Megan Armstrong

"It’s important that working-class people who occupy positions of authority, or who have a public platform acknowledge how the politics of respectability work, and firmly reject methods to control working class people through judgement and shaming."

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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state.

It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West.

Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV.

Here's what I said this morning.

NEW: UK Government staff have been told to resign if they disagree with Labour's Israel policy.

It comes after 300 staff warned Labour are aiding 'the erosion of global norms' by supporting Israel despite law breaches

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Looking for a full-time post doc to join the PCPH team 🙌 leading on co-design and a feasibility study for management of MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Please share 🙏

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Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor?

I know which side I’m on.

Pride is a protest 🌈 Happy pride month ❤️

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Looking for a full-time post doc to join the PCPH team 🙌 leading on co-design and a feasibility study for management of MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Please share 🙏

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OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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"Just one more thing, Mr Farage, you want to lift the child benefit cap so people can have more kids. But I thought we were full?"

This is what our governments are facilitating.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Looking for a part-time research assistant to join my amazing team at UCL to develop and test a digital intervention for MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Someone with mixed-methods experience would be ideal!

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Great discussions at our Centre for Ageing Population Studies (CAPS) this week! We shared work on healthy ageing, Parkinson’s, dementia, carers & health inequalities. A pleasure to welcome Dr Jasmine Mah a geriatric medicine resident and post-doc fellow at Dalhousie University Halifax Canada !

Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning In this documentary, Theroux allows ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers to speak with perfect openness. It is chilling.

Just finished watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers. It is truly truly horrifying.

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The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before The documentarian manages to stay calm and polite as guns are repeatedly pointed at him in the West Bank. Then someone shoves him …

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before

“You shouldn’t be indifferent”

Sunshine, drinks and lovely food with the wonderful @abiwoodward.bsky.social 🍸

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’ Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest

"Morally repugnant" Labour

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I’m old enough to remember when Angela Rayner mocked the use of “handouts” terminology against working class people and pointed out that it was corporations that really got the taxpayer funded handouts

This is not going to work out the way they think it will, but I feel deep sadness and solidarity for everyone caught in its cruel stupidity.

🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts.

We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.

#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive

10 years ago I completed a PhD to prove a council estate kid could do anything if just given the opportunity 🪜

Unequal Treatment? - The Sutton Trust Unpacking the problems with access to medical degrees and careers.

👎 Only a fraction of medical students come from working class backgrounds, we have found.

Our research shows that working-class people are still heavily underrepresented in medical profession, despite efforts to widen access.

Lecturer in Sociology at UCL An academic position as a Lecturer in Sociology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Lecturer in Sociology |
UCL - Faculty of Education and Society
#Edujobs #EduSky

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Polly Toynbee in the Guardian 13/3/25 Dear Rachel Reeves: if there is no alternative to cuts, at least do them with care

Polly Toynbee in the Guardian 21/3/25 Thirteen years ago, Emma told me disability cuts nearly broke her family. Now under Labour it’s worse

Polly Toynbee 8 days apart. She should have just written one article that said: “If there have to be cuts, don’t let it affect me or anyone I know”

Research Fellow in Behavioural Epidemiology at UCL An academic position as a Research Fellow in Behavioural Epidemiology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

🌟 We're Hiring: Research Associate in Behavioural Epidemiology! 🌟
Lead a work package on Physical Activity Surveillance during Pregnancy as part of a UKRI-funded programme.

📅 Position: Postdoc (1.0 FTE, 4 years)
📆 Apply by: 17th April 2025
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Keir Starmer & his Labour goons
won't #TaxTheRich
because they've been promised jobs worth £millions
when the pendulum next swings
to the (they hope) even further right

If you don't believe me
just look at Tony Blair
and his luxury lifestyle
soon after leaving office

#OtD 14 Mar 1883 Engels sent a wire to Friedrich Sorge saying simply "Marx died today!". Karl Marx died in London, aged 64. Marx's magnum opus, Capital, is still the most devastating critique of capitalist political economy. Works by and about him here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Karl Marx died on Mar. 14, 1883, in London at the age of 64. His critique of capitalism and vision of proletarian revolution articulated in The Communist Manifesto and Capital became the theoretical foundations of the working class and socialist movements. #KarlMarx

On international women’s day, a reminder, that if your feminism isn’t intersectional, it’s not real feminism