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Peter Dwyer

@lfcscally.bsky.social

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Socialist, recovering academic, now in the NHS. LFC season ticket holder. Editor Review of African Political Economy. https://roape.net/ Check out our genuinely free access journal https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/957770c3-4943-4fde-a72b-841025ea4ab1 .. more

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Peter D. Dwyer is an anthropologist and zoologist. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was Reader in Zoology at the University of Queensland, retiring in 1997. .. more

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Dec 11

Interested in or writing about Africa? Check out our website & free access journal sites. www.scienceopen.com/collection/9... roape.net

Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE)

<p>Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change.</p>

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 3d

Decade? It won’t take that long at this rate.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 3d

Who ate all the pies?

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 13d

Have any Trusts put out reassuring statements for staff? I wrote to our CEO suggesting they did and silence can be seen as support. They referred me to BHM in October, but still no statement.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 17d

Random picture from a trip to China.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 17d

Booked. Circulating.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers , and 3 more Jonathan Portes, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Alan Lester, Peter Dwyer

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17d

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades.

New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 20d

Although we can’t wait, we all have to do everything we can to stop this.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Sep 1

zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/18/c... A short piece on the rise of the far right in Europe I was asked to write for South African activists.

From Crisis to Consolidation: The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe Since 2010 – Zabalaza for Socialism

zabalaza4socialism.org.za

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

He’s on fire more than ever isn’t he!

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hope you have a quick recovery. We need you back on the frontline!

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

On the streets, not helped by this approach by SutR, who I was involved with for many years, but now find their approach counterproductive davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/whats-so-h...

Working with Stand up to Racism - the good, the bad, the deeply annoying

At the start of August, I was one of the organisers of the demo outside the Thistle Barbican hotel.

davidrenton590934.substack.com

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

Radio 4 yesterday was awful taking to Zia. It’s not a technical debate about how easy Reform can imprison asylum seekers, of course they can imprison people if they are in government. It’s a political debate about racism, their racist , dogwhistle rhetoric, scapegoating, treating people as humans.

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

Are you saying we sit on our hands and do nothing about anything and let it implode?

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

I hope you’ve changed your mind.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is outrageous the slow authoritarian slide over Palestine is very real. It’s a shame there isn’t the will for a few thousand fans to turn up in Palestine tops at a game.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Aug 26

The immigration debate is going badly off track, thanks to a combination of opportunism, racism and spinelessness in the UK's political and media class.

But it's not too late to turn things round.

Me in Time magazine

time.com/7312223/uk-i...

Britain Is Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong

There are worrying signs about the country's direction, as Reform tops the polls, and mainstream politicians chase the far right, writes Jonathan Portes.

time.com

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 26

What was also sickening was the pathetic, technocratic based questions.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 26

And the whole discussion is cancerous

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 25

Take your analysis back to 1979. My heart bleeds for the rich.

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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · Aug 25

Two out of every five people arrested after participating in anti-immigration riots had been previously reported to the police for domestic.😡

Well that blows their screaming dribble out the water
with their signs shouting
protect our women and children 🤔🤦
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 24

Only on a boat trip in Ireland.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just my everyday walk for a swim in Mullaghmore, Ireland, last week.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 24

The pardon is based on her saying exactly the words that Trump was not involved

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 20

Calling people in Oxford. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxfordshir...

Oxfordshire Your Party Public Meeting

Let's get this party started! A public meeting for all Your Party supporters in Oxfordshire to discuss what kind of party we want.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 11

The small village of Dean is in lockdown as Vance visits. But those cheeky rural dwellers have managed to poke him.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Aug 11

JD Vance & his toys in an Oxfordshire village. 22 cars & counting.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · Aug 11

Reform Party just held a press conference on women’s safety. Nigel Farage didn’t attend. Can you hazard a guess why?

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nearly 500,000 sign ups is unprecedented. We have to convert them to fully signed up members. It’s going to rock politics, I agree about the system, I very strongly suspect this party will agree with that as well. Am struggling to see why you shouldnt sign up & help shape it. You’d be a great asset.

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Jul 25

Are you joining?

Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hope is on its way in the UK. Sign up! Sign up! Come out, come out, wherever you are. The time is now. Help shape this.

Transform Politics @transformpolitics.bsky.social · Jul 24

Transform has been working from its inception towards this day. We will play an enthusiastic part in building this new party.

Let's get this party started!
www.yourparty.uk