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"Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archivesOne of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer shipwww.theguardian.comGlad to be part of this great forum on 'Revolutions and World Order' - open access @millennjournal.bsky.social 👇
George LawsonFor anyone interested in contemporary revolutions, check out this open access forum in @millennjournal.bsky.social, with contributions by @jasminekgani.bsky.social, Maria Tanyag, Toby Dodge, Ben Abrams. And me. Well worth a read - available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This shows just how farcical constructions of 'terrorism' are, and how they exist to criminalise dissent. But to be clear: these constructions are no better when the average terror suspect is a brown or black man in his 20s - the accceptance of which paved the way for our current predicament.
Lizzie DeardenThe average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...
The UK "needs a political leadership willing to challenge misinformation, confront prejudice and speak up for those who have become the targets of systematic suspicion and violence. The question is whether anyone is willing to do so."
London Review of Books‘This is not our first summer of racially motivated unrest, but the level of fear this time is unprecedented. Videos circulating on social media appear to show masked individuals stopping cars to identify people from immigrant backgrounds.’ Luqman Saeed in Belfast. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
In the not too distant future, private schools will be advertising themselves on the basis that their pupils are taught to think, read and write without the use of AI. Being able to use your own brain will be treated like a commodity, and a privilege for the elite.
BladeoftheSunKeir Starmer announcing AI tutors for schoolchildren, and AI Jobseekers tools that will write CVs, How many millions/billions are we spending on this trash when we could actually be hiring more teachers and creating jobs to get the job done properly?
Pls join us for the annual Fred Halliday lecture, 11 June 18.30 online & in-person @lseir.bsky.social. Dr Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown University) will be speaking on 'The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world', with myself as discussant. Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/plp-1...
St Andrews University academic on Gaza aid flotilla (mobilised to challenge the ongoing siege of Gaza) intercepted by Israeli forces: Geography lecturer Dr Antonis Vradis joined a boat believed to have been intercepted off the coast of Cyprus. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
St Andrews University academic on Gaza aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forcesGeography lecturer Dr Antonis Vradis joined a boat believed to have been intercepted off the coast of Cyprus.www.thecourier.co.ukBook event tomorrow 13 May - "Mobilizing Mainstream Islam" (Cornell University Press 2026) Speakers: Saskia Schäfer (author) and John Sidel 2pm at LSE and online - register below @lseir.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/...
Mobilizing Mainstream Islam: The Politics of Orthodoxy in Indonesia in Comparative Perspective (book launch)www.lse.ac.ukArticle "Protests in the United States on Palestine & Israel, 2023–2024" in Social Movement Studies, 25(2), 234–247 (2006) vital work by Erica Chenoweth, Soha Hammam, Jeremy Pressman & Jay Ulfelder www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Does anyone know of similar empirical studies of the UK protests?
With the resurgent interest in the nexus between policy and knowledge production, here is our open access article "The impact of colonialism on policy and knowledge production in International Relations" in @iajournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ia/article/9....
Walid Khalidi "documented the more than 400 Palestinian villages & towns destroyed in 1948 and wrote on the question of Palestine locally and globally. His work as a scholar [is a] cornerstone of Palestine studies." Read full collection here 👇OA until 31 May www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
www.palestine-studies.org"Reconstruction plans imposed on Palestinians with the implicit aim of destroying Palestinian life in Gaza demonstrate the reason Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide."
London Review of Books‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Would never use Trump's rhetoric of genocide, but was willing to let Trump use UK bases to conduct one.
Politics UK🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he would never use Donald Trump's rhetoric about wiping out Iran's civilisation "Let me be really clear about this. They are not words I would use - ever use - because I come at this with our British values and principles"
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lisa lowe9 Aprill: LALEH KHALILI, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism" register here: bit.ly/sprcyale-apr9 'racisms & colonialisms in the longue durée,' a collaboration between ucl sarah parker remond centre and yale center for race, indigneity & transnational migration
Book launch for new textbook on "Concepts in IR" - tomorrow 2 April at King's College. I'll be speaking about my chapter on the concept of Colonialism, and its evolution in theory & practice. Look forward to sharing a panel with great colleagues & co-contributors www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: Concepts in International Relations - A New IntroductionThis event explores the role of concepts as windows into world politics.www.eventbrite.co.ukThis US govt's dehumanisation of whole categories of people on a racist whim will not remain confined to war or people abroad.
Aaron RuparStephen Miller: "The human rights that we are gonna protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder. The human rights we are going to protect are of the peaceable citizens who have an absolute human right to live in physical safety and security every day of their lives."
"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an intl system in crisis. The certainties of the US’ hegemonic stewardship of the intl rules-based order have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place"
Eskandar Sadeghi-BoroujerdiMy most recent piece on the @lrb.co.uk blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Israel's policies put the US at risk. So instead of restraining Israel, the US bombed Iran - with no agreement on their end-goal, with zero plans for what comes next, and no system for safe evacuation of US citizens in the region. Does the US have agency in its Middle East foreign policy or not?
Jasmine K GaniMarco Rubio "the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked – and we believed they would be attacked [by Israel] – that they would immediately come after us.” www.reuters.com/world/us-not...