Please join myself and several distinguished contributors on May 21st at 6pm, to discuss some different ideas about education. Book your online place here! eventbrite.co.uk/e/renewing-pub…

Water companies in England have incurred debts of more than £64,000,000,000.

We won't get the water infrastructure we need with privatised water.

I have co-sponsored Early Day Motion 738, calling for English water companies to be brought under public control.

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Brand new report from Joseph Rowntree Foundation Imogen Tyler 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @sociologylancs on stigma and poverty — today’s must read!

Peter Mandleson has his own multimillion pound corporate lobbying firm which refuses to divulge its clients. When he speaks in public, we should remember to ask ourselves, which corporation is paying him today? That journalists fail to ask this is a disgrace on our trade.

My lectures are less coherent than this

Bristol, 11 May: British Photography in the 1990s seminar day, incl discussion between Roshi Naidoo and Joy Gregory

martinparrfoundation.org/events/british…

The sisters standing up to the Saudi government. Extraordinary courage.
'I will not allow them to silence me,' Fawzia al-Otaibi.
What is the UK government going to do to support her & her sisters? theguardian.com/global-develop…

Happy that our Special Issue of Discourse is out:

The material basis of elite schooling: capital and the state.

Has been a real pleasure working with Aline Courtois & Rebeccaboden to put this together.

It's a great line up of papers 🧵

tandfonline.com/toc/cdis20/45/3

A more organised thread with some thoughts on Zadie Smith, as someone whose spent a lot of time with her writing.

Zadie Smith has had consistently liberal (not leftist) politics, and has also consistently shown a belief in her own exceptionalism (as have critics at large)

'What happens when the desirability of confronting the complex legacies of our global colonial histories becomes institutional cultural policy or bland sector-speak?'

Now open access: Roshi Naidoo on reading Nirmal Puwar's 'Space Invaders'

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Israel closes down the Al Jazeera TV network. Desperate to hide the genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine

Eight months into a genocide of the Palestinian peoples and the world watches as the catastrophic destruction of Gaza goes on.

And now the forced evacuation of #Rafah .

There are 1.4 million people in Rafah.
Where will they go?

This is apocalyptic.

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600,000 injured, sick and/or malnourished children.

600,000.

Any lever or platform. Anything and everything you have. Stop this thing.

All eyes on Rafah.

'We don't have to do stupid like they did at Columbia.'

Heather Mendick The Guardian reports Labour insiders as saying Sadiq ' bucked the trend' of losing Musim voters without attributing any reason. Not wanting, I suppose' to recall that he called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in spite of the Starmerite leadership.

So proud of London, we saw through the hate and misinformation from the Tories to elect Sadiq Khan #LondonMayorElection
Change is coming! Join my campaign to ensure we vote out the few remaining Tory MPs in London faizashaheen.co.uk

🚨 BREAKING: Following 6 months of protest and 5 weeks of occupation, Goldsmiths University management have conceded to G4P 🇵🇸 demands to divest from Israeli occupation 👏👏👏 this is a huge victory!

More details in the thread below 👇

The conversation continuing with Dr.Maria Adamson, Jo Littler & Prof.Nelarine Cornelius on history & cultural content of EDI in organisations CRED the UK is ignoring racism & propagating the myth of meritocracy, HR defends orgs not workers, data is power #EDI #Inclusion

The art of urgent protest extends to the university library by our incredible students G4P 🇵🇸 showing the leadership to unlearn their ways.