Some really interesting historical details in here, for anyone else who is also a big reader, scroller + who maybe feels like their attention has fallen apart of late (particularly post-covid). Love the reminder that novels used 2b regarded w suspicion 🤓 theguardian.com/books/2023/oct…

Let's make it clear: living on the streets is not a ‘lifestyle choice’ - it is a sign of failed government policy. No one should be punished for being homeless. Criminalising people for sleeping in tents, and making it an offence for charities to help them, is unacceptable.

Suella Braverman seeking to exploit the sensitivities of this moment, and an ignorance of Northern Ireland’s history, to inflame community tensions for her own leadership campaign is an appalling new low. Rishi Sunak must sack her. But he’s too weak.

Post-PhD life mostly feels like an interminable limbo, and this is a terrible time of year to be looking for academic jobs, but I’ve just submitted my first monograph proposal which has helped make me feel at least a little bit serious. 🤞📚

I just wrote a letter: Call on Sadler's Wells to Drop Barclays - who hold £1.3billion in shares and have given £3.9billion loans to weapons manufacturers supplying the Israeli army. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/call-o…

In 1998, in year 5, we were discussing returning the Parthenon marbles to Greece. We all concluded obvs they should be returned. Crazy that it still hasn’t happened. British Museum

Why shouldn't we deport asylum seekers to Rwanda? "the Home Office has given asylum to four Rwandans in the last four months who claimed they were at risk from the regime. These decisions have not yet been recorded in official figures." theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

It’s hard to believe that the UK still has some of the harshest sentences for “illegal abortions” in the world - including life imprisonment. There’s a chance to change this soon - please take a min to email your MP and tell them how you want them to vote.

Wake up Mail Online The Telegraph protestors are blocking roads , people are missing hospital appointments , funerals , emergency services can’t get through ! Here’s some epithets for you ‘Farmo-mob’ , ‘Farmo-loons’ , ‘Farmo-zealots’ . C’mon call for them all to be locked up forever

Recall Parliament. End arms sales to Israel, now.

South Dorset MP Richard Drax is worth £120mil + owns a plantation in Barbados that slaves worked for 200 years. “No one today should be held responsible for actions in the past”, he says, hoping to sell it for £3mil. Just GIVE IT to the Barbadian people! theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

This is corruption plain and simple. John Woodcock, who is about to suggest a ban on ⁦Just Stop Oil⁩ and ⁦Britain Needs Reform 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⁩, chairs an org run by lobbying firm whose clients include ⁦bp⁩ and Leonardo arms producer. theguardian.com/world/article/…

I don’t know if this is good news that the American right is eating itself, or if everything’s just becoming more dystopian. A must read on USA politics.

The double standards in the treatment of Diane Abbott is abhorrent. Racism and misogynoir against Black women in the workplace is rife across society; our political class is no exception. Our utmost solidarity with Diane Abbott 🖤

This is such a shame. Diane’s words last year were foolish, thoughtless and hurtful to several minority communities, but she apologised. She’s been a pioneer and inspiration. As a constituent, I feel conflicted about having to vote for a new Labour candidate now on such grounds.

If that’s the case he should issue a statement allowing her to stand, apologise and put a stop to this disgraceful bullying of Diane Abbott.

The Tory manifesto promised tax cuts are unhinged. £17bn decrease to public purse, apparently made up for by cutting welfare (unhelpful) and cracking down on tax evaders (unlikely). We need our public services, health and education to be properly funded, not more austerity.

It's bold, for someone seeking votes, to hone in on "childless cat ladies" when the leader of Childless Cat Ladies is TAYLOR SWIFT.

Here’s just a few examples of Daily Mail headlines that have fanned the flames of hate and normalised Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric #GMB