Maybe sit this one out, Nige

Remember folks though, if you criticise the elite, that makes you a mean "populist" and in today's understanding, that makes the equivalent of Trump, Farage etc Seriously though, as much as I want to move on, I keep being brought back to populist hype as a key factor in the resurgence of fascism

A useful reminder that Mandelson resigned rather than being summarily bundled out. What does that say about Labour? Make of it what you will

Streeting says the PM is going for max transparency & will publish everything on Mandelsons appointment as ambassador, but then adds they will not release any info that [they say] compromises national security or undermine relations with other countries So not transparent at all

Also note the silence of Imperial/White Feminists who spend their lives harassing trans women, women of colour, and clamouring for bombing countries ‘over there’ to save ‘those’ women. NOT a word! #epstein #connectthedots

Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

Yes! Connecting everything is the dehumanisation running through the core of it all. As Judith Butler wrote in Frames of War, "nly under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters."

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Reading A Perfect Harmony and there's a ref to the Natya Shastra. "Oh, I've heard about that!" @gregjenner.bsky.social @profsunnysingh.bsky.social

Of course the elite who harm women and children for fun also plan and execute heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity including genocides at unimaginable scales for their day jobs! We must connect the dots on how personal and political are inextricable. #Epstein

Review of the powerful book REFUGE Stories of War (and Love) by @profsunnysingh.bsky.social www.thehindu.com/books/book-r... @wearefootnote.bsky.social

“Emanating from areas tethered to violence, these are narratives of the past century that thrum with prophetic urgency.” Thank you to The Hindu for this wonderful review of my collection #Refuge: Stories of War (and Love): www.thehindu.com/books/book-r...

Grandkid: what did you do in 2026? This person: I fought to not call the concentration camps “concentration camps”

All liberation work is risky work. The Empire will not only not reward us but punish us for it. Especially if we refuse to be coopted. We work to pull it down any way!

Crude calculation, based on these figures - presumably Gross Value Added, which doesn't deduct wages. In the creative industries, then, the rate of output to people to pay is 50,000. In AI, it's around 130,000. That's a lot more profit per job. That's what this is about.

I highly recommend this. There is so much in here I’m not sure what to draw your attention to in particular. Writing. Teaching. Activism.

“the Empire will not reward you for pulling it down. Let’s not pretend that we’re going to get pats on our backs and tea and cakes…” Thanks Words of Colour for this very candid interview about writing, Jhalak Prize and more wordsofcolour.co.uk/spotlight-in...

Kids are protesting and begging for freedom in Dilley, TX at an ICE detention center. Kids. Liam Ramos was sent here. These are children screaming for freedom.

“Every aspect of my work focuses on overturning and undoing as many of the structures we have inherited as possible.” - thanks @WordsofColour @MsJoyFrancis for this frank convo: wordsofcolour.co.uk/spotlight-in...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

On the anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, I discuss its legacy and the impetus for my forthcoming book, Counterrevolution in Egypt. @versobooks.bsky.social

This clip (with English subtitles, so everyone can get the goosebumps too) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a77...

Message to UK Labour. Not that they would listen

Is anyone in UK Labour listening?

senate democratic leaders, including mark warner, joined house republican leaders just before the 2024 election to vastly expand the government's wiretap powers. they also fought against efforts to require the FBI to get a warrant before searching those wiretaps for information about americans.

My neighbor, a single mother of two in South Minneapolis, was abducted today and everything about it is heartbreaking. There is an immediate (and steep) financial need for lawyer costs. I know there are so, so many of these right now, but please consider this dear family: gofund.me/9516b14f7

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

The Sesame Street account posted some tips for talking to your kids. If you’re a parent even to grown kids, Lordy please check in on them. www.instagram.com/p/DT_kWPtDHy...

“Long before ‘CRT’ became the favored rhetorical weapon used to silence objective critiques […] Derrick Bell was telling a quieter, sharper story: progress arrives, recedes, and leaves a bill someone else must pay.” Read the full story at www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/26/d...

Nothing about the rumors of benching Bovino should distract from the atrocities committed and being committed and for which they want more money. A potential middle management change will not end the extra legal violence this regime authorizes every day it will only reduce the visibility.

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

I need New York to meet him outside and have the reckonings about race and class politics in this city . We watched Bowman get bounced for being pro Palestine from the center , and Jeffries stopped from being primaried from the left This can not continue

With where #ICE and #CBP is currently deployed and creating absolute chaos — Maine and Minnesota: I can’t help but think that there just may be some element of a “show of force” display at work, given that: 1/4

It’s good that Bovino is out and the administration is publicly backpedaling BUT this happened today (and probably many more, too).

A reminder that racist historian David Starkey, said in 2020: "Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived." He's speaking at this year's How The Light Gets In festival.

🔴NEW: The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab confirms a sharp escalation of civilian harm & displacement in El Obeid, North Kordofan, based on satellite imagery & open-source reporting from early Jan. 2026. Analysts identified nearly 800 newly erected tents at an IDP camp...

We are quickly coming up on 50,000 whistles shipped so far in January, and I am just forever impressed by the passion of the folks who have joined forces with us! A reminder that if you know anyone who needs whistles, they can email the address at the top of our linktree! linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

If you don’t think we’re in a civil war . You aren’t qualified to speak

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

For Freedom by Engineer Hassan Abdel Hamid He was forcibly disappeared for about two months, from November 2019 to January 2020, and was subjected to torture.

He suffers from chronic diseases, in addition to being injured in a car accident in 1997, which caused him cracks and fractures, and the installation of plates and screws in various places in his body. #FreeThemAll #Egyptian_hell @douglasyardley @iainbyrn @profsunnysingh.bsky.social

Offline to heal amongst familiar spaces and rituals: preparing #paan with home grown, freshly cut betel leaves, filling still stored in a familiar, battered paan ka dabaa so old that dad says it’s Baba Adam ke zamaney ka (from the time of Adam);

“Hope. Humanity. Dignity. Peace. They have been in short supply in #Gaza, the #WestBank and the rest of the region for too long. As 2026 begins, I wish these values will find their meaning for #Palestine Refugees and anyone impacted by conflict.” - UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

On this new year’s eve, as the imperial monster continues to wreak devastation, I am finding comfort in N.S. Nuseibeh, winner of the Jhalak Prose Prize 2025, especially of the aubergines grown in Batyr.

Raj, the shopkeeper, doesn't have a surname, because why bother drawing out a proper character? He short changes customers and sells out of date food. Because that's what all shopkeepers hailing from the Indian subcontinent do, right?

Won't actualty share The Daily Mail. But it seems writers at The Sun were told to drop stories about Walliams' conduct with women because both HarperCollins is owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsUK. Women were warned to work 'in pairs' when dealing with Walliams. Archive link: archive.ph/2025.12.20-0...

Harper Collins denied Miss Tutelage is a black woman, mocked for her hair, and called Desmond Tutu by a bully. Have a look at two illustrations: what would you say her race is?