Joel Evans
@joelevans.bsky.social
Culture and politics. Views my own.🍉
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The Soviet-era statue of Friedrich Engels at Tony Wilson Place in Manchester.
It was originally installed at Mala Pereschepyna in central Ukraine and was discarded in a field after the display of Soviet symbols was outlawed in 2015.
Engels lived in Manchester and Salford between 1842 and 1869.
It was originally installed at Mala Pereschepyna in central Ukraine and was discarded in a field after the display of Soviet symbols was outlawed in 2015.
Engels lived in Manchester and Salford between 1842 and 1869.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Soviet-era statue of Friedrich Engels at Tony Wilson Place in Manchester.
It was originally installed at Mala Pereschepyna in central Ukraine and was discarded in a field after the display of Soviet symbols was outlawed in 2015.
Engels lived in Manchester and Salford between 1842 and 1869.
It was originally installed at Mala Pereschepyna in central Ukraine and was discarded in a field after the display of Soviet symbols was outlawed in 2015.
Engels lived in Manchester and Salford between 1842 and 1869.
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URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
petition.parliament.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
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Today, I revealed that City lobbyists have been seconded into the Treasury under the Labour Party, and that the Treasury wouldn’t tell me whether they are ‘helping’ write Rachel Reeves’ budget: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
REVEALED: Labour let City lobbyists work in Treasury
The Treasury didn't answer questions about whether lobbyists for the banking industry seconded into it are helping write this month's budget.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today, I revealed that City lobbyists have been seconded into the Treasury under the Labour Party, and that the Treasury wouldn’t tell me whether they are ‘helping’ write Rachel Reeves’ budget: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
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New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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The British government is Very Sensible and so can be trusted with the power to decide which protests have happened Enough Now and don't need to be heard from anymore thank you very much. It will be fine. When Reform get in they will be even more Sensible about all this.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Home Office could outright ban protests that risk ‘intimidation’ or ‘serious disruption’
The Home Secretary is considering giving police new powers to ban protests
inews.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The British government is Very Sensible and so can be trusted with the power to decide which protests have happened Enough Now and don't need to be heard from anymore thank you very much. It will be fine. When Reform get in they will be even more Sensible about all this.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable?
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable?
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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Govt claims requiring all adults in Britain to have “digital ID” will “help control borders” and “illegal immigtation”.
That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime.
A 🧵explaining why:
That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime.
A 🧵explaining why:
September 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Govt claims requiring all adults in Britain to have “digital ID” will “help control borders” and “illegal immigtation”.
That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime.
A 🧵explaining why:
That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime.
A 🧵explaining why:
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If you are concerned about how your data might be hacked, abused or sold, and more generally about unecessary digital surveillance, sign the petition.
[Let's not even both talking about the fact you will need a smartphone in order to have one of these].
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
[Let's not even both talking about the fact you will need a smartphone in order to have one of these].
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you are concerned about how your data might be hacked, abused or sold, and more generally about unecessary digital surveillance, sign the petition.
[Let's not even both talking about the fact you will need a smartphone in order to have one of these].
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
[Let's not even both talking about the fact you will need a smartphone in order to have one of these].
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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We already *had* this for immigrants. They want the digital ID cards so they can be dicks to everyone.
September 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
We already *had* this for immigrants. They want the digital ID cards so they can be dicks to everyone.
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Since Lisa Nandy is doing the media round for Lab this morning, here she is in October 2023 being asked 3 times whether Israel breached intl law when it cut off power & water to Gaza. Nandy refused to answer & when pressed she said it would be grandstanding to answer the question
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Since Lisa Nandy is doing the media round for Lab this morning, here she is in October 2023 being asked 3 times whether Israel breached intl law when it cut off power & water to Gaza. Nandy refused to answer & when pressed she said it would be grandstanding to answer the question
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Published today by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...
British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press
At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...
uolpress.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Published today by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...
Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...
Deleted my academia dot edu account. Not even sure why I had it anyway.
September 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Deleted my academia dot edu account. Not even sure why I had it anyway.
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We want robust, enormous research that is SUCH good research, you already know how important and right and insightful it is before you even start it. We want research so predeterminedly world-changing that there is hardly any point actually doing the research at all.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
We want robust, enormous research that is SUCH good research, you already know how important and right and insightful it is before you even start it. We want research so predeterminedly world-changing that there is hardly any point actually doing the research at all.
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In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
September 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
If the new (massively expanded) immigration detention centres Reform are proposing are (rightly) being compared to concentration camps, then how might we refer to the ones currently in operation I wonder?
August 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If the new (massively expanded) immigration detention centres Reform are proposing are (rightly) being compared to concentration camps, then how might we refer to the ones currently in operation I wonder?
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The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions
August 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions