@banaji.bsky.social
Media Professor LSE /disinformation/social change/young people; trade unionist/ socialist - everything’s ideological but some ideologies lead to affordable healthcare, forests and public parks; others lead to discrimination and genocide.
CHALLENGE! Can we do this? 💙😮 🤞
We want to continue investigating NHS privatisation - and we’re particularly concerned that private equity might be moving into the space 🚨🚨🚨
We have to raise £1710 to hit our goal and get started with this important work! Can we get …
there is a cooking gas shortage in India now. My disabled father's household has one cylinder left. We're comfortable, and can manage somehow, but I can't stop thinking of the millions who don't have the money or privilege to find something, all because the US and Israel are their murderous selves
Palantir has demonstrated its Maven Smart System, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze intelligence data and help plan military operations.
The US has historically had a particularly strong hatred of brown and Black disabled people; and has normalized, encouraged and accelerated discrimination and violence against us, and the ICE/Trump era has only turbo charged the underlying racism, ableism and xenophobia
The RSF having to retreat from a bunch of cities because they lost their funding from the UAE is such a good example of how all struggles are the same struggle.
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...
What a world
Zionists have worked so hard to convince everyone that “Jewish = Zionist/Israel supporter“ and have done this while co-signing violence and as anti-Zionist Jews have long said, that propaganda makes Jews less safe on top of justifying the Israel’s violence against Palestinians and other Arabs
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men."
Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?
My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“
I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.
Disabled people being pushed into poverty.
People with disabilities need support, not benefit cuts.
Requirement to score 4 points for an activity leads to loss of PIP support.
Govts attack human welfare whilst promoting corporate welfare.
We are all one event away from needing disability support
The Home Secretary’s new “Earned Settlement” plan could plunge 1 million migrants, people who our economy and NHS depend on, into poverty and uncertainty.
This cruel political posturing has to stop. Make your voice heard: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan.
Govt wants to restrict the right to jury trials to reduce backlog of court cases.
Backlog caused by Tory austerity and cuts.
Need investment, not cuts in human rights.
Lost rights are hard to recover.
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
motivated by offline events but maybe relevant for some: never stops boggling my mind how some are able to rationalize the toxic ways they navigate internal org disagreements - functionally punishing the urge some people have to step up to roles of responsibility in these orgs
RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline
By taking a far-right approach to immigration policy, cracking down on rights and placing it high on the agenda, Labour has not just turned its own voters away
It has mainstreamed far-right politics and strengthened Reform, both politically and electorally
Them doubling down should be unforgivable
Does Starmer support Mahmood's determination to double down on a visibly failing strategy (politically *and* economically).
If so..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).
Deaths of 22 children in Channel due to ‘catastrophic failure’ by UK and France, NGO says
China’s energy emissions fell 0.3% in 2025, despite a 3.5% rise in energy consumption. The drop was attributed to its massive renewables buildout, driven primarily by solar power.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat
Top Barclays executive to lead UK banking supervisor.
She will also serve as one of the BoE’s deputy governors
Expect more deregulation.
Revolving doors and cognitive capture is now the norm in the regulatory structures.
A regulator can't promote industry and protect people from corporate abuses
In case anyone was wondering what the Tony Blair Institute is up to, they’ve just published a paper advising Scotland what to do about the health service 🚨🚨🚨
(Many of Starmer’s ideas for the NHS are EXTREMELY similar to ideas published by Blair’s org…)
institute.global/insights/pub...
As an academic born and raised in Denmark who researches and writes about Danish politics, I can confidently say that Cowley has no idea what he’s talking about. The piece is full of factual errors and falsehoods
New post just out:
"SEND help"
Everything you need to know about the government's special educational needs plans.
Covering: the problem the govt are trying to solve; key proposals; three big issues that will cause problems; and the politics.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.
Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.
Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?
ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed
AYMAN: Where?
LUNA: Are you serious right now?
AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation
