David Owen

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News
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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

'The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees offers a novel, thoughtful, and persuasive ethical analysis
of how states should respond to refugees.'

From a recent review of my book in Ethics and International Affairs!

You can read the full review here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#PhilSky

The article states “The Conservatives say they would task officials with removing 750,000 illegal immigrants.” This is inaccurate: the plan would include migrants *legally* in the country, because it is legal for refugees to enter to claim asylum without first getting a visa.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Only yesterday, the Guardian had this interesting piece on research into 80+ elections across decades & 12 countries that showed: anti-immigrant rhetoric never serves traditional parties. It only serves the far-right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ha!

Nice, thanks.

Resident Academic Full Time Post in Philosophy - L-Università ta' Malta Resident Academic Full Time Post in Philosophy

An opening for a critical/democratic theory person at the University of Malta
www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/recruit...

#philsky
#philosophy

I didn't know it was out yet.

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

In a desperate attempt to boost their poll standing, Tories propose to abandon the rule of law
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Deaths, disappearances and forced recruitment: refugees recount horrors of relentless war in Sudan Refugees who left Darfur and Khartoum for South Sudan say they feared being targeted by both sides in conflict

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

Brilliant essay
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Gianni Infantino’s Faustian pacts face biggest test as prospect of Israel ban moves closer Sport should not be used to normalise abnormal conduct and it’s no longer possible to dispute the idea that Israel shouldn’t currently be participating

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Book 130: ‘Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy’ by James Williams

#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #techsky

How David Hume split literature from philosophy | Aeon Essays Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy

David Hume vs literature

Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy | by Katie Ebner-Landy aeon.co/essays/how-d... #Hume #literature #philosophy #philsky

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

BBC News - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
www.bbc.com/news/article...

An asymmetry: monetizing hate is an established human activity, arguably exacerbated under capitalist society; monetizing love is not, because if it is monetized, it is not love: love can only be a gift.

New paper with @jowylie.bsky.social and @anagantman.bsky.social on art, morality, and the true self, forthcoming in Cognition! #philsky #psysky

If Farage starts deporting ‘illegals’ en masse, the ‘lega... In a climate of fear, everyone is at risk of mistreatment – just look at the States

Common sense
observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Er, the words may have been appropriated and mis-used in various ways but being Anti-Fascist is good, actually. And brave. And, who could have believed it?, still necessary.

Important read 👇

Thread 👇 (esp “nobody seems to have addressed Musk's chilling Rivers of Blood call for British people to prepare for inevitable violence & to "fight back or die")

My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion, by Michel Barnier My perceptions are not very different from Barnier’s.

Review of Michel Barnier's Brexit diaries by someone who is a keen observer of British and European politics @nwhyte.bsky.social : fromtheheartofeurope.eu/my-secret-br...

Sadly so.

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Very sorry to hear of the death of Conor Gearty who was a brilliant lawyer, a superb scholar and a lovely man.

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

Some actual analysis rather than political posturing
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

#polisci #polisky

Now available for interested folk
OWEN, David, BAUBÖCK, Rainer (editor/s), Citizenship as reparations : should the victims of historical injustice be offered membership?, EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2025/55, [GLOBALCIT] - hdl.handle.net/1814/93664

Ha!