Hannah Wright

Alternatives to Capitalism Workshop | Vincent Harting | Thursday 11 December 2025 11:00 - 16:00 | STICERD Event An event from the Cohesive Capitalism Event series organised by STICERD

If you're around London next week, consider joining us for this workshop on alternatives to capitalism! Details below👇

Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference Terms of reference for an independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.

Ah, seems it is the same one but they just announced the TOR today: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Is it me or has Wes Streeting just announced the same review he announced 2 months ago, but led by a different person? Is this another one?

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

I mean this, academics. If you don't feel capable of embedding a trans perspective into your class for time or expertise reasons, ask me and I will come talk to them for you.

I will even try to relate it to paleogeology (or history, English, drama...), god help me.

so it begins

Why I Can’t Just Meet You for Dinner The Reality of Post-Exertional Malaise

I am lucky to have a compassionate support system. But they still struggle with this part of it:

"Living with PEM means making impossible choices every single day. Work or social life. Basic functioning or relationships. Today’s activity or tomorrow’s capacity."

Desire v Ability
#LongCOVID #MECFS

Okay, here we go.

Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients.

NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer.

You know what to do
👇✍️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

Brand-new activists are discovering political movements – and each other: ‘You feel the camaraderie’ Organizers are breaking down barriers and creating clever campaigns to welcome people new to protesting

More of this kind of reporting. Thank you.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice “I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.

This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.

I don't plan to see Zootopia 2 because I strongly disliked the first film, but I am curious about people saying it's a critique of settler colonialism? Did they do any better this time?

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Muhammad. Muhammad was an accountant prior to this but his workplace was destroyed and his home severely damaged. He’s hoping to leave Gaza with his family including his daughters Iman, 5 and Lian, 6 so that they can get a better education.

Ah, I see the government has broken the portal for Access to Work claims, right before the end of the month when people will be submitting their claims. Wonderful.

EISA Postdoctoral bridge grants will support recently graduated or final-year PhD students who have not secured an academic contract or fellowship.

📣 Calling all recently graduated or final year PhD students: applications for EISA's Postdoctoral Bridge Grants are now open!

💸 Up to 5 grants of €3,500 each

🗓️ Deadline: 19 March 2026

🔗 More information on eligibility and application details: buff.ly/9giEdNr

the childlike innocence with which academia.edu repeatedly declares that someone who downloaded your article has actually read your article

LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM

Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon

Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...

This Thurs 27 Nov at LSE: "Palestine & the Limits of Liberal Freedom"
Speaker: Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)

Register below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...

Ethics is officially dead.

I keep seeing posts going around about Anna's Archive so I just want to say, no criticism of anyone who feels differently, but for me as both a published writer, and also as a publisher, if you want to "illegally" download my/our books you definitely should and I would love you to do so

Do you study ethics advice or its institutionalisation? Are you interested in how ethics expertise gets politicised?

Holger Strassheim and I are organising a panel on politics of ethics expertise - please consider submitting your paper! Happy to answer any questions #CallForPapers #ecprjs2026

This was my gut reaction to seeing this story too. I hope they get their recognition, but the irony tastes bitter for sure.

Abolition School Educating a new generation of organic intellectuals. There can be no abolition without reconstruction. Philly.

Their seminar series on WEB Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in America is an amazing resource: www.youtube.com/@AbolitionSc...

In addition to their work in Philadelphia, Abolition School (abolitionschool.org) also runs hybrid courses for people all over the world and posts videos of some classes online for us all to benefit from. Please donate if you can to help them keep going, and share if not.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting America, saying the group once known as the Boy Scouts is no longer a meritocracy and has become an organization designed to "attack boy-friendly spaces," according to documents reviewed by NPR.

It’s darkly funny how a decade of attacking “safe spaces” in favor of some sort of social Darwinist fantasy where the strong devour the weak has consistently progressed to the vigorous defense of special enclaves for masculinity.

www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...