I reported on famine in South Sudan in 2017, traveling to rebel-held territory in Unity state where tens of thousands of people were judged to be in "IPC5", which is to say, totally without food and on the verge of death.

In Gaza 244,000 people are now in that stage

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.

You absolutely should self censor, if the thing you are censoring yourself from saying is hate speech

These days you can’t even do hate speech in your place of work because of woke

One of the most important things journalism can do these days imo is provide a timeline.

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‘This government, like the last one, seems unable to put curiosity about causation before its impulse to cruelty.’

@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the cuts to personal independence payments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Every time you hear the newscaster precede the phrase "health ministry" with "Hamas-run" in order to cast the whiff of discredit upon it, remember that this cold reality is what exists underneath these sleights and obfuscation.

The first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0.

‘The increased need for health and disability benefits is symptomatic of failures in the NHS, housing, food prices, wages. Ignoring all the root causes and slashing wildly at the last safety net takes a special kind of ineptitude.’

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In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.

Words of condemnation ring hollow.

The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.

If we didn’t cry wolf when there was obviously a wolf the wolf would’ve went away

Faculty, this is how NOT to do it. JFC.

The main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.

The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

Before we hurtle to the next stage of Gaza’s calamity, we owe it to them, and ourselves, whatever our politics, to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away. Goodbye to the children of Gaza.
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86 people survived 468 days of one of the most brutal campaigns of mass extermination in human history to finally hear news of a ceasefire. Then Israel killed them. Unforgivable.

Just for the record, my position is "Free Palestine" not "Say They'll Stop Bombing Palestine For A Bit But Continue To Regardless Because Nobody Will Face Accountability For The Genocide"

If your economic system is risking biological reproduction — such that people feel unable to have children — perhaps, just perhaps, it might be time to change that system?

Two weeks left to apply for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the philosophy of inequality!

People in Jersey are having to undergo bloodletting to reduce their levels of forever chemicals, and the big US firm that made the chemicals is allowed to block the state from offering a health screening programme in case it leads to a class action lawsuit. What a fucking world.

"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."

Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25

It would be awkward for someone who bragged about making the US the biggest fossil-fuel producer to acknowledge that part of his legacy is worsening climate change.

From this event, the most important thing I learned was that perhaps the IPC famine classification system is not appropriate for siege-famines, where it has been easily manipulated by the Israeli occupation forces, keeping Gaza permanently starving but not quite enough for the system to say “famine”