James West
@ejwestuk.bsky.social
I like fixed gear bikes and being outside. Teach history/interdisciplinary studies at UCL. Author of four books of varying quality.
Send us your Black Press manuscripts! https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/new-directions-black-press-studies
Send us your Black Press manuscripts! https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/new-directions-black-press-studies
Sade - The Sweetest Taboo - Official - 1985
YouTube video by SadeVEVO
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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Would be pretty funny if this series was just Olusoga relitigating the reasons why he accepted an OBE.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Would be pretty funny if this series was just Olusoga relitigating the reasons why he accepted an OBE.
As I continue to almost get mown down at pedestrian crossings, I like to think about how my first car was a Toyota Aygo and how popular the Cadillac Escalade is in this utterly cursed country.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As I continue to almost get mown down at pedestrian crossings, I like to think about how my first car was a Toyota Aygo and how popular the Cadillac Escalade is in this utterly cursed country.
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Will you be in London on Dec 3rd? Perhaps you'd like to come to UCL and hear me talk with Matthew J. Smith about my new book, and potentially even get a book from me without paying international shipping!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...
The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts On Black Archival Possibilities
A public conversation with archivist and writer, Dorothy Berry, hosted by the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Will you be in London on Dec 3rd? Perhaps you'd like to come to UCL and hear me talk with Matthew J. Smith about my new book, and potentially even get a book from me without paying international shipping!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-house-...
Managed to get both time and date of this wrong, spectacular work by me. It's actually tomorrow and at a time that is not wildly antisocial for UK people.
Event later today - chairing Martha Patterson's BMRC talk about her work on influential Black journalist Era Bell Thompson. Join us! (bit late for the UK crowd though, sorry).
bit.ly/47aB0xO
bit.ly/47aB0xO
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Managed to get both time and date of this wrong, spectacular work by me. It's actually tomorrow and at a time that is not wildly antisocial for UK people.
Event later today - chairing Martha Patterson's BMRC talk about her work on influential Black journalist Era Bell Thompson. Join us! (bit late for the UK crowd though, sorry).
bit.ly/47aB0xO
bit.ly/47aB0xO
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Event later today - chairing Martha Patterson's BMRC talk about her work on influential Black journalist Era Bell Thompson. Join us! (bit late for the UK crowd though, sorry).
bit.ly/47aB0xO
bit.ly/47aB0xO
Real "warriors come out to play" vibe from my children today.
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Real "warriors come out to play" vibe from my children today.
Now that I'm deep into my moustache era, sometimes I like to work out at home in my underwear because it makes me feel like an old timey Victorian strongman.
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Now that I'm deep into my moustache era, sometimes I like to work out at home in my underwear because it makes me feel like an old timey Victorian strongman.
Our (Will Mari, Carole O'Reilly and I's) new collection "Media Building" is now out in the world! It's with Palgrave, so hilariously overpriced, but please consider asking your library to buy it so that we can pool our royalties for a meal at Nando's xx
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Media Building
This book interrogates the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Our (Will Mari, Carole O'Reilly and I's) new collection "Media Building" is now out in the world! It's with Palgrave, so hilariously overpriced, but please consider asking your library to buy it so that we can pool our royalties for a meal at Nando's xx
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Nas - Surviving the Times (Video)
YouTube video by NasVEVO
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October 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
PSA forthcoming collection on women architects and designers from @leuvenup.bsky.social. Alborz and Kathleen have done a great job putting this together. I have a chapter on Donna deJongh and the Cosby Academic Center at Spelman.
lup.be/book/minding...
lup.be/book/minding...
Minding Her Business | Leuven University Press
The impact of women’s contributions to modern architecture and the built environment. Women have influenced the development of modern architecture and design through a wide variety of entrepreneurial ...
lup.be
October 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
PSA forthcoming collection on women architects and designers from @leuvenup.bsky.social. Alborz and Kathleen have done a great job putting this together. I have a chapter on Donna deJongh and the Cosby Academic Center at Spelman.
lup.be/book/minding...
lup.be/book/minding...
Field trip with the girls
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Field trip with the girls
The only times I want to hear about Tony Blair is via an obituary or The Hague. FUCK OFF.
September 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The only times I want to hear about Tony Blair is via an obituary or The Hague. FUCK OFF.
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Parliament Square, London today.
Thousands arriving in support of Palestine and protesting the proscription of Palestine Action
The largest act of civil disobedience in many years.
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Thousands arriving in support of Palestine and protesting the proscription of Palestine Action
The largest act of civil disobedience in many years.
✊️
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Parliament Square, London today.
Thousands arriving in support of Palestine and protesting the proscription of Palestine Action
The largest act of civil disobedience in many years.
✊️
Thousands arriving in support of Palestine and protesting the proscription of Palestine Action
The largest act of civil disobedience in many years.
✊️
Love Or Let Me Be Lonely
YouTube video by Merry Clayton - Topic
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September 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Sally Rooney dares the British government to follow through: defector.com/sally-rooney...
Sally Rooney Dares The British Government To Follow Through | Defector
There is a long history of people being weird about Sally Rooney: Her books are too Marxist or not Marxist enough; she glamorizes thinness, stigmatizes BDSM, and promotes unhealthy age-gap relations;…
defector.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Sally Rooney dares the British government to follow through: defector.com/sally-rooney...
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Planting trees in neighborhoods have a host of health and social benefits. They even reduce crime! www.motherjones.com/environment/...
August 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Planting trees in neighborhoods have a host of health and social benefits. They even reduce crime! www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Don't worry! I know this looks bad! But all other aspects of HJ's finances are beyond reproa.....oh
August 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Don't worry! I know this looks bad! But all other aspects of HJ's finances are beyond reproa.....oh
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Ep. 164: On Athleticide
@derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
open.spotify.com/episode/0WGb...
@derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
open.spotify.com/episode/0WGb...
August 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ep. 164: On Athleticide
@derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
open.spotify.com/episode/0WGb...
@derekcrim.bsky.social and @nkalamb.bsky.social are joined by the incredible @leylahamed.bsky.social to rage about all the ways in which sport continues to play an instrumental role in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
open.spotify.com/episode/0WGb...
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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
1/3
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
1/3
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
1/3