Dan Burrows

7. If people on the left cannot stand up for the victims of sexual abuse and genocide, what the hell are they for?

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms.

This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.

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Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers? Four activists from the proscribed Palestine Action group in the UK are still on hunger strikes in prison.

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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

The first Rage Against the Machine album is flawless.

Genuinely prefer Predator 2.Danny Glover is great, Bill Paxton being Bill Paxton, Gary Busey being,well, Gary Busey.Great action sequences, awesome new Predator weaponry (thinking disc and spear),they made the urban setting work really well. Objectively,i accept probably not as good as the first one

Now watching the King's speech.

Interesting, because I am assured by people on both side sides of the aisle that homeless people are not a part of our society, but a social nuisance to be harassed and a great societal danger to be expunged.

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

Gaza camps this winter, 2025.

Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.

Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored

Edinburgh: 350 jobs at risk, alongside pay freezes and reduced hours.

Strathclyde: 70 job cuts announced.

These issues were raised during First Minister’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament, as university staff face deep uncertainty heading into Christmas.

We are fighting a losing battle against stupid.

And that's because we're led by a general who thinks out-stupiding stupid is the best strategy.

How's that working out for you Keir? Oh, record low polling and King Stupid on course to become Prime Minister? Who'da seen that coming?

Will banning trans people from Labour conferences help literally anybody? No.

Will weakening human rights help literally anybody? No

Will deciding autism isn't really autism help literally anybody? No

Will putting up more flags help literally anybody? No

Yet on it goes. Day after day.

Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration

It doesn't even matter whether Labour have improved the economy or created jobs, or done anything positive. 100% of the headlines they get are about far-right policy announcements that will make Farage happy, but make no tangible improvements to anybody's life. 🧵
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WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe.

Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
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We've had laws against incitement to racial hatred on the books for sixty years, but we seem to have forgotten how to enforce them...

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

A discipline in danger | Alexandra Wilson | The Critic Magazine I have written previously for The Critic about the closure of Music departments in British universities and it gives me no pleasure to be revisiting the issue. Unfortunately, the domino effect that…

'The media has not yet picked up on the fact that Northumbria University has also now quietly closed applications to its Music degree. This is a new course, which admitted its first students only five years ago. Staff with excellent research profiles were appointed'. 1/3

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
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The BBC, the press, the Universities, who next? The UK's key and core institutions are consciously preparing the ground for Fascism. Enabling, abetting, collaborating.