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. @fashionnatascha and I are proud to announce our latest co-production, The Routledge Companion to Fashion and Business, is available to pre-order!
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Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas θδΈ½ FRAS π²π¦π retweeted
while workers in China were begging to be paid at least a small amount as they received no wages, suki waterhouse and her best friend threw lavish parties for their brand and insisted that they have no money in their bank accounts
π Agatha Christie's The Hollow π
A perfect way to spend Halloween π @RichmondTheatre
I really enjoyed this play, even if I did remember it from the Suchet adaptation. The costumes and set design are lovely, it's an engaging and fun play.
A great evening at the @frontlineclub seeing @KimGhattas in conversation with @BowenBBC about her new book The Best Kind of American: Murder, War and America's undoing in the Middle East.
A fascinating, engaging and very insightful talk, Kim's book is out now @BloomsburyBooks
From Cultural Icon to Threads of Resistance: The Afghan Coat and Social Sustainability, by Zohal Krieg and Dr Andreas Krieg
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Doing Fashion Business in Africa, by Frederica Brooksworth
Wrapped in Identity: Gender, Fashion, and the Bangladeshi / British Bangladeshi Story, by Maher Anjum
Craft and Fashion: The Red List, by Daniel Carpenter @heritage_crafts
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Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas θδΈ½ FRAS π²π¦π retweeted
THIS IS INSANE. He drugged her so that he could shove abortion pills into her mouth and vagina. He made an online pharmacy account in her name so he could secretly have the pills shipped to West Point. She also wanted to keep the baby. He even threatened that he would kill himself if she didn't get an abortion. She refused because she wanted to be a mother, so he drugged her to terminate the pregnancy. He left her there, and when she awoke, she called 911. She said she was in and out of consciousness during the attack, and every time she tried to spit the pills out, he would shove them back into her mouth.
He then went on to study at CORNELL and graduated with his BA in emergency medicine (ironic) in 2024. Yes, he was enrolled the same year the gang rape happened at the fraternity. He then enrolled at Columbia, where he is STILL enrolled. But it gets crazier because he asked if the judge could delay his sentencing so he could finish his semester at Columbia, and the judge granted the request. This piece of shit is allowed to complete his education after assaulting a woman. Meanwhile, there is no update on whether she even finished her schooling after the assault because of the mental and physical trauma she experienced.
This is ANOTHER case of a university being aware of a student sexually assaulting someone and still allowing them to finish their schooling. @Columbia should have expelled him immediately. Why are these schools protecting disgusting men?
West Point cadet drugged pregnant girlfriend with spiked shake, then forced abortion in gruesome assault: 'Eat this, it's good for you' trib.al/YXdClG0
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas θδΈ½ FRAS π²π¦π retweeted
And around Β£1bn of the Β£1.7bn spent on PPE from VIP suppliers was wasted on supplies later deemed unfit to use.
This is a huge scandal.
π΄ EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE βVIP laneβ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more π§΅
democracyforsale.substack.coβ¦
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas θδΈ½ FRAS π²π¦π retweeted
I'm reading vacuum cleaner reviews on the Argos website and they include a noise rating out of five but nobody knows if five means quiet or loud so the whole thing has descended into chaos.
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas θδΈ½ FRAS π²π¦π retweeted
π΄ EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE βVIP laneβ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more π§΅
democracyforsale.substack.coβ¦
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas θδΈ½ FRAS π²π¦π retweeted
Stanford University student Elsa Johnson became a target of the Chinese Communist Party in 2024.
Elsa attended a private school as a child with a heavy focus on foreign languages and became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while still in elementary school. Years later after she was accepted to Stanford, she studied international relations and researched Chinese industry and military tactics while working at the Hoover Institution on campus.
She soon came to the attention of members of the Chinese Communist Party, which has a heavy presence at Stanford and throughout Southern California. There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese students attending Stanford each year, and the university has received more than $64,000,000 in private donations from Chinese individuals and organizations since 2010.
In June 2024, a man claiming to be a fellow Stanford student named Charles Chen contacted her online. She was not initially suspicious as they had many mutual associates, and his photos and posts appeared to be centered on campus. But his questions and requests quickly put her on edge as he invited her on a paid trip to China. And he seemingly knew details about her that she had never shared with him.
When she tried to disengage with him, she began receiving threatening phone calls by Chinese speakers. Elsa contacted Stanford administrators and the FBI, who told her Charles was likely affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, had been posing as a Stanford student for years, and had targeted at least ten other female students since 2020 in a similar manner. They also told her she was under physical surveillance on campus by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsa wrote articles in the Stanford Review and The Free Press about Chinese influence on campus, and in March 2026 testified about espionage threats on college campuses before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
For episode 270 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Elsa about being targeted by a foreign government right in the middle of a US college campus. The episode is available now.
#stanford #college #student #china #hooverinstitute
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