On how diversity movements anthropologise the working class. Excellent piece by Kenan Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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I see the Powellites on Twitter have discovered one of my articles. Don’t worry boys, there are plenty more to keep you busy. Even a book or two.

The logic of this is that parents can be fined for something their grown-up children do (or don’t do) - which would be an extraordinary new legal principle

Devastation as Newcastle prisoner Danny Weatherson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in jail - Chronicle Live

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Today is Lag BaOmer, a Jewish holiday, on which bonfires are customarily lit. Some Israeli accounts comment on the ongoing bombing of Rafah with “Happy Lag BaOmer” messages. Zionism—as, in any case, it is experienced by those on whom bombs fall—may be a profanation of Judaism…

“Out of this emerge labels such as the ‘criminal class’ or the ‘benefit class’ that... end up echoing some of the most reactionary sentiments of hostility towards working class people.” My The Observer column: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In 1988, Ebrahim Raisi helped to oversee the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran.

Many thousands of prisoners, who were already serving their sentences, were murdered.

My mom’s cousin, the Iranian freedom fighter Monireh Bardaran, was a political prisoner at the

Without doubt, this article by Kenan Malik is the best I've read about Klopp, his impact and his departure. #YNWA

Bloody hell.

And it’s not an isolated case:

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“Klopp’s legacy lies not just in the winning of trophies… or in helping reshape the English game. It is also in his ability to personify the idea of football as a game for fans and not just for finance.” My The Observer column: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Seeing postwar history through the tax haven helps us understand how empire ended but so little changed”: Quinn Slobodian (zeithistoriker) on the empire of tax havens: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

“Where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing… and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.” On an Israeli detention centre for Palestinians in the Negev desert: edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…

'The issue...is not one of nationality but of class. The solution can only lie in collective action to defend both British workers and 'international seafarers'.' Great piece by Kenan Malik updating some of the plotlines of Crack-Up Capitalism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

NEW: The DWP is rejecting more than 40% of applications for PIP disability benefit from people with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and arthritis – and one in four applications from amputees

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“The case of P&O exposes the problems both of globalisation and of much opposition to it.” My The Observer column: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…