This is brilliant. And terrifying. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

Oh goodness me! That was quite a long time ago I fear — I hope you enjoy it all the same….

Fantastic to see the work of our philosophers being recognised @thebpa.bsky.social awards for their work with us in prisons! Well done to all the award winners and nominees, and thank you to the judging panel.

Last night’s brilliant award ceremony for @thebpa.bsky.social honoured Leonie Smith, @jonbebb.bsky.social and James Chamberlain, all for wonderful work with @philosophyinprison.bsky.social Congratulations all!!!!! #philosophymatters

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.

13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

If this war shows *anything* it’s how badly needed the transition to renewables is

That that conversation has been largely absent from UK media while nonsense like this is published shows just how much the media ownership tail is now waging the dog

torn between thinking it's objectively hilarious that literally nobody wants to help Trump open the straits (it is) & feelings of impending doom because evidently 1/Trump can't do it 2/if it's not open v soon we are screwed, cannot run an economy on schadenfreude alone. (although: sooo renewable!)

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org

Watching members of the Trump administration try to ignore or absolve the Kremlin’s malign involvement in the Iran war is quite something. Russian military advisors are on the ground there providing targeting data against US forces and Russian components feature in both Iran’s missiles and drones.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Achieving UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, says CCC:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

Sheffield Hallam’s new plan to save cash:

🔸 All teaching-focused staff to be employed by a subsidiary firm
🔸 All non-REF staff to be moved to a pension scheme with a lower employer contributions

#UKHE

What principle did abstainers appeal to? Is it a coincidence that both abstention in an important vote and the restriction of jury trials create a democratic deficit?

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

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Terrific account of the connections here. Thank you.

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This ia a good piece by Simon Tisdall.

Trump shouldn’t ease Russia sanctions – they are choking its economy As the US waives its ban on India buying Putin’s oil for 30 days, Europe must bolster its own measures, such as stopping the flow of luxury cars

Trump shouldn’t ease Russia sanctions – they are choking its economy

Video: How We Analyzed the Strike on the Iranian School Malachy Browne of our Visual Investigations team describes what satellite imagery and other evidence tell us about who might be responsible for an airstrike on an elementary school in southern Iran. T...

Seems likely that (a) the school was deliberately hit by a "precision" strike by the US or Israel relying on outdated intel and (b) US is more likely responsible than Israel. US didn't deliberately aim at a school, but it deliberately aimed at a building that is now a school and has been for years

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland

The United States killed all these children last Saturday.

170 of them.

Every. Single. One.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hard to concentrate on academic work when war rages and spreads, and all my thoughts are with the innocent people who die, are wounded, or are made homeless.

Adam Parsons: "In the eyes of many people this is an illegal attack"

No, according to international law it is an illegal attack. Do your job, look out of the window and tell us if its raining.

Really looking forward to joining fellow speakers for the #WorldBipolarDay webinar.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled viruses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the bacteria, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Reports now that this has been revised up to 85 dead, with even more injured

Shabana Mahmood to sacrifice ‘bourgeois support’ over migrants The home secretary will copy Denmark’s Social Democrats to seize the immigration narrative from Reform UK and appeal to working-class voters

“The home secretary will warn Labour MPs that the party will lose the next election unless they speed ahead with her hardline immigration reforms”

Heaven help us

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...