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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/04/2026

‘If there are rumours that you’ve sexually abused a child, waging an expensive, unpopular, illegal war, let alone one whose opening salvo kills more than a hundred little girls, seems a strange bid at reputation laundering.’ @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

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Arianne Shahvisi | Gamer’s Dilemma

In a strong field of contenders, the most morally troubling computer game ever made is probably RapeLay, released in...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 04/12/2025

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

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For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year

Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Advance article (open access): We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse by Arianne Shahvisi journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/03/2025

This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

You absolutely should self censor, if the thing you are censoring yourself from saying is hate speech

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

These days you can’t even do hate speech in your place of work because of woke

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/03/2025

‘This government, like the last one, seems unable to put curiosity about causation before its impulse to cruelty.’ @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the cuts to personal independence payments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Arianne Shahvisi | A Labour Thing to Do

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the...

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every time you hear the newscaster precede the phrase "health ministry" with "Hamas-run" in order to cast the whiff of discredit upon it, remember that this cold reality is what exists underneath these sleights and obfuscation. The first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0.

@sharifkouddous: The health ministry has released a 1,516–page document listing the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. There are a total of 474 pages listing 15,600+ children’s names. The first 27 pages the age is listed as 0 — children under 1 year old

a long dense list of names in Arabic, dates of birth, I cannot possibly transcribe them all - in the right column, the ages of the dead are listed - an long unbroken line of 0s

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/03/2025

‘The increased need for health and disability benefits is symptomatic of failures in the NHS, housing, food prices, wages. Ignoring all the root causes and slashing wildly at the last safety net takes a special kind of ineptitude.’ New from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Arianne Shahvisi | A Labour Thing to Do

The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children. Words of condemnation ring hollow. The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If we didn’t cry wolf when there was obviously a wolf the wolf would’ve went away

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Faculty, this is how NOT to do it. JFC.

It is honestly really depressing that 18-22 year old students who don’t even have our degrees yet are forced to put everything on the line while not a single tenured faculty member is willing to read out a condemnation of NYPD on campus. Are we really asking for too much?

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Before we hurtle to the next stage of Gaza’s calamity, we owe it to them, and ourselves, whatever our politics, to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away. Goodbye to the children of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

86 people survived 468 days of one of the most brutal campaigns of mass extermination in human history to finally hear news of a ceasefire. Then Israel killed them. Unforgivable.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/01/2025

Just for the record, my position is "Free Palestine" not "Say They'll Stop Bombing Palestine For A Bit But Continue To Regardless Because Nobody Will Face Accountability For The Genocide"

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Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If your economic system is risking biological reproduction — such that people feel unable to have children — perhaps, just perhaps, it might be time to change that system?

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Two weeks left to apply for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the philosophy of inequality!

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

People in Jersey are having to undergo bloodletting to reduce their levels of forever chemicals, and the big US firm that made the chemicals is allowed to block the state from offering a health screening programme in case it leads to a class action lawsuit. What a fucking world.

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John Ramming Chappell @jwrchappell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25

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Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It would be awkward for someone who bragged about making the US the biggest fossil-fuel producer to acknowledge that part of his legacy is worsening climate change.

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Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

From this event, the most important thing I learned was that perhaps the IPC famine classification system is not appropriate for siege-famines, where it has been easily manipulated by the Israeli occupation forces, keeping Gaza permanently starving but not quite enough for the system to say “famine”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/11/2024

Huge, detailed new analysis of Mckinsey's fossil fuel clients - I know you already think it's bad but trust me, it is *worse* than that -->> www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels

Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If these deaths were accidental, the Israeli army needs to be forcibly dismantled without further delay. And if these deaths were intentional, but seen as 'collateral', the Israeli army needs to be forcibly dismantled without further delay.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/11/2024

Yes, this from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social in @londonreview.bsky.social: "The Tories are now lurching right . . . under a Black leader whose moral cover will allow them to unlock new levels of hostility." #UKPoli www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...

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Arianne Shahvisi | Moral Immunity

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that Black...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

several attacks on hospitals, aid seekers and aid workers later: still don't

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

“82% of all U.S.-based respondents, including almost all assistant professors (98%), said they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. 81% of those said they primarily held back their criticism of Israel.” abuaardvark.substack.com/p/gaza-and-a...

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Gaza and Academic Self-Censorship

Our new Chronicle essay reveals eye-opening results from the new Middle East Scholars Barometer survey.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

It’s hard not to notice that the pro-Israel side relies almost exclusively on generalized statements — “Israel has a right to defend itself,” “Israel must remove Hamas” etc — that are utterly irrelevant to the specific ways the IDF has carried out its bombing campaign.

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

If you begin by arguing that the term 'genocide' doesn't apply to Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians on some technicality or another, you have to end by arguing that the definition should be revised, or that there are other acts as bad as genocide. That's how morality works.

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

There's nothing uglier or more underhand than strategic subservience to bullies. Much better for Sunak, Biden etc to just be honest: 'we've wronged almost everyone in the Middle East with theft and bombs, so we're now scared of them and have to help this country to commit genocide.'

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Here's a letter from a group of us at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, calling for the protection of civilians and health infrastructure, and extending solidarity to those doing jobs like ours under the cruellest of circumstances shorturl.at/ltC16

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Imagine your own fucking outlet, the one you literally died working for, passive voicing your own murder.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Hypocrisy, thy name is Ursula.

Ursula von der Leyen the head of the European Commission says Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes.

Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror.

And we have to call it as such.

In an address to the European Parliament in October 2022

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

This Guardian 'explainer' explains next to nothing. Two lines, buried midway, mention the 'hardship' caused by the blockade. No engagement with history, no mention of the occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing etc. This is strategic obfuscation, and it's a form of propaganda.

Guardian headline: Israel-Hamas war: what has happened and what has caused the conflict?

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

If you never give an oppressed people a chance to organize in normal politics, it shouldn’t be surprising if they resort to violence. As true among Kurds, whose political opening appears to be closing, as it is Palestinians, whose opening arguably never existed.

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Philip Luke Johnson @phillegitimate.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Most common question I get asked as a vegetarian is how can I possibly, possibly be getting enough protein. @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social breaks down just how saturated we are in meat protein, and some of the politics behind this. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/se...

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Arianne Shahvisi | Overnourished · LRB 1 September 2023

The conceptual if not the literal ancestors of most of Britain’s chickens were smuggled into the country disguised as...

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Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

If you've ever shied away from offering solidarity to Palestinians because you don't feel sufficiently informed, this website, run by Palestinians in the West Bank, offers an accessible but rigorous history decolonizepalestine.com

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Home | Decolonize Palestine

Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.

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