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Heading for 1.5 million signatures now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

At last.

Happy to see our latest work together published in Millenium. After disaster a return to the status quo isn't inevitable. It can be an opportunity to resist journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Always a joy to work with @kandidapurnell.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social

"A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us." ‪Lisa Diedrich‬ ‪@lisadiedrich.bsky.social‬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHph...

A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.

I didn't see another good article @ailsahenderson.bsky.social and @richardwynjones.bsky.social which considering the unusually large concentration of St George's Crosses yesterday is required reading. You can feel the frustration in their writing.

Jamie Raskin showing @zackpolanski.bsky.social how it's done? Not that Zack needs showing...

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Worth listening to: Chris Naylor on the alternative to privatised asylum accommodation, which now produces huge profits and concentrates asylum seekers in impoverished areas. The proposal would enable local councils to increase their general housing stock, as well as taking account of local needs.

This is such a cool idea - this book is an incredible, powerful chronology of thoughts, reflections & poetry about an extraordinary time, fast receding into the public’s collective memories. @amycortvriend.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @kandidapurnell.bsky.social

“You can’t starve anyone by accident, you can shoot someone by accident but … in inflicting starvation [you] have 60 or 80 days in which [you] can remedy the error” Alex de Waal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

Grenfell Uncovered www.netflix.com/watch/81683138

“You underestimate just how harrowing Grenfell was.”

Systemic Grenfell Tower failings focus of new documentary www.channel4.com/news/systemi...

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On 5 June 2020, anti-racism protestors toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston. Where is it now? Eleanor Callaghan examines how local authorities and museum curators in Bristol turned the controversial monument into an opportunity for inclusive public history. www.historyworkshop....

The Telegraph going after the Quakers because the Quakers won't be assholes to trans people. That opening paragraph by Daniel Martin is lol. It's Helen Joyce doing the accusing.

“Mass death through starvation is the certain outcome of Israel’s continued blockade and ongoing military campaign. The only question is when.” The uniqueness of the ongoing famine in Gaza, where people have absolutely no coping strategies or alternatives at all.

What is different with the Gaza famine is that the causes are so plain and so direct, textbook example of Alex de Waal’s and Jenny Edkins’ work on forced starvation. Often present to different degrees in other famines, but never so plain in intent and mechanisms.

Sir Paul Nurse's evidence is in the first hour here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TclI.... It is a bleak tale of missed opportunities by a government focused on centralised commercial solutions at the expense of developing local testing facilities based around existing publicly funded research centres

💔😡😷💔😡😷💔😷 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social responds to the ‘Island of strangers’ comment. #poetry #immigration #humanbeings

It's surely time for Labour MPs who deplore Starmer's rhetoric and policy on this to resign the whip and form a new party. The rest can join Reform.

I am going to find it hard to forgive a man as deeply racist as Keir Starmer. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

"Is all of this really easier than trying to tackle false narratives about immigration in the right wing press?"

Activists, artists and academics come together to respond after the Grenfell Tower Fire. With contributions from Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick, Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley and The Radical Housing Network. Half price until 14 May www.plutobooks.com/978074533958...

Thought provoking essay by #PamelaSwanigan

Unless the Labour government starts using it's parliamentary majority and the levers of state power for progressive change to address inequalities and make a material difference to people's lives then England faces a very troublesome future

i'm infuriated by those who argue that "woman" is a safe space into which cis women can retreat from the depredations of the world. solidarity with my trans friends and with everyone else working for a feminism made to the measure of the world. inrelativeopacity.substack.com/p/there-are-...

From @terinahine.bsky.social, an interesting overview of the pandemic that changed our lives... ❤️ www.counterfire.org/article/the-...

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries

Brilliant, illuminating and (for people like me), simple to understand. Read here about what is and isn’t AI.

Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1972 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_f...

I studied film, wrote about it, & discussed it as a broadcaster for over a decade. Recently, however, I've struggled to find a space to hold its magic in our current reality—a framework of madness, horror, & terror. Tilda's speech casts cinema in the realm of possibility, solidarity & imagination.

Now out: the fourth edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction. An innovative textbook that engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...

Fascinating article! Also his earlier co-authored piece is relevant doi.org/10.1093/ips/.... @macvieira.bsky.social‬

"In the meantime, popular pressure...tells the actors involved what side the people are on...Those in a position to stop this may or may not feel some abstract obligation to “the law.” You want to remind them of their obligation to the people. Express your opposition, however you can."

Against the attempted erasure of the memory of those missing after Nazi persecutions. This video and the book by Michael Rosen are not only for children, but for everyone.

@naeeminayatullah.bsky.social So good to see you on here!

And what a fantastic chapter you've given us all! I learned so much reading it. May your spine recover as swiftly as possible... 🙏

We recently posted about the publication of the new edition of Global Politics: An Introduction - one of the book's new chapters was written by our colleague @lucytaylor12.bsky.social and draws on her research on the indigenous experience in Patagonia

Planet presents an evening at Y Cŵps! A warm welcome to all. www.seetickets.com/event/what-n...

Here they are: advance copies!!

A new edition of the amazing Global Politics: An Introduction is out later this month! Edited by Emeritus Professor @jennyedkins.bsky.social, Maja Zehfus and @tom-gregory.bsky.social, it has been thoroughly updated and includes 6 new chapters. ⬇️ www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...

A wonderful novel

Recommended #SundayReading: 'When this is over: reflections on an unequal pandemic', with a chapter written by volunteer @franfd.bsky.social ♥️

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... requires subscription or free registration to read just this piece

There will be no mass deportation without mass detention, which is why I wanted to revisit this important topic from a new perspective. Immigrant Detention in Focus: The Unconventional Photography of Greg Constantine austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigrant-...