Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University. Writing on carceral change making in prisons, police custody and immigration detention.
Tom Kemp
“Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes. Their government talks the language of ethnic cleansing”.
- Wes Streeting, UK Health Secretary
A UK government minister has admitted that Israel is committing war crimes - so why is the UK government refusing to act?
Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
My mum had the experience of working for the NHS (as a speech and language therapist) then the service being privatised and the values of the organisation falling away into a laminated marketing pitch. Universities have always been compromised but watching them go through this convulsion
into something so demoralised and vacuous feels like a repeat. How can we overcome these managerial logics that claim to deliver better services by making institutions so hostile and undermining to those who work to make them meaningful?
