Maud Anne Bracke

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

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Next year!

There's a great research professorship scheme in Catalonia 😊 Who we are - ICREA share.google/XsYaYr8bJaBo...

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
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BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.

Mass killing of elementary school girls - are they less human bec they are Iranian? Are they legit “collateral damage”? Means to an end? I doubt that this kind of mass killing would be even contemplated for, say, Denmark.

Children as war targets, once again.

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

Israel murders 40 children at Iranian elementary school At least 40 children were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran — Israel is now the expert at this

At least 40 children were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran — Israel is now the expert at this

Happy Arrest of the Andrew formerly known as Prince Randy to all who celebrate. And as always, thank you feminism.

For fellow PhD students or your PhDs: one-week mobility stays at the European University Institute in Florence for doctoral researchers in social sciences and humanities working on a topic related to economics, history, law and social and political science from CEE. Deadline: 24 February.

International Summer School / University of Glasgow YouTube video by University of Glasgow

Applications are open for any students, undergraduate or post-grad, to register for the Humanities International Summer School at University of Glasgow in June-July 2026. Please share with interested students. More information in the clip.

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Hind Rajab and the Dying Light Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children

Hind Rajab was afraid of the dark. After killing her family & wounding her, Israel prevented her rescue & left her to die alone in the dark. I write about those critical hours & the film that brings back her voice to induct the world’s silence @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/review/hind-...

L’écrivaine Arundhati Roy annule sa venue à la Berlinale après que le jury a refusé de s’exprimer sur Gaza L’écrivaine et militante indienne a déploré le choix de membres du jury, dont son président, Wim Wenders, de ne pas commenter l’action d’Israël dans la bande de Gaza, qu’elle qualifie de génocide. « Qu’ils sachent que l’histoire les jugera », a-t-elle fustigé.

L’écrivaine Arundhati Roy annule sa venue à la Berlinale après que le jury a refusé de s’exprimer sur Gaza

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Far right and anti-trans activism on UK campuses supported by Russian- and Hungarian-funded networks.

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 'has not repaid a penny' of Virginia Giuffre settlement money borrowed from late Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip and King Charles | LBC Disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was loaned £12 million by his parents and King Charles to pay off Virginia Giuffre, but has not paid a penny back.

That's the monarchy finished.

How can you be 'profoundly concerned', or "ready to support' survivors if you've helped pay them off to get your toxic brother off the hook???

Revolting.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/andr...

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Book Launch!

Callum G Brown - Ninety Humanists and the Ethical Transition of Britain: The Open Conspiracy 1930-80 (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Thurs 12 February 2026: 16:00-18:00
Humanities Research Hub,
Rm 101 @ 1 University Gardens.
Zoom link:https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/81429229738

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is now listed in Verso's trade catalogue for 2026.

You can find it here: versobooks.com/en-gb/pages/...

Gisèle Pelicot, naissance d’une féministe Propulsée icône malgré elle de la lutte contre les violences sexuelles faites aux femmes, Gisèle Pelicot se raconte dans « Et la joie de vivre », publié chez Flammarion. Rencontre et dialogue avec la philosophe féministe Manon Garcia.

Gisèle Pelicot, naissance d’une féministe

Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!

NHS data could easily support Reform's plan of mass deportations of immigrants: 'Palantir, give me everyone whose birth date is prior to their first appearance on the NHS database.'

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We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.

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What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.

It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.

My latest for @thenerve.news
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My postdoc at @durham.ac.uk is now open for applications! Three years research, open field.
Happy to answer any questions/chat/give feedback on applications.

NB: You *must* be nominated by a department - check with the department for the internal procedure/deadline.
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Sign the Petition Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services

I signed this petition demanding an inquiry into PALANTIR's role

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