Edward Wadie Said would have turned 90 today - The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2

Ladies and gents… the not-at-all-authoritarian-dogmatic-racist-ableist-or punitive ‘centre ground’… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Let’s do something about violence against women and girls by [checks notes] getting yet more (white) men to dominate the public sphere by talking to men about being a man. 🤔

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

It's long past time to tackle the British arms industry. I didn't say it on the podcast, but how about a punitive windfall tax on UK arms manufacturers to fund a British reparations scheme for Gaza and Yemen?

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Very sad news. A wonderful director, always gutsy, canny and creative, and the driving force behind some of the best British theatre of the twentieth century.

This was a really clarifying discussion. UK politics folk: have a listen.

I didn’t want to believe it was true. Say his name: Saleh Al-Jafarawi. He had the most beautiful smile. He was not among the 270+ journalists killed prior to the latest ceasefire. He was ebullient that the bombing stopped. And now he’s been killed.

He does a good job here of exposing the reality of someone who claims to have nothing against trans people while laughing at the idea that they could even exist. It’s not that’s hard, but I can’t think of another politician doing it consistently on these kinds of platforms.

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How to actually do something about ongoing genocide, a simple guide: www.alanalentin.net/2025/09/18/f...

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing evidence of Kasha’s ‘aggressive interview posture’…

Requiring people to care about the death of one white supremacist is requiring people to care about white supremacy. It’s really as simple as that.

Peter Mandelson was UK ambassador to the US??!! 🤯

The collective brain fade at @ucu.org.uk HQ showing no signs of abating. 🧵 👇🏼

Keir Weimar

Trouble is - as Stuart Hall so memorably said - as soon as you show scientific racism the door, it creeps around the verandah and back in through the pantry window. The idea of race is of fundamental difference. It will continually reattach itself to whatever is considered fundamental.

Israel assassination of Yemen’s Prime Minister exemplifies its politicide in the region, which is aimed at killing all the leaders who resist Zionism and US imperialism. Politicide is the destruction of a people’s political identity, autonomy, sovereignty, & self-determination.

We won’t see his like again R.I.P. Giles Havergal www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...

It was a pleasure to join an event organised by Decolonizing Economics a week or so ago. The recording is up here. My contribution on why the university cannot be decolonized until the world is, and what that means in relation to Zionist genocide, is the second of three short talks. d-econ.org

‘What on earth could have prompted this outburst?’ nobody wondered.

Our esteemed expert here appears to have gone from just innocently asking (in 2018) “Is Rising Ethnic Diversity a Threat to the West?” to answering (in 2025) that yes, the degenerate races pose an terrible threat to the herrenvolk and should be driven out en masse. Its not 'a grift'. Its who he is.

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Starmer's Twitter account is wall-to-wall immigrant bashing, and has been for weeks. You need to know these things if you're living in the Bluesky bubble and think everything's normal with Labour.

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To say that honest, unbiased reporting has been impossible in Gaza is an insult to Anas Al-Sharif and the at least 186 journalists targeted and killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023. bsky.app/profile/alja...

As Israel's war on Gaza continues, Al Jazeera staff members, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in a targeted strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/qg87g7

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children” We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”

Melanie’s deleted her post.

Can someone explain to Melanie what the phrase ‘on suspicion of’ means? Also there’s a word for people who talk about Black and Brown people as though they were dirt, Melanie. Starts with ‘r’, rhymes with ‘bassist’.

Somehow Starmer’s government is once again breaking its own records for combining cynicism, ineptitude and cowardice. www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

I completely understand why these people are bravely doing what they’re doing & being defended for it. But we’re sleepwalking into a redefinition of protest. Protest is not the widely acceptable expression of opinion. (And the liberation of Palestine is not reducible to ‘peace’.)

Wtf is @cerysmatthews.bsky.social doing rehabilitating Johnny Depp on 6 Music?! Come on people. Can we not hold *any* lines any more?

Enjoying @jemgilbert.bsky.social double-drop diss track on Varoufakis, Dean, Durand et al, and if ‘why capitalism is very much still the enemy’ is your vibe, so can you! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

This week in ‘victims of racism are actually victims of being told about racism’ 🥱

No the so-called ‘IDF’ is not a terrorist group. No it should not be proscribed. It is a colonising and occupying force, and can (legally) and should (ethically) be treated as such. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

Goodhart is nothing but a fash Walter Mitty. That he has been positively encouraged to flood the public sphere with this absurd propaganda tells you everything you need to know about the UK’s media and political class.

Exactly. The pulverise-normalise dialectic marches on…

The reason why the benefits system collapsing matters is the collapse of people who depend on benefits. And those people are already collapsing because of the cuts to benefits that Liz Kendall is trying to justify here by invoking the collapse of the benefits system. 🤬

Excellent alternative preface to Ronit Lentin & Lana Tatour’s new book, Race and the Question of Palestine here: ronitlentin.net/2025/06/11/l... One of the most succinct, factual accounts I’ve read of the last 600+ days.

Sad news. A brilliant thinker, whose work taught me a huge amount and I continue to teach. RIP.