Vron Ware

@vronsta.bsky.social

Writer and taker of pictures. Books like Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (1992), Return of a Native: learning from the Land (2022) and England's Military Heartland: preparing for war on Salisbury Plain (with 3 m8s). http://vronware.org .. more

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Vron Ware is a British academic and visiting professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a professor at Kingston University, editor of Searchlight magazine from 1981 to 1983, and worked as a freelance journalist until 1987, when she co-founded the Women's Design Service. She taught cultural geography at the University of Greenwich from 1992 to 1999, sociology and gender studies at Yale University from 1999 to 2005, and was senior research fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University from 2008 to 2014. .. more

Political science 52%

Sociology 31%

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Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 6d

New piece of archival writing on the "Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the Middle East", held in Athens in 1957

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The Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the MIddle East

A cutting from the newspaper Avgi from 3 November 1957. The headline reads “The Anticolonial Conference”. Way up town in the northern suburbs, a group of delegates representing Greece, …

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 2d

👉NEW -- Kenyan politicians accuse British army of ‘contempt’ for their country

by Phil Miller

A two-year-long inquiry into the conduct of UK soldiers in east Africa reveals a catalogue of abuses.

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 6d

New piece of archival writing on the "Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the Middle East", held in Athens in 1957

undercartographies.city/2025/11/29/t...

The Anticolonial Conference of the Mediterranean and the MIddle East

A cutting from the newspaper Avgi from 3 November 1957. The headline reads “The Anticolonial Conference”. Way up town in the northern suburbs, a group of delegates representing Greece, …

undercartographies.city

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 8d

👉NEW -- Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?

by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad

Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 15d

Labour ministers are spending £1.5bn of public money on 6 new arms factories "to boost the UK's warfighting readiness" and contribute to "defence as an engine for growth" and "national renewal".

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 18d

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece on the 75th anniversary of the ECHR - and how it is threatened by the vicious politics of resentment that Labour and the Tories have enabled/encouraged in the past 20 years. This to me is what lies beneath the asylum "debate".
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How the European convention on human rights became a battleground between the centre and the right | Daniel Trilling

For 20 years, populists have been blaming the ECHR for endangering Britain by offering basic protections to immigrants, says author Daniel Trilling

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 21d

I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR

How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

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Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · 28d

jesus...and none of them ticked none of the above

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Nov 5

British soldiers paused firing white phosphorus in Kenya after Declassified revealed the munition was routinely being used there.

The policy change was disclosed in a witness statement the British army gave to a Kenyan parliamentary inquiry.

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British army scales back firing white phosphorus in Kenya

Troops have not trained with the hazardous chemical since Declassified exposed the practice three years ago.

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Bungatuffie "where ignorant armies clash by night" #lemmingland @bungatuffie.bsky.social · Nov 2

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The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Oct 28

👉NEW -- No prosecution of British soldier who shot Kenyan in back

by Phil Miller

A court in Kenya said the soldier should be put on trial for murder, but Britain’s military refuses to take action.
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No prosecution of British soldier who shot Kenyan in back

A court in Kenya said the soldier should be put on trial for murder, but Britain’s military refuses to take action.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Stop Killer Robots @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social · Oct 15

“It's time now for the international community to draw clear boundaries on AI militarization and autonomy.”
– @lodedew.bsky.social
#StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #UNGA80

Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · Oct 14

Finally somebody gets it! Thank you @nicolawriting.bsky.social‬ and @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social from all of us. #militarism #SalisburyPlain #colonialcountryside #ruraldiversity #righttoroam #greenwash #armsindustry #endlesswar etc etc

Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Oct 13

This is a fascinating, important inquiry of a book - & I can’t think of another like it: how the Army, Salisbury Plain and the Tidworth ranges, even at a few miles distant, are an embedded, camouflaged part of this rural county. My review for @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social @vronsta.bsky.social et al

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Oct 12

‘England’s Military Heartland’ is a unique, insightful, in-depth inquiry into how war ideology, preparation and practice has insinuated itself into the narrative of Salisbury Plain, writes @nicolawriting.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/engl...

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Oct 13

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Oct 12

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · Sep 24

How to puncture prevalent European understandings of the Mediterranean? The colonizing impulse inscribed in Western historiography can't be undone by adding previously repressed & unacknowledged histories.

THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION: new coordinates for another Mediterranean.

tinyurl.com/yv9svw25

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · Sep 22

The book follows a ten-year investigation of the military training area on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire and explores what it means to live next to a military base. It’s a great read, covering so many aspects of militarised communities, landscapes and wider policies.

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Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social · Sep 22

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters.
At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters

At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety

www.theguardian.com

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · Sep 21

Today on World Peace Day, we reflect on the urgent need to challenge militarism and build security through justice, peacebuilding, cooperation, and care for people and the planet.

https://www.forceswatch.net/

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Jas Nijjar @jasnijjar.bsky.social · Sep 17

This is a piece I wrote for PhD students on strategies for doing doctoral work committed to political consciousness, anti-racism and social transformation.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on PhD Work as Anti-Racist Practice

PDF | This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Sep 10

It's 6 years since we published our first investigation.

Since then we've published 867 more.

Plus dozens of videos and interviews.

And we're growing in influence and impact -- thanks to you for supporting us 🙏

👉 Help us change things. Join us secure.declassifieduk.org/page/175488/...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · Sep 10

Dodgy statistics and fringe beliefs: the groups behind Reform’s anti-migrant agenda

Reform has been exploiting fears around attacks on women to stoke hate against migrants. Good Law Project investigates the flawed statistics and the group with far-right links that have helped spread...

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Sep 9

The government says UK arms exports globally "are now worth over £14.5 billion annually and growing – making Britain the world’s second-largest arms exporter after the United States".

We always knew Labour would be worse than the Tories on arms exports.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Backing British business: reforms to champion UK defence companies on the world stage

Defence Industrial Strategy will unveil reforms to champion British defence businesses to increase export sales through cutting red tape and expanded financial backing.

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Iain Michael Chambers @imchambers.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Sep 5

In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.

Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.

Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/engl...
Here, for anyone who's interested in how war is made at home, is a snippet from our investigation into one of the most militarised parts of the UK - thanks to the wonderful folk at Caught by the River

England’s military heartland | Caught by the River | Caught by the River

www.caughtbytheriver.net

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Sep 4

🚨Declassified will be presenting witness testimony at The Gaza Tribunal today, focussing on Britain's military support for Israel and its role in the genocide.

You can watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3un...