Albanese's latest report on the systematic, ubiquitous, soul crushing, permanent torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities, soldiers & settlers is one that we can only turn our eyes away from at the price of losing what is left of our souls. END THE GENOCIDE. NOW! www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Anyone in Edinburgh, please consider joining the pickets on 30 March and 1 April and showing solidarity with colleagues at the Edinburgh UCU, once again forced to take strike action against devastating cuts from an utterly hostile administration.
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It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
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Was Habermas “one of the greatest” philosophers, as this obituary asserts? I very much doubt it. In any case, his reputation will be tarnished by his (unmentioned) complaisance in the Gaza genocide.
Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed.
“Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”
It’s truly incredible that with the Americans and Israelis making up claims of potential Iranian WMDs, there is virtually no mention anywhere in most of the mainstream coverage so far that the *only* Middle Eastern state with undeclared nuclear weapon is Israel.
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Today, February 21, 2026, is the 178th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and is celebrated around the world as #RedBooksDay. Read a red book today!
📣 ECEN's inaugural lecture!
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jeremy Davies of the University of Leeds, who will be speaking to us about 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture'.
When: 26th February, 5-7pm GMT
Where: Online & in-person at Heslington Hall, York
Please join us for this inaugural lecture! We're beginning the seminar series with such an excellent speaker and truly an expert within the environmental humanities. You won't want to miss it! 🌱
It's here!
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.
We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
Are you already doing A Sentimental Journey? If not, it's short, plenty of bawdy humour, and has plenty of societal and philosophical commentary. The 'caged bird' passage led to a fascinating discussion of abolition when I studied it as an undergraduate.
Didn't take long. Who would have thought that someone who has long called for the privatisation of Venezuela's energy resources would support the US's violent and illegal takeover?
If there was any doubt about the use of the Nobel Peace Prize as Western soft power... After today, the 2025 selection of the pro-capitalist, pro-Trump, and pro-privatisation María Machado certainly looks a lot more like a preparatory hearts-and-minds move.
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So the New Year starts with horror.
The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.
Screenshot that reads “Yule-hole: the furthest hole on your belt that you have to resort to after Christmas dinner (18th-century Scots dialect)” with a cartoon of a belt curled up
Saving.
I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱
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The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period.
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
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#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
