The University of Leeds is offering scholarships for Gazans who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict. Further details in the link below — please share with your networks. leeds.ac.uk/masters-schola…

How such grace and kindness exists is beyond me. Would you share what little coffee you have with a stranger? Be able to laugh at how common dishes are an unaffordable luxury? Or be so kind in your words when really we’re not able to provide for most people’s needs because so

Yes: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My article in the FT on current state of play in state schools Classics (there is some good news) : ft.com/content/8b931d…

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast in Eastern India, where they will dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope.

Bulldozers moved over the ash. In their claws, the weight of souls. In their claws, a child traces her first word, her auntie claps with delight. In their claws, a young doctor graduates at Al Azhar, dreams of the years ahead. In their claws, three mothers eat pistachio ice

🚨 The University of Cambridge has failed at the High Court in its attempt to restrict pro-Palestine protest for five years. This is a major victory for our democratic rights. Our statement 👇

right wing "style" accounts on here never say anything substantive about style. they just photos like this and write "the subtle touch of silk. the strength of man. classic architecture. deport immigrants."

US politicians commonly claim that the US has been a "beacon of democracy" for the past 250 years, at home and abroad. Let's have a look a the evidence. 🧵 Links at the end.

Pope Francis said during an interview one time that he fell asleep during prayer. The interviewer asked him whether that was allowed, and he said that fathers always love it when their children fall asleep in their arms. That always stuck with me. Rest in peace.

Feminism that does not speak when women are starving under siege is not feminism. Feminism that does not weep when girls are pulled from rubble is not feminism. Feminism that cannot name Gaza is not feminism. It's performance | Opinion | Nadine Quomsieh haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

Forward thinking, featuring the splendid Mariana Mazzucato

These are the four pieces for which I won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. All published in 2024. Blessings to the souls of 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023. Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their

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Read this. It's remarkable. The UN is begging - literally begging - Israel to allow it to deliver to Gaza 160,000 pallets of food aid it has ready to go. Israel will not allow that. There is only one inescapable conclusion: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza to death.

Liz Truss on full wilting-lettuce form as she defines Western civilisation as first starving & then ethnically cleansing 2.1 million people, overseen by one of the most violent, bigoted & racist governments on earth led by a war criminal wanted for genocide by ICJ

In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOi

Two days ago, Israel assassinated nine Iranian scientists — university professors and researchers — in targeted airstrikes. Some of them were killed together with their families. Western media is acting as if this is an act of war. Yet, this is a war crime, here’s why. 🧵 1/

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... (links in thread below):