Jon Dean

@jondeanstuff.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher. Views my own

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

This guy was professor of sociology at the University of Bristol as recently as 2021, and before that (up to 2018) was professor of sociology at the University of Bath.

Yes! "No leniency towards saboteurs."

The world is with you. This should be the last time the Republic's enemies are able to mobilise inside the nation. Liquidate the Zionist threat.

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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 2d

Graham's all about 'protecting women'

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Greens right now:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

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The Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness @c4research.bsky.social · 3d

We’re so excited to announce that our new ‘Insights, Findings and Events’ page is now live on our website! 🎉

Check out our first three articles at the link: c4.ac.uk/insights/ 🔗

Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter whilst you’re there! 😉

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Insights - The Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness

The Centre is a collective of researchers, practitioners, policy makers, funders and residents collaborating to deliver an ambitious vision for better connected communities across the UK. Our vision i...

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 4d

I've reviewed John's new book 'Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The Spirit of Service' here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 4d

If you're interested in volunteering, its place in levelling up and regeneration, or the wide variance in community participation levels, Prof John Mohan is talking at SHU next week, with me as discussant.

Weds 14 Jan, 1-2.30 in person and on Teams.

Full details here: www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regio...

The spirit of service “bloweth where it will”: community-level variations in voluntary action | Sheffield Hallam University

The spirit of service “bloweth where it will”: community-level variations in voluntary action

www.shu.ac.uk

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 5d

Suits. By @jonathanliew.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Ruben Amorim’s error? Taking on Jason Wilcox and execs who are never wrong | Jonathan Liew

Jaw-dropping LinkedIn profiles matter more to clubs like Manchester United than coaches with ideas and energy

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 8d

David Miller says Jews have been conducting a “centuries-long programme of entryism and subversion.” But this is just anti-Zionism right?

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 9d

And that's why this matters. This is the level of the people at the very top of government. Sounding like angry toddlers who've learned some big words, blaming everyone else for their own failings. It's dreck. Written by dregs.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 9d

I’m sorry, but if ‘other people have views, and they’re annoying’ is news to you in govt, then you have not properly prepared for government www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown supremacy of the Stakeholder State

My time working in No 10 showed me how much time and energy is sapped by people obsessed with fringe issues. It doesn’t have to be this way

www.thetimes.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 9d

Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else.

We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA

Times comment article byline: Paul Ovenden

Headline: Alaa Abd el-Fattah has shown the supremacy of the Stakeholder State

Strapline: My time working in No 10 showed me how much time and energy is sapped by people obsessed with fringe issues. It doesn't have to be this way

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 13d

ig moira donegan has just never written anything the guardian felt worth censoring.

they've certainly censored other writers in the past.

Would it be too selfish of me - or perhaps just a bit gauche - to admit how many times, as an American opinion journalist, I have looked at the fate of my colleagues at other outlets and thought: "Thank God I'm at the Guardian"? The Guardian has never - and would never - ask me to pull a punch in my opinion column, or to flatter someone whose power or protection the paper needs. The Guardian does not shape its coverage, in its opinion section or in its news reporting, based on what is politically expedient or what will get them into the least trouble. The Guardian is able - and, crucially, it is willing - to challenge the powerful. Other outlets ask their writers to compromise; the Guardian has never asked this of me.

sloane lysbeth @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social • 3mo
the guardian cut this from a piece judith butler wrote for them.

the guardian targeted butler long before the american right did.

[attached is an image of butler along with text the guardian cut from a piece they wrote]

"THE ANTI-GENDER IDEOLOGY
IS ONE OF THE MOST DOMINANT
STRAINS OF FASCISM IN OUR TIMES!" "So TERFS will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by the struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia, and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which includes high rates
of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of
considered judgments"
- JUDITH BUTLER

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 16d

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d

Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19d

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 20d

Also, who do I need to write to complain about the substandard advertising used to promote my events at universities? Pfft. Have university administrators never heard of Canva?

Extract from the BBC News article that reads:

She alleged that her freedom of speech was restricted in a number of ways, including:

* The number of attendees being restricted to 60 staff, postgraduate students and members of the public.

* Undergraduate students being prohibited from attending.

* Limited advertising being provided for the event.

* A venue for the event being chosen which was vulnerable to protests

* Reasonable steps not being taken to prevent the talk being disrupted.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 21d

My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow.

Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site.

X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 23d

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women

Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24d

"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"

"The Free Press" tweet:

Jewish parents are “shocked,” “confused,” and “upset” by their children’s radical politics. They wondered if they should have parented differently. Did their children get enough Jewish education? Were they brainwashed by their elite private schools? Where did they go wrong?

“Maybe I failed in the sense that the kids didn’t go to Israel enough,” a 63-year-old physician in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, told me. He said his daughter, a civil rights attorney, holds anti-Zionist views and refused to vote for former New York governor Andrew Cuomo due to his alleged sexual harassment. “It would’ve been better if they went more, just to see the lies they’re being told.”

Read the full piece by
@Olivia_Reingold
here:

With pic of some person and the text "The Jewish Parents Who Raised Mamdani Voters by Olivia Reingold"

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24d

Matt’s journey from someone who sat on a government task force on tackling Islamophobia in the 2010s to this is actually not surprising given his absolute lack of moral compass.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24d

Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 25d

Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?

Trump nominee: *dodges*

Trump nominee: *dodges*

Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.

Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 25d

"a regrettable cost" - Kathleen Stock

Given the occasional fallibility of our capacity to sex others, arguing for same-sex spaces for females, such as bathrooms, dormitories, and changing rooms, means that sometimes, females in those spaces will be missexed; and sometimes, males in those spaces will not be perceived as such. We see the former as a regrettable cost that has to be balanced against, and is nonetheless smaller than, the greater harms to females, should women-only space effectively become unisex via a policy of self-ID. We see the latter as something that no open society can do anything about, and which it would be illiberal to try to prevent. But our saying this has no consequences for what we should say about the vast majority of cases of trans women, who don't visually pass, and who therefore easily can be identified as male by nearly all other people. To say that all non-passing trans women should be

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Dec 13

The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.

www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...

London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began

The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...

www.london.gov.uk

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Dec 13

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
•
I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

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David Eve • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discokidnap.bsky.social · Dec 9

Fuck this shit.

Screenshot of email from Proud Lilywhites. Picture of Progress Pride flag with Spurs cockerel overlaid.

Text:

Dear David,
We wanted to let you all know that Slavia Prague have asked the Club to remove the Progress flag from the North East corner for tonight's game. They've said they have security concerns on their side if it stays in place.
The Club pushed back but Slavia have held their position. As with any visiting team request of this kind, the Club is honouring it on safety grounds.
We are of course frustrated. You don't get to come to our house and dictate what's acceptable, let alone kick off about a flag that represents our own community. But here we are.
We wanted you to hear it directly from us. We wanted to be sure that you know that this is an opposition team request and no reflection of the Club's commitment to the Proud Lilywhites.
Love and Solidarity
Proud Lilywhites Committee

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Dec 9

Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Dec 9

No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished.
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge

Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship

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