Personal account. Works in a university. Non-resident Manx 🇮🇲. Supports Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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Supporting Asylum Welcome
Asylum Welcome welcomes asylum seekers, refugees and detainees who have fled persecution and danger in their own countries and seek refuge in #Oxford & #Oxfordshire.
Dignity & hope in a #HostileEnvironment
justgiving.com/asylumwelcome… via @AsylumWelcome
Lullaby
Lullaby is released with one bold aim: to reach Christmas No. 1 and raise urgent, life-saving funds for children & families in Gaza.
All profits from the single go to the Together for Palestine Fund, held by Choose Love (charity no. 1177927).
togetherforpalestine.org/
I've #justsponsored Ian Lampkin, who's fundraising for Prostate Cancer Research on @JustGiving. Donate now
justgiving.com/page/ian-lamp…
Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic
theguardian.com/politics/202…
"President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight. No getting back Crimea, and no going into Nato by Ukraine”, said Putin's spokesperson.
"We are clear that Ukraine must have ironclad security guarantees to effectively defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity... Russia cannot have a veto against Ukraine‘s pathway to EU and NATO."
gov.uk/government/news/state… #SlavaUkraini
The Prime Minister hosted President Zelenskyy 🌻🇺🇦
They looked ahead to tomorrow’s talks between President Trump & President Putin in Alaska, which present a viable chance to make progress as long as Putin takes action to prove he is serious about peace."
gov.uk/government/news/pm-me…
ALT TITLE Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy DESCRIPTION 14/08/2025. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine for a bilateral meeting in 10 Downing Street. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street DATE TAKEN 2025-08-14 09:46:39
"The path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine. We remain committed to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force. The current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations."
gov.uk/government/news/joint…
"...to remedy the harms to competition that we have found, we recommend that the CMA Board use its digital markets powers to prioritise... investigations to consider designating the two largest providers Microsoft & AWS with strategic market status (SMS)"
gov.uk/cma-cases/cloud-servi…
Michael Fraser 🧡 retweeted
Today marks 52 years since a fire killed 50 people and injured many more inside the Isle of Man's esteemed leisure complex.
Summerland opened in May 1971, but two years later on 2nd August 1973, the leisure complex became the island's greatest disaster.
Statement
"We are determined to protect the viability of the two-state solution, and so we will recognise the state of Palestine in September before UNGA;
unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza..."
gov.uk/government/news/state…
Sociology of Starvation
“This is not about a formal famine declaration or a special number of trucks or meals. It’s about Israel’s attempt to starve Gaza indefinitely without the rapid mass death from starvation and disease we call famine."
theguardian.com/world/2025/j…
And here's where we're going
ALT 25 Feb 2022 A court in Rostov-on-Don arrested activist Anastasia Nikolaeva for eight days. In court, her interests were defended by lawyer Sergei Kovalevich, who cooperates with OVD-Info. Nikolaeva was found guilty under the article of disobedience to a police officer because of a one-man picket with an empty sheet. Src: https://x.com/OvdInfo/status/1497263016387117057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1497263016387117057%7Ctwgr%5E2c84decde4008e6f4365cd03067d10242fcdc855%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Frussia-ukraine-war-invasion-protests-police-arrest-activists-holding-blank-signs-paper-1687603
"We've got to the state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke."
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on the arrest of a man under the Terrorism Act for holding up a cartoon from the magazine during a protest against the ban of the group Palestine Action at the weekend.
#BBCPM
Another case of @ukhomeoffice cruelty.
Refusal to exempt (or defer) students in Gaza who have a place at a UK university from having to register biometric data as a prerequisite for a visa is wholly disproportionate given their particular circumstances.
theguardian.com/education/20…
"Keir Starmer is under pressure from cabinet ministers for the UK to immediately recognise Palestine as a state, as global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza."
“While there’s still a state of Palestine left to recognise”.
theguardian.com/world/2025/j…
Gaza:
'The Pope urged the international community to observe humanitarian law & respect the obligation to protect civilians, “as well as the prohibition against collective punishment, indiscriminate use of force & forced displacement of the population."'
vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
Recovering the Sacred:
"We also heard from Dr Cosima Gilhammer (@olde_bookes), a Fellow @lmhoxford, whose writings on the rhythms & symbolism of the liturgy are deeply inspiring... and the Rev Prof Andrew Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity @UniofOxford.
spectator.co.uk/podcast/reco…
Mike Oldfield -- To France (1984), featuring Maggie Reilly on vocals.
youtu.be/WLMw9SPcFBI?feature…
Amos Goldberg. (2024). "The Problematic Return of Intent" in Forum: Israel-Palestine: Atrocity Crimes and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Journal of Genocide Research, 1–10. doi.org/10.1080/14623528.202…
Sereen Haddad (VCU class of 2025 were @VCU to allow her to graduate): “So they twist the rules, they rewrite the policies, and they try to silence us … But it’s all about power. Our demands for justice are a threat to their complicity.”
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i… #Palestine #Gaza
"Elon Musk boasts about the vast amount of data his cars generate... But, as we have witnessed again and again in the most critical of cases, Tesla refuses to share it."
theguardian.com/technology/2…
