At the UN Human Rights Committee, a huge number of the participants turned their backs on US Ambassador Michelle Taylor in protest against Israel's bombing of Gaza. The shadow of Palestine looms over them.

.Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 on the long and deep legacy of the Keju, or why China has legions of intellectuals, but it is bereft of an intelligentsia aeon.co/essays/why-chi… via Aeon Magazine

🚨The Stanford Civics Initiative now has a podcast: The Civic Agora. Watch this episode on Chinese political theory with Dongxian Jiang. Highly recommended for all who love political philosophy and the history of political ideas. youtube.com/watch?v=jIIce5…

Back when I was based in Palestine, I took Abby Martin to Zion Square, a main commercial center in west Jerusalem. It was a completely average weeknight during a period of calm, but all of the Israelis we met were explicitly genocidal. Watch for yourself.

An Israeli tank deliberately bombed a civilian car full of fleeing people at point blank inside Gaza, at the Netzarim junction! The driver was surprised to see the tank reaching that far inside & was trying desperately to make a u-turn when they bombed them!

GAZA UPDATE: 4,237 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza. Israeli forces have killed twice as many Palestinian children in Gaza over the past month than the total number of Palestinian children killed in the West Bank and Gaza combined since 1967. ow.ly/zkEm50Q59cJ

A well-informed, accurate & thorough account👇of the 'impossibilist' commitments of the SWP members in positions of leadership of the UCU Left faction of UCU. 1/2

Democratic theory peeps: Would lottocracy reduce capture of government institutions Alex Guerrero or improve decision-making Hélène Landemore ? In an article just out with European Journal of Political Theory I show why we should seriously doubt it. Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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We did a podcast!: the political theory and sociology of ⚔️Civil War ⚔️ (the film, not the thing). I argue it’s about Rawls and Habermas, somehow. With Angela Xu, who has more plausible interpretations. On Spotify: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/VLJsY5X6LJb. And Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epi…

The audience winces as Rishi Sunak attempts to blame NHS workers for the waiting list. #ITVdebate

The audience laugh at Sunak’s accidental admission at how big NHS waiting lists are & then groan when he blames industrial action #ITVDebate

Newcastle Council isn't immune from postal vote chaos: I was disenfranchised by Newcastle City Council because they can't send ballots to China properly. A very frustrating violation of my demcoratic rights. Full story at BBC North East from Jason Arunn Murugesu: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Danny Hutton Ferris has been left frustrated after discovering Newcastle City Council was unable to print an address using Chinese characters and delayed sending his postal ballot chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-eas…

🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨 The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇

What connects polarization, RCV, the median voter theorem, and deliberative democracy? See my new article, "Deliberative Responsiveness", which defends a hybrid "track and talk" model of democratic responsiveness, just uploaded to @[email protected]. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…