Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

This wee mite would have grown up with all the potential to be an asset to society here. The UK is not 'full', It has been broken by cruel and poor political decisions at Westminster: years of austerity and Brexit.

It was an honour to launch my monograph The Adventure: Violent borders, illegal migration & the uncertain quest for life in Morocco. Special thanks to Prof. Hage, Dr. Obeid & Dr Zagaria for acting as discussants. I am very humbled by their generous comments.Open access eBook: tinyurl.com/4rnand8n

This is about the best breakdown on the restrictions of foreign reporters into Gaza, and how outlets like NPR report the conflict: with the excellent, tireless work of our Palestinian reporter, Anas Baba. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...

This Saturday in Manchester - The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory debates the motion: Theorising the future is the future of anthropology. [November 29th 2-6pm, Alexander Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building] www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/social-anthr...

Tomorrow in Manchester (5pm): book launch for my monograph "The Adventure: violent borders, illegal migration and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco” Discussants: Ghassan Hage, Michelle Obeid and Valentina Zagaria. Open access e-book : tinyurl.com/4rnand8n

Mais comment on laisse faire ça? Dans quel système on vit? (questions rhétoriques) (publication Elena Mistrello sur IG)

on the transgression of the civilian–combatant divide: 'colonial genocide is not a reactive counterpart to anticolonial indistinction but a structural potential of colonial domination, while anticolonial indistinction represents a liberatory ethos challenging the colonial order of violence' PERUGINI

Que maudite soit la guerre

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

Ethnonationalism just keeps on accidentally happening in British politics these days…

🔴 C’est au tour de la porte-parole @attac.org d’être convoquée par la police ce jour ! La fédération #SUDRail apporte son soutien aux militant•es activistes intimidé•es. ✊ Arrêt immédiat de cette procédure … et les autres ! Nous riposterons ensemble car c’est le mouvement #social qui est attaqué !

Upcoming book launch for my monograph "The Adventure: violent borders, illegal migration and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco” ( @manchesterup.bsky.social ). MCR 25/11 5pm @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social more info about the book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177681/

Mais où on va si on ne peut plus se laisser corrompre tranquille, s'interroge Bouzou, l'économiste en solde qui a touché 10 000 euros d'Uber pour chanter les louanges de la boîte et promouvoir le business-model de la turbo-exploitation et de l'évasion fiscale.

Wasafiri remembers Zoë Wicomb, who passed away recently on 13 October, 2025. In celebration of her life and work, we are making her short story, 'In Search of Tommie', from our 25th anniversary issue, free to access until the end of the month. Read now: buff.ly/CdQQOLF

South African Author Zoë Wicomb, born in 1948, died last week in Glasgow, Scotland, at the age of 76.

Given the apartheid system that Israel presides over - as documented at length by the world's leading human rights organisations - I'm struggling to think of a non-racist way to describe Israel meaningfully as a democracy. Are Palestinians not people?

Sébastien Lecornu REnommé à Matignon : le message d’Emmanuel Macron à tous les Français. Dessin d’ @allanbarte.bsky.social pour Bon Pote

Le saviez-vous ? Un Français passe en moyenne 5 ans de sa vie à apprendre la nomination de Sébastien Lecornu.

Kemi Badenoch: let's do this in Britain

Ça va être un choc énorme quand il va découvrir qu'il y a des femmes en politique.

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Tonight's moon.

Protests in Morocco have entered their sixth day after three people were killed near Agadir. The youth-led movement Gen Z 212 is demanding the government resign, release detained protesters, and invest in healthcare and schools instead of stadiums for upcoming tournaments.

Zack Polanski shames Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood "Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible" "Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"

Those who have claimed asylum from violence or trafficking or state persecution or war should not be spoken of as lottery winners. Shame on Keir Starmer.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

"the ambiguity of truth demands on migrants can be brought at the heart of the creative process to facilitate the disruption of the dominant politics of in/visibility which marginalize the voices, experiences, lives and rights of #migrants." #creativemethods www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Il y a 25 ans, le 30 septembre 2000, Mohammed al-Dura mourait dans les bras de son père, tué par des balles israéliennes à un carrefour de la bande de #Gaza. Ce père, Jamal al-Dura, vit toujours dans le camp d’Al-Bureij. @mediapart.fr a pu le joindre et l'écouter. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

🗣️« Est-ce qu’on mesure la gravité de ce qui est décrit par le tribunal de Paris ? » Pendant que @fabricearfi.bsky.social explicite les raisons de la lourde condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy, et sa stratégie d’enfumage depuis jeudi, ce bandeau sur BFMTV : « @mediapart.fr, média militant ? » 🙃

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

"the destruction of Gaza – its people and all that sustains it – is not an unintended outcome of an armed conflict but is knowingly and deliberately performed as part of an armed conflict" - Dirk Moses Introduction: Gaza and the Problems of Genocide Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Après saint Louis, c’est au tour de Charles Martel et la bataille de Poitiers d’être racontés par Philippe de Villiers. Un fil avec plein de gros soupirs parce qu’évidemment, il raconte n’importe quoi 1/

Trump says he specifically requested that Sadiq Khan be excluded from the UK state banquet: "On immigration, he's a disaster." As mayor of London, Khan has no powers over immigration.

I wrote about the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show and the media’s capitulation to state censorship. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Oui, Trump décide qu'une idée est terroriste. Et non, ce n'est pas parce qu'il est débile qu'il confond une idée avec une organisation. C'est pour pouvoir qualifier de terroriste tout ce qui l'arrange quand ça l'arrange, et c'est exactement ce qu'on fait ici aussi.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Vous ai-je déjà dit que j'adorais ce slogan datant de la révolution de 1848? "Nul n'a droit au superflu tant que chacun n'a pas le nécessaire" commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nu... Bonne mobilisation à tout le monde.

Un photographe a pris ce cliché en janvier 2024 sans savoir qu'elle deviendrait l'illustration PARFAITE d'un sujet publié presque deux ans après, chapeau bas l'artiste.

I've written a piece about the bomber's view of the past: how aerial archaeologists of the Middle East have looked at the region's past through the eyes (and lenses) of people who bomb it in the present. In fact they're sometimes the same people. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Laurino August 2025 #tripleexposure #filmphotography #cilento

Professors can no longer talk about “gender”—but it’s fine to lust after, objectify, and exploit pre-pubescent and underage girls in Trump’s America.

Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social