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Unusually hot & dry conditions worldwide have fueled a deadly wildfire season, costing lives and destroying communities. “If these infernos don’t bring policymakers to their senses and force necessary changes to grapple with the fossil fueled climate crisis, what will?” writes UCS's Rachel Cleetus:

A World Ablaze: The Climate Future We Feared is Here - Union of Concerned ScientistsUnusually hot, dry conditions across many parts of the world—including in Algeria, Canada, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and the western United States—have set the stage for the catastrophic wildfire season underway now. Just over this weekend, rapidly spreading wildfires have exploded around Spokane, Washington, forcing nearly 65,000 people to evacuate thus far. Unrelenting hot dry weather, supercharged by climate change, is contributing to the dangerous conditions causing these fires.blog.ucs.org

Getting the OfS involved in PhD examination would be an incredible, disatrous and egregious assault on academic independence.

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan LiewIt was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liewwww.theguardian.com

The Arday scandal opened the doors to every crank demanding the state defund academia, then list their grievances and pet projects. Denham attacks Diane Abbot, pushes the Boghossian/Lindsay/Pluckrose ‘grievance studies’ hoax, says economics is a science while social science is ‘incomprehensibility’

Certainly in my field (of the humanities) this has already been the result of the imposition/infiltration of a capitalist, industrialist "productivity" model on academic research: contemplation and free inquiry time as see as waste in this model, to the detriment of curiosity and innovation.

Thinking a lot about photojournalism and the difference in the stories that these two pictures, both Reuters from Ceuta, tell.

New journal article on working-class women telling stories of economic and social change. Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees and I recorded interviews with women in deindustrialising Lanarkshire who had diverging narratives of survival 'getting by' and social mobility - 'getting on'.

My suspicion is not at all – legions of professors would have inherited their positions on the basis of class and status – in other words, their “identity characteristics”.

When they talk about appointment not on merit but on “identity characteristics”, isn’t that true of half the upper-class graduates of Eton & Harrow appointed to the faculty over the last several centuries?

Young protesters in India achieved a rare political victory by forcing the resignation of a cabinet minister. Read how India’s Gen Z movement of 'Cockroaches' dented Modi's political image.

How India’s Gen Z movement of 'Cockroaches' dented Modi's political imageYoung protesters in India achieved a rare political victory by forcing the resignation of a cabinet minister.bit.ly

People need to stop saying at least Andy Burnham will stem the rise of fascism even if he's very bad on race and immigration, civil liberties, and higher education. You know how you hollow out institutions to prime them for fascism? Be very bad on race and immigration, civil liberties, and higher ed

I’m continue to seek support for Amir’s terrible situation. His phone’s still broken, so can we please urgently replace it? He needs it to survive. We just had a terrifying moment & I actually shed tears as he played sound of the roaring Israeli gunfire around him fearing they were his last moments.

Goodbye and thank you to Betye Saar, a giant and a favorite www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...

Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 (Gift Article)Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.www.nytimes.com

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @sistersofpeace.bsky.social @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk @indcatholicnews.bsky.social @afarr.bsky.social @forpeacemaker.bsky.social

Visa for Gaza studentsI'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?my.uplift.ie

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

So let me get this straight - in the eyes of gender critical activists, a trans woman using a toilet/changing room, like we do in every liberal democracy in the industrialised world are irredeemable predators, but an (alleged) domestic abuser who is also homophobic and misogynistic is somehow ok?

Christopher Hitchens said of Jerry Falwell: “If you gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.” So anyway, Rod Liddle is dead.

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The reason Israel blew up the 900 year old Beaufort Castle in Lebanon is (1) they have to fake their nationalist archaeological ancestry and can't bear any other regional history; (2) they were ignominiously defeated at Beaufort by PLO in their 1980s invasion of Lebanon & want to erase the memory.

"After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain". The cruel Home Office is at it again! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remainwww.theguardian.com