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Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
August 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
The BBC openly endorsing racism here.
The BBC has apologised for Radio 4 broadcasting a critique of Robert Jenrick MP saying "I certainly don't want my daughters to live in a neighbourhood with men from a backward country" which said "these words echo a fear many people have - fear of a stranger .. the technical word is xenophobia"
August 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The BBC openly endorsing racism here.
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🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
August 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
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Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid.
Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF
MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.
www.msf.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid.
Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
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A teen trapped in Gaza who has been accepted to study at the University of Glasgow has launched a fundraiser in a bid to get him to Scotland
🗣️ 'No safe shelter, no peace – just broken homes and shattered lives. But we are still here. Still holding on. Still hoping for a way out'
🗣️ 'No safe shelter, no peace – just broken homes and shattered lives. But we are still here. Still holding on. Still hoping for a way out'
Gaza teen launches fundraiser after being offered place at Scottish university
www.thenational.scot
August 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A teen trapped in Gaza who has been accepted to study at the University of Glasgow has launched a fundraiser in a bid to get him to Scotland
🗣️ 'No safe shelter, no peace – just broken homes and shattered lives. But we are still here. Still holding on. Still hoping for a way out'
🗣️ 'No safe shelter, no peace – just broken homes and shattered lives. But we are still here. Still holding on. Still hoping for a way out'
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This needs shared far & wide!
Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse
Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls
This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations
@reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse
Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls
This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations
@reformexposed.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This needs shared far & wide!
Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse
Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls
This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations
@reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse
Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls
This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations
@reformexposed.bsky.social
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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David Lammy says the "widespread loss of life" of aid workers in Gaza is a travesty.
Who killed them, David?
And who's supporting, arming & helping them while they murder the aid workers, David?
Who killed them, David?
And who's supporting, arming & helping them while they murder the aid workers, David?
July 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
David Lammy says the "widespread loss of life" of aid workers in Gaza is a travesty.
Who killed them, David?
And who's supporting, arming & helping them while they murder the aid workers, David?
Who killed them, David?
And who's supporting, arming & helping them while they murder the aid workers, David?
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DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.
July 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.
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Fascinating! On the persuasive urge to 'do your own research' - often urged in environment of distrust, can be helpful - but also connected to conspiracy theories and reinforcing existing biases.
June 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Fascinating! On the persuasive urge to 'do your own research' - often urged in environment of distrust, can be helpful - but also connected to conspiracy theories and reinforcing existing biases.
Credit to @katemossewriter.bsky.social for using her time on Radio 4 this morning to fully represent.
✅ women in leadership
✅ ai danger
✅ refusing to engage in nonsense gossip
🙌🏼
✅ women in leadership
✅ ai danger
✅ refusing to engage in nonsense gossip
🙌🏼
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Credit to @katemossewriter.bsky.social for using her time on Radio 4 this morning to fully represent.
✅ women in leadership
✅ ai danger
✅ refusing to engage in nonsense gossip
🙌🏼
✅ women in leadership
✅ ai danger
✅ refusing to engage in nonsense gossip
🙌🏼
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"The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies."
Pope Francis
Pope Francis
April 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies."
Pope Francis
Pope Francis
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I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
Schemas and the Political Brain
The neuroscience and psychology of why better facts don't make winning arguments in politics.
www.forkingpaths.co
April 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
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Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-photojournalist-fatima-hassouna-killed-israeli-strike-mourns
Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel
The photographer was looking forward to her wedding when she was killed alongside five siblings in an attack on her family home in Gaza City
www.middleeasteye.net
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-photojournalist-fatima-hassouna-killed-israeli-strike-mourns
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what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
March 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
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This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
This Thursday ! 4.30-5.30 😊Free online opportunity Sign up! @iancushing.bsky.social & @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social share their brilliant #Language work with young people in the classroom #TeamEnglish englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...
Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | Linguistic (in-)justice in schools (20 March 2025, 16:30 - 17:30) | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
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British comic book creator Becky Burke is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...
British Comics Artist R.E. Burke Still Being Held In US Detention Camp
British comic book creator R.E. Burke, or Becky Burke, is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation
bleedingcool.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
British comic book creator Becky Burke is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...
The problem with so many institutional approaches to inclusion is it is more ‘come on in, let’s help you look more like us’ than ‘come on in, let’s enrich each other as we journey together’.
There’s no inclusion if we’re not prepared to change.
There’s no inclusion if we’re not prepared to change.
March 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The problem with so many institutional approaches to inclusion is it is more ‘come on in, let’s help you look more like us’ than ‘come on in, let’s enrich each other as we journey together’.
There’s no inclusion if we’re not prepared to change.
There’s no inclusion if we’re not prepared to change.
Fab evening at Lincoln Arts Centre this evening curated by @maisonfoo.bsky.social & their wonderful community of hosts. Such a privilege to share memories, recipes, music & laughter (& dancing!), as well as the more difficult stories. Refugees make Britain a richer, brighter place to be. Thank you.
March 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fab evening at Lincoln Arts Centre this evening curated by @maisonfoo.bsky.social & their wonderful community of hosts. Such a privilege to share memories, recipes, music & laughter (& dancing!), as well as the more difficult stories. Refugees make Britain a richer, brighter place to be. Thank you.
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Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
March 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please share this call widely. We want everyone to participate in this shared space, for our GRIEF issue, Spring 2025.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
Some letters will appear in the magazine; many more online.
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2025 Shortlist
FEBRUARY 19, 2025 -- At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt -- and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors -- translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year's…
FEBRUARY 19, 2025 -- At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt -- and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors -- translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year's…
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2025 Shortlist
FEBRUARY 19, 2025 -- At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt -- and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors -- translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). Baker, this year's judging chair, told the audience in Alexandria and online that six novels had been shortlisted for this year's prize:
arablit.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2025 Shortlist
FEBRUARY 19, 2025 -- At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt -- and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors -- translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year's…
FEBRUARY 19, 2025 -- At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt -- and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors -- translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year's…