Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Read in the style of Adam Curtis: “People thought that by putting flags on lampposts, they were taking back their country. But those symbols of sovereignty were made thousands of miles away by workers who’d never heard of Britain. And while the flags fluttered, nothing had changed.” 23310
Reposted by Philip ProudfootInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 11/06/2025"When the legal threshold for genocide is met, we must call it genocide – and act accordingly." Read the commentary from Martin Griffiths, former UN humanitarian chief and @philipproudfoot.bsky.social ac.pulse.ly/q5ldukwti0 112313
Reposted by Philip ProudfootInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 10/06/2025"When the legal threshold for genocide is met, we must call it genocide – and act accordingly." Martin Griffiths, former UN humanitarian chief, writes for IDS and calls for action to prevent genocide in #Gaza 👇 ac.pulse.ly/yuhzem0hlvac.pulse.lyIt is genocide: Humanitarian law must be enforced in Gaza - Institute of Development StudiesOn 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for a decisive realignment of humanitarian law and humanitarian action to halt genocide and other atroci... 192416
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 11/06/2025With Martin Griffiths, former UN ERC, we write: "But above all, how we classify the carnage in Gaza matters. Words carry consequences & must trigger concrete steps. When the legal threshold for genocide is met, we must call it genocide – and act accordingly @ids.ac.uk www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/it-...ids.ac.ukIt is genocide: Humanitarian law must be enforced in Gaza - Institute of Development StudiesOn 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for ... 13016
Reposted by Philip ProudfootDevelopment Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 06/06/2025👋 Are you on BlueSky and coming to #DSA2025 ❓ We've spotted @keetieroelen.bsky.social with a paper on poverty, stigma and dignity in Bangladesh and @philipproudfoot.bsky.social on labour, social protection and livelihoods analysis 📊 🔎 Who else is coming to the conference at @cdsbath.bsky.social ❓ 043
Reposted by Philip ProudfootPeter Taylor @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Martin Griffiths, former UN Chief and IDS Honorary Associate and @philipproudfoot.bsky.social call for the law to be enforced to halt genocide in Gaza: www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/it-...ids.ac.ukIt is genocide: Humanitarian law must be enforced in Gaza - Institute of Development StudiesOn 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for ... 1775
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 12/02/2025One thing AI is actually amazing at is languages. I’ve been asking it to read out loud Arabic news as I’m trying to keep up my fus7a and it’s unlike any other language tool. And chatGPT can also speak and recognise and hold a conversation in pretty much all spoken Arabic dialects too 3172
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Trump is emboldened to announce he will commit war crime because the global north establishment — for 15-months — decided that Israel can act with total impunity. They destroyed the pretence of entire rules based order. And now they have the audacity to cry about consequences. 24221
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Brilliant as ever is Alex de Waal in LRB on Famine Classification in Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAlex de Waal · How to Measure FamineDuring the past year, as starvation started to appear in Gaza, Israel has clashed with the United Nations and aid... 22911
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025It’s a real struggle to not just collapse into a deep depression; always see myself as an optimist but everywhere is burning, the left is busy organising “networks” and “spaces” and a continued rightward slide feels inevitable. Feeling particularly doom-pilled today. 6441
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Google Earth / Maps is now updating its satellite imagery of Gaza. We now have a top-down view of some of the worst atrocities committed since the Second World War. 44624
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025For Development Studies / Academic BlueSky (if it exists here) … our new paper on the politics of social assistance in Lebanon is out, with the BASIC programme @ids.ac.uk It explores how Lebanon’s fractured social contract remained in place during the fiscal crisis. www.ids.ac.uk/publications...ids.ac.ukThe Politics of Social Assistance in Lebanon - Institute of Development StudiesThis brief examines the politics of social protection amid ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon. It finds that Lebanon’s political settlement remains characterised by sectarian-clientelism and fracture... 091
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Michael Burawoy was killed on Monday in a hit and run. Horrendous. Burawoy was one of the greatest sociologists of labour. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...mercurynews.comOakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersectionThe collision happened around 7:10 p.m. Monday near the entrance to Children’s Fairyland. 061
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The main takeaway from this is that it confirms proscription in Britain is a political tool not objective application of law: Countless journalists detained for writing about Palestine, but these two jokers can have a chat with the leader of a still proscribed organisation. 2266
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Aid — since it was formalised and linked to gov — has always served as a state arm. Trump merging USAID to the DoS is an acknowledgement of that fact. The same as DFID into FCDO. In some sense, this was inevitable, given the decline of activism and rise of donor-power. We need a new model. 2184
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Over at the other place, people seem to have not heard of a printer. 5448
Reposted by Philip ProudfootInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 30/01/2025In-person course announcement! Develop your knowledge and skills to bring participatory action research into your social change work. Using Participatory Action Research to Improve Development Practice. 📅 May 12 to 16, 2025 📍 IDS, Brighton, UK Apply now👉 bit.ly/3B7s0gS 022
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Free speech protects us from tyrants, gifts us an open society, free debate, and scientific progress. Pretty shit, then, that what its advocates actually mean is being racist online and bullying trans people. 0234
Reposted by Philip ProudfootLyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Maybe #Labour needs to focus on inequality & improve the lives of ordinary people instead of obssessing with runways, bats & top-down growth models. #UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK can win scores of Labour seats in England and Wales, says studyAnalysis of a mega poll shows Keir Starmer would lose more seats than Tories amid voter discontent with main parties 0125
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025What will Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE possibly do without USAID!? ….. Trump should really fix the American education system. Oh well. 3367
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025These people cannot conceptualise that if your democratic "choice" is between neoliberal A Team or neoliberal B team, with slightly different visions of how to tinker around the edges, then, perhaps, it doesn't feel like a choice. In this nightmare, an authoritarian who promises change is appealing. 56614
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Reform’s surge is easy to understand. It is the same as Brexit. People are fed up. The economic model Britain has pursued since the 1980s has failed. They want change — any change — and they don’t trust establishment parties to deliver it. Reform is an empty vessel, it just means “different”. 5429
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025You don’t hear much from the Stameroids these days — I think some might finally accepted you can’t just wear a nice suit and tell the economy to grow. And others, who believed he secretly had a plan, have learned that isn’t the case. It’s a shame this folly will cost us fascism. 4286
Reposted by Philip ProudfootDeclassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 30/01/2025After 15 months of destroying Gaza, the UK reiterates that "Israel is an important regional partner for the UK" and that "the Ministry of Defence routinely conducts bilateral Defence engagement with the Israel Defense Forces". #DCUKparliament 106440
Reposted by Philip ProudfootDeclassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 30/01/2025The UK government defends Israeli abuses against Palestinians in a variety of ways. Here, foreign minister Hamish Falconer can only refer to "reports" of Israel's mistreatment of detainees. #DCUKparliament 03318
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Please, for the love of god, don’t vote for any political party in Britain that threatens to privatise the NHS. 29827222
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025For around five years (2015-2020), many countries in the global north had a choice between (democratic) socialism or barbarism. Welcome to barbarism. 05417
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Unsure if this is a parody. “Let the adults handle politics now” *gestures to the burning planet granted to us by these ‘adults’* 2182
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The problem here is if you allow machines to learn then they will ... learn 46323
Reposted by Philip ProudfootFleur @dimchancecariad.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Spot on Centrists have brought this all about by ignoring the needs of the majority of the population. . .who simply want fair pay, decent public services . . .etc 042
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Liberal institutions—from centrist parties to multilateral orgs—are still fixated on ‘restoring order. But their ‘order’ birthed right-wing authoritarianism, enabled 15 months of genocide, eroded the power of labour, and rewarded capital. This isn’t a strategy. It’s a death cult 3037150
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025One of the things Britain is good at is universities. We punch above our weight and they’re key economic drivers across the country. So you’ll never guess which sector the government is going to allow to collapse next? 14210
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 27/01/2025What liberal centrists get wrong is they believe right wing populists like Trump are trashing the international rules based order. No. It was trashed by liberal centrist global north governments who funded, armed, and ran political cover for a 15-month genocide. 24510
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 27/01/2025My mum has a brief cameo on this report (pushing the trolly) This is the hospice where she works as a nurse. It has been absolutely devastated by the governments refusal to find end-of-life-care properly 👇 t.co/rFB1taMSpot.cohttps://www.channel4.com/news/absolutely-devastated-inside-durham-hospice-battling-1-3m-black-hole 1143
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Establishment liberals are mindless zombies with no theory of capitalism’s collapse. The weirdo-right has a theory, but it’s something like ‘too many genders,’ ‘not enough neo-gothic buildings,’ and 'more crusades.’ We're stuck between zombies and wacky incels. 0345
Reposted by Philip ProudfootInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 21/01/2025Women are often called "saviours" and "victims" in climate change debates. Read more about why this is a problem in this article co-authored by IDS fellow Deepta Chopra 👇 theconversation.com/women-are-se...theconversation.comWomen are seen as ‘saviours’ or ‘victims’ in climate change debates: why this is a problemSimple either/or ways of seeing women overlook the power dynamics and structural factors that give rise to the stereotypes. 084
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I suppose one hopeful outcome of the next few years is the rest of the world decides it’s had quite enough of the USA and instead builds a new alliance and institutions outside of an isolationist Trump administration. 2398
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Why was there an executive order from Trump to withdraw from WHO? well one can draw a direct line from the rapid circulation of conspiracy theory among his MAGA base on Twitter etc to that eventual decision, which will significantly harm public health. Ban Twitter. 2183
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Governments — that are not the USA — need to rediscover, in 2025, that they are, in fact “governments” — we do not need to be bossed around by a far right tech billionaire who delights in causing toxic political violence. Our governments can follow Brazil, simply ban Twitter, and he will fold. 34610
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Global North governments have two possible explanations for what they permitted to happen Gaza: 1. They believe Palestinians sit outside of humanity and the rules based order; the post-ww2 system doesn’t apply in Gaza. 2. They have simply allowed Israel to destroy that system. 12410
Reposted by Philip ProudfootLyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Excited to be speaking at this flagship @ids.ac.uk annual event on Recasting Development in 2025 that will explore key development trends. Please join us in person or online on 28 Jan, 16 hours, UK time. Registration details below. 0125
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025This is dangerous misinformation: “Now there’s a ceasefire, we can get aid in.” The humanitarian system delivers during wars because laws and customs protect aid workers & supply trucks. Israel violated these laws repeatedly—and not one Western state acted to enforce them. 39641
Reposted by Philip ProudfootInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 16/01/2025IDS will hold its flagship event Recasting Development to explore key trends in development for the coming year with a focus on #Brazil #China #India #Indonesia and #SouthAfrica. Tuesday 28 January at 16:00 (UK time). Register: 👉 www.ids.ac.uk/news/join-id... With @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social 094
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Alongside lifesaving aid, it will be imperative Gazans receive massively scaled-up high-quality psychosocial support — this must also be understand as a priority need. Israel’s crimes risk an entire generation growing up with utterly debilitating mental illness. 2369
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025We have to keep the pressure on, demanding the mother of all reckonings for Gaza, we need every crime documented, every act of complicity traced. We simply cannot — for the sake of humanity — allow these monsters to get away with genocide. 16124
Reposted by Philip ProudfootKristen @ansibledialectics.bsky.social · 15/01/2025This article does suggest there's some truth to it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... 061
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Donald Trump ended this war — I don’t know what he plans next — but it was his envoy that achieved this. It was not the democrats — they prolonged it and will be forever tainted by blood. Liberals are going to have a hard time processing this 14378
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025We need UN investigators into Gaza asap. The world is not ready to learn the true depth of crime committed — but learn it the world must. 03718