Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · last wk.

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

Socio-legal academics, postgraduate researchers, early career researchers: the Society of Legal Scholars and @lawatleeds.bsky.social invite abstract submissions for a one-day workshop focused on developing research on the legal profession. All disciplines welcome. Deadline 18 Nov. Pls share. Thanks!

Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵

If you don't want the RNLI to save refugees who would otherwise drown, I don't want you being saved by any emergency or medical service & I reserve the right to laugh in your sobbing face as you pass away in fear & agony. If we're doing theatre of cruelty, let's not fuck about, let's do it properly.

We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

A large group of co-ordinated, masked men blockading a piece of significant infrastructure is a security threat and should be dealt with as one. There should also be serious questions about why police/intelligence services didn't pick up on it in advance.

Thomas I-G@thomasig.bsky.social · 4w ago

This was clearly not an act of spontaneity. Dozens and dozens of men travelling down, all wearing black, all wearing masks is anything but a spontaneous protest. An infuriating response.

Spontaneous departure of spontaneous protestors from Dover Priory Train Station, marching to catch a spontaneous train arrival. Kent Online www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/l...

M&S profits so far this year are around £650m. Tesco profits last year were £3.15bn. So they can fuck off.

Sky News@news.sky.com · last mo.

Retail giants including M&S and Tesco warn PM over Budget tax raid

A few years ago I went to a pig sanctuary and most of the pigs were stoned from eating green acorns. This one, Wilbur, couldn’t stand up and was too big to lift, so the staff had to leave him in this bush and wait for him to sober up.

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · last mo.

autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast

Student visa slump ‘raises serious questions’ on university funding. Number of student visas granted falls by more than 40 per cent in three years. China, India, Pakistan and Nigeria all down year-on-year. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Student visa slump ‘raises serious questions’ on university funding - Research Professional News

Number of student visas granted falls by more than 40 per cent in three years

researchprofessionalnews.com

We once lost away at West Ham 1-0 under Walter Smith and neither side had a shot at goal. We find a way.

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

theory: the only people left in provincial nightclubs are England cricket players and people trying to start fights with England cricket players

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · last mo.

Durham bowler, who is part of England squad for second Test against Pakistan, is released without charge after incident with Ben Stokes also present at scene

2 minutes 59 seconds of the new season on the clock. 'He (Tarky) has to be getting dropped' Never change, Everton.

Or not, Tadcaster #JFT97

once again I will say that the only person I've ever met who's been even worse in person than online was Toby Young

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · last mo.

Basically very, very few people are openly objectionable in person - but you are the totality of what you do and say, not just when you want people to like you and when you're around people you've decided worthy of respect.

So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇

If the PM is going to achieve this, then he needs to have some serious words with the Home Office. Kicking refugees out of Home Office accommodation with only a few weeks' notice and no support leaves thousands facing homelessness after a positive asylum decision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise | Andy Burnham

Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do it, says prime minister Andy Burnham

theguardian.com

Thank you to everyone who has had a look at my website and placed an order. I’m definitely feeling more positive tonight. I can do this!

Matt Owen@mjowen174.bsky.social · last mo.

My far, far better half @gailmyerscough.co.uk is having an incredibly tough month business-wise. Her website is full of amazing, stylish designs and it’d be great if you could visit her website and who knows, maybe even purchase something www.gailmyerscough.co.uk - if you could plse share this 👍👍

Struggling this Monday? Here is a schadenfreude dose to help you make it through the day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas specials cancelled after star breaks jaw

The sitcom's creator says he requires "immediate" surgery but hopes the show will return in 2027.

bbc.co.uk

9 shows in to my Edinburgh run and I’m still pleasantly surprised, and extremely grateful, that so many people are getting up for a show about the Kennedy assassination at 9:45 am

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

And it was also fun to spin one last You Make Me Feel, Dwight McNeil! 😂 Looking forward to chatting to you all again on Friday on Total Sport

Giulia Bould@giuliabould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lots of fun on Total Sport on BBC Radio Merseyside tonight & good debate on leadership in football, roles of managers v coaches & of course right-backs! I'll be back one more time on Friday at 6pm Tranmere fans you'll be getting extra content for the start of the League Two season🤍

This is one aspect of the problem. Litigants in person use AI to generate often excessively lengthy pleadings and submissions that can seem superficially plausible but which require to be sifted through minutely to identify what is real. It’s common for LiPs not fully to understand what they submit.

Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Public use of AI is doing weird, unpredictable and damaging things to the state. A dive into how Grok lawyering is upending the employment tribunals www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Re: pervert glasses. Should it occur to anyone that they might use them to film court or tribunal proceedings, don’t do that. It’s a criminal offence.

The best way to honour a writer who proudly wrote what they believed is to quote word for word exactly what they believed. Like this. ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/media/2010/j...

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

Liddle's ex-colleagues find it easy to defend his mainstream journalism as a lark But a conscious effort to ignore what his Millwall-Monkey stuff revealed."Even the Jews were allowed to smoke at Auschwitz" was reported. His "niggermeat, not wogmeat" comments + most virulent sexist threads were not