I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live. Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The only ideology they have is infinite consumption, and he has affected that, so now they are upset. What they wanted, by the same token, was not free speech but infinite speech - to say what they liked without backlash. And that deserved backlash is upsetting them too. That's basically it.

Any credible future history of the rise of the early c21st UK far right will include a chapter on the crucial process of mainstreaming, in which Goodwin and the rest of the "legitimate concerns" gang will feature prominently. His later journey will be a footnote.

If anything, Goodwin was far more useful to the far right back then than he is now. Wittingly or unwittingly, he acted as a plausibly authoritative outrider, mainstreaming their "concerns" and undermining the norms that had kept them marginalised until then.

To what extent is it radicalisation and to what extent is it his real self being revealed? I suspect it's both. Ten years ago he was whitewashing racism as the legitimate concerns of the downtrodden and deriding anti-racists as a cosmopolitan elite. These were not exactly small red flags.

One my favourite thinkers, who also happens to be one of my favourite human beings, and whose writing, podcasting and documentary-making never fails to inspire and energize. Your department, your project, your crew would undoubtably benefit from having Elia onboard!

Palestine 🇵🇸 Eric Cantona voiced support for Palestinian refugees by backing Lajee Celtic Club from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. He appeared on Instagram wearing the club’s shirt, endorsing a Celtic fan campaign in Scotland raising funds for the team.

"For the right, this crackdown wasn’t a sign of the excesses of the Cold War but rather the proper role of government: to police public life to make sure it conformed to conservative values" The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left @pastpunditry.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

"Conor called for a return to compassion as the core normative impulse of human rights movements – not compassion as charity or benevolence, but as a commitment to a radical empathy and to justice. For Conor, human rights were rooted in a radical universalism, premised upon an equal humanity."

Chez France Travail, l’agence européenne chargée du contrôle aux frontières Frontex, promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter des « jeunes hommes » ⬇️ www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

It was trivially easy to predict that the Starmer government's belated condemnation of far right criminality last weekend would be quickly followed by even more intensive pandering to the far right's politics. Its who they are. They won't change www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Imagine what he'll do when he finds out that a senior politician stoked racism and struck fear into the heart of black and brown Britons by giving a speech about immigration where he said that Britain risked becoming "an island of strangers."

2/ The far right deals in fear because they cannot compete with the solidarity we embody every day. Do not mistake their noise for strength. They shout for cameras; we organise for a better future for everyone. Let’s look after each other, and remember, our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders

Solidarity is not a slogan; it is a practice. Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️

"We're going to go after the NGO Networks" JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.

On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born. (My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Also a kind reminder that the CEO of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, the grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists. Louis is of course friends with Peter Thiel. Labour gave Palantir UK hundreds of millions of pounds and access to our NHS data.

Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.

I'm genuinely grateful for the solidarity, irrespective of how rare this is from a politician. But fascism can't be reduced to displaced economic concerns. It doesn't stand up analytically, it won't help politically or strategically, and I really wish the left (of which I'm part) wouldn't do this.

United! Top of the league! UNITED, UNITED top of the league 🇾🇪

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty. Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable. A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.

Violences sexuelles : La France est de nouveau condamnée par la CEDH. En raison des « lacunes du cadre juridique » & des défaillances dans le processus judiciaire. Et d'une « victimisation secondaire ». Point crucial : L'emprise & le « contrôle coercitif » sont ici reconnus. => bit.ly/47nfYh5

📢 Our statement on the Home Secretary's suspension of refugee family reunion applications 👇

Until now, family reunion has been one of the only safe and legal routes available that allows refugees fleeing war and persecution to be reunited with their partner and children. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How much substantive distance is there between this and Farage's widely-condemned 2014 "concern" about Romanians next door? Sivanandan's aphorism, sadly, remains pertinent but probably needs an update tbh. "What Enoch Powell says today, the Tories says tomorrow & Labour legislates the day after."

« À la place, Israël a construit des espaces nouveaux pour la distribution de nourriture qui sont en réalité des trappes de la mort [...] L’architecture est un très bon cadre pour analyser le génocide car elle est basée, elle aussi, sur une intention. » www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Today, Global Voices joins with @rsf.org Avaaz and other media outlets to condemn the killing of journalists in #Gaza. Together, we call on the Israeli authorities to allow independent access for international press into Gaza immediately. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza

And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.

People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No, with respect, the buck stops with him. He's the leader. Not McSweeney, not the comms guy. He sets the strategy, tone and values. He is responsible. Either Starmer and his whole crew are ousted and are replaced by something very different or its Vichy Labour from here until doomsday.

The Prime Minister's X feed currently looks like an advertising platform for Reform's messaging. Distinctly aggressive dog whistles with highly racialised imagery designed to dehumanise and demonise people, and ignores protections guaranteed under international law into the bargain.

Refugee charities receiving death threats from far right www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When former leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley, spoke at a debate about apartheid South Africa at Cambridge University in 1960, he was hit in the face with a green jelly by a protesting student. hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/w...

This report from the Helen Bamber Foundation is good on the conditions faced by refugees — conditions that often retraumatise people who have faced extremely traumatic experiences already. See also the work of @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social in Newham.

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

Amnesty International estime qu'Israël mène une campagne de «famine délibérée» à Gaza

"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning. But that time is over." www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

Over the past few years my relationship with football has become more and more complicated and though my passion for my club is unwavering, my interest in the wider sport has waned. Stadio has almost single-handedly helped me rediscover connection with the game I love. So excited for this new era!

“The man Meta has appointed to help address "ideological and political bias" in artificial intelligence is a conservative influencer who believes that pesticide turns children LGBTQ+ and that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Matthew Perry's death.” www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Cette nouvelle affaire vient s'ajouter aux multiples autres déjà pendantes contre la France devant la CEDH sur le traitement judiciaire du viol & la victimisation secondaire. Et fait écho à une récente & inédite condamnation de la France en avril dernier, pour ces mêmes motifs :