A lot of takes that Arday not getting much academic scrutiny throughout his career is because of woke but it really is because of how under-resourced academia is nowadays, even at Cambridge.
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When Sufjan Stevens wrote "and he takes, and he takes, and he takes" that was about my feed
"The electrical installation course requires knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, plus mastery of a wiring regs handbook that is twice as long as Pride and Prejudice" Important read on vocational ed from 14. You need a really solid foundation in English, maths & science for many jobs in trades.
The problem with "parity of esteem"
Vocational education at age 14 is not the answer
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Apologies to @hughrbrechin.bsky.social for stealing the bit but
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 15h agoHello I'm an idiot
Hey man do you mind if I bring my friend Rod Liddle to the pub later? Yeah he did keep interrupting the conversation to shout abuse at everyone. But honestly, I thought that was necessary just to test the limits of our friendships groups tolerance. Besides, he's actually really nice one on one!
Guy with an electric wheelchair at the traffic lights, wheeling himself up and down the cyclists commentating on who is going to fastest and then doing a countdown for the green light. Exemplary bit.
hey man, am i good to bring my buddy Senior Labour Source to the pub later? he's a total sociopath and he will 100% brief against you in The Times but he's actually pretty sound once you get to know him
Burnham statement on prisons - again can't decide if its really good or just haunted by how terrible McSweeney and Starmer were at stuff like this.
July marks the first consecutive twelve month period where wind generated more electricity than gas in the UK...in every single month. In the last decade, wind generation in the UK has more than doubled, pushing first coal and now gas out of the mix.
In North London for 5 mins and already heard a friendship group discussing their favourite obscure brands of milk alternatives. Get me outta here!
Basic? A perfunctory glance at my eBay listings (A vintage light counterweight, a lego model of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoie, a sheepskin floor varnish applicator and a signed copy of Metroland by Julian Barnes) will prove quite the contrary sire.
Realised that twitter turning into a fascist cess pit and left wingers staying on there makes sense - they think that all bourgeois capitalist politics decays into fascism and this is simply the next stage in the fight, to be welcomed even.
Actually quite angry reading this. I know it’s a bit passé to talk about “why don’t politicians crack down on people not using headphones on the bus” but I think we do need to reckon with platforms that incentivise people to completely disregard the norms of civil society and get away with it.
TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'
The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".
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No feedback at all so far from the literary agents I've sent the manuscript to for my debut novel: Heptanarchy. Set in the near future where a desperate and misguided Andy Burnham devolves defence and foreign policy to metro mayoraltys. War soon breaks out between WECA and the West Midlands.
Comrade Burnham spent 10 years under siege in Greater Manchester until his glorious march from Makerfield to London. He did not endure such things only to be betrayed by saboteurs who do not participate in the weekly tiramisu ceremony!
Chairman Burnham has announced a national mobilization! Citizens will work together, co-ordinated by the party, to create a novelty bar experience in every commune by the first month of 2028. The winds of Manchesterism will soon blow over the whole country!
What went wrong with Starmer's premiership? Well, I think it all comes down to communication, notably a stubborn refusal to participate in, or even engage with immersive theatre. It looks like we are due to make the same mistake again...
Citizen! It appears you have not done anything even a little bit differently today despite Chairman Burnham's decree. Care to explain?
remember when everyone was like andy burnham shouldn’t be given a seat because labour would lose greater manchester mayoralty. used to be a thing people would say sometimes
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Finding this really interesting. It has a good angle that you'd probably encounter in most sociology of medicine courses of "what is the aim of going through a medical process" and often the aim is... control.
BBC Sounds - The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O'Sullivan - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O'Sullivan on BBC Sounds.
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I had thought the media grid was dead and/or useless as a concept in our current age but the way Andy B has just kept consistently+ successfully doing one topic a day I guess proves me wrong!
Asking Louise Casey to do a report on whether I should start going to the gym again. Will consider all of the factors without fear or favour and report back in 3 years with an independent recommendation, but of course, the final decision always rests with me.
Burnham again highlighting the general crapness of Starmer, through developing an attack line for the inevitable superficial coverage of the report rather than low expectation setting by saying "tough decisions".
One angle I'm struck by in the Cambridge prof controversy is that it just wouldn't have attracted any attention at literally any other uni in the UK, besides Oxford.
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree