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Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
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I've also signed this letter and invite others to do so too

Then tell the club you don't wanna fucking play in it, or throw all the remaining matches. Until you do that, drop your annual whinge about pointless fixtures the club enthusiastically embraces.

"It’s clear now that nothing will shame the West into stopping Israel from carrying out its “total victory” in Gaza. But I’ve written this to serve as yet another reminder that we all knew what was coming. Nobody can feign ignorance. Nobody can pretend they didn’t know."

all of this is downstream of the president's (and stephen miller's) obvious racial animus toward haitians!

Merely confirmation of what was clearly happening. Palestinians on the ground have repeatedly described these aid distribution sites as "traps". This is what happens when armed forces steeped in racist ideology are sent on a mission of vengeance, and granted months of absolute impunity.

Cannot be stressed enough how deeply anchored anti-Arab and especially anti-Palestinian racism is in the German media. Just as much the arrogant, self-defined intellectual and liberal papers like Die Zeit as in the Springer gutter press. Biller is a bigot and he has form. What disgusts me more >>

All the British libs who decided hating on Corbyn was more important than defeating Johnson should look at how Lander worked *with* Mamdani to defeat an evil candidate

Zohran Mamdani simply doesn't have the experience of a South Bend Indiana mayor running to be President of the United States

“your life can be a little better” vs “no it can’t and i’m a sex pest” and the entire democratic establishment really went with option 2 and last night they ate shit :-)

it's funny how society under capitalism sees capitalists as such rational omniscient actors that Serious Political Analysts™ will take their advice from gambling websites just because it looks similar enough to the stock market

the facts of the method and the victims—African migrants—recall some of the worst atrocities in human history

The flammability of historic buildings that are the subject of longstanding contentious planning disputes is really worryingly high. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel

Nothing to stop him being just as confrontational as Tucker Carlson next time he interviews a Democratic politician with the exact same views on Israel and Iran as Ted Cruz

@nesrinemalik.bsky.social is consistently the best comment journalist in the UK at the moment, IMO

I wrote a thread compiling instances of German media and journalists rejecting international law and/or declaring a new era where the "law of the strongest" applies. Which I find terrifying. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19359...

Another video showing the size of today's #United4Gaza protest in #Berlin. Demonstrations of this site have been a regular sight in UK, Italy or the US. In Germany, they have been rare. Quite substantial mobilization today, especially given the heavy-handed policing over the past months

Not sure these blurbs do it for me

The U.S. govt robbed this guy of 3 months of his life with unjustified imprisonment, denying him the chance to support his wife through the birth of their first child. I hope he sues and wins a lot of $ in damages. apnews.com/article/mahm...

becoming a father has made me see some things extremely clearly. as I think I've said before on here in so many words, separating this man from his son was evil. The circumstances are not identical, but remind me of all the bombs which have made orphans, or which have bereaved parents.

Mason has absolutely lost it

While I think Wacquant’s work is quite important, I have some methodological concerns that raise important questions every interested reader should be posing. These are not new concerns and I am not the first person to raise them. 🧵🪡

Some of the arguments being made this week in the Telegraph and London Standard about the authors' preferred ethnic makeup of Britain/London would have been considered dubious, antiquarian, and extremist in the 1990s.

just straight up racist trash (from David Goodhart)

Der Menschenrechtskommissar des Europarats schreibt an Dobrindt und warnt vor Einschränkungen der Meinungsfreiheit im Zusammenhang mit Protesten in Solidarität mit Palästina. Er thematisiert zudem den Missbrauch der IHRA-Definition.

Hilarious how much of a downgrade it was when Time to Say Goodbye podcast replaced E Tammy Kim with this Harper guy as co-host. (And a black mark against the judgement of Jay Caspian Kang).

The worst thing about this sudden Damascene revelation is that we all know that 'research consolidation' really means 'give all the cash to Oxbridge, Imperial and a handful of others'. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ministe...

I'm gonna need to see a list of the "problems" the people are solving before I concede this claim on a case by case basis

The TLDR of this Barnold Ronay article on the club world cup is: club wc - so boring and pointless the guardian had to send me on holiday to Florida to write about it www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I dunno, frankly insane that we were bullied into silence about a genocide and I don’t think we should be bullied into silence about the same state actors bombing a new population of civilians and starting a major world war

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

alle schwule unter 40 die ich kenne leben und feiern in neukölln. in der realen. nicht in dem rassistischen fiebertraum, der nur in den köpfen irgendwelcher schwaben existiert, die zu schwach und ängstlich sind, um tatsächlich dorthin zu gehen, da man dort vielleicht einen migranten sehen wird.