John BH
@johnbriggsh.bsky.social
Learning to listen. Trying to be better. Trying to escape my western perspective.
And thank you in advance for posting an academic paper that is open access.
And thank you in advance for posting an academic paper that is open access.
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John BH
@johnbriggsh.bsky.social
· Mar 18
“The invariable variability of human embodiment underwrites all human values, including that of life worthy of life.” - Joel Michael Reynolds, The Life Worth Living
Ministry of Justice. That’s David Lammy.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ministry of Justice. That’s David Lammy.
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Can we all just agree to not talk about Your Party? It's not something that is or ever will be relevant to UK politics, whatever lessons we could draw about how to not run a political movement we should already know and every post just confers legitimacy they don't have.
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Can we all just agree to not talk about Your Party? It's not something that is or ever will be relevant to UK politics, whatever lessons we could draw about how to not run a political movement we should already know and every post just confers legitimacy they don't have.
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International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People: A reminder to the world of Palestinian people’s rights to freedom and independence
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People: A reminder to the world of Palestinian people’s rights to freedom and independence
english.wafa.ps
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People: A reminder to the world of Palestinian people’s rights to freedom and independence
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
“European governments have discovered a magical shield that allows them to advance the most draconian, racist and dehumanising anti-immigrant policies, without being accused of racism.”
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/non-...
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/non-...
A non-white face on a racist asylum policy is just a mask for cruelty
The colonial strategy of ruling through intermediaries continues to this day - only now, it's happening on the domestic stage
www.middleeasteye.net
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
“European governments have discovered a magical shield that allows them to advance the most draconian, racist and dehumanising anti-immigrant policies, without being accused of racism.”
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/non-...
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/non-...
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A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect a year ago today.
Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.
Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.
Lebanon: Israel’s attacks continue one year into "ceasefire"
www.nrc.no
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect a year ago today.
Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.
Since then, Israel has violated the ceasefire nearly 10,000 times: 7,500 violations of Lebanese airspace and almost 2,500 ground violations, according to the UN.
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion… [W]hile Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”
-Agnès Callamard, Secretary General
-Agnès Callamard, Secretary General
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion… [W]hile Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”
-Agnès Callamard, Secretary General
-Agnès Callamard, Secretary General
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"Germany is not merely absorbing this violence, but is refining,
institutionalising, and exporting it. The country has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning
protest..." 2/
institutionalising, and exporting it. The country has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning
protest..." 2/
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Germany is not merely absorbing this violence, but is refining,
institutionalising, and exporting it. The country has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning
protest..." 2/
institutionalising, and exporting it. The country has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning
protest..." 2/
Currently reading. Learning more about events in my lifetime, notably (today) the US-led coups of the 1950s and 60s, starting with the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, 1953.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Crude Capitalism
This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Cr...
www.versobooks.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Currently reading. Learning more about events in my lifetime, notably (today) the US-led coups of the 1950s and 60s, starting with the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran, 1953.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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'peace eludes south Lebanon'
Yes, Lebanon just keeps misplacing its peace. How careless of it. It needs to keep its peace in a safe place so this doesn't keep happening.
Yes, Lebanon just keeps misplacing its peace. How careless of it. It needs to keep its peace in a safe place so this doesn't keep happening.
BBC News: "Year after ceasefire, peace eludes south Lebanon as Israeli strikes continue"
So BBC News, is it, in fact, a ceasefire?
So BBC News, is it, in fact, a ceasefire?
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
'peace eludes south Lebanon'
Yes, Lebanon just keeps misplacing its peace. How careless of it. It needs to keep its peace in a safe place so this doesn't keep happening.
Yes, Lebanon just keeps misplacing its peace. How careless of it. It needs to keep its peace in a safe place so this doesn't keep happening.
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🚨British military personnel trained in Israel amid the Gaza genocide, Declassified can reveal.
This comes after we exposed the Israeli soldiers training in Britain over the past two years👇
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
This comes after we exposed the Israeli soldiers training in Britain over the past two years👇
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
British military trained in Israel amid Gaza genocide
Exclusive: Armed forces personnel have ‘studied on educational staff courses’ since October 2023, Ministry of Defence discloses
www.declassifieduk.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨British military personnel trained in Israel amid the Gaza genocide, Declassified can reveal.
This comes after we exposed the Israeli soldiers training in Britain over the past two years👇
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
This comes after we exposed the Israeli soldiers training in Britain over the past two years👇
www.declassifieduk.org/british-mili...
Logistics: containers, cargoes, ports and military bases: the sinews of war and trade, binding our world under capital; and the consequences.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
The Political Economy of Global Shipping with Laleh Khalili
Podcast Episode · Return to Bandung · 26/11/2025 · 1h 14m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Logistics: containers, cargoes, ports and military bases: the sinews of war and trade, binding our world under capital; and the consequences.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social discusses her research and writing.
Highly recommend both book and podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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Our first foray into messaging research for trans folks, we did focus groups asking all sorts of people: have you ever felt trapped/expected to act certain way bc of something about you? This opened the flood gates. /1
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our first foray into messaging research for trans folks, we did focus groups asking all sorts of people: have you ever felt trapped/expected to act certain way bc of something about you? This opened the flood gates. /1
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NOW: The judicial review into the proscription of Palestine Action is taking place in London.
Here's what we know so far:
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Here's what we know so far:
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November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NOW: The judicial review into the proscription of Palestine Action is taking place in London.
Here's what we know so far:
⬇️
Here's what we know so far:
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Lammy has turned permanently from liberal Jekyll to authoritarian Hyde.
It is, of course, years of underfunding by successive governments that has created this mess in the Courts system.
It is, of course, years of underfunding by successive governments that has created this mess in the Courts system.
what the fuck
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Lammy has turned permanently from liberal Jekyll to authoritarian Hyde.
It is, of course, years of underfunding by successive governments that has created this mess in the Courts system.
It is, of course, years of underfunding by successive governments that has created this mess in the Courts system.
It is estimated (from its own data) that last year Meta’s platforms served up to 15billion (US) scam advert impressions…
…per day.
…per day.
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
It is estimated (from its own data) that last year Meta’s platforms served up to 15billion (US) scam advert impressions…
…per day.
…per day.
Further evidence that capitalism does not need to make things (let alone, useful things) but dies reward dishonesty.
“Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another”
Great investigation by Jeff Horwitz.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another”
Great investigation by Jeff Horwitz.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Further evidence that capitalism does not need to make things (let alone, useful things) but dies reward dishonesty.
“Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another”
Great investigation by Jeff Horwitz.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another”
Great investigation by Jeff Horwitz.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
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ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
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"Another way of looking at it, the socialist way, understands that tax isn't about balancing the books. It's a tool for remaking society."
The Joy of Wealth Taxes
With the budget set to land on Wednesday, there's been a wealth of speculation and, of course, several leaks . Tax has frequently come up in...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Another way of looking at it, the socialist way, understands that tax isn't about balancing the books. It's a tool for remaking society."
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🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
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"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?