‘In this talk, the filmmakers & contributors of Channel 4’s landmark series #Defiance : Fighting the Far Right will share their journey of unveiling the hidden history of South Asian anti-racist activists in 1970s and ‘80s Britain.’

Thursday 13 June, 4:15pm- 530pm
Sheffield DocFest

All of these MPs defecting their party are the epitome of weathercocks. We don't have enough signposts in government.

Mr Teece

Code switching: the practice of alternating between two or more languages.

The SOAS campus is buzzing with languages from all corners of the globe - and our diverse students switch freely between them.

What are your signature code-switches?

A gorgeous welcome at my mum’s house

Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest

Five-day encampment in university grounds that caused the college major loss of income ended in victory for campaigners

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Children with early life trauma are earthquake detectors. 🫨🕵️

Problem is... they are very, very good at detection. Too good.

Stick with me on this... 🧵👇

New: Conservative MP hints that at least one under-pressure Astrea academy could transfer to another trust, following meeting with minister
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Anthony Browne tells parents of “productive” meeting with Damian Hinds and officials.

I worked for Mandela David Lammy He would have supported the students as he did the Palestinian struggle his whole life. Don’t besmirch the name of a liberator, a freedom fighter (who instigated civil disobedience & the armed struggle) a person of principle ie everything u r not

Are u wilfully ignorant or just mendacious David Lammy? Mandela was the key instigator of the armed struggle & endorsed its use in Palestine. Let’s debate publicly: Mandela & his views on Palestine. Or will u hide behind the lies that inform your cowardice on Palestine?

'Jews are human beings and have the capacity to commit genocide like any other slice of humanity. To think that you can use a term like ‘antisemitic’ to absolve yourself of responsibility... you’ve got to take responsibility for your actions.'
Cornel West

Good lord: some wildly improbable, but very exciting news just in from Empire Podcast: anita anand & I just crossed...

On cold call.

Some of the children in your room dread it. They dread it so much they remember it for the rest of their life.

You won’t always know which child or which child on which day this affects.

Cold call is not age old questioning and ignore those conflating it as such.

Here’s the summary for my session this afternoon at CIFE XII in Rio de Janeiro.

Remember it’s May 9th! Europe Day and our wisteria is in full bloom. And the skies are blue. A day that was established to work towards lasting peace.

Teachers who are parents. We have reached a point where teaching is no longer a profession that enables you to spend more time with your children. It now negatively impacts your work-life balance to the extent that you spend more time with other people’s children than your own.

Told my class I had a meeting with the governors this afternoon. Some of them got quite excited and thought I had a meeting with the government. One of them then asked me if I'd ask Rishi Sunak to do something about the cost of crisps in the Tesco at the top of our school field.

Interesting, isn’t it, that parliament has the right to deliver a vote of no confidence in a Prime minister, but the public has no right to deliver their votes of no confidence in a government until that useless government allows it…

How can we call this a democracy when a…

Holocaust Survivor Demolishes Israel

Nothing like my first drink of the year in the late evening sun in the roof garden at my local