Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices by Piki Diamond, tawona sitholé, Alison Phipps Our new book is available to download. Please request a copy for you library Official publication date 12th May. I am inordinately proud of all my PDR students past and present who made this book 📕 🔥

The very best thing the executive leadership of *any* news can do is to listen to their journalists. The Guardian didn't which is why I'm writing this here. May the BBC have better luck🤞 To support our work, pls do sign up to @thenerve.news for our (free) newsletter. 🙏 www.thenerve.news/membership

And here's Brittin telling journalists to use AI or "risk missing out". The BBC board has made a terrible error. Like the UK press, it's trapped in a 90s bubble where Google's a whizzy start-up & tech will save us...the most dangerous myth of our time 7/

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

The carpet bombing terror campaign further destroying Lebanon with less impunity than a mild shrug This is an illegal war. There is no security council resolution. These are war crimes.

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Disproved many times but gets a free pass

The Israeli occupation is instigating an economic collapse in the West Bank, forcing public schools to operate only three days a week. Teachers and parents say an entire generation is being denied the right to education. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/how-... #Palestine #Israel

"This raises the question of whether higher education should be treated mainly as a private investment for individuals, or as a public good that benefits society as a whole." #HigherEd #Edusky #England #student tinyurl.com/h7ft3pcr

Don't think Westminster has really clocked that the Green Party stands quite a strong chance of being in Government in Wales (as a partner to Plaid Cymru) after May open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...

This is true too

In Denmark - the country Britain’s Home Secretary constantly cites as an inspiration - the ruling centre left party is don sharply to its worst ever vote share, while both parties to its left and on the radical right gain.

Our Relationship with Israel must Change….

Even the richest people in Scotland strongly support higher taxes on the wealthy, new polling has found ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A Scottish sausage firm has been fined more than £50k after almost two millions litres of waste meant for the sewers instead polluted waterways ⬇️

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE - on major increase in raids under this govt, often treating powers of entry under Licensing Act 2003 as “carte blanche” for questioning people & searching areas www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Defence minister Luke Pollard refuses to say if UK-made components have been supplied to US Tomahawk missiles. Arms firm Raytheon in Glenrothes has won several contracts to produce components for Tomahawks. 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-bo... #DCUKparliament

"6 year Hannah.. one of more than 100 children killed so far in this country, the total civilian death toll more than 1,000. We've documented medical workers being targeted too.." A recent report from Cordelia Lynch from Lebanon

Cordelia Lynch: "Just as we've been filming with these displaced people, two loud bangs, you can hear what seems to be Israeli jets above us, look at the fear" Terrorising children. Israel is a terrorist state

Israeli analysts have described a sense of disappointment and confusion in the country after US President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Iran to wind down the war would continue aje.news/g7676s

'Foxglove called the contract “another worrying sign that Palantir is consolidating its hold over UK government services”. “Ministers urgently need to stop and think before handing yet more contracts to this Trump-supporting spy-tech giant." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

".. they had a cosy relationship with the water industry" Robert Forrester, Environment Agency whistleblower, explains why the agency downgraded 98% of serious pollution incidents by the water companies to minor incidents #GMB

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Where the clothes you give to charity shops or recycling bins really end up - my report from Ghana on the destructive impact of fast fashion and clothes dumping mol.im/a/15669611

Double tap strikes to kill school girls and first responders - a repeated pattern across Gaza and Iran. Utter barbarity.

France’s socialists win Paris mayoralty in blow to the right www.thetimes.com/article/959d...

I can’t believe we had to watch the genocide of Palestine and now we have to watch the genocide of Cuba. No one will ever forgive 🇺🇸 again. The cruelty and selfishness is remarkable.

Mahmood's changes to both the immigration and asylum systems are already harming individuals and families, even before being fully implemented. The fear and anxiety these inhumane policies takes a toll. It's beyond time to scrap them all www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Important thread by @sundersays.bsky.social on the earned settlement changes. 3 important points: - HO continues to deliberately mislead on impact (*15-20* years to settlement, not 10, for most) -BBC/media repeating this falsehood uncritically - vastly disproportionate impact on ethnic minorites

The lunatic quality of these proposals is persistently underestimated. They are far, far worse than people recognise.

‘They burned everything’: Israeli settlers torch West Bank clinics, homes and cars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/they-burned-everything-israeli-settlers-torch-west-bank-clinics-homes

‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain

The greatest sickness in modern life is the rise of performative cruelty. Many no longer hide their sadism but revel in it. It’s not hard to trace the root cause. The book is an empathy machine. It’s no surprise the decline in reading has been accompanied by a spike in inhumanity. It’s hand in glove

NEW: A second Tory MSP has been accused of using AI to generate hundreds of questions for the Scottish Government costing the public purse 'over £200,000 in one year' Read more here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

And our new book is now available Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices from @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social (who else!)

New open access book 🔓️ 📖 "Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices: Fire Stories" edited by Piki Diamond, tawona sitholé and Alison Phipps is a guide in restorative narrative methods for use with marginalised and exploited groups. Available now! Download below⬇️

Please folks, give her a lift if you can 🙏

Poetry of hope chuffed.org/project/1682...

With the war in its fourth week, the Trump administration sends contradictory messages on how to proceed.

🗞️ NEW: Israel orders destruction of bridges across Litani River in Lebanon Israel’s Defense Min. Israel Katz said he and PM Netanyahu have ordered the military to destroy all bridges over the Litani River that it believes could be used by Hezbollah, aiming to block movement of fighters & weapons...

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💢 Israel has destroyed the Qasmiyeh Bridge, a key coastal crossing north of Tyre that serves as a main link between southern Lebanon and Beirut, effectively cutting off large parts of the south from the rest of the country.

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

"Open borders destroy trust" is just unthinking cliches The asylum chaos does not result from open borders. It results from a botched fantasy ban on asylum claims - to assert control + closed borders - leading to a 100k backlog + the hotels disaster. Visa rules tightended + numbers down loads

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Expert says 'Gaza doctrine used in Iran' after strikes on civilian infrastructure

If I was an investigative journalist, I would 100 percent make it my personal mission to uncover the dark money trail coming from the fascist US evangelical Christians that are hell bent of spreading their horrendous policies all over the world through buying out our governments.

A more unchristian group of people it would be hard to imagine

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