors are locked into a financial model whose premise is misconceived and whose side effects are profoundly damaging for higher education.’ Stefan Collini on the UK’s university problems, online now from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I helped on this one. I found one of the shooters active in an incel forum complaining about being short, attacking women and giving advice on self-harm. The shooters weren't nihilist. They're representative of the ties between incels and white power that's fueled by the great replacement theory.

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