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Michael Ainsley
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Senior Commissioning Editor for Social Science and Earth Science at Liverpool University Press.

Wirral Drizzle. Tired. 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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With Bob Geldof's continuing crusade to infantilize Africa, this article that I wrote in 2013 still resonates.
Rescuing African bodies: celebrities, consumerism and neoliberal humanitarianism
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d389858e123">This article examines the role of Western celebrities as part of new networks in the incr...
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November 26, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Michael Ainsley
Last October, the Prime Minister told LBC that "Israel does have that right [to cut food, water & power from Gaza]."

Today, in the Chamber, he claimed he’s "well aware of the definition of genocide" & that's why he’s "never referred to [Gaza] as a genocide."

We won’t forget.
November 13, 2024 at 3:01 PM