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.

Just got back in after a weekend at Supersonic festival. I don't think there's much that comes close in the UK at the moment in terms of the level of attention to curation of the interaction of different acts, the commitment to supporting anti-genocide speech, and uncompromising music.

By this logic no ambulance should have come for Farage after his plane crash, no one should have helped him, you aren't responsible.

What frightens me is when they say "X could be replaced by AI" they don't mean "AI could do the work of X" they mean "we could replace the work of X with incorrect, randomly generated filler, and no one would stop us". What would the side effects be? They don't care, they already cashed the check.

When you're only allowed 2 trips to Hackney jazz venues a week by the wife but you ignore her because of a promising review in the Wire and go a third time and go into MAXIMUM OTODRIVE

From a purely pragmatic perspective I've continually been surprised at how little Starmer has learned from Burnham municipalism - pick key, visible features of every day life and make them better, or make them appear better at the very least. Starmer has no "integrated transport service" line.

I am genuinely impressed at the government's capacity to undermine the normative power of invoking terrorism and national security. They have done more in 30 days to problematise the concepts than 30 years of leftist scholarship.

Sally Rooney, who will have to inhale helium to detract credibility from her statements on British television from now on.

I'd argue the Times is right for the wrong reasons: Real Estate redevelopment has always part of the militarized urban frontier and it is impossible to disentangle the two.

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A classic of the genre of university leadership blogging to explain Big Adult Positions we can't possibly perceive. The problem isn't that we don't understand, the problem is that no academic feels university leaders are in their corner on this, and I suspect no policymaker feels any heat over it.

474 people in one place at one time is surely the single largest arrest under terror laws in the UK? (at least since the GFA?)

You can kind of see how bathroom bans and the online safety act and immigration rhetoric work together to create the material conditions on the ground to build the necessity for government-issued ID cards. This is surely something more than a few Blairites are quite aware of.

the point of this isn't that historians or archivists can be automated, the point is its a shopping list for governments and industries making cuts that will then have to buy AI services to inadequately fill the gap

When people tell you who they are etc etc

'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):

Time was this is the kind of quote that would be in every human geography essay

Went to see the Jurassic World film and let me tell you that I have never seen a deader pair of supporting characters the minute I clapped eyes on them. Awful film, added nothing, there was air conditioning in the cinema though so 10/10 take the whole family.

Really great world systems theory paper right here

The King doing a Land Acknowledgement before the Throne Speech

The thing is there was a brief moment, actually around the time brexit happened, where columnists had some self-awareness about their work being this exposed by public scrutiny. Some improved their game but mostly the commentariat decided it would be better to let the public sphere die.

In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...