A 'patriotic renewal' tells you everything you need to know - the scoundrels are scrabbling
09.03.2026 09:42
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A 'patriotic renewal' tells you everything you need to know - the scoundrels are scrabbling
On International Women's Day, broaden your feminist horizons with reading that is anticapitalist, abolitionist, antiracist, as well as full of rage and defiance.
Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"
We need to focus more on listening to voices from Iran - Naghmeh Sohrabi is working to platform those. Follow on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/naghmehs...
"What role should academics play in a world that is falling apart?" Creative thinking. Truth. Hope. Academics have a vital task in the building of new and better human worlds. We must not betray it, despite attacks on every side. We must work while the light lasts.
folukeafrica.com/academics-as...
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
So this corrupt bastard with multiple houses overseas has his passport returned to him and is released from bail, while young actionists are kept imprisoned without bail for years?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Tickell should've stuck to slaying the neoliberal beast when he had the chance
UK accused of 'collective punishment' over Sudanese students ban - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-accused-collective-punishment-over-sudanese-students-ban
"Protecting the right to speak, assemble, and challenge power is not optional. It is the cornerstone of a free society."
WTF?
Remind me, who calls themselves the Land of the Free? Guns, yes. Plato, no, apparently 🤷🏾♀️
Call for Papers for "Ninety Years Since the Spanish Civil War: Experiences, Memories, Concepts (1936–2026)" Conference, Swiss Social Archives, Zurich, 19–20 November 2026.
Call for Papers for "Ninety Years Since the Spanish Civil War: Experiences, Memories, Concepts (1936–2026)" Conference, Swiss Social Archives, Zurich, 19–20 November 2026. Page two, including key themes: Possible topics include but are not limited to: • Conceptual (re)considerations: “Spanish Civil War” versus “Guerre d’Espagne” • Conservative entanglements and networks of support or aid • The war as a training ground for fascist and anti-fascist forces prior to the Second World War • Politics, public debate, taboos, and commemoration in post-war Switzerland • Politics, public debate, taboos, and commemoration in post-war Europe and beyond • The war in the arts and popular culture
CfP from the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich for the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak - an especial focus on the conflict's legacy and memory, and its place within wider histories. Looks great!
Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary
This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
Next week! #Identities online event, in collaboration with Stuart Hall Archive Project at University of Birmingham
The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Stuart Hall Foundation @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgcp.bsky.social
I had to punch you because my friend was about to punch you and you might have punched back and hit me by accident.
#JustWar
Are Badenoch and Mahmood having a self-hate (dance) off today or what?
...Director Göran Hugo Olsson explains why he was unsure he was the right person to make the film and how he hopes the documentary will provide audiences with tools for combating oppression, rather than merely displaying suffering"
"Based on Martinique-born philosopher Frantz Fanon's book about decolonisation, The Wretched of the Earth, and narrated by ex-Fugee Lauryn Hill, Concerning Violence explores Fanon's view that breaking free of colonial rule inevitably involves violent upheaval...
Our first screening of the year, at Haringey Community Cinema, takes place today. We are screening Concerning Violence (2014)
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.
And of course the tragedy is that those most vulnerable in Gulf societies are migrant workers from Global South countries whose explored labour is vital to sustaining "expat" comfort, security and luxury. Three migrant workers from the Indian subcontinent have been killed in UAE by Iranian attacks.
The Home Secretary's decision, without any attempt at consultation or oversight, to limit refugees to 30 months in the UK before having to have their claims re-confirmed is a cruel, inhumane, and ultimately unworkable policy. The Home Secretary has claimed it is necessary to tackle "legitimate grievances". There is nothing legitimate about denying those fleeing war and persecution the ability to rebuild their lives. There is nothing legitimate about leaving them in limbo, increasing the stress and trauma they are already going through, and reinforcing hostility and racism against them. People seeking asylum often already have to wait years for their claims to be heard. Increasing the number of cases which the Home Office deals with is obviously never going to be feasible. The Home Secretary knows this. That is why she has pushed this through via the backdoor without any consultation. Instead of trying to grab headlines to appear "tough", this government needs to be ensuring that those who come here seeking safety are able to receive it faster, and more effectively. This latest PR stunt from the Home Office runs counter to any practical measures which are needed.
We are disgusted by the latest cruel and inhumane anti-asylum policy announced by the Home Secretary. Limiting refugees to 30 months before needing to re-apply undermines their ability to rebuild their lives, to feel safe and secure, all while increasing Home Office bureaucracy and costs.
The only way brown politicians think they can be electable/climb the career ladder - and perhaps they're right but have some shame please
You know what else is real? The resentment of immigrants such as myself, who fled nations ruled by tyrants, got our UK visas, did everything the UK government asked us to do, and are now being told we have to wait twice as long to get ILR, if we can get it at all. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
She is a disgrace
As a colonial legal historian, co-signed. We don't like your leaders so we're going to kill/kidnap/depose them for your sake; you can have a new leader, as a treat, but only if we like them (sotto voce: and they'll do what they're told).
