Petition: Urge NICE to Reverse Its Decision on the Life-Saving Drug Vorasidenib Please read and think about signing www.change.org/p/urge-nice-...

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour. Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075

As promised…

A writing prompt to distract you for a few minutes from the sadness of what we see around us: “Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul” — Pessoa, 1931

We marched with and for families today to protest the cuts to the ASGSF. It was a really well organised and moving event.The support fund is a lifeline for so many and cutting it does not make economic or moral sense. Thank you @asgsfprotest.bsky.social

fosterwiki.com/prevent-brok... FosterWiki’s Noah’s Campaign is about protecting those vital connections.When we break attachments, we break trust. When we protect them, we hold their future in our hands. Join us. Speak up. Share. #NoahsCampaign #FosterWiki #FosterCare #AttachmentMatters

When the right complains about 'over-diagnosis' they really mean people aren't suffering at all & so don't warrent support. For the left that's disengenious, as people's suffering is real, but rather points to psycho-social problems that over-medicalisation mistreats & ignores.

Just spent 30 mins discussing the metaphysics of the Easter Bunny with a 6-yr old refusing to sleep. Wish I’d done my own personal prolegomena to avoid contradictions in my story, all of which were caught out by said 6-yr old.

One of an expat's unofficial functions is to serve as a cultural interpreter and translator between their countries of origin and their countries of adoption. And I think I'm speaking for all US expats when I say that we are working overtime right now.

Can Mexico build a national care system covering care for children, people with disabilities, the elderly—and the caretakers themselves? This is a great piece by @carinzissis.bsky.social on a regional movement to revalue "care," one that could be yet another LatAm model the US can learn from.

MPs call on government to confirm future of Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund as lack of clarity over vital funding beyond March causes anxiety for thousands edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @jessbrownfullermp.bsky.social

More Than a Memory: Seeing Children in Care as Individuals, Not Numbers bob-lynn.medium.com/more-than-a-... #Empathy #Individuality #Care #Respect #Dignity

Defund the Police never meant Defund the Police, which is why I don't think it was effective. But coverage rarely explained what it did mean (radically reorient policing through new institutions.) By contrast, when Trump says, "We will take Greenland," the media bends over backward to sanitize it.

I happen to think Defund the Police is not good messaging. (I'd have gone with Reimagine Policing.) And the pro-Palestine protests also suffered from messaging that fairly or unfairly got pinned on them. That said, it's revealing whose messaging gets the benefit of "translation" and whose doesn't.

This is why philosophy courses should start with Aristotle and Plato and not Nietzsche…

Going back and telling 4 year old me that the guy who sings 'Brush your tooth' on my cassette tap will, in 33 years, be promoting a full on, and perfectly justified, boycott of American goods

Unpopular option: reality tv (not just The Apprentice) has more to with the rise of Trump than does social media.

Recent PhD in 20th century US history, or planning to defend before Sept 2025? We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/

Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?

fosterwiki.com/dear-team-ar... A foster carer’s urgent plea from the frontline: “Dear Team Around the Child, I write to you as one of the ‘supposed’ team members around the child…” A powerful, anonymous call for change. 📢 #FosterCare #fosterWikiOpinionPiece

Wading through the carnage reports, not sure I mind this one: www.ft.com/content/5800...

Yes, and “constitutional” actually refers to nothing more than a brisk walk after dinner to aid digestion.

Shameless for the Israeli defence minister to call for "freedom of movement" now when, as every human rights organisation will tell you, Israel has massively restricted Gazans' freedom of movement for *decades*, it's one of the principal tools of the occupation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rather than a coup, might we think of this as a massive and voluntary transfer of power into private hands in a fashion likely to make recapturing that power difficult. In a traditional coup, powerholders resist the transfer. Here they have voluntarily signed the documents and bought the popcorn.

So many have written to me today about this poem in the last few days (here in @londonreview.bsky.social )(also in my book To 2040) that I thought I’d post it. Thank you for returning it to my attention. I wrote it two years ago. It already felt scary then… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

On US Corruption, Tariffs, and Political Renewal open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Trump has pissed off ... the Quakers! Yes, you heard correctly. The Quakers have sued Trump’s DHS for allowing ICE raids in places of worship.

Happy birthday, Fr. Louis. #ThomasMerton (1915-68)

Cultivate the art of being alone. Solitude =/= loneliness if you figure out what to do with it. When making major life decisions, pretend you have $10mn in the bank. Hold others to high standards and yourself to higher ones. But be as kind to yourself as you are to others. Time heals a lot.

You all should listen to my friend @nicholasbednar.bsky.social’s interview with @lawfare.bsky.social on Trump’s civil service EOs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Mr Williams…said seeing the children moving on to ‘a more positive life’ was what inspired them to keep going.” www.bbc.com/news/article... #fosterparent #fostercare

“Lines on maps, or historic birthrights, rarely matched up to the language or culture of the people actually living there, and the result was endless and endemic violence, as statesmen redrew the map in blood.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality...

Early in my PhD research, I interviewed a neocon, and few days later, a Democrat about accountability in GWOT. Both gave the same response to my question about the most important source of accountability in curbing the excesses of war: the Inspectors General. (1/3) www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Help Wanted #Inspectorsgeneral

Early in my PhD research, I interviewed a neocon, and few days later, a Democrat about accountability in GWOT. Both gave the same response to my question about the most important source of accountability in curbing the excesses of war: the Inspectors General. (1/3) www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Some of the ladies are getting very round and you know what that means #LambingSeasonIsComing

ALL the U.S. Inspector Generals that Trump just tried to fire are refusing to leave their post (because he does not have the legal right to fire them) and are telling him to get fucked. Brava.

Reminder of what an incredible red king parrots serve 🍅🦜🪶🌿🧪🌏

@christophlane.bsky.social's review of my new book in @psychtoday.bsky.social 'The scale of deception and fraud unearthed is staggering and incendiary' www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

What exactly is oligarchy? And which anti-oligarchic measures have proven effective in the past? New Guardian column.

I confess I was blindsided by the crazy 2017 inaugural so this time I've gone loud on the bingo card

Check out this cool new article by Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten - "Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene," Political Studies (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From "Democracy Dies in Darkness" (liberal outrage) to "Riveting Storytelling for All of America" (normalization of far right), @washingtonpost.com is the perfect case study for democratic erosion.

Skeets would be briquettes.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light, The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Happy New Year. poets.org/poem/memoria...

Socialism: 20th century, iron curtain, totalitarian, internecine squabbling, leftists, college students. Jubilee: tradition, spiritual, community, liberation, forgiveness, celebration, the Lord's favor, literally a party.

This disaster isn't waiting to happen; it's already happening. Five infants have already died of hypothermia in Gaza. Their blood is on our hands | Opinion | @nirhasson.bsky.social

Neil and I think that psychiatric rating scales like PHQ-9 reshape local distress into universal metrics, risking cultural oversights. Explore the critique: www.cambridge.org/core/service... #MentalHealth