How can you support both Arsenal and England if the Arsenal guy plays for Norway since a team is a collection of individual players MAKE THIS COUNTRY MAKE SENSE

How is it that all the nightlife in London is shut down because it disrupts rich people but my neighbors are allowed to have a screen in the courtyard BLASTING the soccer game omg I hate it here

Life would be easier for me if everyone still used Twitter and it weren’t a cesspit and also if everyone could (re-)watch Girls so my references to being depressed in the summertime in the city would make more sense

It is utterly insane that there is a motion to reject the EHRC Code signed by *25% of all MPs* and that still won’t be enough to see it properly debated.

'One NEC member asked how much members’ money the union had had to spend defending itself (a six-figure sum, not including staff time) and whether any of this money was recoverable. NEC was told that it is not'. /1 #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/friday-1st-m...

Friday 1st May NEC Report

UCU’s NEC met for the final time in its 2025-2026 incarnation on 1st May 2026. The finalised minutes, which were agreed at the first meeting of the new NEC on 19th June, are now available. Key takeaw...

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The EHRC Code puts trans staff and students at risk. More than 140 MPs have signed EDM 240 to reject it but Parliament can still let it pass. Email your MP and ask them to sign EDM 240. transactual.org.uk/template-let...

It's pretty simple... If you use AI to create art, then you're not an artist. If you use AI to write, then you're not a writer. If you use AI to make music, then you're not a musician. If you use AI to animate, then you're not an animator. If you use AI to make films, then you're not a filmmaker.

‘The truth is that both ministers and vice-chancellors are locked into a financial model whose premise is misconceived and whose side effects are profoundly damaging for higher education.’ Stefan Collini on what went wrong with UK higher education. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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I agree; GCs are going to run into the same fact which prompted them to push this (civil society has neither the ability nor the will to enforce their obsessive hatred at scale) and it's not going to prompt them to rethink. True Believers will just become more fanatical and redouble their efforts.

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another thing I want to add because while I do agree this stuff is unenforceable nonsense - the reason we need to keep highlighting how serious and hideous it is, is although in 95%+ of circumstances people won’t police, the small minority that do will be enough to empower harassment+ discrimination

Last time I had surgery they gave me coffee and jam cookies that were delicious. This time they gave me DIGESTIVES 🤢 and water and said coffee is forbidden. If they make me say the NHS was better under Wes Streeting, I will never forgive UCLH.

Several UK universities experienced what it is like to be a UK university employee every month last year.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

Several UK universities nearly ran out of cash last year, says report ft.trib.al/NNsn0Ok

Average university senior administrator my entire lifetime:

Ozma@rowyourbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Free speech for racist visitors only

Did you guys know that at 6am London is AWAKE? Like the streets are flooded with people who have grown up jobs and go to the gym and pick up overpriced coffees before work instead of as an escape hatch? Absolutely mind blown

I am very pleased that my latest article, 'The aspirational politics of global net zero', has been published in Perspectives on Politics! This theory piece went through three years of review and rewriting, and I'm so glad it is finally out there for everyone to read. doi.org/10.1017/S153...

This feels like a good time to say to trans people: I see you, I appreciate you and I will fight for your rights as if they were my own. 💜

“This branch believes: Trans women are women, trans men are men, nonbinary identities are valid, and trans people exist as they say they do, regardless of what any Court or legislature says.” Whatever Parliament does next, our branch policy will stand. 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻 lseucu.com/wp-content/u...

This is the stupidest thing I've read in a really long time and could only have been put into words by a collection of cis straight bigots. "It's the sin not the sinner!" they insist, as they throw you overboard.

Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

Here's my first impressions FAQ on the EHRC document. Questions welcome. sandraduffy.blog/2026/05/21/f...

First impressions on the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations – a Q&A

Hello, UK trans community and allies. It’s been a long old day (year) waiting for this but it’s finally upon us. Bridget Phillipson has laid the new EHRC guidance before Parliament and …

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Malicious non-compliance, especially by cis people, is the way to fight this. I've never told my employer my sex assigned at birth, except when providing an original birth certificate for a DBS check, which they shouldn't(?) have on record. Same for most service providers, NHS as an exception. 1/3

Cllr Dr Alex Powell@apowelllaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Also, in practical terms, you are not required to confirm your sex at birth if asked and, as this guidance makes clear, it is likely to your disadvantage to do so. This relies on compliance, it's now up to all of us whether we give that.

Also, less professionally, if you think rights are contingent on the comfort of others then fuck you. This is Pandoras box. What is the logical difference from someone who says that people of a different race make them uncomfortable? This aim unpicks the entire edifice of equality law.

Bridget Phillipson is a ghoul

Vad fan gör S och C? Svenska progressivismen är död. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Medborgarskap ska kunna återkallas

Personer med dubbla medborgarskap ska kunna fråntas sitt svenska medborgarskap om de döms för brott som allvarligt skadar Sveriges vitala intressen, enligt ett beslut som nu fattats i riksdagen. Då de...

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The Swedish 🇸🇪 Parliament just approved a law that would create a tiered citizenship scheme, with a 1st class (mostly for the native born) that cannot be revoked and a 2nd class (mostly for the naturalized) that can: www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... Only two parties (Left and Green) voted against.

Medborgarskap ska kunna återkallas

Personer med dubbla medborgarskap ska kunna fråntas sitt svenska medborgarskap om de döms för brott som allvarligt skadar Sveriges vitala intressen, enligt ett beslut som nu fattats i riksdagen. Då de...

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If (so, when) Labour approves this hideous EHRC Code, I never ever want to hear again that they are a progressive party, that they’re so much better than the Tories, that they care about human rights.

Cue a million lawsuits. Trans inclusive services need to make everything gender neutral immediately where they can.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.

LSE have enough money to make everyone stably employed. In their case it is 100% a choice.

Really creepy new AI company …

Gia Monroe@giamonroe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Peter Thiel just funded a company called Objection AI. Its goal is to discredit the media and journalists that criticize tech billionaires and the Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology they believe in. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

- UKHE does not have tenure - Ergo, no UKHE post is 'permanent'

Stellar piece from @drjogrady.bsky.social! “[Labour] chose to sacrifice our universities on the altar of Reform’s hard-right immigration agenda in an attempt to win votes.” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The government must intervene before the universities crisis worsens

During moments of political crisis it’s often said there are weeks when decades happen. This has been one such week.

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