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Dr Ian Cummins
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Interested in the history of mental health policy, penal policy, true crime, association football and Coltrane. One of the Two Doctors. No g in Cummins
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The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism 2026 is now open for entries.

Are you trying to make your name in arts journalism? Write a review of any new work in the arts for your chance to win £3000 and publication in the Observer.

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Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism: Enter Now
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Thanks to everyone at @policypress.bsky.social for their support
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation for hosting a fantastic launch, and everyone who came.
Shop early for Christmas 😉
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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A brilliant film
screenmedia.bsky.social 🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · Sep 28
“NETWORK” (1976) dir. Sidney Lumet

Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall

🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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thesociologicalreview.org
How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain?

@lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief.

#OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/QrP2lD2
Lisa Morriss and Siobhan Beckwith Marking motherhood: Tattooing and willfulness as a response to and a way to survive child removal https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251359845 The Sociological Review journal #OnlineFirst
August 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Excellent article
June 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Asked what his "unconditional surrender!" post meant for Iran, Trump says: "Very simple -- unconditional surrender. That means I've had it. I've had it. I give up, no more. Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there."
June 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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SHELF LIFE: our latest book reviews

📘 Duane Ebesu on gentrifying Brooklyn
📗 Baris Cayli Messina on Russian criminals
📕 @danieljwoodward.bsky.social on social murder in the DWP
📙 @driancummins.bsky.social on social work
📕 Laura Hamilton on UK feminism
📗 Ningxiang Sun on H20 & humans

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April 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🔴Patient surveillance system Oxevision is just on dozens of NHS trusts - and it has been involved in at least four deaths among mental health patients

Really important investigation from my colleague @lucasamin.bsky.social (also in today’s Observer)

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Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units
Campaign calls for investigation into the use of Oxevison amid concerns over care and its effect on
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March 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This is a truly exceptional book.
stuhennigan.bsky.social Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Mar 28
I make less than a quid a copy on this and only sold 250 last yr which is insane considering how topical it is; would help me out a LOT if i could shift a load more before next royalties are due in June. Extracts free to read @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
March 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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“Garrett argues that critical social theory provides tools to question common sense perceptions of social work, asking questions about its role and wider society.“

@driancummins.bsky.social reviews Paul Michael Garrett’s “rigorous and challenging” study. Out now in the Magazine. buff.ly/MJqNbUo
March 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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socioeconomic 🤔
karenyourish.bsky.social Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Mar 7
As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid. An analysis by The New York Times reveals how these words are being removed from government websites. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Removing From Their Sites Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order

“I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
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March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA
Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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PM on R4 taking Trump Gaza seriously rather than reporting it as a genocidal breach of international law 🙄
February 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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40 years of Aikea- Guinea
January 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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40 years of Meat is Murder
January 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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100 years of The Great Gatsby
January 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.”

A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.
December 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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A new post by Neil Ballantyne reimaginingsocialwork.nz/2024/12/13/t...
The legacy of Erik Olin Wright: Emancipating Aotearoa
This blog post introduces an article that will appear in the next issue of the journal Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work. In that article, I offer an overview of the legacy of Erik Olin Wright (1947…
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December 13, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Reform is a party by and for men born in 1967 who believe they were personally gassed at the Somme.
Women have to deal with periods, pregnncy, and menopause. What do men have to deal with? Lee Anderson MP: Try the Battle of the Somme.
December 9, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Lmao they're so scared, this is deranged
An email from a health care company about making their employees sign a pledge An email from a health care company about making their employees sign a pledge swearing they think for-profit health insurance and executives are important
December 9, 2024 at 4:36 AM
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35 years ago,when I was in my first year of engineering school, 14 Canadian women were killed in another Canadian engineering school, because they were women.

#16Days

Learn more about them here:

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December 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Hi

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My Favorite Things (Stereo) (2022 Remaster)
YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic
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November 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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thetrudz.photo tru @thetrudz.photo · Nov 10
“FBI tracked Aretha Franklin’s civil rights activism, declassified file shows” www.theguardian.com/music/2022/s...
The FBI labeled these shows, held in Memphis and Atlanta in 1967 and 1968, as “communist infiltration” events. The FBI also noted that Franklin was alleged to be involved in a “huge memorial concert” following King’s assassination in 1968 that a source claimed “would provide emotional spark which could ignite racial disturbance this area.” The FBI also tracked a performance by Franklin at a 1972 fundraiser for Davis in Los Angeles. The file noted that Davis was “facing murder-kidnapping charges in California” and that the concert’s sponsors, the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, was “an organization founded by the Communist party, United States of America.” On several occasions, the FBI identified Franklin as a potential performer at events deemed suspicious that she did not actually attend, including a 1971 benefit event for Davis held by the Boston chapter of the Young Workers Liberation League and a Black Panther Party event in Los Angeles. The three documented death threats against Franklin included a Cook county jail inmate in Chicago who posed as an FBI agent to extort her for $1m, threatening serious consequences if she did not pay. The file also records harassment at home, by letter and by phone by one person in 1979.
November 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM