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Peter Dwyer
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Socialist, recovering academic, now in the NHS. LFC season ticket holder. Editor Review of African Political Economy. https://roape.net/ Check out our genuinely free access journal https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/957770c3-4943-4fde-a72b-841025ea4ab1 .. more

Peter D. Dwyer is an anthropologist and zoologist. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was Reader in Zoology at the University of Queensland, retiring in 1997. .. more

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Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE)
<p>Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change.</p>
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Am no friend of Putin. Honest.
Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

The mainstreaming of National Front 1970s policies and language is sickening. That’s why we need YP so it can offer a national alternative to the bile thsts coming from all the other main parties and media.
Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

Decade? It won’t take that long at this rate.

Who ate all the pies?

Have any Trusts put out reassuring statements for staff? I wrote to our CEO suggesting they did and silence can be seen as support. They referred me to BHM in October, but still no statement.

Random picture from a trip to China.

Booked. Circulating.
Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades.

New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period
Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...
bylinetimes.com

Although we can’t wait, we all have to do everything we can to stop this.

zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/18/c... A short piece on the rise of the far right in Europe I was asked to write for South African activists.
From Crisis to Consolidation: The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe Since 2010 – Zabalaza for Socialism
zabalaza4socialism.org.za

He’s on fire more than ever isn’t he!

Hope you have a quick recovery. We need you back on the frontline!

On the streets, not helped by this approach by SutR, who I was involved with for many years, but now find their approach counterproductive davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/whats-so-h...
Working with Stand up to Racism - the good, the bad, the deeply annoying
At the start of August, I was one of the organisers of the demo outside the Thistle Barbican hotel.
davidrenton590934.substack.com

Radio 4 yesterday was awful taking to Zia. It’s not a technical debate about how easy Reform can imprison asylum seekers, of course they can imprison people if they are in government. It’s a political debate about racism, their racist , dogwhistle rhetoric, scapegoating, treating people as humans.

Are you saying we sit on our hands and do nothing about anything and let it implode?

I hope you’ve changed your mind.

This is outrageous the slow authoritarian slide over Palestine is very real. It’s a shame there isn’t the will for a few thousand fans to turn up in Palestine tops at a game.
The immigration debate is going badly off track, thanks to a combination of opportunism, racism and spinelessness in the UK's political and media class.

But it's not too late to turn things round.

Me in Time magazine

time.com/7312223/uk-i...
Britain Is Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong
There are worrying signs about the country's direction, as Reform tops the polls, and mainstream politicians chase the far right, writes Jonathan Portes.
time.com

What was also sickening was the pathetic, technocratic based questions.

And the whole discussion is cancerous

Take your analysis back to 1979. My heart bleeds for the rich.

Reposted by Peter Dwyer

Two out of every five people arrested after participating in anti-immigration riots had been previously reported to the police for domestic.😡

Well that blows their screaming dribble out the water
with their signs shouting
protect our women and children 🤔🤦
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
www.theguardian.com

Only on a boat trip in Ireland.

Just my everyday walk for a swim in Mullaghmore, Ireland, last week.

The pardon is based on her saying exactly the words that Trump was not involved

The small village of Dean is in lockdown as Vance visits. But those cheeky rural dwellers have managed to poke him.

JD Vance & his toys in an Oxfordshire village. 22 cars & counting.

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Reform Party just held a press conference on women’s safety. Nigel Farage didn’t attend. Can you hazard a guess why?