This Stephen Lawrence day, we're reflecting in the context of three separate incidents.

Reported on in the last 24 hours, together they show why police forces across the UK are not fit for purpose, even on their own terms.

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Join InterAct online for a re-introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis as a primarily
sociological and ethnomethodological attention to 'culture-in-action' with Rob Smith 12 April at 13.00 SAST. 📌Register here: forms.office.com/r/zHpPj4KuDt

From brain imaging data, practically nothing can be deduced about the psychological state of a particular person. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

💫💃🏻PUBLICATION DAY💫💃🏻

I’m so thrilled that @noonetalksaboutthisstuff is out today & available in bookshops! Huge thanks to Kat Brown Unbound for giving me the opportunity to contribute an essay.

#noonetalksaboutthisstuff

In San Diego for the Pacific Sociological Association. I'm speaking on a panel on qualitative methods across disciplines.

Tomorrow (13 March), there will be an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians on Physician Associates. We called this meeting because of concerns about patient safety. Please read and circulate our STATEMENT OF CONCERN about how the EGM is being set up.

Sickening end. No way Ngannou should have been allowed to continue after the second knockdown. No more putting MMA fighters in with champions. They need to work through the rankings like any other fighter. Someone is going to get killed. #JoshuaNgannou

This week's Private Eye

Has anyone else noticed the further recalibration of Liz Truss's voice. She'd gone to some effort to sound Thatcher-adjacent when running for leader. As she pursues the role of Bannonesque fascist she's exchanged the Thatcher-lite for an attempt to sound more 'of-the-people'

I turned 10 years old in 1979. One of the things this means, is that I still get a nagging feeling that I am betraying someone or have failed to understand something of profound significance when I have a morning like today's, where I listen to Pink Floyd AND the Sex Pistols.

Error-filled & scrappy from England. An absence of leadership & too many handling errors. No excuses, they were perfect conditions for running rugby. Only positive for England is that when he came on Feyi-Waboso showed enough to indicate he should start next week. #SCOvENG

Came here to say that if England play like this next week Ireland will dismantle them, but then Scotland seem to be doing so this week. Any of the haters ready to admit England miss Owen Farrell yet? #SCOvENG

Everything there is to know about the ongoing dehumanisation,commodification,instrumentalisation, manipulation of human beings that are seen as anything other than human beings is laid bare in front of you in this very tweet. Ignore it at your peril. It's not about to get better.

Just finished Peter Apps' Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen.
Incredibly powerful & genuinely essential reading.

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I'm really quite sad about #JPR Williams' death. Despite me growing up in Yorkshire, JPR was my first sporting hero as a child & I wanted to be him, basically. Alas.

Lord Rose is talking total and utter economic nonsense on #bbcqt , implying the country functions like a household. This is evidence of economic ignorance.

I went down the 15 minute city rabbit hole last year.

No polite way of putting it.... these people are proper batshit crazy - beggars belief that they are informing Tory transport policy.

bylinetimes.com/2023/02/22/man…

A 'BBC report claiming sexual abuse had taken place at the charity triggered a public and media backlash. Police subsequently investigated the allegations, and found no evidence of wrongdoing.' What a loss. theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

There's been a lot of fuss in the States in the last few years about Critical Race Theory. But what actually was it?

Reading up for this episode, I was struck that even sympathetic attempts to explain CRT often fall well short. So have a listen!

historyofphilosophy.net/critical-race-…