Today we announce that The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity has been awarded the 2025 J. I. Staley Prize. Congratulations David Wengrow and the late David Graeber @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @davidwengrow.bsky.social sarweb.org/news-2025-st...

The Starmer Disaster - free online seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman and me. Discussing the recent edited collection, The Starmer Symptom, edited by Mark, published by @plutopress.bsky.social. October 8th, 18:30-20:30, free. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-starme...

Still looking for participants to take part in my research project on immigration policy in the Labour Party. Seeking participants from migrant heritage background in English CLP's - [email protected] @manchesterlabour.bsky.social @westderbyclp.bsky.social @merseysidelabour.bsky.social

NEW CWU LIVE PODCAST: RMG Pay Ballot Special - GS Dave Ward & Deputy GS (Postal) Martin Walsh answer YOUR questions. No dodging - every question was submitted by members and is listed in the official running order: www.cwu.org/cwulive-runningorder/ Listen here: www.cwu.org/podcast/roya...

180y ago, the Great Hunger killed over a million people in Ireland as the Great Powers stood by & ignored the horrific suffering of children. Famine stalks Gaza, babies are arriving at the makeshift triage & dying. The death toll from genocide will grow as famine & disease murder more. Donate:

‘To understand the appeal of the far right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship.’ @davidwengrow.bsky.social on excellent form here. www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

'In 1922 the Rev. Duncan Cameron of Kilsyth, a member of the Church of Scotland’s sub-committee on Irish immigration, stated that Scots could not be expected to live alongside “weeds.”' - www.counterfire.org/article/the-...

If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:

🌍 Today, the ICJ issues its opinion on states’ legal duties in the climate crisis. Read PI Council member Julian Aguon — a lawyer in the case — tell the story of rising island youth, Vanuatu 🇻🇺 and the movement for climate justice in Rolling Stone.

A group of Nobel laureates and nuclear experts is meeting at the University of Chicago today, on the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, to discuss the risk of nuclear war. "We now have thousands of these weapons," says physics professor Daniel Holz. "Within an hour, civilization could end."

The whole country is realising public ownership is the only way our water system gets better. Amazing to see the FBU supporting this! A failed water system is a failed Britain. It is essential we can fight deadly fires. The arguments against public ownership are drying up.

Still looking for participants to take part in my research project on immigration policy in the Labour Party. Seeking participants from migrant heritage background in English CLP's - [email protected] @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @thirskandmaltonlabour.uk

Still looking for participants to take part in my research project on immigration policy in the Labour Party. Seeking participants from migrant heritage background in English CLP's - [email protected] @manchesterlabour.bsky.social @westderbyclp.bsky.social @merseysidelabour.bsky.social

In @theintercept.com, Debbie Nathan reports on ICE lawyers refusing to give their names in court - and immigration judges going along with it. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

'At the union’s annual conference, firefighter delegates today passed a motion calling for the trade union and labour movement internationally and in the UK to “urgently prepare themselves for the onslaught of the far right.”' - www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/05...

'French writer Albert Camus has become an iconic figure, celebrated by everyone from Emmanuel Macron to George W. Bush. But the idealized public image of Camus as a liberal humanist does not reckon honestly with the impact of French colonialism on his work' - jacobin.com/2020/10/colo...

Today, May 17, is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism & Transphobia. We stand with LGBTQ+ communities against hate and for equality. Love Not Hate #LGBTQ #EqualityForAll #StopTheHate #LoveIsLove

Scotland has one of the highest land ownership concentrations in the world, a key structural production of the Highland Clearances -https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/land-reform-in-scotland

Thank you to everyone who came along last night to our film screening and panel discussion on AI surveillance + border technologies! It was great to be able to bring Aria Danaparamita + Samuel Storey’s insightful films to Folkestone! Thanks to Folkestone Bookshop for hosting us!

'UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: 'Today's data confirms UK universities remain under severe financial stress' - www.ucu.org.uk/article/1401...

Lovely to see my project featured in @leverhulme.bsky.social s February newsletter! bsky.app/profile/leve...

Thrilled to have been awarded a @leverhulme.bsky.social grant to explore what makes the second generation feel valued and included in the workplace. The project brings 'worth' to the centre of integration and compares children of European and non-European migrants in the UK. 3y postdoc coming soon!

Sharing my new open-access article on "The limits and possibilities of segmented assimilation theory". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....