walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

Viktor Orbán has been in power for more than half of my life. Like most people of my generation and younger, I don't remember a Hungary before or without him. #Hungary

meet me at the roger scruton café 😘

Here’s just some of the ways removing the two child limit will change children’s lives ⬇️

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Viktor Orbán in the European Parliament. Péter Magyar is standing behind him, smliling.

T-7 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️

In this third (most likely final) thread before the election, I discuss four potential outcomes of the election and possible scenarios for post-April 12 🧵 1/

Italy celebrated the resurrection of Christ by making sure that innocent people continue to drown in their dozens and then threatening the samaritans trying to save them

71 people are still missing

The death penalty law reflects the total Kahanization of Israel's right The Passing of the Death Penalty Law Reflects the Normalization of Kahanist Ideology and Betrays the Values on Which the State Was Founded. It Sets Israel on a Suicidal Path

The passing of the death penalty law reflects the normalization of Kahanist ideology and betrays the values on which the state was founded. It sets Israel on a suicidal path

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

Reminder that Trump has, since returning to office, committed a grand total of zero new dollars in military aid to Ukraine (the tiny amount at the start of 2025 was agreed under the Biden administration).

www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...

I've been v lucky by so far getting jobs with decent contracts and managers. If that stops I would rather work just about any where else which gives me basic workers rights and a pension, rather than this

As with many other professions, academics used to put up with nonsense conditions and shoddy attitudes in the expectation it would be temporary before getting a permanent job. This is no longer the case - is no longer a few years in your 20s after getting a PhD

Nancy Fraser | After Habermas My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who...

Nancy Fraser on Habermas. Fraser is IMO one of the most insightful critica of Habermas, and this piece reflects on her intellectual debt as well as disagreements with him. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

One in three women leave academia after having children ‘Motherhood penalty’ sees female academics who have children less likely to secure a tenured position than their male counterparts, finds LSE study

'A third of [Danish] women no longer work in academia eight years after having a child, according to new research that suggests extra childcare responsibilities are hindering women’s abilities to climb the career ladder.' 1/2

Cannibals are weird. I can't imagine liking people enough to actually eat them.

Gutted had to cancel plans to attend this tomorrow due to house move nightmares, looks so good

The 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/

Didn't know this about German support

This is my thesis from couple years ago but I would not call it 'top writing' repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/the...

Donate to Osama pay his debt, organized by Patricia Elmqvist Ni känner Osama. Känner ni inte honom så känner ni någon som gör det! Han lever för att göra andr… Patricia Elmqvist needs your support for Osama pay his debt

A friend of mine going back 15 years. After yrs of struggling through Swedish asylum system & bureaucracy he had life sorted. Then Gaza war came and he got in a huge amount of debt borrowing money to save his family. He never liked fundraisers so a friend did this for him as he is at rock bottom

The Pears Foundation new report on Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools is well worth a read. It makes it very clear schools have become a frontline in the fight against conspiracy theories, and need serious support. counteringconspiracies.publicfirst.co.uk/Commission_i...

Do have any thoughts on how pro Israel advocacy in the UK differs to the US? Or does it not?

A major development in Lebanon. Of course this goes against the grain of Israeli claims about the Lebanese government’s lack of action against the militant group and its sponsor

Yesterday, immediately after an Israeli settler was killed and a Palestinian driver wounded in a collision in the West Bank, settler groups issued calls for revenge across social media. For hours, some 14 Palestinian villages were under attack by dozens of settlers, backed by our government.

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

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ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Suella Braverman attacked her on X and drove her off the site alaafromgaza.substack.com/p/attacked-o...

yes please