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‘The British Labour Party is now markedly to the right of the US Republican Party, the party of the war on drugs when it comes to recreational drugs’ Brilliant end of season CounterPower with @kojokoram.bsky.social on Brexit, Empire & the war on drugs m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjT2...
Brexit: The Empire That Failed
YouTube video by COUNTERPOWER
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Check out my downstream podcast episode on my new book w/ @novaramedia.com m.youtube.com/watch?v=lo_b...
Who REALLY Won the War on Drugs? | Ash Sarkar Meets Kojo Koram
YouTube video by Novara Media
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As we enter "a world in which criminalization and commercialization are happening simultaneously," @kojokoram.bsky.social examines glaring injustices—and our chance to "put policies in place that genuinely benefit those on the ground." Interview by @sarahlsinclair.bsky.social:
Who Will Profit Most When the Drug War Ends?
In a world where "commercialization and criminalization are happening simultaneously," Prof. Kojo Koram explores the alternatives.
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Really interesting discussion and analysis of drug policy (including historical and economic contexts) from @boldpolitics.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_B...
How We End The War On Drugs | Kojo Koram
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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We only went and won it!! 🎉🎉🎉 A newsletter has just won the biggest prize in British journalism Absolutely delighted. Huge thanks to Khadija and to all Democracy for Sale’s supporters 😊
Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnd the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2026 are... Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife of Democracy for Sale.
Organising this summer school with support from @thesociologicalreview.org 🚨Class, Culture & Discontents 📍23rd & 24th July 🏫 Balham, South London 🧑🍳 Free lunch Great line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics, come one, come all Free tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
How Trump and the right seized Psychedelics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Turn on, tune in, cash out … The US right used to fear psychedelics. Now it wants to sell them | Kojo Koram
Hallucinogens have come a long way from the 60s counterculture to Trump’s White House, says academic and drug policy researcher Kojo Koram
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& coming to Foyles Charing Cross (London) on May 27! With the brilliant @kojokoram.bsky.social www.foyles.co.uk/events/this-...
This is Also A Love Story: Sally Hayden in Conversation with Kojo Koram
Award-winning journalist, photographer and author Sally Hayden visits to Foyles to celebrate her newest book with Kojo Koram
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Sally Hayden@sallyhayd.bsky.social · 4mo agoFirst UK events announced for my new book 'This is Also a Love Story': July 7 in York: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/york/... & July 8 in Edinburgh: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb... Thank you to everyone considering coming to one!
'The European left needs to open its ears to the words of leaders like Morales and Mujica when they say a change in international drug laws is essential to move beyond extraction and imperialism towards equality and democracy.' Read more from @kojokoram.bsky.social newint.org/drugs/2026/m...
A special lookback at the tumultuous year that was 2025 @meadwaj.bsky.social is joined by Faiza Shaheen — author, economist and Exec. Dir. of Tax Justice UK — and Prof @kojokoram.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social , host of Death in Westminster... #Economics pod @macrodosepod.bsky.social
The 2025 Review w/ Faiza Shaheen & Kojo Koram | MACRODOSE
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My article on @theguardian.com about how Trump relaxing cannabis laws at the same time as ramping up a Latin American drug war fits with his ‘America first’ vision. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s cannabis reform would revolutionise US policy. Just don’t expect the ‘war on drugs’ to end | Kojo Koram
Rescheduling marijuana might seem an unlikely move for a Republican president – but it perfectly coheres with his ‘America First’ worldview, says academic Kojo Koram
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Brilliant & important analysis from @kojokoram.bsky.social: why the populist right’s attack on history is integral to its attack on democracy & human rights: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From Washington to Westminster, the populist right needs to erase history to succeed. It’s up to us to resist | Kojo Koram
Removing ‘divisive’ Smithsonian exhibits, Farage’s ‘patriotic’ curriculum: this is where the unpicking of the 20th century liberal order begins, says academic Kojo Koram
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„Every monument will fall“: Inspirierende Buchvorstellung von @danhicks.bsky.social & Gästen @kojokoram.bsky.social,Rebekka Ladewig, @hkw-berlin.bsky.social, Jonas Tinius. Auch in Deutschland brauchen wir mehr Auseinandersetzung mit kolonialen Denkmälern im öffentlichen Raum.
My @thetls.bsky.social review of @atossaaraxia.bsky.social and @ebharrington.bsky.social’s excellent new books on the offshore economy- www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...
Competition is for losers
In an essay of 1946, George Orwell reminded readers that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle”. In their complementary new books on the shadow global economy, the journalis...
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Brilliant straighforward explanation of how the world works from @kojokoram.bsky.social ram www.youtube.com/watch?v=35bb...
The real legacy of Empire w/ Kojo Koram
YouTube video by The Break Down
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📢 #HR25Bogotá Speaker Announcement 📢 We’re thrilled to announce @kojokoram.bsky.social Koram as a plenary speaker at the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25).
Labour MP Kim Johnson calls for a public inquiry into historic scandal which saw black children incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” & sent to schools for physically & mentally disabled pupils www.theguardian.com/education/20...
MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’
Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s
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Sounds terrifying. I can see why UK govt are so afraid to discuss.
Peter Reynolds@peter-reynolds.bsky.social · last yr.SWITZERLAND. Recreational #cannabis trials show consumers move to lower-risk consumption methods, no disturbance of public order, no diversion into illicit market. Police welcome ability to prioritise other tasks. #drugspolicy businessofcannabis.com/switzerlands...
My latest for the @NewStatesman on how the myth of ‘two-tier justice’ will keep us all paying for the largest, most expensive prison system in Europe. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
Robert Jenrick and the myth of “two-tier justice”
New sentencing guidelines have become the tool of cynical politicians playing divide-and-conquer politics.
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Reform have only 5 MPs and they have already split into warring factions! Hilarious. Even tankies are looking at them like "Damn, I think those guys have an infighting problem"
If trickle down economics was sound economics, Americans would be thriving right now. It’s. Not. Trickling. Down. It’s been nearly FIFTY years.
The only cancel culture killing the British univeristy is the cancellation of the grant funding that these ‘anti-woke’ writers enjoyed in the 80s and 90s www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
How EDI, cancel culture and bad boards are killing our universities
With British institutions copying the likes of Harvard in stifling free speech, the only way back to reason is explicit guarantees for academic freedom
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Amazing. Vive la France!! Parliamentarians have voted for a 2% wealth tax on the assets of the richest 0.01% of France’s citizens. It'd apply to around 4,000 people in France with assets of more than €100 million & could bring in between €15 and €25 billion per year www.euronews.com/business/202...
French lawmakers back tax on ultra-rich proposed by Ecologist Party
Supporters say the levy would tackle inequality in France, although some fear the effect on investment, business expansion and jobs.
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'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala 'You can't understand how Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle 'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae O'Hagan 'Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire' 🦁 @kojokoram.bsky.social
Correct: “the dysfunctional marketisation of higher education [..]is at the root of today’s financial black hole”. One change that should be introduced yesterday is to drastically cap the % universities are allowed to spend on private consultants who are draining the sector of money and skill
The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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