Dear Rishi Sunak,

82% of workers in Clinically Vulnerable households have lost work / retired early due to high Covid risks.

You could simply act to:

⛔️ Prevent infections #CleanAir 💨
👩🏽‍⚕️ Prioritise timely #AccessToHealthcare
💻 Provide remote working options

Kind Regards
CVF

Our joint investigation into the Pylos shipwreck is shortlisted for the 2024 European Press Prize in the migration category.

Nearly a year after the greatest tragedy ever recorded in the Med, victims and their families are waiting for justice

europeanpressprize.com/article/the-py…

Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Friends! My book WRONGED: THE WEAPONIZATION OF VICTIMHOOD is now available: cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged/9… Columbia Univ Press

It’s out! Our paper on refugee teens’ digital lives reflects on the entanglement of risks, needs and opportunities when “Being young, refugee, and connected in Europe” ⁦ySKILLS⁩ ⁦Leen d'Haenens⁩ ⁦Veronica Donoso⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fellowships to Palestinian scholars and artists affected by war in Gaza. Please circulate widely
Deadline for application 21 May
xx.nz/ekuKq

A new LSE Media & Communications blog considers how #digitalcities change what it means to be human, and shows how Myria Georgiou new book 'Being Human in Digital Cities' addresses this in relation to digital urbanism and digital justice.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/…

“They're seeing life being lost… in front of their eyes in the most dramatic fashion… This is about human survival.”

@rescueorg calls the imminent famine in Gaza “a profound failure of humanity.”

Here's my conversation with its CEO David Miliband

Being Human in Digital Cities? Sindhoora Pemmaraju and I wrote a blog ⁦LSE Media & Communications⁩ blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/…

How is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human? In our event w/ LSE Media & Communications, Myria Georgiou discusses her new book and the politics and ethics driving digital change in cities w/ @Sarahalsherif, Professor Ayona Datta, Dr Matt Mahmoudi @[email protected] & Ben Rogers.
🔻 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/03…

Join us on March 18!

…and the book is out!
Trying to make sense of a paradox: how “the human” has displaced technology in planning, imagining and contesting urban digital futures. #digitalcities #digitaljustice #smartcities #digitalorder #criticalhumanism LSE Media & Communications Polity

We may have been rejected for this part of the #CovidInquiry but, George Monbiot, we will be demanding changes that everyone will benefit from.

We have already succeeded in our request for vital interim reports.

* We are there for the lessons learned *
See us from Spring '24...

For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.

I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).

A total pleasure to read and endorse Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou’s brilliant book on news and the politics of falsehood 🔥

Interested in how disabled PhD students can be better supported? Today we released a new report highlighting 7 ways in which doctoral training programmes, universities and funders can better support doctoral students: disabledstudents.co.uk/research/phd-r…

Read the 7 lessons below:

1/6

In a fully vaccinated population [...], COVID-19 risk remained elevated across immunocompromised groups by [... up] to 19.9-fold for COVID-19 deaths.

I'll be speaking to Independent SAGE about this next Friday.

thelancet.com/journals/lanep…