Paisaje de San Cristóbal Romita, Luis Coto, 1857.

Ex-Red Army Faction guerrilla appears in court draped in a keffiyeh, shows into German TV cameras the written demands “Stop the displacement, bombing, and starvation” in Palestine.

Ideology is like a ventriloquist on your views, it speaks through you from a subjectivity that is often of another class and derived from desires and material conditions that are anathema to your own. Towards a materialist understanding of desire is the desire of the other.

At some point, our society will need to stop ignoring this injustice.

🚸⛔ Small things, bigger picture — how unnoticed #school practices can lead to #exclusion or self-exclusion. Done & Bamsey explore the intersection of Foucault and Vygotsky to reveal how micro-interactions shape student resistance and belonging. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/001319…

Disgusting. University of Michigan pays around $800,000 to a private security firm to surveil pro-Palestinian students. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Nika Maglaperidze 🍉 Zach Groshell Missing from this is a recognition of knowledge and ability that is specifically PEDAGOGICAL. The idea that teaching/learning can be plotted in a continuum between novice & expert is also open to question. Newton was not a novice and Einstein an expert in the same physics

An Oxbridge educated barrister legitimating genocide and spouting barbarous lies that cost lives: so, is this education's failure, or its most terrible success?

For those who like music, there was once an interesting album released in November 1999 by a band called Rage Against The Machine. An album full of interesting lyrics. Well worth a listen!

Mark E Smith got in my car thinking I was a taxi in 1997, I was playing a cassette version of Pet Sounds. Mark asked what it was and could he have it ? I said he could keep it if we could do a collaboration. We recorded a song ‘Calendar’ a few weeks later. Thanks Brian Wilson !

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

Today, the police informed myself and John McDonnell that no further action will be taken against us, following a Palestine demonstration on January 18th. This is a victory for the right to demonstrate against genocide. Full statement below.

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Children's Games

"Music, in making a direct attack upon the feelings, induces an adaptability, and, at the same time, a concentration of response rarely elicited by stimuli less appealing to emotional acceptance."

Vielleicht der katastrophalste Fehltritt eines deutschen Regierungschef. Angriffskrieg als "Drecksarbeit". Und ich will die historische Referenz gar nicht nachschieben, es hilft angesichts der Bittners und Gaschkes ohnehin nichts mehr. zdfheute.de/politik/g7-gip…

"In childhood, everything was different. Everything was more vivid - the sun brighter, the smell of the fields sharper, the thunder was louder, the rain more abundant and the grass taller" - Konstantin Paustovsky