#stvleadersdebate All men. Even the host is male. We did so well in a Scotland for so long with several female leaders in various parties. So it’s very disappointing to watch 7 men, all but one white, argue over power and status. #patriarchy

So JB protests against scientific censorship, that he can’t evidence to the court actually happened to him, continues to complain about suppression of science regarding vaccine efficacy, and then appears to censor a scientific article which concerns vaccine efficacy findings? Sounds about right 🤦🏻‍♀️

It’s quite literally unbelievable that this man is leading US public health. He is a rampant conspiracy theorist who is endangering children’s lives to satisfy his own ideological beliefs. It’s indicative of just how broken the system is when cranks like RFK Jr are given unfettered access to power.

I went to the Isle of Bute this weekend. A tiny island, they housed 125 Syrian asylum seekers and were better for it. Those displaced people built businesses, and bonds with with community despite hardship, disconnect, cultural a difference and trauma. #reform stick that right up ye.

Really tough being vegan and missing out on so much tasty food… Just some guac with arbol chilli on rye with che*se, red onion, tomato, cress, and a Dijon mustard vinaigrette… #vegan #crueltyfreefood #brunch

Brainwashing isn’t a thing. No one coerced him. People are, however, motivated to believe someone like Farage if it aligns with their own views. Brainwashing implies we are passive agents. And we’re not, we have agency and we are not powerless to resist.

Spicy vegan protein banger brunch. Hash browns, sausages, smoked tofu, sautéed pepper and onion with paprika Our dogs look pretty interested, it’s almost like vegan alternatives can be amazingly tasty too… #vegan #veganbrunch #veganfortheanimals

I’m increasingly convinced this was the playbook. Tapping into the religious fervour of many Americans. Giving them voice and appearing to enshrine the same values. And they believed it. They believed he was really God fearing. Because they wanted to, not because there was a shred of evidence.

Windfall profits should be taxed. Profiteering from War and destruction is egregious. Our farmers may run out of CO2 which means they won’t be able to gas their pigs and chickens to death. Also utterly egregious. Every cloud… www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just submitted my first ever single author paper on a subject I’m wildly passionate about: misogyny in education. It isn’t a level playing field in science. It isn’t a level playing field in society. There are great actors for change in both domains. But it is not equal. It is not fair. #stem

Here I am worrying about how best to teach my undergraduate students to think critically, to analyse their sources, to read, to investigate, and to develop into pro social, psychologically literate citizens who can change the World, and yet here is also the President of the United States…

To be hounded in this way is horrific, but indicative of some progress perhaps in that lessons were learned from the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia and that there is significant resistance albeit contested and, in this case, actively persecuted. Let that sink in: For highlighting egregious harms.

Not content with being King of America. He’s now also apparently their saviour and blessEd redeemer. Once that ‘liberal’ Pope bows the knee to him, it can all be his. And still he proceeds unchecked. The ‘greatest’ democracy in the World crumbled by a demagogue who demonises sense and ration.

Plot twist: He conceded. Even the backing of Trump and Putin, 2 of the most powerful men in the World, didn’t secure victory, not when the people turned out in droves to exercise their right to choose. Louder for those at the back, you gotta vote if you want change. Oh and don’t invite Vance…

What happens in the White House if ‘their’ guy Victor Orban is defeated? The ultra-right will claim the election was rigged; and then use it as pressing evidence they need to ensure they can rig their own elections.

Oligarchs and plutocrats. Same as it ever was. We’re still being convinced to place our faith in leaders who are either siphoning wealth for themselves. Or enabling the wealth of other elites. Or both. Heaven help anyone stands for office who isn’t a billionaire’s puppet. The media destroys them.

How my celebrations started at finally submitting my 32 page senior fellowship application. And how they are going…

Well this brings a whole new meaning to the narcissism arc. Just a reminder: exaggerated sense of self, reduced ability to empathise or understand the feelings of others, fragile self esteem coupled with arrogance. Grandiosity, entitlement… Any thoughts?

Let’s not do this. Not to tofu - the food of the vegan Gods 🌱 The cutesy acronyms: TACO, TOFU they minimise what he does and the horrors he is inflicting. Let’s call it what it is - fascism and threatening genocide - because he tore up Obama’s working deal and thought he could bomb it his own way.

Tell you what though: Those bureaucrats or ‘Eurocrats’ in the EU tend not to invade other countries illegally, target educational, medical, and civilian institutions, commit egregious war crimes, or suck up to plutocrats and dictators. So yeah. If I had to choose… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check on any flerfers you know. They are not ok. The images from the Artemis mission are incredible. And decidedly spherical.

Even Grok would struggle to make this up! ‘President of the Free World’, King Trump, cursing and threatening destruction because he’s not getting his own way. Iran are playing him like a fiddle. If it wasn’t horrifying in so many ways it would be amusing. But this is terrifyingly unfunny.

Earlier I posted👇 One guy, with whom I agreed, blocked me, possibly because I replied that my post wasn’t about skin colour, but about misdirection of the politically disengenous Farage. Another was exercised because I didn’t want to provide statistics etc on a topic of HIS choice… #notallmen

It’s much the same in the UK with Farage: Only one in five of his voters have a university degree, and one third have a household income of £25k. Farage attracts people who don’t have lavish lives and are motivated to take his direction on whom to blame. They feel ‘heard’ and ‘seen’ and love him.

I made ma’amoul biscuits. These are made throughout the Middle East by Muslims, Christians, and Jewish folks. Imagine. A biscuit finding that which unites us and not that which unties us… #vegan #lovenotwar #celebratedifference #ma’amoul

There is absolutely no way the King of the United Kingdom should be wining and dining with the war-mongering, custard-filled, cretin whose second term was largely engineered by a power hungry, diversity slashing, chainsaw wielding tech bro. Why are we humouring him as if he is worthy of state?

When Reform show you who they are. We should listen: Nazi salutes, slurs on Chinese people, dodgy business dealings, Tommy Robinson praise, and other blatantly racist commentary. It’s almost like this is who Reform are, whom they attract, and how low quality their candidates are…

I’ve only just seen this: imagine wishing harm for any child based on which imaginary sky man is best. Which is ultimately what underpins the division; the disputes over sacred lands, between Israel and the surrounding Arab states, if not causing it directly. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

This is a powerful read, bringing together the influence of billionaires and tech bros in determining the political and ideological beliefs of young men. Their aim is to ensure they channel their valid frustrations and rage at inequality at their express bidding. open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...

Honouring the mothers on my life this morning. My own mother. My mother in law, my girls’ Godmother. All vegan. All homemade with love. All my original recipe: Vanilla and cinnamon granola Miso mushrooms and garlic cannellini paste on toast Pistachio spread bagels with chocolate and fruit 🌱

Watched Louis Theroux’s manosphere. Probably says a lot about my exposure to online misogyny/inceldom that I found it relatively tame. The ‘influencers’ were so ridiculously threatened by women that they needed to control/exploit them. As Greta Thunberg famously put it, lotta “small dick energy…”

It all plays back into Putin’s hands. Trump is little more than his puppet; whether directly or indirectly. Putin’s outmanoeuvred the US at every step. Whatever you think of the man and his regime. They’ve got it all sewn up. Acts of a clever, power hungry, ruthless tyrant: Heinous not genius.

Wonderful to read about Balthazar. Thanks for sharing some good news to punctuate the doom scrolling!

I don’t want to think this could be true. But it checks out given every other egregious harm inflicted on innocent, vulnerable children. They’re being attacked home and abroad. Why home you ask? Well, they can’t vote right, so why not eh? As long as they can be prevented from getting vaccinated?

Capitalism needs wars. It really doesn’t need to feed or care for the vulnerable. The sooner people voting for any shade of zealot realise this: the better. Violence is never the answer.

Thank goodness we sided with Spain on this one. Would do many of the Trump sycophants good to see how quickly he unleashes his rage when he doesn’t get what he wants: and then insists he can do it anyway.

Making reflexivity central to my teaching practice has enriched my experience, and I hope, that if my students. With this paper, I can now explain to them more succinctly why it matters for their education.

When you cut off their heads, another one grows instead. Violence is never the answer.

In happier news, it’s St David’s Day - famously a vegetarian - here’s some of what we’ve been eating lately in celebration 🌱 Tabbouleh soup and fresh veg with flatbreads Bean chilli with pico de gallo Creamy tahini dressed salad with crispy pitta fingers Mexican nourish bowl with avocado crema

It’s a special sort of evil person that bets on bombs falling. And a special sort of evil administration which permits profiteering from acts of War. Let’s face it; that administration is probably where the bets originated… Stop the World, I want to get off.

“The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health, or science, while he remains at the helm.” The Lancet telling it like it is since an anti-science, anti-vaxxer was appointed. #RFK #Trump www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Pulling a Trump “they stole the election” really isn’t a good look. Reform’s policies attack their working class base. All it took was a dedicated local campaign pointing that out to the voters and signalling that the Greens were in fact a better fit for those voters. Well done to Hannah Spencer.

I have a plan for the UK going forward: let’s just not give jobs to people purely on account of the family into which they were born. Sound reasonable?

Let’s also remember that, by mass, only 2% of all land mammals are wild. Change is inevitable. And it is critical for the survival of wildlife. Them’s the facts folks. We are not currently adequately feeding the global population, partly because we’re feeding unnecessary livestock. #govegan

Are you, or do you know an autistic adult who might be able to help us by completing this survey? It’s the final study for my lovely PhD student Sarah. Many thanks in advance

This the same lot that also claim scrapping the Equalities Act will benefit working class white boys who are being disenfranchised and denied opportunities? Reform with policies that literally contradict themselves. Poundshop Trump and his MAGA-lite wannabes really are the lowest of the low.

It beggars (pun intended) belief that in 2026, there persists any sort of ‘Royal’ immunity to wrongdoing. Being born into aristocracy should not still be conveying privilege. We’ve surely moved beyond swearing feudal fealty. #epstein #epsteinfiles www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

One more time, if ‘we’ want to apportion blame for lack of opportunities or the squeeze on public services; we can look directly to tax avoiding billionaires. When they protect their own wealth while telling ‘us’ whom to scapegoat - they’re using the classic tactic of keeping ‘us’ divided.

Louder for those at the back…

More hypocritical and tone deaf comms from Homeland Security desperately trying to convince ‘everyone’ that the ‘real’ and present threat to women and children is immigrants, not the so-called elite friends of their President. www.dhs.gov/news/2026/02...