A great opportunity to join the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London as a Lecturer in Urban Geography (T&E, 0.8FTE, 21 months). You will have great colleagues and amazing students! Happy to discuss the role with any interested applicants. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lectur…

Staggering piece of reportage, data viz & photography from a team at Bloomberg on the ruin that is Gaza. 42 million tonnes of rubble. As an historian specializing in *post-WW2 reconstruction* puts it: “Gaza is something never seen before in the history of urbanism.”

By ⁦Daniel Randall⁩ and me*: “Zionists out of Finchley”? Issues for anti-fascist and anti-racist activists (*He did most of the work to be honest) leftrenewal.org/articles/issue…

For Chartist Magazine, I’ve written about how Tusk’s government in Poland has continued the anti-migrant politics of Law & Justice, expanding the infrastructure along the Poland-Belarus border and passing bills to authorise use of firearms against migrants. chartist.org.uk/poland-not-so-…

Merle Baeré Niels Fastrup Lisbeth Quass SVT Nyheter Yle Uutiset Forensic Architecture Center for Spatial Technologies Forensis Maksym Rokmaniko eyal weizman Dimitra Andritsou Jasper Humpert Veronika Nad Forbidden Stories The Observer paper trail media Armando.Info KRIK International Center for Journalists IrpiMedia Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Lighthouse Reports Eva Constantaras MORGAN MEAKER Danielle Carrick Daniel Howden Tina Xu Unbias the News Hostwriter Barbara Matejcic Gabriele Cruciata Leah Pattem Danai Maragoudaki Daphne Tolis Laurent Richard Repórter Brasil Abraji OjoPúblico The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Expresso Folha de S.Paulo NDR.de WDR Aktuelle Stunde Süddeutsche Zeitung LeScienze The Investigative Desk NRC This investigation by Solomon, Forensis, The Guardian, and ARD takes a forensic look at a 2023 shipwreck that killed >500 migrants in Greek waters. Contradicting official accounts, the journalists found a failure to mobilize help. gijn.org/stories/2024-i…

Since October 7, 637 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank. 128, including 26 children, have been killed by Israeli airstrikes there. 20 deaths have been at the hands of settlers.

Missing from this story: that Qaid Farhan Alkadi returns home to a town where 70% of the homes were announced as scheduled for demolition while he was in captivity because the Israeli state considers them “illegal”. apnews.com/article/bedoui…

New podcast episode with Liam Liburd (@liamliburd.bsky.social) on fascism and the far right for the Decolonial Centre. This was done in the aftermath of the far right riots in Britain. British Fascism (and the far right) was born in the colonies. We look at this historically. youtu.be/EX8BD6Iz07U?si…

2 years ago, Chris Kaba was killed by officer Martyn Blake in Streatham. Blake, now charged with murder, goes on trial Oct 2. We stand with Chris's family as they fight for accountability. The impunity that allows Black lives to be taken without consequence must end.

So many instance of anti-migrant/anti-Syrian violence in Turkey in recent months. This one is especially grim.

Walter Rodney books are 20% off at Verso Books this month, more if you buy 3 or 4. If these books aren’t in your personal library, they should be! versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

totally missed this over the summer: the Office for Students is spending £4 million on corporate consultants to advise on how universities will manage as they start to collapse. Great use of public money. delta-esourcing.com/delta/respondT…

Online Evening Course: Great to be back at Brooklyn Institute this Autumn teaching "British Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolitionism". Covering CLR James, Claudia Jones, Paul Gilroy, Lola Olufemi and much more thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/…

Posting this for “Right-Hand Man” (Les Back). Although others might agree that the narrator’s performance is particularly fine… Getting Rid of the Rats (2022), filmed at The Ivy House: youtu.be/PF1ZG3dW5yU?si… Transpontine oren marshall