NEW BSC Blog: 'SNC-Lavalin and the Politics of Corporate Power'. @sharonhartles.bsky.social & Liam Miles take a critical look at the SNC-Lavalin “affair” and what it reveals about corporate power, political influence, and accountability in Canada. Read it here: thebscblog.wordpress.com

Grenfell was tragic ‘but everyone dies in the end’, says Reform’s new housing chief Reform UK's Simon Dudley suggested post-Grenfell safety rules have gone too far

A repulsive, extreme version of "fuck regulation and enforcement" but basic message very in tune with the UK political mainstream ...
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Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Good to see the OU’s cowardly hypocrisy being exposed @oubucu.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Please consider signing & circulating this open letter to the VC of The OU regarding the Term “Ancient Palestine” - Google Docs [link for signing is at the opening sentence where it says (sign here)]
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Latest newsletter from @inquest-org.bsky.social - still challenging state violence @europeangroup.bsky.social
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Spurs' great captain, Danny Blanchflower, born 100 yrs ago today. Tonight, against Newcastle, we'd do well to recall his words: "The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom". #COYS

Endorsed by @joemoransblog.bsky.social so good enough for me! "Same Player Shoots Again beautifully evokes a lost world through a single object. It offers an illuminating window on that strange and unknown land, the very recent past."
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Check this - "We must persist! Towards a Global Criminology of War", guest edited by Hannah Wilkinson & @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social - free to access, could not be more timely @europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social
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Petition for a 'Fat Cat Tax': Make companies pay for extreme inequality - High Pay Centre High Pay Centre data shows CEO pay in the FTSE100 reached a record-high in 2025 for the third year in a row. In 2026, the average FTSE100 CEO took less than three days to earn what the typical UK work...

@highpaycentre.bsky.social CEO pay in the FTSE 100 reached a record-high in 2025 for the 3rd year in a row. In 2026, the average FTSE 100 CEO took less than 3 days to earn what the typical UK worker will in all of 2026. How shit is the UK? @europeangroup.bsky.social highpaycentre.org/petition-for...

www.european-group.org/2025/12/09/5... European Group Conference 2026. Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organising for Social Liberation. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1–4 Sept 2026. Join scholars & collectives to build abolitionist alternatives to policing, prisons & capitalism. Deadline--- 23/32026.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.

Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls A new report from the University of Oxford's Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The

The misinformation around the European Convention needs to be called out. Really important research here to tell the truth. In the week of #HumanRightsDay let’s get it right.
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Hunger strikers' supporters send a dripping red message to Lammy Two supporters of the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strikers took their message direct to David Lammy's office on 12 December

"It is six weeks now since the hunger strikers, imprisoned without trial...were forced to use their bodies to expose this situation and resist injustice. Despite their rapidly deteriorating health, the government has continued to ignore them"
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Built to Harm - new, free publication by
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- uses detailed case studies & data analysis of deaths in prison to expose how the women’s prison estate continues to harm those it imprisons. Read the Full Report here:
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INQUEST webinar: Built to Harm: How women's prisons take lives YouTube video by INQUEST Charitable Trust

Built to Harm - latest free publication by
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- detailed case studies & data analysis of deaths in prison to expose how the women’s prison estate continues to harm those it imprisons. Listen to the launch webinar here:
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Built to Harm - the latest free publication by @inquest-org.bsky.social - uses detailed case studies & data analysis of deaths in prison to expose how the women’s prison estate continues to harm and fail those it imprisons. Read the Executive Summary here:
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Between 2018-2024, 59 people died in women’s prisons in England & Wales. 39% of these deaths were self-inflicted. In the next four years, self-inflicted deaths across all prisons in England and Wales are expected to rise by 21%. @inquest-org.bsky.social
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Women who died in prison could still be alive today if the government had listened to calls from campaigners and years of evidence to end the imprisonment of women. Instead, government prioritised tweaks to women’s prisons that have failed to prevent deaths and harm.

@inquest-org.bsky.social today launches 'Built to harm: how women’s prisons take lives', a major new report exposing how reform has failed to stop preventable deaths in women’s prisons.
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Casework and support of bereaved families – Big Give We are seeking funding for our casework function, which provides holistic support and specialist advice to families bereaved as a …

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Experience 'Preventable' - an immersive, multi-media installation exploring state violence, death, grief & resistance via archive material, testimony, sound & sculpture
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Rome, Turin, Milan, Genoa and other Italian cities - in solideriata, en solidaridad, en solidarite, in solidarity

I would like to see everyone in the press corps talk this way, make him look fully as dumb as he is, and every time he's mentioned in the news they play a clip of his unhinged reaction

Cheers Chris and to all others who attended/participated on a wet Wednesday night. Change is possible! @inquest-org.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social