Good to see the International Review of Social History review dossier about Daniel Laqua's Activism across Borders come out on FirstView, with Georgina Brewis, Constance Bantman, Mark Hurst, Nicole Robertson & of course Daniel Laqua HistoriesOfActivism - cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Join me to celebrate the launch of Daniel Laqua's new book, 'Activism across borders since 1870' alongside Mark Hurst Charlotte Alston and Nicole Robertson at Newcastle's Lit & Phil on Thu. 28th Sept from 6pm.

Registration is free! 🥳eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossing-bor…

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With James Cleverly🇬🇧's trip to China, it's excellent timing for a spanking new Special Issue on British foreign policy and human rights in CRIA. Articles on how UK dealt with authoritarian states in the past and the present.🧵1/

Two years ago today my dad returned to Moscow to fight for a democratic, free and beautiful Russia. Today we are launching a campaign to free him. Join now! Say no to war! Free Alexey Navalny!

free.navalny.com

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When police ask the protesters not to chant “no more lockdowns”, so they chant this instead:

“MORE LOCKDOWNS!”
“I WANT TO DO COVID TESTS!”

Folks. Let me remind you this brave effort also encapsulates the highest Chinese wisdom: weaponized passive aggressiveness.

Listen to our brand new podcast episode, 'Religion in Communist Lands'. Zoe Knox interviews Philip Walters on religious freedom in the Soviet Union and the limits on those freedoms in #Russia today
open.spotify.com/episode/5zmVtr…

В Лондоне у торгпредства России официально открыта площадь Бориса Немцова. Восьмой город мира, увековечивший имя лидера российской оппозиции в своей топонимике.
Не сомневаюсь — однажды в этом списке будет Москва.
Спасибо,🇬🇧

Here’s more from our interview with St Petersburg university lecturer Denis Skopin, who was sacked after being arrested at an anti-mobilisation protest (and jailed for 10 days). Camera anton chicherov Producer Liza

Something for the weekend (taken from my new book, and illustrated by the brilliant Moose Allain Ꙭ)

I thought this was a spoof, but this is a real Russian government tweet. In Russia up is down, black is white and 2 + 2= 10

Memorial's Nobel win, after decades of painstaking work documenting historical crimes of the state and modern Russia's worst rights abuses, is in many ways an award for Natalia Estemirova.

She was murdered in Chechnya in 2009 shortly after Ramzan Kadyrov threatened her.

The Nobel Peace Prize given to Memorial

Please, do NOT shop for Britain.

Consumerism drives us towards an even greater crisis than the pandemic: the collapse of our life support systems.

In trying to reduce the impact of our diets, we tend massively to over-emphasise #FoodMiles , and under-emphasise the type of food we eat. Even if you shipped bananas 6 times round the planet, their impact would be lower than local beef and lamb. ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs…