Hannah Wright

The way he stresses that people protesting the genocide of Palestinians joining the Green party will change its "complexion" is... well, "dog-whistle" would imply a level of subtlety that's just not there.

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

An underrated reason that higher ed should not structured as leveraged individual investments in marketable skills. It's pro-cyclical and on a lag!

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

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 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.

I just read @aliceellafinden.bsky.social's book, Counterterrorism and Colonialism, which makes a very similar critique re: how 'imperial boomerang' is used in the context of domestic and international counterinsurgency and counterterrorism practices - I highly recommend it

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

UK drops target for international student recruitment Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...

www.ft.com/content/a23c...

Thanks - yeah I would only do it in the context of recommending other work as well.

Me too! I think I'm just used to seeing people complain about reviewers using reviews as an opportunity to promote their own work, but I've never actually been in this situation before myself.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

So when is it acceptable as a reviewer (anon) to tell an author they should cite your work? I've never done it before, but have been sent something which makes the same argument I have made in published work. I assume this is an instance where it's best to tell them, it just feels a little icky?

Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..

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

Division of Medical Education Events and Initiatives to Discuss Autism and ADHD Diagnoses in Context (for Staff and Students) Colleagues in the Division of Medical Education have been involved in a series of events exploring the history of autism and ADHD diagnoses, and related topics concerning the study of neurodevelopment, developmental psychology, and neurodiversity. In June 2025, CHSTM, together with the network Autism@Manchester, hosted the interdisciplinary workshop “Rethinking Neurodevelopment: From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care”, with three speakers, Dr Anna Stenning (University of Southampton), Dr Bonnie Evans and Dr Cinzia Greco (both SMS). The workshop was an opportunity to rethink neurodevelopmental conditions, their historical and contemporary transformations, and to explore the future direction of research in the field. Growing interest in, and diagnosis of, conditions such as autism and ADHD has generated new and sometimes controversial debates. The workshop was an occasion to discuss the history of autism, and the role of international agencies, such as the WHO, in defining this diagnosis, and how other personal identities, such as gender, can influence the experience of autistic people. Dr Erin Beeston (a CHSTM alumna now working with Autism@Manchester) requested support from Dr Greco and Dr Evans to organise an “Autism student journal club”, an ongoing initiative for neurodivergent students to discuss research on the topic and connect with other students with similar experiences. On 16th October, Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green spoke at a new CHSTM seminar series on Mind, History and Society, bringing together historians and doctors to support understanding healthcare practices. Dr Evans discussed how the history of child development studies within social and political context can help to explain changes in the meaning of the autism diagnosis over time, and why these historical changes are vital to interpreting epidemi…

CHSTM and the Division of Medical Education at UoM are organising/have organised a few interesting events on neurodiversity. Have a look here:
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...

The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)

My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:

go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

I hope we can refocus away from takes and towards what we can + must do. Six families and a camp of fifteen more are facing severe weather RIGHT NOW—most in tents, the rest in window-less rooms.

Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:

* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc

AND

* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero

I kid you not, it is that stupid

@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀

If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

Incidentally, this aligns with my thesis that most fights over teaching "the Western Canon" are between people who couldn't quote you a single line from it. There are those of us who see it as not a totemic issue, but rather a big stack of good books that we enjoy without yelling about it.*

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

Politics / June 18, 2025 Abolishing ICE Is the Bare Minimum ICE agents aren’t out of control. They are performing their designed role as fascism’s storm troopers.

tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.

Essay question here for pol econ colleagues

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.