📣 THIS SATURDAY - 1-3PM - Downing Street Trump's colonialist plans to grab resources threaten not just Venezuela, but Latin America, Greenland and beyond. Join us outside Downing Street this Saturday to protest againt his military threats and disrespect for international law.

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Agree or disagree with the merits of the operation, you can't help but be in awe of the audacious Al Qaeda operation that brought down two towers in Lower Manhattan.

Happy new year to all of my friends on bsky!

#Israel's political leaders go in for an exceptionally forthright brand of criminality.

'Minns proposes to ban protest marches for up to three months across whole tracts of NSW. The premise of the ban is the scurrilous claim that public opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians is intrinsically a threat to Jewish safety...' michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...

Epstein files appear to show Andrew asking Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

New report from Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem: 'Since October 2023, the Israeli regime has been carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip. It has killed tens of thousands of people, injured hundreds of thousands more, destroyed homes and... ' www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/2...

Bought myself a couple of early Christmas presents

The general strike in Portugal yesterday was massive. Not only was it supported by the majority of people in Portugal, it seems that the majority of workers were actually involved in striking. The Metro in Lisbon was completely shut down, schools, universities, Super Bock in Porto!

The video for the Lullaby single is now out. Beautiful song! - With Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Dan Smith (Bastille) -- all profits to the Together for Palestine fund, which is held by Choose Love. Get it to number 1! youtu.be/G957oaAZwhc?...

Let's make this Christmas number 1

Love > Hate Next year, thousands of us will come together in London to prove it. #Together we can show the far right has no place here. Save the date & join us: togetheralliance.org.uk

Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social Together we need to take on the far right. Togetheralliance.org.uk

Love is greater than hate ❤️ Unity is stronger than division.  Hope is more powerful than fear. Let's stand #together to show what this country is really about. Get ready and join us ⏩ togetheralliance.org.uk @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Hillary Clinton headlined an event run by Trump donor Miriam Adelson's newspaper. There, she blamed TikTok for young people’s "misinformed" views on Israel. The next day, Ro Khanna met US veterans — mobilized in part by social media — who were abducted by Israel as they tried to bring aid to Gaza.

Current reading. Fascinating and very relevant today!

#OtD 13 Nov 1938 American screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg, who was hounded to death by the FBI, was born. She was targeted by COINTELPRO, which planted fake stories leading to the death of her premature baby and then her suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8516...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

You will not see anything better today. Perhaps ever youtu.be/xjENCGyMFsQ?...

Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

The overwhelming vote against the US blockade of #Cuba at the UN General Assembly that takes place every year is a reminder that Washington was taking a highly selective approach to the 'rules based' international order long before Trump came along.

#Israel's #genocide in #Gaza has not simply been focused on the immediate goal of mass killing and destruction but has involved a more systematic effort to eradicate the means of supporting life for years to come.

I'll be getting myself the new Geese album youtu.be/nT43dsYhw0k?...

Pleased to see that there is a new review of Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion out in the journal Reviews in Religion & Theology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Given that the vast majority of people imprisoned in the US do not get a trial it is strange that it is called a 'justice' system at all

Please spread the word: @lexacademic.bsky.social are offering three bursaries (with complimentary proofreading) for graduate students with dyslexia in philosophy, classics, and art history.

Running towards the finish line at the Corrida Nacional dos Professores e da Educação 10k this morning

Thousands demonstrating for Palestine in Lisbon this afternoon - for an end to occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

It is disgraceful that the #NobelPeacePrize was awarded to a lackey of US interests this year but it is beyond inexcusable that it didn't go the a #Palestinian who has defended truth or provided vital services in the face of a relentless #genocide.

Love the new Stereolab single! youtu.be/sJk09xeGf0g?...

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

In Leeds - at the Henry Moore Institute

I like this: youtu.be/w0A1HDdySIs?...

My paper: 'Power - A Surveyable Representation' has been published in the Proceedings of the recent conference of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. It is available here: symposium.alws.at#/article/9e6...

I think it's time to be skeptical of any jobs numbers going forward...

Philosophers are petitioning the APA to issue a statement to "condemn the ongoing atrocities and war crimes against Palestinians" and "express solidarity with Palestinian scholars, intellectuals, and students"

Please sign 'We, the undersigned members of the APA and the wider philosophical community, write to express our dismay and deep disappointment regarding the APA's conspicuous silence concerning the genocide unfolding in Palestine.' docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Probably the best song by one of the best bands of the past fifty years youtu.be/hUkfIdJVf2Y?...

This arrived in the post for me today. I have already read it - it's a great book about religiosity in China and the relationships between racism and religion in the US amongst other things - but it will be good to have as a reference in future.

I have a new article--"On Atheistic Hinges"--coming out in the special issue of Religions on New Work on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

Funny. I would have expected the "Free Speech Union" and the other self-proclaimed defenders of free expression to be all over this. But 🦗🦗🦗 How strange. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...

There are 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. Meanwhile, there are more British billionaires than ever before. I think we should tax the rich to lift children out of poverty. Why is that such a radical idea?

Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Trump is building concentration camps and massively expanding the kidnapping operations carried out by ICE. Republicans are talking openly about genocide within the US while they arm and help the apartheid regime as it carries out genocide.

So this is where we are halfway into 2025.

The current #military spending increases are happening at a particularly damaging time for the #climate. ceobs.org/how-increasi...