Andrew Hobbs

In telling both halves of this story, he seeks to situate broader arguments about decolonisation, racialization and welfare in a single city, while offering a different explanatory framework for understanding a period of urban redevelopment, mass house-building and industrial policy.

5/5

At the same time, this dramatic reorganisation of Liverpool’s economy and built environment hardened lines of racial difference in the city, with people of colour becoming unhoused, policed, confined to insecure work and, in some instances, deported.

4/5

... white unemployed workers, West African seamen and Black and Chinese technicians and sailors recruited into the city during the war. Liverpool’s unemployed white population were the beneficiaries of a massive state-backed expansion of housing, and jobs.

3/5

How do histories of welfare, housing, top-down urban redevelopment and economic management look when viewed from Liverpool? In this talk, Dr Wetherell will compare the postwar fate of various groups deemed to be ‘surplus’ in the city in the 1930s and 1940s ...

2/5

Black and white photo of mixed heritage family, children playing, parents talking, at door of house

Race, Obsolescence and the Management of
‘Surplus’ Populations in Postwar Liverpool

Free talk, all welcome, Wed 11 March, 2pm, after the society's annual general meeting, Liverpool Central Library, Fourth Floor Meeting Room

by Dr Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social, University of York

1/5

A lot of these warmongers live either outside the U.K. or inside the UK in gated communities that you could barely find on Google Maps. Quite a few of them will have stocks in defence companies. So they’re just sitting at home safe and increasingly richer, smugly smiling as human beings burn alive.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

No coincidence that Farage visits Mar-a-Largo on Friday, Saturday Trump rants against the PM. A modern day Lord Haw Haw.

Morning all.

Photograph by Frank Martin. Charles Tumbridge riding through Kensal Rise, West London with his dog Susie in her sidecar kennel, 1962.

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

His ex-wife at the funeral, mourning, impressive

It gets more awful with each revelation. Perhaps Hegseth will make another video.

#bbcpm

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Roundtable on the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914

Last Friday's #RSVPDigiEvent on the #19thC British press in non-Anglophone countries is now live on our YouTube channel! And don't forget to join us *tomorrow* for our March event featuring @triproftri.bsky.social and the Forget Me Not!

(Re)View February's event here: youtu.be/Z_SHdYrF6tE

This is *phenomenal*. Rich people would genuinely prefer to be shot at rather than help pay for a school.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.

They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.

UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.

Fines for UK financial crime nosedive to ‘pitiful’ lows Penalties from the FCA drop by 78% in five years as it prepares to take on a new role as 'super-regulator'

Fines for UK financial crime nosedive to ‘pitiful’ lows.

Penalties from the FCA drop by 78% in five years.

Regulator now has a duty to promote growth of the sector. It is a race to the bottom.

Financial crime not investigated. Bankers bonuses will increase from illicit financial flows. To

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Who benefits the most form the UK's current form of democracy?

Did you vote for this?

24m people live below the minimum living standard.

Unchecked profiteering – energy companies made £125bn profit since 2020. 120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.

Who/What governs the UK.

Young adults face unemployment, low wages, debt.

Govt can help, adopt Scottish policies
No university tuition fees.
No prescription charges (also in Wales)
Free bus travel for the under-22s, many on low minimum wage.

Treating young adults in England as second class is a political choice.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Both shopkeepers, a butcher and a hardware shop, both fought in WW1.

The economic structures that produce the ultra rich are the same that produce ecological collapse, climate change, international conflict, and human exploitation. In fact the wealthy cannot become wealthy without these effects. Global capitalism and imperialism rob the many to enrich the few.

The Full Moon rising over The Fens, taken near Witchford. There was a long hedge in the way of a clear view for the actual rise behind Ely Cathedral but I managed to find a tiny gap to capture a photo. 🌝🌝🌝
Ely, Cambridgeshire
#fullmoon #wormmoon #elycathedral #thefens #shipofthefens

Commiserations. What a ridiculous time-wasting system.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

If Justin Webb learns anything new from being schooled during interviews, he forgets it by the end of the conversation. He is a shockingly poor communicator.

#r4today

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

This image shows the title and abstract for a new journal article by Benjamin Bland, published in the Journal of British Studies. Title: "“I Am Not Anti Black Music But …”: Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain". Abstract:"Popular music culture has often featured in postwar British history as a site of tolerance and inclusivity, of multicultural exchange and anti-racist activism. This article, while not denying music's intersections with progressive causes, presents a different narrative. I use the pages of Britain's most prominent weekly music paper, the New Musical Express (NME), to demonstrate the important role that music has played in perpetuating wider processes of racialization in the late twentieth century. Surveying contestations over race in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, it highlights the ways in which popular music institutions such as the NME could function as sites of racial formation, reproducing the social power of whiteness even when providing space for what was often referred to as “black music.” The article underlines the degree to which popular music could produce hegemonically white cultural spaces, despite the diversity of musical culture at large. In so doing, it indicates the significance of popular culture for understanding patterns of racialization into the latter years of the twentieth century and beyond."

This is a fascinating looking paper by @benjamin-bland.bsky.social, on processes of racialisation in the popular culture of late C20th Britain.

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

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that the "imminent threat" posed by Iran was its expected retaliation to planned Israeli military action, and that prompted the US to strike first.

"They were going to attack us after we attacked them so we had to attack them. We are very smart."

The real ‘immigration crisis’ If we genuinely want to reduce immigration, perhaps we should look at the root causes, and stop funding foreign wars

The real ‘immigration crisis’

If we genuinely want to reduce immigration, perhaps we should look at the root causes, and stop funding foreign wars

By Jenny Harrison