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Sociological Review Fellow 2024/25. Counsellor and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse

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The BBC isn’t telling the truth about Israel’s nuclear arms The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iran’s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israel’s actual nuclear weapons.

Are the British national media planning to tell the public at all that Israel already possesses nuclear arms❓

www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...

01.03.2026 08:57 👍 91 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 1
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Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen

01.03.2026 09:34 👍 456 🔁 124 💬 10 📌 3
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Palestinian solidarity in Britain ‘being silenced and criminalised’ ‘Index of repression’ includes smears, harassment, job losses and arrests, legal advocacy group says

"Students, academics and teachers (336 incidents) appeared most frequently on the index as targets of repression, followed by activists and organisers (229)"

Such a shameful era for universities

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26.02.2026 19:20 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hi guys
I am so grateful for everyone of you. I just got out a little while ago. I am safe and okay. In an uber otw back home. I am so sorry but I am in complete shock over what happened and my phone is blowing up with calls from reporters. I need a little bit of time to process everything
I will come back soon.
But please don't worry I love you all
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Hi guys I am so grateful for everyone of you. I just got out a little while ago. I am safe and okay. In an uber otw back home. I am so sorry but I am in complete shock over what happened and my phone is blowing up with calls from reporters. I need a little bit of time to process everything I will come back soon. But please don't worry I love you all Х

Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva, who was unlawfully detained by ICE earlier today, says she is “safe and okay”

26.02.2026 21:17 👍 875 🔁 223 💬 13 📌 13

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

26.02.2026 22:28 👍 679 🔁 255 💬 4 📌 4

Look forward to hearing your thoughts, Lisa.

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Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’

“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”

25.02.2026 14:04 👍 349 🔁 174 💬 13 📌 32

Thank you!

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I don’t usually cross the steams of my academic and musical lives - but just so sickened by the sexual exploitation and misogyny of powerful and degenerate elites and their rotten tech bro empires - Funk the Patriarchy II 8th March, Glad Cafe www.instagram.com/reel/DU-_VWQ...

20.02.2026 15:55 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jews for Palestinian Justice UCL | Full statement after video. 🇵🇸 | Instagram 113 likes, 1 comments - ucljpj on February 19, 2026: "Full statement after video. 🇵🇸".

Great statement from UCL Jews for Palestinian Justice on the provost's bizarre attempt to take credit for the Palestine encampment (when UCL actually tops the table for disciplining students and repressing activism on campus)

www.instagram.com/p/DU8vh85jpC...

19.02.2026 19:28 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Publication day!! Thank you to @thesociologicalreview.org who awarded me the fellowship to turn my thesis into a monograph with @policypress.bsky.social

19.02.2026 10:04 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
Phases of the moon against a black background.

Phases of the moon against a black background.

“Social struggles and oppressions are not abstract concepts: they usually emerge from our daily lives and often find us before we go looking for them.”

Editors Iris Pissaride and Juliette Wilson-Thomas introduce our Magazine’s February issue.

buff.ly/zMo9aU6

19.02.2026 08:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

18.02.2026 18:55 👍 221 🔁 126 💬 4 📌 8

Join us on the 26th March!

13.02.2026 13:13 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule


www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

13.02.2026 10:16 👍 169 🔁 43 💬 8 📌 2
cwunews on Instagram: "CWU @utaw_uk members at Google DeepMind took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity…" CWU @utaw_uk members at Google DeepMind took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza, to demand a robust code of AI ethics and an end to unethical contracts. They were joined by academics from UCL demanding their university divest from Google while it maintains its unethical and military contracts.Workers make the AI, workers can shut it down!

www.instagram.com/p/DUswuVQjVF...

CWU members at Google Deepmimd took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

They were joined by academics from UCL demanding their university divest from Google.

13.02.2026 17:43 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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“Classroom teachers are no longer just educators; we’re therapists, crisis responders and case managers, all while trying to meet academic benchmarks.” In the February issue of the Magazine, former teacher Iza Munir Hamdani shares her experience of burnout.

buff.ly/B76M3Xa

12.02.2026 14:03 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

He’s got a lot to answer for

08.02.2026 15:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You are the best cheerleader 💜

08.02.2026 15:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

07.02.2026 21:04 👍 301 🔁 180 💬 9 📌 7

Thank you so much for supporting me 💜

07.02.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

As a child, I read LORD OF THE FLIES: never doubting that it reflected actual human nature. Turns out it actually didn't. www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

07.02.2026 17:04 👍 237 🔁 70 💬 14 📌 9

Such an important initiative.

04.02.2026 11:53 👍 25 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
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Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate Attorneys for Keith Porter Jr. — who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve — called for California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to take over the investigation of the incident, claiming the LAPD won't conduct a fair review.

Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate

04.02.2026 01:34 👍 160 🔁 97 💬 6 📌 2
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

This is so grim and it happening under a so-called Labour government is unforgivable

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

04.02.2026 07:45 👍 47 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1

Horrendous

04.02.2026 11:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Awful

04.02.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This tragedy is going to become a big story. Coast guard ramming a migrant vessel, whether by policy or recklessness, amounts to summary execution of migrants

04.02.2026 10:43 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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We’re happy to share that Dr Brenda Herbert, Sociological Review Fellow 2024–25, is publishing her book The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse on 19 Feb 2026!

Book launch on 12 March at UCL: buff.ly/SOu9LnC

30.01.2026 08:00 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

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