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The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts & All Things Common. he/him/fo.
@tomwoodhead.bsky.social are you in Leeds these days? Just moved back to West Yorkshire and need some socialising!
The Office for Students employs 475 FTE staff btw. The UK higher ed management class deserves to be prosecuted
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 5mo agoAye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.
Logging on here to ask what the best books on contemporary Chinese politics and modern Chinese history are? Has anyone got any suggestions please?
Logging on here to ask what the best books on contemporary Chinese politics and modern Chinese history are? Has anyone got any suggestions please?
I'm really thrilled to share my new article, 'Deleuze's Dickens: Life and Community', on Deleuze's late reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and published in the new Dickens Quarterly. (I've got a PDF if anyone wants it!) doi.org/10.1353/dqt....
I'm really thrilled to share my new article, 'Deleuze's Dickens: Life and Community', on Deleuze's late reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and published in the new Dickens Quarterly. (I've got a PDF if anyone wants it!) doi.org/10.1353/dqt....
I’d normally be opposed to the British government trying to interfere in former colonies but, given the UK believes the Sino-British Joint Declaration is still a legally binding treaty, its failure to attempt to enforce its basic provisions is grotesque www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hong Kong’s last major opposition party disbands amid Chinese pressure
Senior DP members previously allege being told to disband or face severe consequences including possible arrest
theguardian.com
Always good to see the UK Labour Party backing a winner 😂 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
theguardian.com
Academic study of the BBC consistently shows a right-wing bias but it is only ever news when it is accused of left-wing bias…which is very characteristic of the general miserable sordid reactionary British media in general theconversation.com/bbc-question...
BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of rightwing voices
The top five most frequent non-politician panellists all write for The Spectator.
theconversation.com
So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!
So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!
"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out
Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’
theguardian.com
Big life announcement: On my way to Munich where I’ll be working as a Research Associate at Ludwig Maximilian University. Do I know anyone in Munich? I’m going to need some friends and I’m interested in arts and/or academic collaborations!
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
I'm going to Brussels this weekend. What should I do? I'd particularly like to look at something about post/colonial history (and which isn't necessarily the Africa Museum).
Can't help thinking about Kurt Tuchlosky's Weimar-era satirical poem, Rosen auf den Weg gestreut today, and most days in the UK just now - here in the singer Daniel Kahn's translation
"ENDGAME WAITING FOR GODOT WATT HAPPY DAYS which means I love you"
Really fascinating and interesting to put alongside Wales - I’d be interested to know how the absence of single words corresponding to Yes and No in Welsh changes the process of justice in Wales (the same “issue” is brought up with Irish in this article)
John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · last yr.Two pieces on language in the papers today that got me thinking. First, this opinion piece in the Irish Times about the trial of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh and minority language interpreters in the UK and Irish courts:
In the immortal words of Rubberbandits: Sally Rooney, she’s in the ‘Ra. youtu.be/GrAd2KfgUSE www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government
theguardian.com
wow, all it took was one week of restricted access to porn.
“We’re here to talk about A levels” “Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀
Higher Ed is littered with appalling employment practices. We can't go on like this.
Ethan Landes@ethanlandes.bsky.social · last yr.New circle of UK academic job market hell just dropped: a 3 month .8 temp cover
YOU - What am I doing? SHIVERS - Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hair. YOU - What do I see? SHIVERS - Grey sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world.
I really enjoyed interviewing Chris Washington on the brilliant Nonbinary Jane Austen for a podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/nonbinary-ja...
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
I really enjoyed interviewing Chris Washington on the brilliant Nonbinary Jane Austen for a podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/nonbinary-ja...
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
Unbelievable
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last yr.Adil Ray recounts the testimony of a doctor who explains IDF soldiers play a game where each day they decide to shoot Palestinian boys in a different part of their body Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB