Hmm.. not all this useful to me, but 7, 8, 9, 10 ring very true. And 13, although 'death mask' sounds more ominous than it should.

As I'm about to write the conclusions to a 'big' book, 11 reminds me that I need to leave my study and sit somewhere with a view over the Loch.

It was in Glasgow that I saw for the first time the meaning of international solidarity. Glasgow City Council was one of the first to twin with cities in the West Bank & Glasgow University set up its first scholarship for victims Sabra/ Shatila massacre.
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As I'm finishing a 100 000 word monograph : yes very much so. I cannot think without writing.

Live now in Berlin - statements by the organisers of the Palestina Congress that was shut down by German police.

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Chilling.

Please add your name to the statement below & join the emergency protest at the German embassy today at 7pm! German police has detained Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, who was due to speak at the Palestine Congress, stormed the congress itself & closed it down. ucw4palestine.org/2024/04/10/sto…

Always important to have a good book to read when you're being deported

Glasgow colleagues please RT

The Rector of University of Glasgow has been refused entry into Germany at Berlin airport.

Where is the commitment to maintaining teacher numbers in Glasgow? 450 teacher posts being cut over the next three years should not be seen as an achievement Glasgow City Council Glasgow Green Party Glasgow SNP Glasgow Labour Group

What does decolonisation look like?
Like this:
Balfour undone

CfP: 'Human Rights History & the Social Sciences' for a panel ESSHC that Michelle Carmody 🌹standing with 🇵🇸 and I are organizing. See below for full text - deadline for abstracts is 14 April (apologies for the short notice). Do reach out if interested!

Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta is a British -Palestinian surgeon and was elected as Rector by a strong majority of University of Glasgow students. Do attend his inauguration tomorrow if you can (UofG students and staff only).

And note that at those (many) universities where cuts to temporary teaching positions are being made or considered, management are using/abusing an anti-causalisation discourse, as if they're doing everyone a favour by reducing numbers of temporary contracts

Ok, in the land of the blind

Now ask them what it is and what it protects. They won’t know.

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In a nutshell, yes