Urgent Appeal 🚨 | Gaza My daughter is suffering from malnutrition. She needs food and medicine, and I am unable to provide her with even the most basic rights as a father. By donating or even sharing this post, you can help alleviate her childhood suffering. gofund.me/59ed8572

Govt claims requiring all adults in Britain to have “digital ID” will “help control borders” and “illegal immigtation”. That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime. A 🧵explaining why:

If you are concerned about how your data might be hacked, abused or sold, and more generally about unecessary digital surveillance, sign the petition. [Let's not even both talking about the fact you will need a smartphone in order to have one of these]. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We already *had* this for immigrants. They want the digital ID cards so they can be dicks to everyone.

Since Lisa Nandy is doing the media round for Lab this morning, here she is in October 2023 being asked 3 times whether Israel breached intl law when it cut off power & water to Gaza. Nandy refused to answer & when pressed she said it would be grandstanding to answer the question

Published today by ​Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

Deleted my academia dot edu account. Not even sure why I had it anyway.

We want robust, enormous research that is SUCH good research, you already know how important and right and insightful it is before you even start it. We want research so predeterminedly world-changing that there is hardly any point actually doing the research at all.

In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza. Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

If the new (massively expanded) immigration detention centres Reform are proposing are (rightly) being compared to concentration camps, then how might we refer to the ones currently in operation I wonder?

The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

There are two key problems with the new UK government position that it will recognise Palestine unless Israel ends the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and commits to a two-state solution. [brief 🧵]

www.gov.uk/government/n... This guidance mandates that children are taught that they have different legal rights based on their biological sex. So much for kicking misogyny out of classrooms.

NEW from Liberty Investigates and The Herald: Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms company www.heraldscotland.com/news/2530867...

Our water bill in Devon has just come through today. It's doubled. Our town had the cryptosporidium outbreak. We've had sewage in our beaches and the river. And the CEO of South West water got a £300,000 pay rise as this was all happening, which she told me was a "cost of living increase".

God damn books that have no index

🚨 BREAKING. THIS IS BIG! 🚨 Unite conference votes to suspend Angela Rayner & Birmingham Council leader John Cotton from Unite membership & to re-examine relationship with Labour over Birmingham bins dispute

Please don’t ignore this the next time you’re told “it’s either these guys or Reform” coz this is also what Reform would do and you should rail against it no matter what colour the tie is.

YES. The silly salaries are a symptom, not the cause. They show the culture of unaccountability, of dismissal of expertise, of alienation of what universities are about, of perverse incentives, etc. #UKHE

via Michael Rosen

It was a pleasure to talk to @zinovievletter.bsky.social about her work earlier this year. We talked about trans politics and representation, modernism, literature, film, archives, Weimar Germany, and much more. @influxpress.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social uonenglish.substack.com/p/fiction-an...

Obviously the optics of this are bad and being open to such extensive private lobbying is also bad, but it also frequently strikes me how little our political class can be bought for and the triviality of the things they ask for. novaramedia.com/2025/06/25/e...

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments! I'll announce the winner a week from now!

Sally Rooney understands exactly what is required from someone of her profession and social standing in this moment. We've seen so much cowardice from so many quarters in recent times that it's almost a shock to be reminded what a person of conscience acting with true integrity looks like.

"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Behind closed doors, fossil fuel advocates are trashing carbon capture and storage. @desmog.com obtained audio of Bjorn Lomborg telling a private luncheon CCS is 'not going to happen.' Oil companies only support CCS to get 'a lot of subsidies,' he claimed. www.desmog.com/2025/06/05/c...

Please help Maali and Malak so that they can eat, be comfortable, and celebrate Eid. chuffed.org/project/1301...

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?