Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/jamaican-m...

There are so many Radins in this world and those we killed. The children are all ours: Iranian, Palestinian, Sudanese, Congolese … they all deserve to live without wars.

Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway. https://capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heights-water-crisis-sewage-tap-water/

Thread on settler nationalist violence in the West Bank, how it disrupts deep-routed ecological-cultural systems, and the role that co-resistance – literal standing together – can play in challenging it.

In the weeks prior to her death, Amisha wrote this.

Why are colonial histories often sidelined in our understanding of the modern world? Join us on 27 May with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social & Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Part of our Conversation Series. Free & online! 🔗 buff.ly/lTcfQjW

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My #KilljoySolidarity with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I’m lecturing on mourning and melancholia to my honours’ students this week and in the midst of writing my lecture I read Haley Mlotek’s essay in @thenation.com on Duras and on grief www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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

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...

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

“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...

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.