Works on Racism-Terrorism-Far Right @SociologyLancs. Co-ed @IDjnl. Trustee @TheSocReview. Views own. Co-author with @aurelmondon of ReactionaryDemocracy @Verso
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Reactionary Democracy @VersoBooks, co-authored with @aurelmondon, has been translated into Spanish and is now out!
La democracia reaccionaria. La hegemonización del racismo y la ultraderecha populista
@EdicionesMorata
Traducido por: Roc Filella
edmorata.es/libros/la-democr…
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“So Poisoned I Wouldn’t Use It’ – The Man Who Drafted the Antisemitism Definition Slams Its Use in Schools”
In an exclusive interview, Kenneth Stern warns against David Bell’s recommendation that schools adopt the IHRA definition, saying it could encourage antisemitism and lead to teachers being ‘hunted’.
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EXC: The lead drafter of the IHRA definition has condemned the UK govt for imposing it on schools, saying it's being pushed “at a time when there’s a big disagreement in the Jewish community over whether being a Zionist is required to be inside the tent or not”.
For @zeteouk 👇
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ANDERSON COOPER: Do you want Democrats to win control of the Senate?
HALEY STEVENS: I absolutely do
COOPER: ...
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Verso Books condemns the Labour government’s decision to ban one of our leading authors, Andreas Malm, from entering the United Kingdom.
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More than 30,000 university jobs lost. FE lecturers paid up to £9,000 less than school teachers.
Ahead of the Budget, where is the government’s plan for post-16 education?
We need fair pay, secure jobs and sustainable funding.
ALT Where’s the plan for post 16 education ?
ALT More than 30,000 Jon losses
ALT Pay gap in FE is between 7,000 and 9,000
ALT Education drives economic prosperity and benefits all of society
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Education is a public good, not a commodity.
As Andy Burnham calls for greater public control of essential services, UCU general secretary Jo Grady asks: where is that ambition for post-16 education?
Universities and colleges need proper funding.
ucu.org.uk/article/14691/UCU…
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A thread about antisemitism and Battle of Ideas:
At the recent Battle of Ideas a far right bookshop called Oldspeak Books was listed as the official festival bookshop. 1/
bylinetimes.com/2026/10/14/f… – at Llandeilo, Wales
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Universities contribute £6.3 billion a year to the East Midlands economy. But at the University of Nottingham, hundreds of jobs and vital courses are under threat.
“Students suffer as much from this restructuring as staff.”
This fight is about protecting jobs, courses and the quality of education for future generations. Education. It’s ours.
You'd think from the reporting that Zack Polanski is the worst thing that has happened in British politics in recent years. Weirdly, they seem excited about his perceived failures but suggest ways he could have done things differently to do better. That's objectivity and balance
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UCU members at the Edinburgh are on strike today.
More than 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes.
Edinburgh is one of many. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK.
See what's at stake and back your local branch on our Solidarity Map: educationitsours.org.uk/map/
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#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020…
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Would you say there's some discrepancy between these two Board of Deputy positions on the Battle of Cable St? One is from Evening Standard in 1936 ("we did everything we could to keep Jews off the streets on that Sunday") and one is from today celebrating the memory of Cable St
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As we approach the anniversary of the ceasefire that wasn’t, Talal Hangari and I dissect the shameful record of the Board of Peace. In @zeteouk we marvel that the UNSC voted to entrust the fate of Gaza to a convicted felon and racist.
zeteo.uk/p/the-board-of-peac…
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‘There’s a feeling today that Britain really only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942, the year in which most victims of the Holocaust were murdered, you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain.’
So British people knew quite early about the Holocaust—and the government knew even more—but too little was done to try to stop it.
The parallels with the Gaza genocide are striking, but in many ways this has been much worse. The UK government has known everything from the start, and the public vastly more than in WW2—and Britain has been directly involved in aiding Israel.
theguardian.com/world/2026/s…
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Palantir didn’t hire a former Labour deputy leader for his coding skills. It hired him for access.
Tom Watson’s move is more than a private career choice. It’s the revolving door in action and another blow to public trust.
The integrity gap won’t close until politicians pick a side.
My piece for the Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Laura Kuenssberg: "Is it for people who are singers, songwriters, artists to be taking public positions on very very controversial, difficult, complicated issues"
THE most stupid, ridiculous, uninformed, ignorant question I have ever heard.
#BBCLauraK
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Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background.
UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action.
No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment.
ucu.org.uk/article/14639/Uni…
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Susanna Reid "Are these protesters [far right thugs] saying if they were in boats in the channel they wouldn't come to the rescue of another human being.. I dont believe any human being would do that"
Ed Balls "You probably wouldn't believe what happened in Germany in the 1930s"
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Newcastle University is looking to expand into India while staff at home have faced job cuts and strike action.
Universities need sustainable public funding, not risky business ventures to plug funding gaps.
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