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Today’s ep in our series about how George Orwell tried to make sense of WW2 looks at his response to the lurches of fortune from 1942-43 as Hitler’s plans for world domination started to fall apart. Where did the ideas for 1984 first come from?
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Legal action and constant threats are now targeting me over my reporting on Gaza and the Middle East. If my work has ever mattered to you, please share it and support however you can. Thank you.
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China defies the blockade. The Iran War has become about China’s energy security, who controls the maritime lanes, especially the choke points and a battle to protect/diminsh the petrodollar that the Arab Gulf states have built their economy and US dependence on.
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A reply by Simon Thompson and I to Jonathan Chaplin's critque of our article on the theme of Recognition, Religion and the State with some reference to the Anglican Establishment:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
NEW: the Danish Refugee Council, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International, and Save the Children find the Trump-Vance admin is dramatically failing to implement the ceasefire in Gaza, being delinquent on 21 of 26 metrics.
1.7 million remain in displacement camps.
So the President of the US has made a credible threat against Iran, saying that ‘a whole civilisation will die’, and the only thing we’ve heard from the PM is about the Wireless Festival. Good, good.
Nigel Farage - claiming a "whitewash" after police investigated - should have petition to Election Court setting his evidence about electoral malpractice.
Otherwise, he undermines democracy by making empty allegations wherever eligible minority voters take part
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
White working class voters want recognition and inclusion: not appeals
to crude prejudice. As argued here with @tariqmodood.bsky.social Sam Taylor Hill open.substack.com/pub/nationst...
British Muslims Cannot Sit This Moment Out
Even seasoned campaigners are shocked at the scale and depth of Islamophobia being whipped up by politicians and the media these days.
Hasan Patel wrote about it in our Substack
➡️ https://loom.ly/Hxgkntg
Pleased to have participated in this:
Political Secularism and the governance of religious diverity: an Open Access reply by Thomas Sealy and I to Simon Thompson, Sophie Lauwers and Pier-Luc Dupont in our book review symposium
brill.com/view/journal...
❌ Reform UK's attempt to divide us, to sow hatred in our society, will fail.
♥️ We are a bright, vibrant, and proud multicultural nation. We must never let hatred win.
Isn't that nice - a bit of national recognition of the kind that the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft usually gets:
www.thetimes.com/article/7023...
"No imminent threat": U.S. Counterterrorism Center head resigns over Iran war:
It's the sharpest public rebuke of the Iran war from inside Trump's administration, with combat veteran Joe Kent warning the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of the Iraq War.
www.axios.com/2026/03/17/j...
My May 2019 view when govt embarked on this process - almost 7 years ago - was that controversy made it important to find a definition, to engaging with good faith questions on boundaries. I quote @tariqmodood.bsky.social on tests/questions that help pass the schoolgate test
capx.co/how-to-find-...
What can make inclusion & belonging work in the fastest-changing borough in London - and indeed the UK as a whole? I have been chairing the Independent Commission on Inclusion and Belonging on a multi-ethnic Newham, whose final report is published today
www.britishfuture.org/newham-shoul...
While the Iran War serves as cover, Israel is carpet bombing entire neighborhoods in Beirut, a 5,000 year old city of 2.4 million people.
Israel’s bombing campaigns have already displaced close to a million people in Lebanon.
The rector of the University of St Andrews has been reinstated to its governing body for a second time during a tumultuous term in office, with both sides claiming victory after a legal battle over governance. @twilliamsthe.bsky.social reports
The blog is followed up with a seminar at the LSE on Thursday, 12th, 6.30pm.
Of course Sunder is correct. There is no logical/principled *argument* behind this hypocrisy.
But IMO there is indeed a logic to it.
The reason the Spectator/Telegraph want to crack down on antisemitism is not because they care about Jews, but because they want to legitimise anti-Muslim bigotry.
Sam Hill, @johndenham.bsky.social and I are doing a talk at the LSE on Thursday, 6.30pm. The theme of the talk as well as the venue details are in this blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
A much more positive vision from @johndenham.bsky.social than that coming out of the Home Office today:
www.ippr.org/articles/rec...
Includes some good points about the smearing of Muslims with charges of 'sectarianism'
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/starmer-wa...
Book launch webinar: bristol-ac-k.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
