Amelia Horgan
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philosophy PhD student. author of LOST IN WORK. writer. senior editor @cmmonwealth . views own. sometimes off here, email me!
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"Many Britons are still unaware of the fact that weapons that are used to murder Palestinians are manufactured in anonymous, nondescript sites in towns and cities across the country."
I wrote about
@Workers4Pal
's blockades and arms exports to Israel
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an incredibly troubling development and incredibly sloppy and misogynist reporting
a young woman goes to the police, who - without a lawyer present - force her to retract her statement. while a video of her rape is being circulated, she’s treated as a criminal. that’s the story
British woman, 19, guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, by Israeli youths six months ago
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“the Nakba is not a memory; it is a continuous uprooting” — Mahmoud Darwish
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this summer, you have to be joie de vivre maxing, you must grind for the twinkle in your eyes, you’ve got to become rascal
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Mick Lynch's ability to break the rules of news communications styles must not be merely seen as neat innovation in comms or framings. he can speak like that because he is speaking on behalf of a democratic group and has years of training within a militant union
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microdosing the American healthcare system by having dental problems in England
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Not to denigrate anyone who does any kind of charity challenge for the NHS but it is absolutely terrifying how normalised the idea that the NHS is something that is in desperate need of charity funding rather than something that ought to be properly publicly funded
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E. P. Thompson, ‘Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism’, 1967
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the year is 2023 and your workplace has launched a new wellbeing app that reminds you on the hour every hour to unclench your jaw
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I think it’s time to be honest with ourselves - studying philosophy makes you annoying
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getting amber rudd disinvited 30 minutes before her reputation-laundering IWD talk is a brilliantly feminist act and wonderfully rude. well done to all involved
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sitting in open air spaces, while keeping more than droplet spreading distance apart, even “”unnecessary”” sunbathing is so so so much less dangerous than the situation that the Government has wilfully left health, care, education, delivery and shop workers in
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The roles of Cressida Dick and Priti Patel in policing and new police laws ought to act as a strong guard against girl boss representational politics
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it’s not “living with the virus” unless there’s actually halfway decent sick pay and proper support for people with long covid. this will just be living with increased rates of transmission
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this is a legitimacy crisis for the Met. we’re about to see lots of women officers wheeled out and a deepening of good vigil-attendees vs bad activist narratives. the consent manufacturing machine is about to go brrr
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that so many people gathered and marched despite tube lines being down, despite smears, despite the whipping up of hatred is testament to one simple fact: people of conscience around the world are moved to action for Palestine
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How can a Government quietly admit that it has damaged its own infrastructure so much that Amazon and Boots will be doing corona testing, and the press are just like yeh fair play, do like Amazon Prime to be fair
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it’s absolutely maddening to see women responsiblised (just hail a bus!; question arrest!) for a murder by a police officer when that same officer had been reported for flashing days before and was nicknamed “the rapist” by colleagues
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it’s always been contested of course, but it does seem as if there has been a significant shift in how WW1 is publicly remembered — from horror at mass death to this …
OUCH! Feel sick watching that... Not gonna lie 😰
🎥 Royal Marines at London Poppy Day 🌹
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“tensions” “clashes” “violent scenes” this deeply ideological language masks the extreme violence of settler colonialism
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I don’t think a lot of men are aware of the extent to which fear of violence and harassment shapes women’s lives
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half a million people on strike today, good morning to each and every single one of you — we are all with you!!
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people are too scared to put the heating on in November and the press are still trying “Mick Lynch stole Christmas”, come on now
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the faded glamour of someone who played Mary in the nativity play? Yes, I do have that
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Today is 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬 ‘s publication day 💥💥💥
𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬 answers three questions:
what is work?, (why) is it so bad?, what can we do about it?
I’m so immensely grateful and honoured by the interest in the book so far. I hope it’s done the topic justice
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you took my sadness out of context at the captain sir tom moore memorial spa complex
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Last year, PLT's parent company, Boohoo was linked to a Leicester factory where workers were paid just £3.50 an hour. Very kind!
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Workers in Marseilles took over a Macdonalds and are using it to distribute food
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@ne_al_
people who've not been out of work in a while haven't experienced quite how different the job market is now and struggle to believe it even when confronted with those stories of like 5k people applying for a barista job
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they should make a moon you can take a photo of on your phone
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Judith Butler: gives thoughtful, reflective, theoretically and historically rich answer that tries to get at what’s really at stake
Interviewer: interesting, but what about this one billionaire author, I’d like to return to her
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one big myth about the police at demos is that if you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve nothing to fear. they’ll literally arrest you for nothing, terrorise you, sometimes for years. this is all done to disrupt protest, gather intelligence and discourage people from protesting again
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an obsessive focus on boundaries and red flags and dating rules and norms is a way to disavow the “absolute power” (per Gillian Rose) we have over each other “in personal life”
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If statues really taught people things, really were educative, given that we have so many to slave traders, colonialists, and murderous racists, wouldn’t you expect everyone to be an expert on atrocities of the British Empire
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I am extremely excited to show off the cover for my book (on work, capitalism & capitalist work) which is out June 20th. If you're interested in reviewing, feel free to DM me on here or drop me an email
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*caused
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why are universities pretending face to face teaching will happen next term? sir, this campus was built in 1964 for 300 pupils, you’ve already tried to fit 20,000 in, it’s not going to work!!!!
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there’s a whole crew of guys that only remain in historical memory because Marx and Engels chose to get mad at them and write it down
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a snap general election means very little time to register to vote ⏰ 🗳
this means you need to
1) remember to register to vote
2) tell all your friends to do the same
For 1) you just need five minutes and your National Insurance number
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imagine the most debased public sphere imaginable and then multiply it by a million. you'd still be nowhere near the journalist class
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Shut the fridge, Caroline Calloway has endorsed Labour
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we already have this, it’s called “grad school” and it sucks
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have heard so many stories recently of cruel and even genuinely abusive behaviour from housemates in houseshares. it's something that rarely gets spoken about but is another harmful fallout from the current state of private renting
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I would rather have an all-male cabinet delivering socialist policy rather than caroline lucas and yvette cooper doing whatever it is they think they’ll be doing
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better to have lived and been cringe than to have never lived at all 🙏
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“Jermey Corbyn ruined my audience, making my column unappreciated”, is a new one!
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HAPPENING NOW: Protest outside Google's London HQ. Along with Amazon Webservices, Google is a part of Project Nimbus — a $1.2bn cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military
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Prince Harry is the culmination of the two joint cultural forces of the 2010s: therapy talk and unconscious bias training
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instead of “don’t go out; don’t turn your heating; no more takeaway; no more having friends or a life, never did me any harm to have my windows freeze” how about a little picanha and a glass of cold beer
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just read that the unis that joined the Russell Group in 2012 paid £500,000 to do so. U.K. higher education is nothing but the most obscene branding exercise lmao
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anti-histamines aren't enough, I need to beat up a tree
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great news for the 2.6 million buy to let landlords in the U.K who’ll get their normal rent plus a nice subsidy from the Govt
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it’s my birthday today 🎉 and we’re on strike, fighting to save pensions and for liveable working conditions🪧 🥳
please consider donating to the UCU fighting fund if you can: 💥
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before Omicron and before Covid, NHS capacity was near breaking point every winter. Investing, insourcing, and a long term plan to restore public health care with decent standard for health care workers and receivers has to be at the fore of a longer term Covid plan
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actually existing book copies, baby! they’ve arrived !!!
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“stay alert” individualises blame for death and illness, what is really a murderous ineptitude and profiteering on the part of Government and business
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this is an attack on the right to protest
The appalling treatment of Israeli Ambassador
@TzipiHotovely
is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated.
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when it’s taken that representation = good because it shows something about a group, this weird inverse becomes true wherein if something is shown, it is assumed to be meant to be taken to be good
This is the most misogynistic film I’ve seen. A perverse man kidnaps a suicidal woman then transplants her brain (without her consent) with the brain of her foetus. She’s emancipated by having sex with lots of men (yawn). This film is not avant-garde, it’s glorified pedophilia.
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the idea that young people (and especially talented young journalists) are just left wing to make money is hilarious when during the Corbyn years anyone plausibly under thirty and ready to say they hated Corbyn would be awarded with column inches very very quickly
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even when not “useful”, studying or researching anything is great and should be defended and extended such that everyone who wants to learn whatever they want can do so
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What’s really getting to me: allegedly he was reported for indecent exposure days before the murder. why wasn’t he suspended? why wasn’t action taken. would your employer let you go into work if they’d had a report that you’d done that. the Met has serious questions to answer
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The U.K. now has the highest death toll in Europe, but what exactly are numbers? Can we trust them? | BBC News
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which MPs have shares in private student halls? possibly a relevant to the question of why - despite knowing that outbreaks were near certain - they’ve let students return to rent them
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can’t stop thinking about the total lack of public mourning throughout this year and especially as attitudes towards “”those with pre-existing conditions”” and “”the over-60s”” harden
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having been sick with coronavirus for 10 weeks despite being young and healthy seeing all of these right-wing culture-wars-send-them-back-to-work tweets is incredibly painful. I’m worried I might not get better for more and more weeks. I wouldn’t want anyone to feel like this
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it’s not really talked about enough how bad this is
As a young adult in 1997, the most common living arrangement was being in a couple with children. Today the most common is... living with your parents
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the real way to do opposition is, of course, to take what the government was already planning to do and frame it as a moral duty
My message to the Prime Minister: I don’t just want all children back at school next month, I expect them back at school.
No ifs, no buts, no equivocation.
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you’ve got to do the bit your partner finds the most annoying and you’ve got to do it often
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self-appointed movement leaders will never not let the movement down
What is this insulting nonsense from
@ReclaimTS
and why am I surprised that a Labour councillor is behaving this way?
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it’s important never to lose sight of the principle of never supporting a good vs bad protestors narrative
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The idea that there aren’t increasing restrictions in the UK on showing solidarity with Palestinians is just patently untrue.
In December, Johnson announced that councils and other public bodies, including universities, would be banned from supporting the BDS movement
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Marx would have been a podcaster you don’t want to hear this but it’s true
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“if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be rewarded” no not like that we didn’t mean reward in the sense of a higher wage we meant that you could have the option to moderate a WhatsApp chat of local snitches
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feminism is when you get a woman poorer than you to risk her life to clean your house, ok then!
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the Russell Group isn’t some straightforward objective measure of “quality”, especially not of teaching quality (whatever that might be). it’s a club you can pay to join !
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2019 trauma klaxon: this video came out four years ago today
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I wrote about my experience of Long Covid and the causes and harms of the denial of rest
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In the 70s, there was broadband piled up high in the street, left uncollected for weeks
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looking back on this video from exactly a year to the day remains extremely painful. the feeling of real hope, of a radical democratic movement attempting to undo decades of plundering and misery, and how quickly that was smashed down
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there’s something horrible about the fact that there aren’t exemptions for seeing families or partners across nationalities but there are for buying a house abroad
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i’ve been not drinking, doing so much exercise, staying hydrated, waking up at a regular time, and yes, i might feel great, make distinctions ever more brilliant etc, but would i trade it for the first few hours of a big weekend? the first few sips? — also yes
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if we had a higher education system that didnt involve income via tuition fees but instead sustainable public funding, universities would be in a better position to come up with plans for next year. these could be based on safety and good pedagogy rather than attracting students
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this headline is despicable. social housing needn’t be a scarce resource, it was made one through a series of political choices. it should be for everyone
A Labour MP cleared of making fraudulent housing claims is still living in her council flat almost two years after she began earning nearly £80,000 a year, it has emerged
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Only 4 years ago, Labour carved “racist technocracy” on a huge stone. The press still attempted to smear the leadership as terrifying reds, stealing mansions from hard-working millionaires.
There’s lots to reflect very seriously on but capitulation to the centre gets us nowhere
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