Social work folk around Edinburgh go and see Documental Theatre's Scaffolding. Great play about God, caring, loss, adult social care....and a scaffold. pleasance.co.uk/event/scaffold…

Beginnings of the fall of an empire? Unlocked Grads, one of a few graduate schemes based on Teach First and similarly aiming to capture the public sector, has not been able to negotiate a new contract with the MoJ. Signs of change of tack in new govt? unlockedgrads.org.uk/news-item/upda…

Last year the Sunak government made a terrible misjudgement. It downgraded and ‘normalised’ the threat from the far right. It’s time to recognise that appeasing bigots and racists does not work. My column for Middle East Eye: middleeasteye.net/opinion/far-ri…

The arrest of nine Israeli soldiers last week for gang-raping a Palestinian inmate with a sharp object at Sde Teiman camp did not come out of the blue. Months ago, the Israeli media began publishing testimonies from whistleblowing guards and doctors detailing the depraved

Tackling child poverty ‘can prevent almost 5,000 children entering care’ cypnow.co.uk/news/article/t…

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Rape. Torture. Degradation. Regular beatings. Sexual humiliation. We are not talking Abu Ghraib 20 years ago. We’re talking about Israeli prisons today and the world is silent. Lubna Masarwa and I write for Middle East Eye: middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…

First push from the far-right in Scotland defeated by mass solidarity today: 150 in Bathgate👏 400 in Paisley👏 In both the racists showed up and failed to assemble! SUTR with Paisley Trade Union Council, West Lothian & Livingston TUC, trade unionists & local residents show the way (1/2)

Over 100 people killed, mostly women and children. At a school. Massacred. How is there no arms embargo on Israel? How do the people who express horror and revulsion when Putin and Assad do this sit silently by as Netanyahu does it? Don’t look away:

Every single day that a full arms embargo isn’t in place, the UK government is complicit in the war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.

The @uniofstandrews has disgracefully dismissed its elected Rector, Stella Maris, after she called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the genocide and apartheid Israel continues to carry out. Take action today and sign the petition: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/university-st-…

Fascinating new article from Rich Moth et al. looking at social workers challenging neoliberalism through discretionary spaces, collective resistance and ethico-political professionalism - already looking at how to integrate this into student learning 🤔 academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance-a…

Israeli forces in Gaza ‘use civilians as human shields’ against possible booby-traps theguardian.com/world/article/…

Two months today since this book came out. And I’ve struggled to take a picture, to put up posts. What can one possibly say? What is there left to say? Each time I see this book reaching Maisara Alrayyes’s friends, his loved ones, his only surviving family – his sister, and his

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has dropped a case against an academic after her employer, the University of Portsmouth, referred her to Prevent for a series of posts, resulting in counterterrorism officers raiding her house pulse.ly/vhshvrsdkw

The Government's Prevent Agenda impacts social work in many significant ways and the topic is understudied. After several failed attempts to gain funding to research it, I was fortunate to work with our former Brunel Social Work student, Reem Mahdi. 1/2 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

40,000+ Palestinians — majority women & children — have been killed in Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. 90,000+ have been wounded & 10,000+ are buried in the rubble. So again, I call on the UK government to end its complicity & suspend all arms sales to Israel immediately.

While the Israeli government continues its brutal genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, armed Israeli settlers, backed by the Israeli government, continue to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and terrorize Palestinian communities. This visual captures how the

🧵Marieha Hussain has been found NOT GUILTY of a racially aggravated public order offence for carrying the sign below implying Sunak & Braverman are *coconuts. IMO there should be a review of the CPS decision to prosecute. Early on, the investigation would have shown the weak 1/

David Lammy defends Keir Starmer accepting bribes, justifying it by saying there isn't a budget in this country for the PMs clothes of his wifes clothes #TrevorPhillips