John E. Richardson

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.

Western liberal democracies in 2025.

Changing the ECHR so some people are afforded full human rights and others are cast aside, as worthy of inhumane treatment, is perverse. Human rights are for all. The clue is in their name.

European ministers back ECHR plan to tackle illegal migration Countries in the treaty - including the UK - will negotiate a

How to report without reporting. This article states the UK govt are not happy with 'Article 3, the ban on inhumane treatment, which critics have argued makes it harder to deport certain migrants' - i.e. migrants whose lives would be endangered if deported.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will Labour’s move to limit ECHR deter the far right or alienate progressive voters? Previously sceptical MPs now want to modernise human rights law to prevent an overreach of the law and losing to the far right

Ooh gosh let me think about this one

Giving airtime to this moron is pretty shocking

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Hadley Freeman is turning out to be Melanie Phillips 2.0
The switch from progressive to reactionary is quite the thing.

I did think pay to pray app was a grift but didn’t realise quite how appalling it is. A conduit for fascism and removal of women’s rights. When the music career dries up, grift for the worst men on earth eh Gwen?

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel

We're delighted to let you know that EMC MediaMagazine has gone off for print today, with the download available already for web subscribers. Loads of articles about Film and Media Studies set texts along with plenty for the general reader. Kneecap anybody? englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazines/

ICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and 'unlawful threats' The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration. Now, the app's developer is suing.

The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration. Now, the app's developer is suing. n.pr/3XDeFVc

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!

'Displaced memories in the Trieste border area: a neverending historical entanglement' by Roberta Altin

From #Identities' latest Special Issue, 32.6:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...

#migration #SpecialIssue

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Photo of me in my male drummer tee. It's hard being a male drummer.

Inspired by an old friend's podcast ('This are Johnny Domino', latest ep includes a song with me playing on it) I have decided to buy a 4-track recorder and start making music again. I'll get through the holiday spending and then get one. Plus a drone. Plus a synth (possibly)

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology.” It also will establish “a cash reward system” for info leading to the arrest of leaders in “these purported terrorist orgs”

It's perhaps a small point, but the Sabbath wouldn't have been a Sunday...

It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States.

omfg yes

I'm really sorry to read that Daria, I hope you find strength in the coming weeks. Take care

Our department’s Professor Yannis Tzioumakis discussed Netflix’s $72B takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO on BBC News today! www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...

Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality | Contemporary French Civilization This article offers a novel intervention in decolonial museology by foregrounding animal representation and natural history collections as critical yet overlooked sites of epistemological violence in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). ...

Nice to see this out in the world. My new article 'Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality' is out with CFC and currently open-access. Thanks to everyone who made it possible: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

For any hope of peace, all Palestinians must be released from Israel's torture chambers Thousands are languishing in brutal prisons without due process. And under Ben Gvir, the situation is on track to get much worse

Israel has abducted around one million Palestinians into its torture camps from 1967 to 2021: 1 in 7 of the Palestinian population.

Israel is still abusing thousands of Palestinians, including children, in its torture camps every single day.

America's Brownshirts

A war criminal without a war It's just murder.

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

Yes, Christianist, continuing the tradition of the Klan.

Thou shalt not kill, unless it's foreigners.

The five guests for the BBC Immigration special. It doesn't matter who they are, it's popularising racism.

God this looks like a shit show. Why is QT doing this? (Oh yeah, duh, the ratings. Same as when they hosted Griffin in 2009.) Not only fucking shameless it's immoral.

Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...