Part-time RA role in my Leverhulme project "Reframing Ecoanxiety". Ideal for PGRs in the social sciences and environmental-medical humanities looking for flexible, remote work. Oppts for career advacement detailed. Right to work in the UK required. Apply by October 17th for a start November 1st.

Surprised? Not in the least. They'll end up being "sponsored by" any and all comers at this rate. I met up with some friends who're delegates, they were not complimentary about the business interest who had paid to be there. "Totally against Labour values" was one comment.

University of Edinburgh staff: please sign this letter to management in support of MSc Environment, Culture and Society student Miriam Moreno (Mina), who is on the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. It asks the university to call for her safe passage and protection: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

📢 WRONG ‼️ WRONG ‼️ WRONG ‼️ 🙄 Redistribution of wealth is the antidote to division. The proceeds of growth go largely to the already very rich. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer says he’s “taking on Reform” in today’s speech. But when Labour echoes Reform’s policies on migration, that’s not taking them on — it’s following them. #LabourConference #StarmerSpeech

Dear Labour, people aren’t leaning towards the Greens because they don’t know what the Greens are, but because they see what you, Labour, are doing. The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies. Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is everything Labour should be, on the side of ordinary people like you and me. Starmer's Labour has become a sick, corporate joke.

Speaking at an event at the Labour conference, Sadiq Khan says: “I think it is a badge of pride that bad people hate London.”

Keir Starmer says he's known for 10 years that the left has got it wrong on immigration & wasn't listening to peoples concerns Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration. He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime

We have hit 80,000 members 💚 📈 And we’re only growing, join the movement 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...

Keir Starmer says he's offering us "patriotic renewal" to "build our country." But we know the fundamental problem is a tiny few have the wealth and power. Time for us to take it back.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit. Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth. Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Labour promised an end to new drilling. But new powers give Energy Secretary Ed Miliband a backdoor to expand fossil fuels in the North Sea. Loopholes don’t cut carbon. No new oil and gas.

Reminder that "not acting" shapes the future as much as "acting" does and that not choosing is a choice.

This tracks for pretty much every UK city.

I’ve written to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper demanding urgent action to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla. 52 boats carrying aid and peace activists to Gaza. The UK must act to assure their safety. Israel is committing a genocide. All eyes are on this flotilla.

Can’t remember who flagged it on here, but this essay is so good. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Over the last 24 hours Reform, with just a single policy announcement, have put fear where previously there was none into the hearts of millions of UK residents. No 10 and the Chancellor have said nothing about the ethics of this. I have no words left for them.

Everyone has friends, neighbours, colleagues and people we rely on who Farage and Reform want to deport.

everytime Labour rushes right, claiming to outflank Farage, they are actually smoothing the path as he trundles past them with even more extreme views while this lot are in charge of Labour, it will continue it looks like for all the headlines, Starmer is going nowhere until the next election

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

In other news, Oxford falls out of the top 3 in the latest university rankings. Chicken or egg?

Today is a great day to join the Green Party. United, left-wing, progressive politics. join.greenparty.org.uk

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉 🌹 to 💚 💚 Congratulations to Marina Lademacher of @bhgreens.bsky.social on being elected in Queen's Park ward!

This is a fantastic thread, by a fantastic community organiser, about why "your party" could in fact be the Green Party.

If you're someone with university/project admin experience based in/around the Huddersfield area - and have an interest in popular music - come and join our wonderful team as a Project Officer for the next five years. Deadline: 1 Oct. vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

"We should not be rolling out a red carpet." @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks to Channel 4 about Donald Trump's state visit to the UK.

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Spoke tonight with the Financial Times. 👇🏼

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

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The thing that gets me about this is that so many of us have known this for so long, and so many people have faced pushback for saying it, and even if by some miracle something changes now, there will not be an ounce of retrospective reflection from anyone at all who insisted it wasn’t

As always: it is significant that racist people make a point of declaring they're not racist. The word still has meaning - it is still bad to be as hateful as these people. There are still consequences. ketanj0.medium.com/im-one-of-th...

How do we fix this mess?

Sometimes I write a polite private letter to a worthy group that accepts fossil fuel sponsorship asking them to rethink promoting the fossil fuel industry. Here's what they say and why I still think they should ditch the partnerships:

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

Why would they believe that? Their problem has been that the consensus that racism is bad created a social cost for them. They hd to be careful whom they spoke to; a reputation for racism could be ruinous. Even in my lifetime that wasn’t always true. People worked hard to build that consensus. /3

This is huge. 3 more London councillors leave Labour and join @greenparty.org.uk. We're now on more councils than the Lib Dems in London. Labour - you're next.

Important to remind ourselves of this as we hear and read words like "revelations" and "emerged" in respect of the Ovenden resignation. It has in fact been common knowledge for years that (a) this is the culture in that faction of the party, and (b) that Starmer is largely indifferent to it.

Whoa.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

Orwell would also remind us: don’t let outrage be your only politics. Go to hospitals, foodbanks, union meetings, refugee hostels. Real solidarity is built in the ordinary places where people live and struggle. Defend the small decencies that make life liveable.

The flipside to this, of course, is how many people hear or see someone shouting, and instantly tune out of the substance of what they might be shouting about, no matter how true or just it might be.