Ruth Fletcher

YouTube video by QMUL School of Law Medicine Under Attack with Dr Guy Shalev

If you are interested in understanding Israel's attacks on healthcare in Gaza, their genocidal logic and objectives, take a few minutes to listen to Guy Shalev, the director of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldbP...

Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Our next Criminal Justice Centre event is now live!
📍Room 313, Laws building QM, Mile End (and online)
📅 Wednesday 8 April at 6-8 pm

Join us to hear Dr Carson Arthur in conversation with Dr Kodwo Eshun on Denial and Disavowal in the Killing and Inquest of Colin Roach. Register here
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Very much looking forward to this conversation at SOAS on 17 March around Resisting Erasure.

If you're in London, come join us and please share with friends and colleagues.

Register here:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Today is the International Feminist Day of Struggle. In 1910, socialist feminists around Clara Zetkin called for 8 March to become a global day of action for women’s rights. Today feminists take to the streets worldwide — the fight for real equality continues. 🌹✊

International Feminist Strike for Liberation - London 8 March 2026 We strike because we don't just want rights. We understand they can be useful, but they are CRUMBS in a system based on exploitation.

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

we strike #8M because we don’t just want rights. Rights can be useful, but they are crumbs in a system based on exploitation, extraction & colonisation of our bodies, labour, nature… we want justice & liberation… feminist justice is incomplete without land justice+

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Taoiseach Michel Martin statement on Lebanon I strongly condemn the reckless strike on a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon that has left a number of Ghanaian peacekeepers seriously injured. The role of peacekeepers is sacrosanct, and all should go above and beyond to prevent them from coming into harm's way. I would like to pay tribute to the courage, resilience, and professionalism of the Irish peacekeepers who came to the aid of their Ghanaian colleagues today. I have been briefed on the latest situation, and all Irish personnel serving in Lebanon remain safe and accounted for. Michel Martin Taoiseach na hÉireann

Who I wonder launched this ‘reckless strike’ against UNIFIL peacekeepers, because this statement would seem to indicate it came from an unknown source or is a known ‘unknown’, eh!! Someone should really inform the Taoiseach! #nameandshame #weallknowwhodidit

Today we have a story of the war in Ukraine, by a writer who lives in Kharkiv. Don't want to give anything away, but the swerve this story takes is brilliant. wigleaf.com

Lovely review of MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection

‘Feels as though we are accessing the thoughts of a particularly erudite friend’

Post-apocalyptic Time I.                 “How did we end up in this hell?” is the question every Iranian I know asks. As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.–Israel invasion of Iran, I am no longer certain…

"As I write these words, on the fifth day of the U.S.–Israel invasion of Iran, I am no longer certain what remains of the country in which I grew up."

Shahram Khosravi on Iranian life under constant rupture.

Open access article by @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social - Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination "...making intentional space for plants in our life can cultivate a different sensibility..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘We are nature’

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1/ We’ve got big news: RAMFEL is now Refugee and Migrant Justice.
What started as a small advice service in an East London church has grown into 1 of the UK’s largest providers of immigration advice & a leading national voice standing for the rights of migrants, refugees & people seeking asylum.

Happy Birthday, Rosa! 🥀🚩 Our foundation’s namesake was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. As one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy sparked wide controversy.

UK mother separated from children for years has ‘draconian’ order overturned Flawed evidence by psychologist Melanie Gill was used to remove children from woman in 2019

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb... by @hansummers.bsky.social also now reported in @theguardian.com Will other cases be reviewed?

Have we seen the last of unregulated psychologists in the family courts? My report on McFarlane's landmark judgment, Re Y. He says his ruling is not just about one person (Melanie Gill) but a whole system that failed to protect the children in this case. tinyurl.com/mvpbjjfs

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference 12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH? Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference
12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH?
Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

Really necessary set of essay about this moment:

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192

"This matter is not simply regarded as a sectoral problem confined to higher education as it may threaten Scotland's economic future, innovation capacity, and regional stability."

Why hasn't UUK produced a report like this for all of #UKHE? Their strategic ignorance is destructive.

Green Party NI social media graphic with pink and blue gradient background featuring Belfast skyline silhouette. White text headline reads ‘NI EXECUTIVE BETRAYS LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AGAIN’ and ‘NO EVIDENCE, NO COMPASSION, NO EXCUSES’. Center shows tilted News Letter article screenshot with headline ‘Exclusive: Mike Nesbitt pauses Northern Ireland’s involvement in controversial UK puberty blocker trial’ and photo of two politicians. Green Party NI logo at bottom with imprint details.

Families in Northern Ireland with gender-questioning children are being let down. The suspension of NI’s participation in the UK-wide Pathway clinical trial leaves 45 young people in limbo at our single youth gender service, with no clear path forward.

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Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility".

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Donate to Causeway Pride 2026, organized by Causeway Pride Causeway Pride is entering its 4th year and in a time when LGBTQIA+ rights are under renewed a… Causeway Pride needs your support for Causeway Pride 2026

www.gofundme.com/f/causeway-p...
I'm on the committee of this rural pride. We run on the smallest of budgets and desperately need sound equipment, especially as
@hleehurley.com @alicemydaughter.bsky.social
are our keynote speakers. If you can't donate PLEASE share 🙏 ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️ thanks.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Gorton and Denton by-election result:

GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)

Green GAIN from Labour.

Grateful to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social for pointing out the *financial system* is the problem. Horrified at the evasive response by the minister; Bennett didn't query the fees, she queried the entire instability and reliability on chasing funding.

♥️ the @qmucu.bsky.social shout-out #UKHE

Pour tous les collègues en France qui regardent encore le système britanniques des frais d'inscriptions à la hausse avec des étoiles dans les yeux (si si, on vous voit), une page d'utilité publique de @qmucu.bsky.social qui recense les licenciements, restructurations et fermertures en cours 💔

Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.