Vital intervention @andyburnham.bsky.social. The duty of candour must apply in full to the security & intelligence services & every public service so that no institution can hide behind secrecy. Recent scandals about MI5 as well as Manchester Arena bombing highlight why this is so important.

Fascinating discussion of Anya Berger's involvement in John Berger's work: “The new way of seeing,” Anya writes [in 1969], “suddenly became the normal one and the old way—quite tolerable until then—became abnormal and indeed impossible.” 'Ways of Seeing', credited to John Berger, aired in 1972.

Mohammedali Yaseen Taha reads his poem The Disappeared Oak in English, one of the first Creative Responses published in the Journal of Disappearance Studies, which explores the dimensions of human disappearance, particularly enforced disappearance. https://ow.ly/3Qa050XMvv1

BMJ has published an editorial calling for #BasicIncome, written by Matthew Johnson and Elliott Johnson, authors of our book 'Basic Income'. This marks a step toward mainstream endorsement of basic income as a response to inequality. https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1822

Dr Andrew Meyerson: brilliant on Sky News just now . See also www.dailymotion.com/video/x9i8yyw

What makes a postdoctoral position different when it’s a Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life junior or senior fellow position? You will be working together with a vibrant community of interdisciplinary researchers, each of them curious about the world-making capacities of AI. Ask us a question…

📝 Out now in Vol. 53! Chaeyoung Yong argues that trauma time offers key insights into "understanding GBV by highlighting the socio-political nature of trauma and critiquing the linear narrative of healing and restoring the social order." 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What role do disasters play in global politics? In Vol. 53’s Special Issue, Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins, and @kandidapurnell.bsky.social explore how embodied trauma disrupts the status quo — and may open a path to a new social-political order. 👇 thetinyurls.com/redirect.php...

This paper builds on our 2023 co-edited book "When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic" published by @policypress.bsky.social & the work of its wonderful contributors. #disaster #emergency #resistance #trauma #embodiment #politics policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/when-t...

"During the first three months of 2020... Johnson’s inertia was ... unbearable for NHS staff ... because we knew ... that the bodies were ... going to pile high ... We knew this because it was already happening ... First in Wuhan. Then in northern Italy." @drrachelclarke.com tinyurl.com/257kbfss

"During the first three months of 2020... Johnson’s inertia was ... unbearable for NHS staff ... because we knew ... that the bodies were ... going to pile high ... We knew this because it was already happening ... First in Wuhan. Then in northern Italy." @drrachelclarke.com tinyurl.com/257kbfss

Watch this. Several times.

Thank you! And we are proud that our Chair, @franfd.bsky.social, contributed to 'When This is Over' - an important book. ❤️

Congratulations and respect to you all. ❤️ Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing." We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y

A brilliant reading list, extensive but not overwhelming and usefully arranged in thematic sections. One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'

I would say this piece has three significant implications for @zackpolanski.bsky.social's #Green Party. Thread 🧵

Missing persons in Gaza: The pain of ambiguous loss and the task of recovery After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all. -- Wislawa Szymborska www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Dyna’i diwedd hi, Nôs Galan Gaeaf hapus oll ! / and that’s the end of things on the west coast - happy Halloween all ! #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales

'Alternative ecological futures: Art climate change & the radical imagination' new event with Environment and Climate Politics Working Group 🌳 Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟 Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9

#Caerphilly by-election

Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru: "Caerphilly matters because Wales is Reform’s next big target. If Reform wins, it’s going to boost their chances of winning the Senedd next May. And if they do, it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash." #Caerphilly @stevebasnett.bsky.social

Ac wele... www.newstatesman.com/politics/wal...

Caerphilly Senedd by-election: thread 🔽

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Why is the Green Party in Caerphilly not supporting the Plaid Cymru candidate in Thursday's by-election?

#NoKings Miami!

Happy #Caturday!

Benjamin Zephaniah reading his poem People Need People on the One Show June 2020 in lockdown after George Floyd was killed, and talking about multicultural Britain

QED:

British.

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

The search for the missing in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Worth a read. A study of working class perceptions of “government of the people, by the elites, for the rich”. Is this why the approach of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party resonates?

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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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