Tommaso Sabbatini

The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places Visa obstacles threaten to dash the hopes of 40 students due to start in September. Here are some of their stories

Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.

Now please stop flooding me with replies.

I'm sorry for your loss. No, war crimes are not an inevitable part of war. We've had over 160 years of efforts to protect noncombatants and Israel is undoing the progress we've made. I don't have either the time or skills to help you with this, but I hope that you find the strength to deradicalise.

Prewar data falsely used to show rise in Gaza population Human rights nonprofit Amnesty International released a Dec. 5 report that found Israel is committing genocide in the Ga

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CDL-London at Imperial College London is Creative Destruction Lab’s newest international hub dedicated to transforming academic breakthroughs into scalable, commercial ventures. CDL-London is supported by Founding Partner, Rio Tinto, a leading mining and materials company, and hosted at Imperial College London – the global top ten university and leader in engineering and physical sciences. As part of Imperial’s Enterprise ecosystem, CDL-London will be led by the Institute for DeepTech Entrepreneurship, a cross university initiative housed within Imperial Business School, in partnership with the Imperial Enterprise Lab.

Sounds like a satire of neoliberal academia. CDL stands for ‘Creative Destruction Lab’. Then there's the partnership with the ‘leading mining and materials company’ and the ‘DeepTech Entrepreneurship’! 🫠

To say that I was disillusioned would be a vast understatement. What can you even say when your own sector leadership comes out immediately with the white flag and shouts 'hands up, we surrender'? It's just unfathomable.

I was in Montreal in 2023–24 and couldn't stop thinking that the city covers 365 sq km (141 sq mi), just like the Gaza Strip. It is a small enough area that the idea of being unable to escape it is claustrophobic. But it is large enough to make its complete obliteration mind-boggling.

Map of the Hochelaga Archipelago with the city boundaries of Montreal marked in orange. (It takes up most of the Island of Montreal and a few minor islands.)

Israel has razed an urban area the size of Montreal. Let that sink in. The obvious European comparisons one would reach for (Coventry, Dresden, Le Havre, even Warsaw) don't fully capture the scale of destruction.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

The situation in many UK universities is awful, but the news coming out of Lancaster is especially bad: 1/4 jobs to go, with senior management either leaving or not taking a pay cut. Please sign and share this petition to support colleagues there: chng.it/X6g46TjMSC

Strong ‘Yet you participate in society! Curious!’ vibes.

Well, intellectually there is a difference between a government who are happy with the status quo and a government who supposedly want to make things better but claim their hands are tied. But materially, that makes little difference. And to lots of voters the latter is what matters.

partof an email header reading: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

We've reached the point where a job posting for a tenure-track position gets automatically flagged as scam! 🫠

Unfortunately, part of the reason people fall for far-right snake-oil salesmen is that Sensible Grownups have spent the past 20 years insisting that very possible things like taxing the rich and having better public services were, in fact, impossible.

To be fair to her, she's making sure that by the end of her time in government two universities will be a higher percentage of the total number.

How about saying "we will not tolerate any intimidation towards asylum seekers, racist and xenophobic violence has no place in our society", instead? How about hearing the worries of those of us who are concerned by the ever rising xenophobia in the country?

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Classic @InternetHippo tweet: Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting ‘Better things aren't possible’.

This you?

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Every university that went hard after its pro-Palestine students opened the door for this

The New York Times Puts An Asterisk On A Starving Child The Times takes the bait on Israeli propaganda

My latest newsletter, about The New York Times' "correction" of its story about starvation in Gaza, and what it says about their adherence to Israeli propaganda.

Congrats!

Also, speaking of incentives, we've seen a leader who completely crashed their own party being rewarded by Facebook, and MPs who sabotaged their party being rewarded by Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Peter Thiel.

It was Les Troyens, and it's very much the plot!

The purpose of enterprises like the Changedlabourparty™ is to destroy a possible progressive coalition by peeling off its middle-class and/or boomer component, so I guess the goal of engaging with boomers might be to catch them before they get completely radicalised against us?

Yeah, it's a speculative scenario. I happen to disagree *within* that speculative scenario (which could come true after the next GE if a Pasokified Labour comes back crawling to the left, as the French PS did): 👇🏻
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Liberals sincerely think that a centre-left coalition would be successful if centre-led because they're idealists, and start from the ideology. The left are materialists and start from the electoral base. Not only I'm a materialist, but I've seen the idealist strategy fail time and again.

I think he agrees that a socially liberal Labour does not currently exist. The deeper disagreement with the likes of us is on how a coalition between the left and liberals should work.

I agree that we need a coalition of the left and liberals to defeat fascism. I just think the terms of such a coalition should not reproduce social hierarchies! That's both wrong and precisely how Continental centre-left parties lost their electoral base and imploded.

It does not sound unethical if you frame it in idealist terms, as closer to/away from the centre. It does if you describe it as the preferences of a smaller but richer electorate being given preference over those of a larger but poorer one.

Congratulations! But wait, are academic vacancies still a thing?