This is really bad news… www.timeshighereducation.com/news/grotesq...
‘Grotesque’ cull of BBC shows axes launchpad for public academics
Cancellation of Radio 4 programmes dedicated to ideas is a huge blow for younger scholars keen to connect with the public, say those who made their names on air
timeshighereducation.com
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:5, featuring 16 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide, guest edited by @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/KuDpTMf @journals.sagepub.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode about 20th century philosophy and biography David talks to the historian and literary critic @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social about the life and thought of Hannah Arendt. What did it all mean for the human condition? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 12 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in January 2027. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 16 October buff.ly/mPov5pd
LAST CHANCE! Join us on 2 September for our Public Lecture with Angela Saini — plus our very first Public Sociology Awards. 📍 SOAS Gallery | 5.30–9pm Book now: buff.ly/6yYIFh8
Sociological Perspectives on the Far Right: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Deadline: 13 August 2026 Editors: @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mirandaioss.bsky.social @jandob.bsky.social Apply now: buff.ly/8O8vYHu
Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.
JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 12 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in January 2027. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 16 October buff.ly/mPov5pd
And the Home Office provides virtually zero routes through which these nationalities can claim asylum in the UK without making the dangerous and illegal crossings that it so hates 🫠
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 7mo agoOf course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.
To Tell A Story edited and published for the first time by Benoît Bourreau, explores John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century. Offering a rare glimpse into the minds of two intellectual giants of the twentieth century.
⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0
RIP to the legendary Michael Silverblatt. Here he is talking to John Berger in 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLiv...
John Berger and Michael Silverblatt - part 1
YouTube video by sdeslimbes
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Just up on the Telegraph, a thorough and thoughtful piece about the wrongheaded policy changes at WAC. Thanks to Kate Murphy, @illuminations.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social and @marklewisohn.bsky.social for giving up their time. Gift link here www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...
The BBC scandal of 2025 that went unnoticed
The Written Archives Centre has closed its doors to the public, despite being funded by the licence fee
telegraph.co.uk
"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...
I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt
It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward
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Why is support for the @greenparty.org.uk growing among British Jews and how do we understand this? A letter by @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and me for the Guardian. 1/5
The Green party’s policies on Israel are appealing to young British Jews | Letter
Letter: Prof David Feldman, Dr Ben Gidley and Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism say it is wrong to characterise Jewish support for the Greens as ‘paradoxica...
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
Sort of a weird headline for the Guardian given that it’s published in a European country where neither of these things are actually “normal”
@therreport.bsky.social · 12mo agoEuropeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...