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Lucy Faire
@drlucyfaire.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life; enthusiast for adult education and cooperation; personal account
Renters are spending up to 40% of their income on rent. Here’s our plan to change that in 30 seconds.
An awesome video about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's campaign in Holborn & St Pancras. No wonder Burnham is running scared.
Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 2
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
Yes students want a good job after Uni but, as is the case for Humanities students anyway, their main priority during their degrees is TO ENJOY THEIR STUDIES AND LEARN. I’ve held focus groups and have the data. But all Universities care about are workplace skills like it’s the fucking Soviet Union.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 4w agoWhy is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?
Steps today were reporting blocked drains with Stonegate Greens. Surprisingly fun.
2050 is just too late. The clue is in the word emergency.
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 3w agoWe don't do that though by extracting oil and gas from new fields, or by expanding airports. A few community owned wind turbines isn't going to be enough. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A big thank you to Janet for giving us such an interesting tree walk in Abbey Park today! #DiscoveryCircles
Our Human Factor at Work coordinators ran their first session last night! A taster for the 'Learning to be a Facilitator' course. For more info: vaughan.coop/course/learn...
humanfactoratwork.bsky.social@humanfactoratwork.bsky.social · 4w agoWe had a very engaged group of participants at our 'Learning to be a Facilitator' taster. Lots of ideas in our 'Popcorn session' about when do we need facilitator and why are they needed or useful? Deadline for applications next week! (17 September)
We had a very engaged group of participants at our 'Learning to be a Facilitator' taster. Lots of ideas in our 'Popcorn session' about when do we need facilitator and why are they needed or useful? Deadline for applications next week! (17 September)
Labour has delayed its plans to allow new North Sea drilling until after the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. A Green win on 8th October will add pressure on Labour to reverse this shortsighted and dangerous plan. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski
Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep
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And Leicestershire police were tipped off about the big Hindutva 'protest' that kicked off in Sept 2022, but all fucked off to London for the Queen's funeral anyway. I'm picking up on a theme about who matters, who doesn't...
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4w agoAnd the PS Northern Ireland were also tipped off about paramilitary activities several months before the June pogroms
The Government is letting data centre developers bypass local scrutiny... BUT they don't even know what the data centres are being used for 🤯 It's time to put the brakes on. It's time for a national data centre strategy.
The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning
Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies
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It's one week until our taster session for our 'Learning to be a Facilitator course' which starts at the end of September. Sign up soon if you want to find out more because the taster session is nearly full! vaughan.coop/course/facil...
'Learning to be a Facilitator' Taster Session - Leicester Vaughan College
A taster session for those who want to find out more about our 5-week course 'Learning to be a Facilitator' course.
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Yeah this -- there's thousands of people in abusive or dangerous households with secret phones. Hope they are all OK now.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyding to Nothing@aylwin.bsky.social · 2mo agoWell done our prick prime minister for doing an emergency alert with no prior warning whatsoever, this will genuinley have put people with necessary secret phones in danger. Just an utterly incompetent arsehole.
So how many people didn't get the 'really important' message because they hit 'stop' button to get rid of the horrible noise? If you missed it apparently there's a Welsh version on some government website.
Great climate change sorted by a Government alert! If we don't have barbecues or pit fires the rapid heating up of the planet will all okay!
Great blog on why historians do research better than AI. Also (with the very rare exception) we don't just make stuff up.
Dr Sophie Michell@sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs promised, a blog that talks about human error, children (not) being transported and why AI can't do what historians do (because it can't think) sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/historians...
The Vaughan Exhibition visitors saw in the Attenborough Arts Centre the exhibition ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’, a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills. To be recommended, especially to those with children. #DiscoveryCircles
Just been to this exhibition with the @vaughancoop.bsky.social Exhibition Visitors. If you've not been, Leicester people, it's really worth a visit.
Cars are growing bigger every year, creating an increasingly dangerous environment for road users. If current trends continue, an additional 2,500 adults, and 79 children, could die on Europe’s roads by 2040, compared to a scenario where new car sizes return to 2015 levels. ➡️ bit.ly/3SRno6P
Ever-bigger? Car size at a crossroads
The impacts on safety, space and resource use if carspreading continues to go unchecked.
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A deal should be a deal
HWUCU@hwucu.bsky.social · 2mo agoWE HAD A DEAL! Watt happened? HWUCU back on strike today because our employer has signalled they won't keep their side of a deal made in June to protect jobs. No Compulsory Redundancy. @ucu.org.uk @joshpizpom.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @theferret.scot @ucuscotland.bsky.social
We're running a taster session for our 'Learning to be a Facilitator' course. Come along if you want to find out more! 10 Sep 2026, 6.00-7.30pm Leicester Adult Education College. For more information and to book your place👇 vaughan.coop/course/facil...