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Saio Gradin

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Part-time lecturer in Global Politics at King’s College London (UK), part-time organiser, writer, workshop facilitator. Co-author Prefigurative Politics (2020). https://saiogradin.net

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I don’t know what makes one blog post blow up and another sink into obscurity.

Here’s this weekends’s offering.

“It is alarming that once again schools are being encouraged to take a ‘doctor knows best” approach’…”
Sex Matters

15.02.2026 09:20 — 👍 31    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0
Black and white image of hands on a laptop keyboard. The copy says: Blog in orange, and then -  Response to Call For Evidence: Young People and Work Report. Long Covid Kids logo is in the bottom corner.

Black and white image of hands on a laptop keyboard. The copy says: Blog in orange, and then - Response to Call For Evidence: Young People and Work Report. Long Covid Kids logo is in the bottom corner.

#Blog
Our response to the #CallForEvidence draws on a combination of lived experience, formal testimony and emerging research, including:

#LivedExperience of #YoungPeople who are unable to sustain education, training or employment due to ongoing ill health.

www.longcovidkids.org/post/respons...

15.02.2026 10:11 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

📢📢📢Then, cross the river and join us for a rally in solidarity with Palestine at 2pm in front of Strand building 📢📢📢

12.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

What can you do as a KCL UCU branch member?

🏘️🏘️🏘️Firstly, join us for a hybrid town hall meeting on Waterloo campus in FWB.1.62 (and online) 💻💻💻

12.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We are calling on management to
⭐️reinstate Usama
⭐️protect staff and students from far right violence
⭐️divest from war crimes and violations of international law
⭐️commit to help support the rebuilding of Gaza’s higher education sector

12.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A student at a UK university lost his visa after pro-Palestinian activism. Some academics urge a reversal | CNN Egyptian student Usama Ghanem took part in pro-Palestinian campus protests, prompting disciplinary action which could see him deported from Britain within days.

KCL students who have organised in solidarity with Palestine, including Usama Ghanem, remain suspended and are facing repression both in the U.K. and abroad. Read more ⬇️ edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/e...

12.02.2026 08:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
KCL’s investment in genocide: new data and update on our campaign New data obtained by KCL UCU shows that our university’s investment in companies implicated in human rights abuses and violations of international law is getting worse. For example, between 2024 (Q2) ...

KCL’s institutional complicity in genocide and violation of human rights is worsening. For eg between 2024-2025 there was a 17% increase in the value of KCL’s endowment invested in companies doing business in illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Read ⬇️ kcl.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/06/k...

12.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

📋🇵🇸AGENDA for the National Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: Thursday 12 February 2026 📋🇵🇸

12.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces to sustain the PM, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

A chicken that loses its head can still, for a short period, run around and flap its wings.

This is Keir Starmer's government.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.02.2026 16:36 — 👍 344    🔁 84    💬 14    📌 3

Jag jobbar i brittiska universitetssektorn, många förlorar sina jobb just nu. Å ena sidan har vi avgiftsmodellen som gör universitet beroende av internationella studenter eftersom de betalar grovt högre avgift - å andra sidan rasistisk gränspolitik som är anti invandring, det går inte så bra

09.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Israel has murdered more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza since it signed the so called ceasefire. One of the latest is a 3 year old child.

02.02.2026 08:27 — 👍 360    🔁 281    💬 21    📌 16
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What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.

It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.

My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

01.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 1193    🔁 686    💬 40    📌 56
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We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.

www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

29.01.2026 15:42 — 👍 777    🔁 518    💬 37    📌 35

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

28.01.2026 03:12 — 👍 4536    🔁 1975    💬 40    📌 54

Ursäkta dum fråga men vilken främmande makt är det diplomaterna ska ha läckt svenska uppgifter till?

23.01.2026 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Säpo grep tre – alla kände Joakim Medin De två toppdiplomater som misstänks för spioneri och brott mot Sveriges säkerhet är båda kopplade till journalisten Joakim Medin som satt fängslad i Turkiet, kan Expressen avslöja. Kurdledaren Shiyar ...

Så smutsigt detta.

www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...

23.01.2026 08:51 — 👍 64    🔁 30    💬 6    📌 6
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Exclusive: BBC bans journalists stating Maduro was "kidnapped" I’ve been leaked this from the BBC.

The BBC bans its journalists from stating that Maduro was "kidnapped" 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/exclusive-...

05.01.2026 17:58 — 👍 436    🔁 210    💬 35    📌 26
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Life sciences: Science and Tech Committee presses government for details on US trade deal - Committees - UK Parliament The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Chair, Dame Chi Onwurah, has written to Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health, and Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Science and Technology, f...

Chi Onwurah to Wes Streeting:

‘[Your] letter was riddled with errors & withheld vital information… There’s very little information on how much the [pharma] deal will cost & how much will be taken from the NHS’s stretched budget’
 
Concern is building

committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...

19.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Deals put UK-US trade relationship in the spotlight | Letters Letters: Richard Torbett and Nick Dearden respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty on Keir Starmer’s medicines agreement with Donald Trump

My letter in the Guardian today 👇

The Pharma deal is just latest example of of Starmer’s submission to Trump. His desire to appease Washington means he’s handing over our sovereignty & eroding our rights. We’re becoming no more than a US vassal state.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

17.12.2025 09:04 — 👍 8    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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What the hell is going on with Britain's spy flights above Gaza?

I spoke to Phil Miller of @declassifieduk.org following their explosive new documentary on the topic.

17.12.2025 11:47 — 👍 211    🔁 96    💬 9    📌 4

Vote yes to industrial action!

21.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms? Nature - Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.

“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”

SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies

go.nature.com/3Lspwi0

09.11.2025 12:21 — 👍 135    🔁 62    💬 5    📌 9
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Have you posted yours yet? 📮
We’re loving all the red post boxes and “I’ve voted” pics, keep them coming and make sure your vote is in by the deadline!
#WeAreTheUniversity

09.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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This weekend be sure to get your vote in, chat to a colleague about getting their vote in! Together we can change the future of higher education! #wearetheuniversity

08.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Fler kan ha dödats i Sudan senaste veckan än under hela Gazakriget Allt mer pekar på att el-Fashir i sudanesiska Darfur är epicentret för en av århundradets värsta massakrer, skriver The Telegraph. Fler människor kan ha dödats där den senaste veckan än under två års ...

Går inte ta in. Vilket jävla mörker.

omni.se/a/kwqw9B

05.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 87    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 0
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'Nigel Farage is Not My Friend...He's Just a Very Handsome Man' The wife of a Russian spy gets in touch...

NEW: ‘Nigel Farage is not my friend…he’s just a handsome & stylish English gentleman’

The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her ‘good friend’ after saying that he was her ‘good friend’
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

02.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 665    🔁 321    💬 41    📌 29
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Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...

A mass slaughter of civilians is taking place in Sudan after the city of El Fasher fell to the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces.

30.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 99    🔁 68    💬 5    📌 7

Vote yes in both ballots ✊

28.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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❗️📝 ❗️KCL UCU has written to management expressing our outrage at the disciplinary action being pursued against multiple students who have protested the presence of pro-Israeli lobbyists on our campus and the university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza
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27.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0