Today will go down in the history of international law. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants against Netanyahu & Gallant and Sinwar, Deif & Haniyeh. It's a game changer in global politics & the Israel-Palestine conflict.🧵 icc-cpi.int/news/statement…

Statement of #ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️
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BREAKING NEWS: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Palestine
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This from the International Criminal Court is pretty devastating for the Israeli government in general and Netanyahu and Defence minister Gollant in particular - and yes for Hamas leaders too

First job ads for the new senior roles leading the National Student Ombudsman function are now being advertised!
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The legal detail on international student caps by education provider, course & potentially other characteristics. The most radical limits on student choice and university autonomy in the peacetime history of Commonwealth involvement in higher ed. andrewnorton.net.au/2024/05/20/the…

Hard to imagine that in Israel there are people who actually attack and prevent truck loads of food aid into Gaza. But also inspiring that there is an Israeli group committed to counteracting this barbaric behaviour to make sure it does get through. Where do such divisions lead?

This week, the VCS puts a spotlight on Michelangelo Merisi (1571–1610), better known as Caravaggio.

Find out more about eight of Caravaggio's extraordinary paintings on our dedicated web page:

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Happy Pentecost Sunday !

“On the day of Pentecost, God placed his kingdom in the midst of humanity and the kingdom of God has to be built on Earth.”
~St Oscar Romero
Pentecost homily 1978

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'The Archbishop of Canterbury is literally the one person in the country whose job is to signal virtue'

Shadow Health Sec Wes Streeting MP says he welcomes Justin Welby's call to scrap the two-child benefit cap

#TrevorPhillips trib.al/wkmumC6

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The evidence from polling is clear: there is no support for tightening of visas on the graduate route. The public understand this. Time to stop the senseless self-harm to our economy and to focus on backing our national assets. #GlobalBritain theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

It’s fantastic to see, in this inaugural issue of the important new journal QTR, the poem ‘Shame’ by Joy Ladin, with its beautiful evocation of ‘the heaven that stretches equally / over victory and shame’.

It’s the feast of Pentecost — and Thomas Tallis captures it perfectly youtu.be/kq3SNcCud5Q?si…

If you want to read a tendentious article that starts from the premise that “students have always been suckers for a cause”, now’s your chance…

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Call for papers for women in power conference at uni Adelaide!

'I think that unless you read deeply and in your own interest; unless you explore what is most profound in what has come before you, then you never will get down to recesses of your own self ... and most deeply you never will heal the self'

Harold Bloom

And lights, lights like useless sympathy

Geoffrey G. O’Brien (Geoffrey G. O'Brien)

Very much looking forward to this Alice event at ⁦University of Melbourne⁩: Esther Anatolitis Esther Anatolitis in conversation with Ian Shepherd, Professor Ian Harper & me, 5 June 2024, 6.15pm for 6.30, hosted by Melbourne University Publishing ⁦Melbourne University Publishing⁩ #Alice mup.com.au/events/alice-s…

Were it not for the fact this phrase is the aspirational motto for a rogue band of Iowan satanists, 'Curing Stupidity in Man' would be an excellent College of Humanities mission statement.