Dr David Mckendrick

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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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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How the singer Ganavya infused jazz with spiritual soul The Tamil Nadu-raised artist explores the devotional in song

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Looking forward to this next Monday

Book chapter!

ABOLITION WEEK 2025: BORDERS – Scalawag Incarcerated and systems-impacted writers explore the violence of borders alongside relationships between ICE, the IDF, and U.S. carceral systems, imperialism, and capitalism for Abolition Week 2025.

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David Renton · Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support? With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

‘The problem with the interpretation of the verb “support” by the police and courts in Britain today is that the state accepts no limit to its meaning.’

David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Dystopia of the World’s Tallest Jails - Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti - Inquest New York City’s plan to replace Rikers with skyscraper jails is a cautionary tale of how decarceral talking points can be misappropriated.

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Maria Gaspar On Abolition and the High Stakes of Working with Incarcerated Communities Both an educator and practicing artist, Maria Gaspar has put collaboration, compassion, and critical thinking at the center of her work.

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Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo

As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!

Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism Rather than a zero sum approach, we need a 360 degree politics of solidarity.

A thoughtful post in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on Diane Abbott, antisemitism and the complex ways in which race is imagined and understood.

By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
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"Caspar wore his skills lightly"
Indeed he did Les.

❤️ Caspar he was so generous with his time. A true lover of music and culture. Missed greatly.

The joy of buying second hand books

I am!

My brother and I climbed Ben Nevis with John Hartson a few years ago. It's hard going but the views make it worthwhile. I'd imagine 22y.o is at least four beers deep by now.

Some more images from Ben Nevis.

22y.o did Ben Nevis today.

‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit Thanks to its sense of romance and camaraderie, Killeagh went viral on TikTok and spent 18 weeks in the Irish Top 10. The band explain how a studio jape has united Ireland

‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Glasgow graffiti

Only in Glasgow

"Completely unacceptable" is what you say to a toddler throwing a tantrum not a powerful nation committing genocide.

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

Any institution, he writes, involved in the ‘allocation of resources within a system of property rights regulated and guaranteed by governments ... ultimately rests on the threat of force’.

Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden A new report details the damage. This was an ideological ploy from which we have yet to recover, says LSE’s David Madden

Thatcher’s right to buy policy is celebrated but here’s the cost: losses to us all of £194bn and a fractured society | David Madden

Addressing poverty: can social work go back to its roots? - Community Care Professor Anna Gupta discusses the lack of focus on addressing poverty within children's social work, amid rising child poverty

Always worth hearing what Anna has to say
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/07/30/a...

A Sign Of Humour: The mystery behind Glasgow's fake street signs A self-proclaimed guerilla artist based in Glasgow is covering the city in parody street signs.

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‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact After struggles with mental health and addiction, Max Wallis launched a poetry magazine – and it has transformed his life

‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact

Cleo Laine, the 'First Lady of Jazz', dies aged 97 Veteran jazz singer Cleo Laine, famed for her scat singing style, has died at the age of 97.

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Herbie Hancock, Barbican review — five stars for an evening of dazzling, prodigious talent The 85-year-old’s place in history as a composer has long been assured — this concert confirmed him as a bandleader of stature

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YouTube video by Carne Ross Is our government complicit in genocide?

I always think @carneross.bsky.social is worth listening to youtu.be/rLN7SrfTeZ4?...