"While I was lucky to walk away physically unscathed, I carried a different kind of wound: being part of a community that was treated with collective blame."
@neemabegum.bsky.social on her experience as a 7/7 survivor in @uk.theconversation.com:
theconversation.com/i-survived-t...
New piece in The Conversation by Rob McNeil and Peter Walsh from @migobs.bsky.social
The most radical part of Reform’s deportation plans theconversation.com/the-most-rad...
Join us TOMORROW for a fascinating discussion!
@cumberlandlodge.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com @newcastleuni.bsky.social
The issues raised in #Adolescence are only part of the picture. What’s really going on with boys, girls, masculinity and politics? Join @uk.theconversation.com and @cumberlandlodge.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social to discuss.
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🎉 Everyone at The Conversation is delighted after we won Publisher Podcast of the Year 2025 last night. Here's what the judges said: "It’s been a real honour to watch their work grow in quality and depth each year, to the point they were placed in the top 3 of every category they entered this year"
Join @michaeljrichardson.bsky.social and Sophie Lively for this panel discussion on Thursday 3 July at Newcastle University ⬇️
Sharing a blog post by @rhulpir.bsky.social final year student @tayapanter.bsky.social on the % of MPs who are [active] on BlueSky v. X:
hollodec.github.io/2025/06/26/b...
Three key takeaways (1/n)
For too long, victims of grooming gangs were dismissed, disbelieved, or blamed.
In my latest article for @uk.theconversation.com, I explore how repeated system failures led us here and what must change now
theconversation.com/the-uk-faile...
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@icf-mcr.bsky.social
"Starmer faces something of a paradox. In order to convince the public, he should probably go the whole hog; but doing so may well render his life at Westminster rather trickier than he would like it to be."
For a report published today, @amnestyuk.bsky.social asked my colleague Lyle Barker and me to review the evidence about the state of the UK’s social security in relation to international human rights law.
I wrote this blogpost for @uk.theconversation.com about it. theconversation.com/the-uks-soci...
Four years on from the attacks on 9/11 - this was a time when, in the minds of many, Muslims were already associated with terrorism.
theconversation.com
‘Operation Restoring Justice’ would face legal, logistical and diplomatic hurdles.
(This is a lightly edited version of an essay written by Taya Panter, a final year undergraduate in PIRP. Taya wrote the essay for Nick Allen’s Parliamentary Studies module.)
hollodec.github.io
A safeguarding expert explains why these reforms could change things.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni
Chris Hanretty
Michelle McManus
Tim Bale
Koldo Casla
The issues raised in #Adolescence are only part of the picture. What’s really going on with boys, girls, masculinity and politics? Join @uk.theconversation.com and @cumberlandlodge.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social to discuss.
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A conversation with young people and experts about the issues affecting young men and women.
Join The Conversation UK and Cumberland Lodge's Youth & Democracy project for a discussion on how young people are navigating these issues.
