"You can't be cynical. You can't be cold-hearted. You can't do anything without empathy. And it's obvious that one has to side with the poor, the disgraced, and the tormented. This is a moral duty, and not a question of profession, nor a question of your social status."

Its not really complicated tho? The oil companies have said the oil IS worth drilling but the security costs of doing that in Venezuela are high, trump is making them do it, Its two bank robbers fighting over who has to pay for the shipping costs of the bullion

I see my desk chair has decided to completely break on me today just as another possible major bill arrives. Good work universe.

"there are some who are compulsive writers who write despite all the odds, there are others - and Johnson was one - who write when something forces them to" youtu.be/y-XT60SikcA?...

Next year, AbdouMaliq Simone and I will launch the new research program of the @InhabitationLab. In this post, we recall the work our collective did in the first years of the project. Subscribe to our newsletter to hear about our future activities. beyondinhabitation.org/beyond-inhab...

A few years ago it was 'We simply suggest its not racist to talk about immigration' and now the conversation about immigration that we seem unable to *not* have is: 'Are Pakistanis paedophiles?'

Home Alone is a deeply christian film about 'American man' and his abandonment of god in favour of crass commercialism, and his ultimate reconciliation with the church as embodied in the white suburban family, and I WISH I was in any way joking about that.

Wallace's actions far more easily explained when you realise his shareholders want RESULTS

This is the guy Wes Streeting wants your health data to belong to btw

trying to sort out my notes app and there's one that just says this

We dont have an overdiagnosis of ADHD and Autism: We have a gap between the material life of society and the capacity of the social state across the board to absorb its intolerable elements. Instead of dealing with that we are seeing managed and strategic abandonment of groups.

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

Lovely Album of christmas classics on the Koto by one of the most underappreciated pop musicians alive matthewjennings.bandcamp.com/album/christ...

Worth considering what this means in practice: you answer your radio to a boat that might be getting into trouble, you say oh it's calmer in the Solent, go there, you get nicked?

Excited to announce my first publication in citizenship studies: "Working on the farm: acts of citizenship and accommodative resistance"! This paper is a deep dive on the activism and citizenship acts of council housing tenants in 1980s London www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

I'm not in a faction and have my criticisms of them all (and posting about the union on social media) but the UCULeft faction always describing the Commons group as the 'right of the union' is such a cynical bit of positioning as to be worthy of note.

Lol jesus, Liselotte, chill out

Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"

I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.

Would be REALLY good if this country could sort out its trains and ferries together so that missing one connection did not mean there was no other option but to abandon a trip.

When the Americans book London for Christmas.

Praying for all the adult sons in their 30s in New York City on their next phone call to their mother.

It's sad that the Morning Star, one of the few public organs of the Trade Union movement en masse, so often decides to wade in against the workplace rights of trans people (for what is going to the bathroom safely if not...)

When I think about transport for wales

If Isaac Chotiner so much as asked me how I was doing I would flee to a safe house,

Me when it gets dark at 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcA...

Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR @michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social

Water infrastructure in Sheffield appears to have decided that it will take water to strange, new, experimental places.

"Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests" -- Antipode authors @williamsapj.bsky.social and Jon May discuss their published work www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... doi.org/10.1111/anti...

One thing about this stuff is how electorally silly it is. It doesn't appeal to anyone?

Actively disgusted by this cynical weaponisation of a tragedy. Opposing a genocide has nothing to do with what happened and I would go so far to say these words are incitement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

oh GOD of course Blair would come up with the Millenium Dome combined with a War Crime

all of this stuff is brand new. The reason the Windrush scandal was able to happen was because it was perfectly possible to live, work, and rent in the UK for decades without formal ID. Most of this stuff was brought in because of the manufactured immigration panics of the 2000s-10s.

The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-hear-the-g...

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

This is Australia but holy shit

Can confirm The Rapture is coming. THATS RIGHT, COMING TO THE UK ON A REUNION TOUR www.nme.com/news/music/t...

'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):

The thing is, once an employer has got rid of labour through AI, the company providing AI has them by the throat and can extract whatever rent they think is possible.

Shareholder capitalism has basically given authoritarians tremendous power. Even if you live in a nominal democracy there's an army of people willing and with standing to sue you if you decide not to work with an Authoritarian overseas who can shut you down in their country.

Old Enough to remember when the destruction of Buddhist monumental architecture in Afghanistan was unequivocal proof of the subhuman barbarity of the regime there.

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis "Contained: A new Silk Road Story" Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

A 100,000 number being thrown around that really doesn't match the images I'm seeing, I think

ok, having checked a bunch of editions i now reckon there was a section of text removed from the uk edition of american psycho. it’s a bit which says bono is the devil so maybe there was a worry about uk libel law?

One unexpected detail in the revelations about Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein is they were involved in a mining deal in Congo-Brazzaville: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

It's bad that he died, but Kirk wasn't killed because his opponents couldn't beat him in debate. He'd been doing turning point since he was 18 and yet the legislatures of the most conservative US states have still had to intervene on college campuses to banish the left.