It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
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Good thread summarising excellent analysis of the grim state of the politics academic job market
Ralph Scott@ralphscott.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26
We didn't just find his videos - we also found Farage's outtakes, which show when his money-making sideline is interrupted by a text message or phone call, requiring him to re-record the video, he appears quick to anger.
Henry Dyer@direthoughts.com · 5mo agoexclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot. w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined
They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.
open.substack.com
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome
God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it
This is precisely what happened. The same effort, over and over again, with Democrats and Republicans. But America was finally weak enough to simply ignore and its president idiotic enough to go along with it.
David Faris@davidfaris.bsky.social · last yr.Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
We’ve know this for ages but it’s good that this kind of analysis in now on mainstream TV in the UK
British political alliances are now mainly a result of dog-nudging incidents
Things I expected to see more in life based on my childhood comics: - magicians wearing tuxedos - ‘Keep off the grass’ signs - pies cooling on windowsills - people shaking their fists - anvils
Fox News anchor, Jesse Watters finds it “personally offensive” that Canadians refuse to be annexed by the US: “That’s what everyone in the world wants—American citizenship.” American Imperialism is on full show.
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Very timely retrieval of this Kissinger quote by the excellent @lewisgoodall.com
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · last yr.Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Would be nice to have some breathless media coverage about what this tells up about market perceptions of the state of the UK economy..
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2y agoUK 10 year gilts nearly back to where they started at the beginning of the year.
sorry to hear mark zuckerberg died. didn’t agree with him on a lot but he changed social media forever. rip.
23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1
