I guess @SASNews@UoLondon is the same hypocritical institution that threatened the future prospects of jnr fellows at @ihr_history when they joined @boycottUoL (in solidarity with POC and migrant outsourced staff)...
Under new restructuring proposals, @SASNews is planning to close both the Institute of Commonwealth Studies as well as @ILAS_SAS, with a loss of not only jobs but research projects, academic networks, and the disappearance of the hard work of dozens of scholars.
Had planned to make it into Cambridge this morning for the anti-casualisation picket but my 1-month-old had some serious disagreements with the train timetabling. Solidarity to all on the picket lines @CambridgeUCU 💜
Saddened to hear of the death of such a great poet, historian, intellectual. His History of the Voice (1984) shifted the epistemic ground under my feet when I was a clueless undergrad and I'm forever grateful for it. His poetry did the same
https://t.co/ygqKREVGdz
Quite possibly, the most important election this country will ever face but whatever the outcome the fact that Grenfell and the Windrush ‘scandal’ wasn’t even a top 3 issue just let’s me know where people like me stand in this society. People died. The elderly. And babies. Died
To people I quite like who are now busy blaming Jeremy Corbyn: short thread
Let me preface what I am going to say by noting that I've never stinted on criticism at expense of solidarity. But I also didn't withhold solidarity in favour of criticism at this crunch time as you did.
Dark day for minorities in the UK. Especially for British Muslims who watched as a man who said "Islam was the problem," mocked veiled Muslim women, & also turned a blind eye to massive anti-Muslim hatred in his party, was just given a landslide majority by their fellow Britons.
"We've survived a Conservative government before"
No. You've survived. Poor people haven't. People with disabilities haven't. Trans people haven't. 130,000 people haven't because of austerity. Just because you'll be fine bc you're privileged, doesn't mean everyone else will be.