The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:

Friends,

Congratulations, and heartfelt…

'It's distressing': Mental health patients twice as likely to wait 12 hours in A&E itv.com/news/2024-04-1…

BREAKING: Chris Packham, scientists & young activists have occupied the Science Museum's Energy Revolution gallery in protest against the sponsorship of coal giant Adani.

'Science is understanding truth & beauty - it's grotesque for the Museum to promote coal!'
#DropAdani

In academia or any other job where tasks might involve predominantly working over the interwebs. It’s the chipping away of boundaries betweens work & private life. The expectation that working the hours you’re paid for aren’t enough & you’re continually meant to be available.

This is an outrage on the King’s part.
We have fought for centuries to make the monarchs of England/ Britain understand they are NOT above the law.

The Charter of Liberties, 1100; Magna Carta of course; and Charles may not want to forget his namesake and 1649…

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Whatever way you look at this, the UK is surprisingly complacent about what a sustained 5 fold sudden increase in UK medical applicants for Australian visas means in a workforce crisis

Some people to follow on political activism: Chris Williamson Prem Sikka Emma Dent Coad Richard Murphy Taj Ali Tom London George Galloway MP Clem - The PM David__Osland Peter Oborne Alex Callinicos Howard Beckett Zarah Sultana MP Carol Vorderman BladeoftheSun Nesrine Malik Ann Pettifor

Some sociologists to follow: Simon Winlow Per Engzell Tom Mills Professor Alice Sullivan PaulFDHiggs UCL Sociology Network LSE Sociology Diane Coyle Mike Savage Rachel Brooks Dr. Benjamin Abrams Mel Bartley The BSA Surrey Sociology Lisa Mckenzie Katherine Twamley Caroline Oliver Martin Hyde International Association for Critical Realism

Some people to follow on health: Martin McKee 🇺🇦 Helen Ward Trisha Greenhalgh Mary Dixon-Woods Peter English #FBPE Dennis Raphael Benny Goodman Alex Scott-Samuel Tom Shakespeare UK Covid-19 Inquiry Alice Scavarda Sasha Scambler David Oliver Martin O'Neill Ken Spearpoint RN 💙 #ProtectNurse Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Dr Dan Goyal

Wrote about this in my book. To the extent the ‘millennial left’ is/was actually a thing, it was always going to be a fragile group prone to fracturing along class lines

Modern political parties are cartels

Join this guest lecture on 4 June to hear Professor Annette Lareau draw attention to the ways class-based cultural knowledge creates its own barriers and impacts social mobility journeys. #IOELectures

Book your place: ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202…

Why hasn't Starmer, after all the controversy made a decision on Diane Abbott yet?
After all it didn't take him 2 minutes to decide that he wanted rid of Corbyn.
He probably doesn't want to give her time to mount her own campaign as an independent. 🤔 #LabourIsDead

We face a Labour meltdown after the election taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/1… Without any apparent plan for government, or the slightest hint of any guiding principles, Labour looks as if it will be totally rudderless on the day it, almost inevitably, reaches office. This might be…

Update: currently 49 UK universities making cuts: qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

A willingness to risk incinerating the human race an essential precondition for office in the UK. Only 'extremists' are opposed.

KEIR STARMER: My commitment to UK's nuclear deterrent is...Unshakeable mol.im/a/13299023 via Daily Mail Online

Calling all ECRs: could you be lucky 19?

Applications are open for the 19th annual Sociological Review Fellowship. Via a one-year funded post at Keele University, a recent PhD will receive support to turn doctoral research into a book-length publication. buff.ly/4aRpVSv

Important article by Anne Alexander on the dynamics of imperialism in the Middle East. isj.org.uk/revisiting-imp…

'Beginning in 2018-19, increasing numbers of referrals are not reported by birth registered sex.'

#CassReview

Every constituency in Britain saw a rise in sickness benefit claims.

Crisis made by Govt - low wages; poor food/housing, can't see GP/Dentist, 7.54m hospital appointment waiting list.

2.7m chronically ill.

Tory economic policies destroying the UK.
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