Bilge Serin

Of all the *MANY* things that are appalling about this Labour statement, my immediate thought reading this bit is, "so the government will welcome Spain forcibly deporting all those British retirees in the country?"

FFS 🤦

We are just Germany in the 1930s instead of blaming Jews we are blaming migrants.

But they aren't responsible for Austerity, Brexit or the profiteering crisis.

#bbcqt

"Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding"

Homes for whom exactly?

The Next Generation of British New Towns Join us for the second instalment of this year’s London Planning seminars.

Join us for the 2nd instalment of London Planning seminars at UCL Bartlett School of Planning, which I organise w/ @michaellondonsf.bsky.social

We'll be discussing the next generation of British new towns w/ John Sturzaker & David Mountain @rtpiplanners.bsky.social:
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Bergson and Affect Bergson and Affect

Dear friends, I'm very happy to share the link to my upcoming book on Bergson and Affect published with @edinburghup.bsky.social !

Those interested in #Bergson, #affect, #virtuality, #embodiment, or even #philosophy in general might find it interesting.

Forthcoming March or so next year!

Infectious diseases in Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’, says WHO – Middle East live UN official says: ‘Whether meningitis … diarrhoea, respiratory illnesses, we’re talking about a mammoth amount of work’ Israel returned the bodies of 30 Palestinians to Gaza on Thursday, the territory’s health ministry said, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned. Continue reading...

Infectious diseases in Gaza ‘spiralling out of control’, says WHO – Middle East live

Government officials will seek to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Aston Villa game Culture secretary to speak to Home Office as minister says barring Israeli supporters is ‘utterly unacceptable’ * UK politics live – latest updates Senior government officials will meet on Friday as they look to reverse a decision by West Midlands police to ban fans of the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv from a European match at Aston Villa next month. Ian Murray, a minister in the culture department, said on Friday the decision to ban travelling supporters was “completely and utterly unacceptable” and that the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, would meet officials from the Home Office and elsewhere to discuss it. Continue reading...

Government officials will seek to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Aston Villa game

Bloody brilliant 👇

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Sound like the plot for a new comedy series.

Opening with a panel and Q&A at 1 pm, 27 Oct, at James McCune Smith Learning Hub.

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A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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The media are lying to you again

A 'told you so' moment for more than two decades of Social Science research into carbon offsets ...

Mayhem in the backcourt as squirrels and magpies are fighting over some nuts. To be fair, if we shake the plant pots, we would probably find more nuts than soil.

Brexit ‘being ignored’ as cause of UK universities’ problems Loss of EU students made recruitment more commercial and universities more insular, argues new book

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/brexit-...

Completely repulsive in every way

Haha! Hope so!

Have just completed the task planned for 11 am 🤷‍♀️

Strip out London, and Britain’s GDP per capita is just 3% larger than Poland’s 🤯

Today's little moment of joy: My cat neighbour let me pet him AND purred back to me!

Missing it already 🌊
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Opening with a panel and Q&A at 1 pm, 27 Oct, at James McCune Smith Learning Hub.

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During these challenging times, we invite you to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion in everyday life, with a light-hearted exhibition!
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We've obviously reached a point where they both act unlawful, unethical or plain evil, and brag about it.

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

photo of the day: a lovely face
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Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

There’s a great exhibition on now in the ARC at Glasgow Uni with photographs around the theme of climate and mental health assembled by our PhD students in sociology and climate and my esteemed colleague the anthropologist Dr Alicia Davis.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight