Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University. Writing on carceral change making in prisons, police custody and immigration detention.
Tom Kemp
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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.
If a newspaper (okay, I only read the @theguardian.com) publishes an article solely based upon a report published by another organisation, is there a reason they don't systematically link to that report? Like surely this would help everyone involved?
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?
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
I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.
There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
If Wes Streeting can release his messages with Peter Mandelson, why not release the ones with private healthcare donors?
