Graham Jeffery
@grahamjeffery.bsky.social
Researcher, academic, teacher, occasional musician. Prof in Arts & Media Practice at the University of the West of Scotland. Personal views, nothing to do with my employer! https://linktr.ee/grahamjeffery
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Rant alert: Trump’s national security strategy trashing the EU and core values at heart of transatlantic alliance makes it all the more urgent for Starmer to pursue bolder reset with EU. His timidity loses valuable time and risks leaving us even more subject to events rather than shaping them. 🧵
🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Brexit Blind Spot Leaves Britain With a Major Missed Opportunity’
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain’s future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues @alexhh.bsky.social
It was striking that the most impressive recent speech on Britain’s future in Europe came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues @alexhh.bsky.social
'Keir Starmer's Brexit Blind Spot Leaves Britain With a Major Missed Opportunity'
It was striking that the most impressive speech on Britain's future in Europe this week came not from our current Prime Minister, but from one of his Conservative predecessors, argues Alexandra Hall H...
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Rant alert: Trump’s national security strategy trashing the EU and core values at heart of transatlantic alliance makes it all the more urgent for Starmer to pursue bolder reset with EU. His timidity loses valuable time and risks leaving us even more subject to events rather than shaping them. 🧵
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In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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"The UK’s politics have already changed. Our electoral system hasn’t, and it’s holding the country back"
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
The quiet crisis at the heart of British democracy
Our politics have changed, but our voting system remains the same – and it’s holding us back
www.opendemocracy.net
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"The UK’s politics have already changed. Our electoral system hasn’t, and it’s holding the country back"
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
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I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
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With alt text.
This is Vance-ism/Theil-ism more than Trumpism, though it works well for Donald, too, because it puts him in the position to try to lord over each head of state, which is all he really cares about.
This is Vance-ism/Theil-ism more than Trumpism, though it works well for Donald, too, because it puts him in the position to try to lord over each head of state, which is all he really cares about.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
With alt text.
This is Vance-ism/Theil-ism more than Trumpism, though it works well for Donald, too, because it puts him in the position to try to lord over each head of state, which is all he really cares about.
This is Vance-ism/Theil-ism more than Trumpism, though it works well for Donald, too, because it puts him in the position to try to lord over each head of state, which is all he really cares about.
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like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics
this is a good rant, worth sharing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9d...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9d...
Britain’s Youth Exodus: The Final Brexit Betrayal
YouTube video by Truth To Power
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
this is a good rant, worth sharing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9d...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9d...
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And the problem of all senior managers in #UKHE taking the exact same market advice & data from about three consultancies…
A national strategy and stable funding would put an end to these perverse incentives.
A national strategy and stable funding would put an end to these perverse incentives.
April 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
And the problem of all senior managers in #UKHE taking the exact same market advice & data from about three consultancies…
A national strategy and stable funding would put an end to these perverse incentives.
A national strategy and stable funding would put an end to these perverse incentives.
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This week saw the publication of 3articles which piece together some of the #UKHE clusterfuck, all fab in catching a particular aspect.
The level of clusterfuckedness, that can't be fully captured in 1 deepdive, shows how this can't be left to individual institutions.
There's governance flip-flops
The level of clusterfuckedness, that can't be fully captured in 1 deepdive, shows how this can't be left to individual institutions.
There's governance flip-flops
April 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This week saw the publication of 3articles which piece together some of the #UKHE clusterfuck, all fab in catching a particular aspect.
The level of clusterfuckedness, that can't be fully captured in 1 deepdive, shows how this can't be left to individual institutions.
There's governance flip-flops
The level of clusterfuckedness, that can't be fully captured in 1 deepdive, shows how this can't be left to individual institutions.
There's governance flip-flops
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Martin Parr, emblématique photographe, observateur ironique du quotidien, est décédé
Martin Parr, emblématique photographe, observateur ironique du quotidien, est décédé
l.sudouest.fr
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Martin Parr, emblématique photographe, observateur ironique du quotidien, est décédé
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Maybe I’ve been too harsh on AI. It does appear to have a single, valuable use: identifying uninteresting people that I might have otherwise wasted precious time engaging with. The mere mention of ‘So I asked ChatGTP…’ is my cue to avoid them like the plague.
a man says but you are not serious people in a dark room
ALT: a man says but you are not serious people in a dark room
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Maybe I’ve been too harsh on AI. It does appear to have a single, valuable use: identifying uninteresting people that I might have otherwise wasted precious time engaging with. The mere mention of ‘So I asked ChatGTP…’ is my cue to avoid them like the plague.
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Britain isn’t deep in crackpot NF politics by accident, but because our political and media elite willed this into existence, for their own ends. This is the result of the choices made by our most important people at every key juncture, and they will fight to the death to keep it this way.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Britain isn’t deep in crackpot NF politics by accident, but because our political and media elite willed this into existence, for their own ends. This is the result of the choices made by our most important people at every key juncture, and they will fight to the death to keep it this way.
clutching at straws
Keir Starmer Observer interview with @rachelsylvester.bsky.social articulates opportunity for young people as his defining mission for his government
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
clutching at straws
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Its really telling how the PLP have no answer to Green aside from 'You don't understand, you're not in the club 😏' and it's not going to end well for them.
Emily Thornberry makes an incredibly patronising, smug video on Labour account on Instagram - even by her standards!
These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.
And it's just making membership rise & rise!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party.
And it's just making membership rise & rise!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Its really telling how the PLP have no answer to Green aside from 'You don't understand, you're not in the club 😏' and it's not going to end well for them.
The CofE demonstrating significantly more courage than the Labour Party in confronting rightwing 'Christian' bullshit
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
C of E to challenge Tommy Robinson’s ‘put Christ back into Christmas’ message
Church leaders respond to far-right appropriation of Christian symbols with ‘Outsiders welcome’ message
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The CofE demonstrating significantly more courage than the Labour Party in confronting rightwing 'Christian' bullshit
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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"No-brainer" | Poppy Coburn and Lewis Goodall on Labour, Brexit & rejoining the EU
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWGv-WTKNQ
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWGv-WTKNQ
"No-brainer" | Poppy Coburn and Lewis Goodall on Labour, Brexit & rejoining the EU
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"No-brainer" | Poppy Coburn and Lewis Goodall on Labour, Brexit & rejoining the EU
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWGv-WTKNQ
#Newsnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWGv-WTKNQ
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Writing a column on efforts to shift norms on race: even calls for all ethnic minorities- Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch & Priti Patel, Shabana Mahmood & Nus Ghani to be ineligible for parliament or leadership roles - as Lucy White, Ant Middleton and Connor Tomlinson advocate
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Writing a column on efforts to shift norms on race: even calls for all ethnic minorities- Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch & Priti Patel, Shabana Mahmood & Nus Ghani to be ineligible for parliament or leadership roles - as Lucy White, Ant Middleton and Connor Tomlinson advocate
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(the exchange which made me realise that it was not just an issue of resources and capacity, the British civil service really does have some serious problems of competence)
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
(the exchange which made me realise that it was not just an issue of resources and capacity, the British civil service really does have some serious problems of competence)
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person’
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person’
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
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A million times this. It’s incredible that the ‘big brains’ advising the Labour Party genuinely think that they can convert people who are fans of Farage to vote for Keir Starmer. It’s just not going to happen, however cruel your policies become.
"There is an obvious lesson to take from this, that the government seems almost certain to ignore: there is no way for the government to win for as long as it plays this game…The goalposts will be endlessly shifted."
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration
Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A million times this. It’s incredible that the ‘big brains’ advising the Labour Party genuinely think that they can convert people who are fans of Farage to vote for Keir Starmer. It’s just not going to happen, however cruel your policies become.
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Following this nice pic of 70s EMI, two images:
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Following this nice pic of 70s EMI, two images:
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification
1) postwar Gramophone production line (from Miriam Glucksman's "Women Assemble")
2) Gramophone-themed seating in the current redeveloped site
& two sections from my book:
3) TGWU women's dispute over the Sex Pistols
4) West London gentrification