Lawrence Robinson

Lads it's Manchester United #coys

The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde

From Bluesky to the Guardian!

In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

Cities besieged, bakeries bombed, fields set alight: it’s time to end the use of starvation as a weapon of war - Views & Voices The blockade of food, water and relief that has brought so much hunger and suffering to Gaza is the latest example of the growing use of starvation as a weapon of war, say Lawrence Robinson and Desire...

Cities besieged, bakeries bombed, fields set alight... @lawrencerobinson.bsky.social and Désirée Ketabchi explain why Oxfam has become a founder member of a new coalition to challenge the use of starvation as a weapon of war views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/04/end-...

Excellent work. More coverage on the intersection of human rights/humanitarian crises from @theathletic.bsky.social would be great 👏

Underfunded. Delayed. Misguided. The int'l aid system is still struggling.

#AnticipatoryAction is one necessary approach shift...But how do we scale up AA effectively?

➡️ New piece from me and Oxfam colleagues on the 4 key fundamentals in scaling up AA.

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From the dekihad to the madihad #coys