David Wearing

@davidwearing

Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Specialist on UK foreign policy in Middle East. Best contactable via email

London
Registrerte seg november 2009

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  1. Festet tweet
    31. okt. 2018

    UK relations with Saudi Arabia & the Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. My new book, 'AngloArabia', is the only comprehensive analysis of Britain's deep ties with these states. For review copies, email ukpublicity@politybooks.com

    Angre
  2. 28. feb. 2020

    Academia in general, the social sciences specifically, and my own discipline in particular, need to act meaningfully to address these deep seated problems. Black and brown faces on the front of your undergrad prospectus won't suffice to cover up ongoing exclusion

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    Angre
  3. 28. feb. 2020

    They notice when their countries of origin are consistently presented as backward, as security threats to the West, as problems for the West to solve. They notice the racism. It's not good for them, or indeed for their white counterparts in terms of the message they're receiving

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    Angre
  4. 28. feb. 2020

    This is not purely about identity but how that interrelates with intellectual substance. In international relations, e.g., it means disproportionately Eurocentric curricula, where analysis external to and critical of Western power is largely absent. BAME students notice this

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    Angre
  5. 28. feb. 2020

    BAME students - especially black students - enter institutions where virtually none of the academic staff look like them. They're then presented with reading lists where virtually none of the authors look like them. The alienation and disempowerment will impact their performance

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    Angre
  6. 28. feb. 2020

    We should think about how this affects our students, both white and BAME. The homogeneity and resultant parochialism of British intellectual life is not healthy for them

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    Angre
  7. Retweetet
    24. feb. 2020

    How do we challenge xenophobic populism? will be chairing a discussion at - a CLASS conference for us to Gather, Resist & Organise to Win progressive change. Sat 25th April, London. Get your tickets now!⏩

    Angre
  8. 28. feb. 2020

    I’m glad to have played a role in this apparent major policy shift from Starmer But the question, “should the UK be an accessory to mass murder?” is one he should have got right the first time And it's one more people – especially journalists - should have been asking of him

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  9. 28. feb. 2020

    All this matters because, as I explained here last April, the UK plays a vital, ongoing role in *sustaining* a Saudi war effort in Yemen that has indiscriminately killed and starved tens of thousands

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    Angre
  10. 28. feb. 2020

    A few days later, on the afternoon the Long Bailey campaign released this targeted Facebook ad, Starmer posted his tweet on Saudi Arms sales, seemingly trying to pass off a new position as one he’d always had

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    Angre
  11. 28. feb. 2020

    I then produced this video with , highlighting the issue, which racked up 60k views on Twitter and 10k on YouTube

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    Angre
  12. 28. feb. 2020

    Originally, when HuffPo asked him about this and other discrepanices with the manifesto, his people simply said that some 2019 commitments were being re-examined

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    Angre
  13. 28. feb. 2020

    Starmer seems to have been forced into a significant shift here. When his 10 policy pledges were released a fortnight ago he only committed to “review” arms sales, not “immediately suspend” those to Saudi, as per the 2019 manifesto

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    Angre
  14. Retweetet
    20. feb. 2020

    Keir Starmer's 10 pledges were meant to reassure Labour members that they can trust him with the direction of the party On climate change and arms sales to Yemen, they've proven the exact opposite My video for

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    Angre
  15. 22. feb. 2020

    I'll be chairing the panel on immigration, with two amazing speakers: and See you there, 25 April

    Angre
  16. 21. feb. 2020

    This paragraph seems a very selective characterisation of a video that was fundamentally about two major policy areas: climate change and arms sales. Are those issues not worth mentioning? Is scrutiny on those important policy areas not legitimate?

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    Angre
  17. 21. feb. 2020

    More details here on the assessment made by Labour for a Green New Deal

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    Angre
  18. 21. feb. 2020

    Ranking the Labour leadership candidates on their climate policies Anyone prioritising a vague, impressionistic (and often unconsciously prejudiced) sense of a person's "electability" over hard realities like these is simply refusing to grasp the enormity of the moment

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    Angre
  19. Retweetet
    20. feb. 2020

    “This isn’t a personal point about Keir Starmer. What’s at issue here is a form of prevarication common to the Labour centre left which cringes from the big challenges, and even from basic moral questions.” Great from on the leadership race👇

    Angre
  20. 20. feb. 2020

    Arms sales to Saudi that should say!

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    Angre
  21. 20. feb. 2020

    Keir Starmer's 10 pledges were meant to reassure Labour members that they can trust him with the direction of the party On climate change and arms sales to Yemen, they've proven the exact opposite My video for

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    Angre

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