Finally some good news!

And YES, water needs to be next. It would be a popular move as well.

Where is the global outrage? The calls for arms to stop, for a ceasefire, for a boycott? Anything. We live in a world where lives are dramatically and unapologetically treated with unequal value

Latest from me: Laughing Boy is a new play about Connor Sparrowhawk & the fight for justice after his death in an NHS unit. It's about how ppl with Learning Disabilities & autism are - still - at the frontier of the fight for human rights theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

Happening now: Columbia and Barnard Faculty stand in support of our students Columbia University Barnard College

Alison Winch, Alex Williams and I will be talking to FUTURES Podcast about Hegemony Now at Housman's this Thursday evening. It's free and details are here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hegemony-now….

Goldsmiths Management have already reached close to savings target on Voluntary Severance scheme and hiring freeze - there is no need to sack anyone. No VSS scheme ever made a headline - they seem intent on destroying the institution

📣 What's going on at Goldsmiths?

BBC’s flagship BBC Front Row talks about the crisis at Goldsmiths and other universities across the country - and what's at stake both culturally and economically when you the attack on the arts and humanities. ❗️

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I wrote in 2023 about how Nick Bostrom was at the vanguard of reactionary + deeply flawed thinking on effective altruism at Oxford. Now the centre he led has been closed. Bostrom's next steps will be interesting. i.e. plus ca change...

Jacobin

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Congrats to UofG honorary graduate Jackie Kay as the launch of her new collection 'May Day' approaches.

Delighted that 'Flag Up Scotland Jamaica' is included in the book. This was written to mark the start of our historic partnership with University of the West Indies.

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Reading The Crisis

A new online conversation series advancing Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?

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So looks like calling in the NYPD to arrest over 100 students for peacefully protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in an attempt to silence them has backfired for @columbia. It’s night 3 and these students are making it clear they’re not going anywhere.

What’s happening to openDemocracy is a disaster.

Solidarity Adam Ramsay and everyone else being laid off.

📢Gender and Justice wishes to review new feminist scholarship Details 👇Please RT Prof Jane Monckton Smith OBE Patricia Debney Professor Debbie Ging Heather Flowe Prof Clare McGlynn KC (Hon) Karen Broadhurst, FAcSS Paola Bergallo Marie Segrave Dr. Caroline Mitchell Debarati Sen Michelle M. Dempsey Jo Littler Dr Mary McAuliffe 1/2

❗️This: 'this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. To use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace: you are suffering from intentional systemic understaffing.' contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-p…

16 yrs since my stranger rape. On this year’s solo walk, I got trapped by a herd of cows in a bluebell wood & never reached where I was aiming to go. But that’s ok: you can’t predict every detour. I still enjoyed the flowers. My annual post 👉 huffpost.com/entry/on-the-a…

Not sure another new staff yoga programme is the right institutional response to the crisis in UK HE

So what first attracted you, a billionaire non-dom tax exile, to attack Angela Rayner?

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