Leo Bombayage 🇿🇦 In my 1st year of uni, I was unhappy, overwhelmed & felt inadequate. I went to him for advice (he was my academic advisor!) & instead of support he suggested that HE wasn’t for me. I changed course the next year to Geography at Durham where I had the BEST time with supportive academics

'Perhaps that's why Jacob Rees-Mogg and Rishi Sunak still talk about Britain as if it were at the head of a global superpower. It is not their children who are getting shorter and they have never stood in line at a food bank.'

/ends

New ✨ The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen U of MN Press, reviewed by Amy Batley. wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgt

Pleased to pass my PhD viva yesterday with no corrections. Many thanks to my examiners Dr Sara Silvestri and Sara Fregonese for their challenging questions and advice for the future. If anyone wants to discuss the long-term urban impacts of terrorism, I'll be in the pub. Cheers!

The Government has apparently drawn up plans to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values.

I do that.

Should I be worried? A thread....

Great to hear Figen Murray OBE update us on the current status of Martyn’s Law, speaking with Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Brendan Cox

This understated Times column is the most sinister thing I have read about civil rights in this country for a very long time.READ IT PLEASE

I know I'm a cynic, but this feels a lot like voter suppression.
electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-list-…

1000s of words have been said in reply to Lineker. It interests me that hardly anyone has looked closely at what terms and phrases were being used in Germany in the 1930s to see if they match (or not) what's said today by Ms Braverman. I offered a list, meant only as a starter.