David Lewis Thomas
@daitom.bsky.social
Postgraduate researcher in Politics. Musician, teacher, martial artist.
My reflections on flags, Remembrance and meaning. Symbols and Power: “Raising the Colours” and the semiotics of affective politics open.substack.com/pub/davidlew...
Symbols and Power: “Raising the Colours” and the semiotics of affective politics
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November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My reflections on flags, Remembrance and meaning. Symbols and Power: “Raising the Colours” and the semiotics of affective politics open.substack.com/pub/davidlew...
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You can watch the big ‘Together for Palestine’ concert here in Wembley Arena, London, at 7pm UK time/2pm ET. Some big names speaking and performing from Benedict Cumberbatch to Florence Pugh to Damon Albarn to Mos Def to Riz Ahmed to Guy Pearce. (And me.)
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
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Together for Palestine
YouTube video by Brian Eno
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September 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
You can watch the big ‘Together for Palestine’ concert here in Wembley Arena, London, at 7pm UK time/2pm ET. Some big names speaking and performing from Benedict Cumberbatch to Florence Pugh to Damon Albarn to Mos Def to Riz Ahmed to Guy Pearce. (And me.)
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
People get ready?
#OtD 13 Aug 1977 anti-fascist South London residents staged running battles with police and National Front members to stop a fascist demonstration in what would come to be known as ‘the Battle of Lewisham’. This is a short history of the events: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8458...
August 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
People get ready?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... How can he have “loved teaching” at 19 years of age? How can he “know that the curriculum is the problem” unless he’s simply expressing a dislike? Capitalism’s cult of youth and right wing gaslighting embodied. I hope his math is better than his haircut.
Teenage Warwickshire Reform UK council leader George Finch 'wanted to teach'
George Finch, the UK's youngest council leader at 19, had thought he would become a history teacher.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... How can he have “loved teaching” at 19 years of age? How can he “know that the curriculum is the problem” unless he’s simply expressing a dislike? Capitalism’s cult of youth and right wing gaslighting embodied. I hope his math is better than his haircut.
Our NHS, our commitment to each other.
The Right can’t scrap the NHS while you still care. So they start with historical revisionism. This is how they soften you up to let it go | The Bear
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Here’s how the Right is softening you up to sell off the NHS
First they rewrite the past. Then they sell off the future. The NHS is next
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July 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our NHS, our commitment to each other.
Revisiting taboo.
🔥 “The stupidest thing any country has ever done.” Michael Bloomberg said it out loud — but we’re still pretending Brexit is untouchable. Read why nobody dares reopen the conversation – and who’s benefiting from that silence | Peter Thurlow
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New bid to join the EU does not need a referendum
Labour hides behind claims of the need for a new referendum, to hide the true reason why they don’t want real progress towards the EU
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July 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Revisiting taboo.
I must admit, I had noticed. But an excellent article on the Establishment’s loaded language that dictates our normativity, nonetheless.
‘Genteel bias: how the BBC dismantles the Left without us noticing’
BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
‘Genteel bias: how the BBC dismantles the Left without us noticing’
BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert
westenglandbylines.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I must admit, I had noticed. But an excellent article on the Establishment’s loaded language that dictates our normativity, nonetheless.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
So if gender-critical feminism is a “belief”, whereby it enjoys the protection of EA10, it can’t claim scientific objectivity for its doctrines. Therefore gender-critical feminism is a cult. What did I miss?
So if gender-critical feminism is a “belief”, whereby it enjoys the protection of EA10, it can’t claim scientific objectivity for its doctrines. Therefore gender-critical feminism is a cult. What did I miss?
UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds
Report’s author raises ‘stark concerns about barriers to academic freedom’
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July 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
So if gender-critical feminism is a “belief”, whereby it enjoys the protection of EA10, it can’t claim scientific objectivity for its doctrines. Therefore gender-critical feminism is a cult. What did I miss?
So if gender-critical feminism is a “belief”, whereby it enjoys the protection of EA10, it can’t claim scientific objectivity for its doctrines. Therefore gender-critical feminism is a cult. What did I miss?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The British state: terrified of a few working class Irish lads speaking truth to power. The impartial state broadcaster: protected Saville, sacked Lineker and nodded along to genocide #kneecap #freepalestine
Glastonbury: BBC confirm Kneecap's set will be streamed on demand
Pressure is being put on Glastonbury to drop the band, after a band member was charged with a terrorism offence
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June 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The British state: terrified of a few working class Irish lads speaking truth to power. The impartial state broadcaster: protected Saville, sacked Lineker and nodded along to genocide #kneecap #freepalestine
Insurrection is such a drag. Is our equivalent burning down DOGE and the DWP?
#OtD 19 Jun 1843 a crowd of around 4500 "Rebecca" rioters with blackened faces and dressed as women gathered and attacked the Carmarthen workhouse in Wales, and set about destroying it. It took the arrival of a unit of the British army to disperse them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9110...
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Insurrection is such a drag. Is our equivalent burning down DOGE and the DWP?
It is and he’s snatching your knowledge.
June 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It is and he’s snatching your knowledge.
Another one bites the dust. Socialism or extinction? Lula missed the memo…
#Brazil approves plans for offshore drilling by the state run oil company #Petrobas near the mouth of the Amazon, rock blasting on another rainforest river, is making it harder to recognize Indigenous land & easier to build in the rainforest.
Business as usual. #COP30
apnews.com/article/braz...
Business as usual. #COP30
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Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon
With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure on...
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June 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Another one bites the dust. Socialism or extinction? Lula missed the memo…
More technocracy dressed up as “doing the right thing for the learners” no doubt. Pity the administrators refuse to learn from teachers.
Martyn Oliver needs to slow down and be transparent about what the Ofsted consultation has shown. The NEU is calling for a delay to school inspection reforms until September 2026 and proper consultation to get change right.
June 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
More technocracy dressed up as “doing the right thing for the learners” no doubt. Pity the administrators refuse to learn from teachers.
Ah, design you say. Berry upgrades obsolete? One meme at a time.
June 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Ah, design you say. Berry upgrades obsolete? One meme at a time.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... The imbalance when Techne becomes instrument of devolution.
Trump's attack on the American mind
Behind his closure of the Education Department and his assault on higher education, science, libraries, and museums lie the oligarchs of the techno-state.
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March 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... The imbalance when Techne becomes instrument of devolution.
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The long view in the short term. open.spotify.com/episode/5dsT...
The Empire Self-Destructs - Read by Eunice Wong
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast · Episode
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February 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The long view in the short term. open.spotify.com/episode/5dsT...
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At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there. We’ve compiled a list of resources for our trans friends and allies.
goodlawproject.org/support-reso...
goodlawproject.org/support-reso...
Support resources for our trans friends and allies - Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
goodlawproject.org
November 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there. We’ve compiled a list of resources for our trans friends and allies.
goodlawproject.org/support-reso...
goodlawproject.org/support-reso...
For misfits and the “mis-shapen” everywhere. Poetic and deep reflection on societal and personal trauma from Sophie Gibson medium.com/@gibsonsophi...?
Redirecting...
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November 21, 2024 at 6:55 PM
For misfits and the “mis-shapen” everywhere. Poetic and deep reflection on societal and personal trauma from Sophie Gibson medium.com/@gibsonsophi...?
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...