Y'know... well done, Kemi Badenoch. This is top tier party leadership. Absolute top tier. All the chefs are doing kisses. All of them. Even that one in Stornoway.

Martin@martin67.bsky.social · 5h ago

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 13h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Coming to the end of the first chapter of the new book, and it's always the same- First twenty-odd pages: yeah, this is good, like this bit, Oh Yeah, I AM THE TEXT MASTER BOW BEFORE ME Last paragraph: what even is word

… Nope. Don’t get it. Totally baffled.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 13h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

This is devastating for universities - it will be devastating for British culture and society - and I think it will finally be devastating for the Labour government itself, stupidly and shortsightedly destroying our successful cultural sector for shits and giggles

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2

You hit a point when you're about 8,000 words into something where you kind of accept you're writing another book. Not planning it or researching it or thinking about how it'd work. Actually writing the thing. And this one's going very very fast. OK. So. That'll be me for a bit. Hi Sam. Again.

Your weekly reminder that universities cannot enhance the employability of our graduates if there are not graduate jobs to go to. Let’s hope Saint Burnham of Manchester can begin to fix the economy…

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago

New graduate posts down 7% from last year's figures, at lowest level since 2020. Overall UK job postings are down 11% since the start of the year. This decline stretches across almost all occupations. War in Middle East and AI adduced as potential drivers.

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

ft.com

If anyone has any proposals that could fit this, send them to Alyson- there's a great editorial team behind this. www.alyson-campbell.com/book-series-...

This is how I test a watermelon at the supermarket

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump taps on Lindsey Graham's casket

I really hope someone's handed out sick buckets to the mourners.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

Very pleased that @lukekennard.bsky.social is on the Booker long list. Good things happen to good people, just on occasion.

And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market.

Laura McInerney@missmc.bsky.social · last wk.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ve thought through how this will be staffed, funded, and the class size implications for GCSE options. They learned that from the last time, right? RIGHT? www.tes.com/magazine/new...

'Endlessly rehashing Thatcherism's our job', the ex-Tory leader told The Telegraph. 'She's our zombie, Burnham. Hands off.'

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sunak, Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/business/eco...

Been to see The Odyssey. Bit surprising. Was expecting three hours of a friendly Jewish bloke arsing around Dublin but it's loads of angsty Greeks getting soaked.

To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.

You mean, you don't have this?

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

I personally think it’s great that we are inventing guys that the X-Men are supposed to fight

the hype@thehyyyype.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's no way Bryan Johnson could possibly get any creepier than he already- hang on, I'm getting a note

So you write a comprehensive history chapter, capturing an important period in the development of the scenographies of live music performance. And it's fun!!! All that detail!!! All those names!!!! ... and then you have to do the index. And it ain't fun. All that detail. All those names.

Sometimes you see something, and you laugh, and you're a bit ashamed at the fact you laughed, then you look at it again, and you laugh.

Sean Coleman@colemandesign.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sheffield Hallam University?

Unexpected indexing question: Megan Thee Stallion. Should this be indexed- Stallion, Megan Thee 0r- Thee Stallion, Megan?

Yesterday was proofreading; today is doing the book's index. How can you tell I'm doing the index? Well, look. The indexing document is currently blank. My desk. on the other hand, has never been so tidy. Oh yeah. Might even hoover this sucker.

This is utterly pathetic.

Andrew McGettigan@amcgettigan.bsky.social · 2w ago

government has responded to the Education Committee's report on insolvency. this is apparently the position on a university failing - Jacqui Smith is continuing as HE minister ...

Here come the Hills of Time.

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

So, still not that good then?

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first two are already available in Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Gemini Enterprise, and the Gemini app.

Book proofs have arrived for indexing. Feeling a bit proud, not so much for the book itself, but because it's now a thing in the world, and not just a group of files in a folder, and backups on hard disks and cloud servers.

What was Nandy doing before this?

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 2w ago

I'm open to the possibility that we have our first satirical Cabinet.

'Poor' not simply in terms of 'cash-strapped' but in terms of impoverished vision.

Humanities among degrees ‘extinguished’ by poor universities

Thousands of UK university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees,...

universityworldnews.com

German broadcast. Nailed it