As promised, I'm running the #YorkshireMarathon24 on 20 October, and raising money for British Red Cross 🧡 #Ukraine appeal. I hope to run it in 5 hours and raise over £500 for the appeal. Any support gratefully received 🇺🇦 justgiving.com/page/robert-da…

This is a great opportunity to join our wonderful department working on a fascinating international project!! Deadline for applications is 18 September. Do share with anyone who might be suitable!

Last year I wrote this piece about my grandad, who fled from fascism & arrived in Britain as a refugee in 1938. It's one reason I'm running the Great Run to raise funds for Action Foundation🧡, which supports refugees & asylum seekers in the North East today. 1/2 actionfoundation.org.uk/my-grandad-was…

.University of Southampton gets go-ahead for first British campus in India: institution to offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across range of subjects from outpost in Delhi. Helen Packer reports bit.ly/4cEQlY0

Few people wrote on the vexed issue of Kashmir with sagacity and scholarship like AG Noorani. From law to Islam, RSS to Ayodhya, Noorani was a commentator and analyst whose touchstone was, as it should be for all right thinking Indians: the CONSTITUTION. RIP sir.

Every one of our Great North Run team has a reason they’re running for refugees. Here’s Ed Anderson’s 🧡

'Tax the Loafer - not the Loaf'. Great poster from 1909 that I saw recently at Manchester's People's History Museum. Produced in rather different times by the Budget League (W. Churchill et al) to back David Lloyd George's landmark progressive & redistributive 'People's Budget'.

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Is it because Rachel Reeves wants it for her office?

The "United" Kingdom in three headlines.

Six days to go! I'm running to raise money for refugees and asylum seekers in the North East of England. If you're able to donate anything to Action Foundation🧡, who do wonderful work empowering and supporting refugees, then here's the link to my fundraiser: ajbellgreatnorthrun2024.enthuse.com/pf/edward-ande…

My book is part of the amazing Hurst Publishers #BacktoUni sale - 40% off!!

Love a delicious organic veg box.

“If I were a public security threat, then the 33 other members of the delegation who share my views would also be public security threats” - Rajiv Sinha, UK activist middleeasteye.net/news/uk-hindu-…

As the new academic year begins, we must recommit to stand with our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza and to hold Israeli universities accountable for their role in destroying Palestinian campuses #AcademicBoycottNow

'Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora' is part of Hurst Publishers's amazing 40% off 'Back to Uni' sale - now £18. Only six more days until the sale ends! hurstpublishers.com/book/hindu-nat…

How was this not given as a wicket?! The Australian batsman, Josh Ingles, claimed he wasn't ready. Looks pretty bloody ready at the point of delivery! Scotland's Mark Watt denied the wicket. bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/…

The gambit, presumably, is to find a community with whom the cancelled - in this case a vile predator - can reclaim the attention and approbation he craves. Talk about 'born again'!