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Kester Ratcliff

Hard conversations with friends about imperfect options in democracy

Response to friends who argued that it’s unconscionable to vote for Harris because she’s not (yet) come out fully against the Palestinian…

Aug 1, 2024

Aug 1, 2024

Radically realistic reforms for the UK asylum system, and morally why.

I support everything in the UK civil society letter to the new Labour government about making the asylum system humane and workeable.

Jul 15, 2024

Radically realistic reforms for the UK asylum system, and morally why.

Jul 15, 2024

Comparing the origin of life to complex societal human issues

What do the deep ocean lava pores and hot springs hypotheses have to tell us about human complex societal level issues such as ‘borders?’

May 16, 2024

A sinter mound at Yellowstone National Park surrounded by microbes feeding on hot spring chemicals. Right: outflow channel with microbial mat communities adapted to high temperature photosynthesis and lower temperature green photosynthesizing plants in the distance. Image borrowed from Bruce Damer (2019), link in the main text.

May 16, 2024

‘Reconciliation’ meaning completely different things in different imaginary ontologies & the way…

A Good Friday thought after re-reading Maimonides on reconciliation

Mar 29, 2024

‘Reconciliation’ meaning completely different things in different imaginary ontologies & the way…

Mar 29, 2024

Revolutionary hope.

the courageous radical freedom to hope and the power of poetry.

Oct 26, 2023

Revolutionary hope.

Oct 26, 2023

Political communications strategy advice for other refugees’ rights advocates: focus on changing…

Interpretation of Pew polling data and recent election results.

Jun 28, 2023

Jun 28, 2023

Why EU leaders should re-align policies on irregular migration and asylum with EU Civil Society

Even if EU leaders remain motivated by the same extrinsic political motives, strategically it makes more sense for them to re-align with…

Jun 20, 2023

Jun 20, 2023

Why misinformation and disinformation on the Left is harder to operationalize measurements for.

This was stimulated by Rathje, S., Roozenbeek, J., Van Bavel, J.J. et al. Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of…

Mar 28, 2023

Mar 28, 2023

Ants, Guppies and Deer: biological analogies to explain why the topic of refugees entering…

If you’ve noticed that it seems somewhat random or accidental that prima facie refugees who enter by irregular means is the obsessive hate…

Mar 10, 2023

Mar 10, 2023

Explaining the legal philosophy behind why asylum and migration laws are setup the way they are now…

I deleted my 1am rage post about this and decided to explain the legal philosophy behind why the law is the way it is now in the simplest…

Mar 8, 2023

Mar 8, 2023

Kester Ratcliff

Kester Ratcliff

Lapsed biologist retraining as a social data scientist, often writing about refugee rights advocacy and political philosophy.

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