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Xanthe Whittaker

@xanthewhittaker

Lecturer in Work & Employment Relations | Future of work | AI & data tech at work | Inequalities at work | Care work | Dancer | Skater 🛼

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Ethan Shone (@ejshone93) 's Twitter Profile Photo

openDemocracy Think this is perhaps the most important bit of the piece, from @mickmcateer.bsky.social, who spoke to me about the implications of the City’s successful lobbying for PFI 2.0

<a href="/openDemocracy/">openDemocracy</a> Think this is perhaps the most important bit of the piece, from <a href="/MickMcAteer/">@mickmcateer.bsky.social</a>, who spoke to me about the implications of the City’s successful lobbying for PFI 2.0
Diane Abbott (@hackneyabbott) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When is an invasion not an invasion? When the IDF is doing a “limited, localised and targeted ground operation against Hezbollah” #LebanonUnderAttack

When is an invasion not an invasion? When the IDF is doing a “limited, localised and targeted ground operation against Hezbollah” #LebanonUnderAttack
Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Over the past year calls for de-escalation & warnings of regional war were ignored. Governments, like the UK & US, enabled Israel to act with impunity so it can “reshape the region”. All measures, including a full arms embargo, need to be pursued to de-escalate & protect lives.

alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin needed titanium plates in his cheek and one eye socket following the unprovoked

Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today 10 UK police launched a pre-dawn raid on the home of Asa Winstanley, one of Britain’s leading and most celebrated investigative journalists. All this devices, so all his journalistic materials, were seized and are now with the authorities. He was not charged with a crime.

Today 10 UK police launched a pre-dawn raid on the home of Asa Winstanley, one of Britain’s leading and most celebrated investigative journalists.

All this devices, so all his journalistic materials, were seized and are now with the authorities.

He was not charged with a crime.
Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It takes some learning and insight to understand that western civilization really is the absolute worst. There can be a kind of hipster outsider tendency to judge your own society more harshly than you do others, and at first glance it can look like that's what's going on when

Xanthe Whittaker (@xanthewhittaker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We need to be talking about this: Data centres are large, capital-intensive investments that create few new employment opportunities – but place enormous demands on electricity and watersystems that are already under significant (and worsening) strain.

Aaron Winter (@aaronzwinter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Antisemitism is too dangerous and important to be so misrepresented and exploited. Maccabi Tel Aviv supporting hooligans chanted 'kill the arabs', 'there are no schools in Gaza, because all the children are dead' and ripped down Palestinian flags. 1/

Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵🚨1/ This is nuts. After mysteriously deleting a package covering the Amsterdam protests, Sky News have put up a new version. The new version completely changes the thrust to emphasise that the violence was antisemitic. See the opening screenshot change below

🧵🚨1/ This is nuts. After mysteriously deleting a package covering the Amsterdam protests, Sky News have put up a new version. The new version completely changes the thrust to emphasise that the violence was antisemitic. See the opening screenshot change below
Xanthe Whittaker (@xanthewhittaker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey Lambeth Council I returned home to this tonight - I think this is the fire hazard highlighted in your FRA and now the rubbish has made my block inaccessible. Has been there since Monday morning. Lambeth Homeowners Association (LHA)

Hey <a href="/lambeth_council/">Lambeth Council</a> I returned home to this tonight - I think this is the fire hazard highlighted in your FRA and now the rubbish has made my block inaccessible. Has been there since Monday morning. 
<a href="/LmbthHomeowners/">Lambeth Homeowners Association (LHA)</a>
CERIC (@ceric_lubs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📣 Call for papers for the CERIC Doctoral Conference 2025 is now live! 📣 đź“… Wednesday 21st May, 2025 📍 Clarendon Building, University of Leeds, UK Abstracts up to 300 words via email to: [email protected] âť— Deadline Wednesday 16th April âť— bit.ly/4jTNJu2

Xanthe Whittaker (@xanthewhittaker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hey London North Eastern Railway - if you want me to fold my pram when I get on the train a) provide somewhere to store the pram and b) provide somewhere comfortable for my baby to sleep once out of the pram. Your current hostility to parents who commute with prams has all the hallmarks of sexism