Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...
An LLM does not need to pull a trigger or automate a missile to serve the cause of war. It can work to make obscene violence feel justified and rational — to give you the illusion that you have “thought the matter through.” 🧵
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
When violence unfolds across multiple relationships and contexts, incident-based systems struggle to recognise how harms accumulate.
New article: ‘Reframing Repeat Violence: A Critical Life-Course Perspective’, British Journal of Criminology.
Open access:
academic.oup.com/bjc/article/...
I'll be speaking at Stanford on March 31, about logic and language in Islamic philosophy! Here's the info:
events.stanford.edu/event/path-p...
#philsky
Submissions are open for @triphilosophy.bsky.social's 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
If you have written book that meets the criteria, please ask your publisher to nominate it. If you work in publishing, please nominate your favourite eligible books.
Journalist and Nexus Fellow, @emilyctamkin.bsky.social, discusses the importance of weighing context, impact, and intent when assessing whether language is antisemitic or not.
Instead of rushing to punishment, seek understanding.
📺: @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social's Convention in Washington, D.C.
A decision is not a judgment, nor is it the organic consequence of a judgment: it springs vitally from a whirlwind of forces that leads us into combat. It resolves the combat without suppressing or ending it. It is the lightning flash appropriate to the night of the symbol.
MA scholarship opportunities in the brilliant Politics and International Studies department at Warwick
Smotrich said Daheih will look like Khan Younis
People leaving Burj el Barajneh Palestinian camp/ neighbourhood in south Beirut after Israel evacuation orders 💔
Amid the tension, the Palestinian government announced precautionary measures as part of a comprehensive emergency plan:
Every other post in my feed is either "Kurdish militias are not involved in Iran" or "Kurdish militias are involved in Iran."
This war is hyper, hyper-misinfo / propaganda saturated - far more it seems like than usual conflicts, even in very recent history.
Naomi Hunte & Fiona Holm were both killed by the same abusive partner, though they alerted the police to his violence.
Join family members, LSE Centre for Women Peace & Security, @bhattmurphy.bsky.social & us for a vital public meeting on what needs to change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/never-forg...
POLITICO confirms previous post:
Gavin Newsom likened Israel on Tuesday to an “apartheid state” and said its leadership has left the United States no choice but to reconsider military support for its ally in the Middle East.
These kinds of sentiments on some Gaza twitter accounts, comparing the widespread sympathy for Lebanese anger against Hezbollah, to the complete dismissal of similar feelings in Gaza re Hamas; if Hezbollah attacks its suicide, if Hamas does, its resistance
Watching video of Hillary Clinton at that worthless GOP deposition reminds me that even tho I'm a lefty and supposed to hate her, I don't. And I think she would've been an amazing president
A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'
Today, key researcher Dr. Martina Fürst, ( @uni-graz.at ) is presenting her talk, 'Core beliefs and epistemic injustice' at the Logos Colloquium, University of Barcelona.
Read more about the talk here: buff.ly/EmjtaSj
#philsky #philevent #knowledgecrisis
Reform are actively pitching "out deport Trump" but there is not yet any awareness of the sheer unprecedented scale of Reform disenfranchise+deport plan for legal migrants from the Commonwealth.
Most people don't know Reform will strip non-Europeans of permanent status (respecting it for Europeans)
New video and podcast about the rift in the MAGA Christian coalition over Iran. On one side, Wallnau, Feucht etc who see it as part of the end times. On the other, America 1st nationalists and trad Catholics who see it as a betrayal of nationalist principles and a fool's errand
youtu.be/S_C07MzAMtM
Very pleased to receive my copy of the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism, for which I co-wrote a chapter with the wonderful Daniele Moyal-Sharrock.
The book is an excellent addition to any library👇
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...
Gaza Support Network forge direct links with families in Gaza to support them in their essential needs. Please consider donating to their Ramadan of Hope appeal to support their work chuffed.org/project/1673...
