The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

The only film about Michael Jackson you need is the one his estate is hiding from you.

There was an onsite bar at the nuclear site I worked at 30yrs ago.

The Process Prime Minister.

The Polycrisis? Historical roots and critical perspectives in modern British studies This conference will bring together scholars to discuss the shape of modern British studies in an urgently unstable global context, termed a ‘polycrisis’ (Tooze, 2023). Featuring panels on the environ...

This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Critical Data Center Studies Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...

This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back!

Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!)

CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES

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Episode 54: Local “Crime” Reporting as Police Stenography Citations Needed | October 17, 2018 | Transcript

Reminder that news stories based on "police said" are usually about as useful as an arse pocket in a vest (as my dad would say)

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Strategic Ignorance applied with zero finesse? Wasn't Sue Gray supposed to be good at that stuff?

Anecdotal but some institutional emails get caught in junk filters in fundamental processes, e.g. docusign.

Watched this on your rec and it's superb. Spall's accent though. Christ.

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DEGREES OF DANGER e S TROUBLING times for UK universities with outposts in Dubai, as students are warned to stay indoors and study online due to what campus leadership is variously describing as, ahem, "regional developments" (De Montfort University) and "the ongoing circumstances" (Middlesex University). De Montfort's campus at Dubai's Internet City has been shut since early March, when missile debris fell nearby, thanks to what it calls, er, "heightened regional tensions". It has reassured students that "UAE maintains strong security infrastructure" and reminds them to rely only on announcements from the UAE government, the university or their home country's foreign affairs advice. "Avoid sharing or acting on unverified information circulating on social media," it warns. Middlesex likewise has encouraged students to stick to the "guidance" issued by state authorities not to photograph or share images of any incidents

or debris to "avoid unnecessary concern or confusion". But there's no mention from any of the UK universities of the risk of arrest, under UAE's harsh "cybercrime" laws, for sharing any information about missile and drone activity, which has seen hundreds of people detained for as little as private messages reassuring family that they're safe after an incident.

UK Universities with campuses in West Asia issue student warnings (minus "war") via Private Eye magazine

The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher Touching on everything from late-stage capitalism to Adele, the work of the late writer is proving increasingly influential. Now a documentary on him is looking to live up to his ideals

The man who saw the future: the legacy of cultural theorist Mark Fisher.

Mark was a brilliant analyst of the tendencies in late capitalism which made it a breeding ground for our own era of neo-fascism.

His early death was a genuine tragedy.

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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

It’s cause, not effect. Starmer’s lack of voluble backers is not because he is unpopular, it has same root cause as his unpopularity: there is no such thing as Starmerism, the PM has no real personal achievements to speak of, so there is nothing for anyone to *defend*.

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

@annieknk.bsky.social

It’s illustrative to recognise when the Guardian uses the word investment (straightforward handing over cash to the private sector) and when it uses spending (welfare, public sector wages)

They should just get rid of News & Current Affairs, which has this week chosen to do a full throated Reform party political broadcast three weeks out from elections

Admiral Benson in the 1991 movie, Hot Shots.

Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

ITV has announced 70 Up, the documentary following contributors every seven years, is to come to an end.

The director Michael Apted died in 2021. The Up film series has aired since 1964. Final episodes this year.

2013 tweet "hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it"

You appear to be freestyle rapping in the photo on stage? Brings to mind

Will there be a sequel? Look at #MeToo

37 years ago 97 football fans had their lives unlawfully taken by the state, whilst their fellow fans were blamed.

37 years on their loved still fight, now against a new Labour government who continue to lie, conceal & deny accountability.

JFT97 always. YNWA. We never forget♥️

This is very good radio. Recommended wherever you find your listens.

"To film yourself crying because you’ve read a book is completely absurd."

Well they're crying out for justice, people crying out for justice

#jft97

Hateful.

Owned by a nation state
A deflected goal
A free weekend
Some VAR bullshit
Liverpool in a slump season.

Every advantage going. And it took until 18 minutes from the end to settle the tie.

Still love you, Reds.