Lisa Cumming

I've kindly been added to some lists with much more interesting folk than me. So if trying to work out whether I'm worth a follow...my day job is accompanying (supporting) people working in local peacebuilding/conflict work in Britain and...

“Whoever you decided to kill was considered a terrorist." Grateful to Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor for NAZA. A powerful documentary of intentional peace thwarting and juxtapositions, rooted in rooftop listening and watching. www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

"...the majority of humanity—those who work in the sweatshops, mines and plantations that power the world economy—have received only a small fraction of the gains." globalinequality.org/global-incom...

"For Israel’s generals, peace is merely a bargaining chip – an outlook that will outlast whoever wins next week’s election." Analysis from Paul Rogers. www.opendemocracy.net/israel-elect...

"What if a simple self-portrait could help children and young people build empathy, challenge stereotypes and make friends across borders?" Beautiful words from Isabel Cartwright on Drawing Hope. thefriend.org/article/draw...

WE'RE RECRUITING: Senior Researcher on race equity Salary £42k, London Applications close Mon 2 November More details: www.britishfuture.org/jobs/senior-...

19,000 grenades were used in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux by the police last weekend 19,000 And some suggest there was not enough police presence If ever there was proof that authoritarian crackdowns are not the solution to the many crises France and other countries are facing...

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

Sabir Zazai, Scottish Refugee Council tells us he first heard of the refugee convention after arriving in Dover on a cold December day in 1999, told: you are a person liable to be detained but you may claim asylum under the 1951 refugee convention. A kind woman gave him fish & chips. No masked men.

Roundtable discussions identify the UK's national security agenda is in the "service of the huge weapons companies and tech giants that operate in proximity to power and command privileged lobbying positions". New report @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/human-securi...

"Britain has spent more than £51 billion on its participation in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as related military operations in West Asia and North Africa since 2001." transitionsecurity.org/posturing-to...

The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Reform and Restore continue to compete in an auction to abolish asylum + make unethical and impossible pledges about the scale of deportations, where both intend to target asylum seekers + refugees with status + non-Europeans with permanent status + migrants on visas on an ugly + impossible scale

I hate clouds tonight #aurora

The sun watchers are hopeful for #aurora tonight. Wishing those in the UK (& relevant other places) a cloudless night for some sky magic.

​#mentalhealth Civil society, peaceful protests, and collective action are under siege worldwide. Stigmatization, criminalization, and constant harassment are severely impacting activists' mental health. This deters the exercise of rights today and creates a future generational chilling effect 1/

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

"Inspired by the Australian National Socialist Network (NSN), the NSC marks a shift into an increasingly confrontational style of activism on the British extreme right." hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/02/n...

None of my (known) parents or grandparents were English but that doesn't matter to those policing heritage on these isles of movement & migration because I'm white.

“We were [excavating] in this really unfavourable, boggy area. To be digging out the best small crucibles ever found in Scotland – it’s extraordinary,” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The decline of Reform — and the fragmentation of the far right — should be a major news story too. But most media barely care… More evidence that media are not “just reporting the news” but are actively shaping it. With significant political consequences.

"How the war in Sudan is teaching society to govern without the state" by Eglal Hamid Abdulgadir. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/09/suda...

"One man was punched in the throat after he held up a “Love Thy Neighbour” sign..." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms." Elie Wiesel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Thirteen British universities have discussed how to handle pro-Palestine campus protests with the United Kingdom’s largest weapons manufacturer, including ramping up security at events and coordinating responses to criticism." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

A Rwandan man living in London has become the first person in the UK to face charges after being accused of taking part in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

Really recommend this paper from Petter Törnberg, "It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right" (July 26). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is not okay. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Our next webinar: Increasingly, attempts to expose UK complicity in conflicts & to challenge security, foreign & climate policy have been suppressed by new laws & police powers. Why is this happening & who or what is being sidelined in result? Register: rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/webinar-seri...

"Peace Works sets out a vision for why and how the UK Government with civil society partners should prioritise conflict prevention as part of an effective and credible foreign policy..." rc-services-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

These short films were not meant to be prophetic. The idea was that we should act to protect our democracy before it is too late:

Match laundering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform has received a pledge of a million pounds of month - up to £36 million if sustained - from Ben Delo, a party donor. Delo had his 2022 conviction for breaching money laundering laws in the USA overturned by President Trump www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

"AfD support is highest where foreign nationals are fewest." www.ft.com/content/ef6d...

This is also worth a read from Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, another great rabbi Glad to see so many Masorti rabbi’s countering the unrepresentative narrative we’ve seen from seen quarters - the community is not a monolith jonathanwittenberg.substack.com/p/be-on-the-...

I'm heartbroken to share that my colleague and incredible Burundian peacebuilder, Reverend Aloys Ningabira died unexpectedly on Saturday. Any contribution to help with burial costs would be much appreciated: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...