Are the British national media planning to tell the public at all that Israel already possesses nuclear arms❓ www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...

Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen

"Students, academics and teachers (336 incidents) appeared most frequently on the index as targets of repression, followed by activists and organisers (229)" Such a shameful era for universities share.google/RQGjQGIAMird...

Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva, who was unlawfully detained by ICE earlier today, says she is “safe and okay”

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”

I don’t usually cross the steams of my academic and musical lives - but just so sickened by the sexual exploitation and misogyny of powerful and degenerate elites and their rotten tech bro empires - Funk the Patriarchy II 8th March, Glad Cafe www.instagram.com/reel/DU-_VWQ...

Great statement from UCL Jews for Palestinian Justice on the provost's bizarre attempt to take credit for the Palestine encampment (when UCL actually tops the table for disciplining students and repressing activism on campus) www.instagram.com/p/DU8vh85jpC...

Publication day!! Thank you to @thesociologicalreview.org who awarded me the fellowship to turn my thesis into a monograph with @policypress.bsky.social

“Social struggles and oppressions are not abstract concepts: they usually emerge from our daily lives and often find us before we go looking for them.” Editors Iris Pissaride and Juliette Wilson-Thomas introduce our Magazine’s February issue. buff.ly/zMo9aU6

Join us on the 26th March!

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

www.instagram.com/p/DUswuVQjVF... CWU members at Google Deepmimd took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. They were joined by academics from UCL demanding their university divest from Google.

“Classroom teachers are no longer just educators; we’re therapists, crisis responders and case managers, all while trying to meet academic benchmarks.” In the February issue of the Magazine, former teacher Iza Munir Hamdani shares her experience of burnout. buff.ly/B76M3Xa

I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

As a child, I read LORD OF THE FLIES: never doubting that it reflected actual human nature. Turns out it actually didn't. www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

Such an important initiative.

Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate

This is so grim and it happening under a so-called Labour government is unforgivable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This tragedy is going to become a big story. Coast guard ramming a migrant vessel, whether by policy or recklessness, amounts to summary execution of migrants

We’re happy to share that Dr Brenda Herbert, Sociological Review Fellow 2024–25, is publishing her book The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse on 19 Feb 2026! Book launch on 12 March at UCL: buff.ly/SOu9LnC

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

ICE has kidnapped another indigenous person

28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie. 🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam 📅 Online 1-2pm ➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx

UPCOMING TRAINING WORKSHOPS All my training workshops are just 2 ½ hours long and very reasonably priced. They are online, informal, and encourage interaction among participants. Workshops usually draw from my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone, Policy Press, 2025. These workshops…

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Gopal described Israel’s actions in Gaza as...“a genocidal conjuncture,” questioning the muted response of Global South countries and blocs such as BRICS.' Was privileged to give this keynote in Lagos, Nigeria. Always speak of Gaza when talking 'colonialism' pmnewsnigeria.com/2026/01/06/r...

Health concerns grow for Palestine Action hunger strikers www.channel4.com/news/health-...

Palestine Action’s Muraisi ‘has no other choice’ but to hunger strike says friend www.channel4.com/news/palesti...

Heba Muraisi is on day 69 of her hunger strike. Kamran Ahmed is on day 62 of his hunger strike. They are at risk of dying at any moment. This is a political choice by Keir Starmer’s Labour government. Immediate bail for remand prisoners NOW.

Umberto Eco’s essay ‘Ur Fascism’ seems more relevant - Ur or eternal fascism in 14 key features, and one is enough for hate to coagulate around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0u...

This is going to be a great night in Glasgow for International Women’s Day raising money for Scottish Women’s Aid www.thegladcafe.co.uk/events/2026-...

Eleven Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...

If John Pilger was around today, he'd have a lot to say about the Venezuela situation.

In case anyone wants to do some reading Saeed, Raza. "‘So, what’s wrong with colonialism?’ – Understanding colonialism’s political, territorial and epistemic injustice." International Journal of Law in Context 21, no. 1 (2025): 99-117.

No degree of expertise on colonialism & colonial extraction will convince white folks/countries that they're huge beneficiaries of that plunder & of the systems they put in place & 'continue' to benefit from it. Nevertheless, we must make the point & repeat it in the hope that the point gets across!

Growing numbers of over-60s Britons facing homelessness. Low wages/benefits. State pension is low. No curbs on profiteering. Real cuts in council funding for years. Lack of social housing. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Misery and premature death is a political choice.

They bombed apartment buildings in Caracas Every time I see the photos I’m just … stuck on this www.instagram.com/p/DTGYfl1DlQ...

While the US has a history of such actions - in and beyond the South and Central America (see School of the Americas and War on Terror at least) - it has rarely been so brazen, transparent and without fake appeals to the constitution and international law. 1/ www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

At the height of the British Empire, the conditions of the British Working-Class were atrocious with the riches of Empire going to the Aristocracy Those in the American Working-Class cheering Trump/Musk should read history & realize that the Wealth plundered from Venezuela won't be going to them

Send this to anyone in your life who pretends this is about defending Venezuelan democracy or whatever

New issue of Kohl - queer (non)futures kohljournal.press/issue-11-3

Reform and the Tories must be outraged by the two tier health system. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

In the 6th largest economy, 103000 people died in poverty in 2024. 120,000 died in fuel poverty, couldn't afford adequate heating. Ethnic minorities, pensioners, single working age adults more likely to die in poverty. Poverty and death sentence is a political choice as govts appease the rich.