Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

Oi. BBC. Many experts are not skeptical. It is utter bullshit and you should call it out as such. This is the MMR bollocks x 1 million

Why are you threatening #UCU staff with pay deductions for ASOS? UCU policy is to oppose punitive deduction for ASOS And why are you asking staff to fill out a form when UCU members at QMUL were advised not to do this?

QMUL deducted a lot of people it shouldn't have deducted, such as people on bereavement leave or sick leave who didn't check their email. It's a toxic tactic and note one any decent employer should engage in.

oh, we know how we reacted, because we were advised by UCU HQ on that... Nobody fills this in. Absolutely nobody. People who are not taking action should should that kind of solidarity to ensure this doesn't get implemented because it's going to harm your workplace disastrously if they allow it.

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

@lavietidhar.bsky.social - we thought we might have to rearrange our ferry tickets in case we missed the delivery of Golgotha but thankfully not.

There should be a joint statement from the five unions in the next day or so (which also mentions pay, jobs, and nationally agreed employment conditions). For now, here is some further detail on what our dispute is about and what we UCU members will be balloted on nationally: #WeAreTheUniversity

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

This is unbelievable @ucu.org.uk How can you be threatening 100% deductions for ASOS that is working at home rather than in office? UCU policy is against disprop ASOS deductions ASOS deductions breach workers Art 11 rights You contradict UCU support for members’ cases against employer deductions

Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

🔥 Third ballot win in 18 months: 76% YES on 77% turnout for @uniteucu.bsky.social members! UCU Management’s response? Threats & intimidation 🤦

100% deductions for ASOS is inhumane and destructive. We thought we had the backing of our own national union on this point. To see them implement what is a draconian policy (and not yet fully tested in the courts) against the colleagues who keep our branches running is devastating.

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.

What a mess - when will the @ucu senior management team realise that this awful & aggressive strategy (a) isn’t working and (b) damages the reputation of the union and its members’ interests? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

We wonder what @qmucu.bsky.social thinks about their own union’s threat to make 100% deductions for ASOS. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

#AccessToWork Since February 2025 62,000 applications have been waiting for their access to work support clsims to be processed The government are slashing access to work funding Please sign thd open letter & write to your MP dpac.uk.net/2025/08/the-...

Of course Simon Jenkins (boarding school, Oxford PPE) thinks we should cut back on universities. Know your place, kids.

NEW EPISODE 📣 Lucy and Andrew review Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They explore Mélenchon's ideas of "the People" and climate change, and whether his focus on population levels is necessary. Plus we ask, is he a degrowther? 🎧 bit.ly/3U0Mlu4

Want to be an ally for vulnerable people who have been targeted relentlessly for months? ⬇️ This takes seconds. Thank you.

The story is partly about the launch of a new campaign: www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk (I'm involved, but credit goes to the amazing organisations who've made it happen)

Big news: Guardian story and multi-signatory letter about fears about how the govt will follow the disability benefits fiasco: with drastic moves on the educational rights of children & young people with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities 1/2 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Our branch has declared no confidence in UCU’s SMT to protect the well-being of staff, nor in its commitment to improving industrial relations. With the increasing victimisation of our reps, and SMT now repeatedly imposing changes in working conditions and policies, our dispute continues.

Rally to defend jobs at Liverpool Hope 28/6. Colleagues are giving up their Sat to recruit students,while bosses tell them they may sacked. UCU are holding this rally to support them and to tell the University that there should be no job losses at Hope. No Staff, No Hope!

Ever wondered on the value of the humanities in health & social care? This new policy document Illustrates this beautifully. from a project led by @drbevans.bsky.social & 9 other projects funded by the AHRC:

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

Devastating news: "An end to teaching and research in ancient history, religion, theology, Portuguese, German, and Italian. The schools of ancient history and theology will close."

A tribunal has allowed ministers to continue to hide vital information from scores of secret reports into deaths of universal credit claimants, just as they publish a new bill that will have a major impact on the working-age benefits system. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tribunal-all...

Two disabled leaders have quit the “stakeholder network” set up to ensure that the voices of disabled people are at the heart of the government’s work, after months – and even years – of “inertia” and a failure to respond to their input. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/two-members-...

“The emissions AI generates are absolutely astronomical. Just because Meta or Microsoft are completely unaccountable when it comes to climate...I don’t see how [ESG funds] can justify them.” @pollyjhemming.bsky.social at the ESG Summit ⤵️

Just 6 weeks to go until our conference! Book your ticket: troublemakersat.work/conf Participatory, democratically organised, without political affiliation.

This will be great.

As an elected member of UCU NEC, I encourage members and supporters to sign this letter to NEC and Trustees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Some very serious questions need to be asked as to why this dispute has not been settled after over a year and why the situation is deteriorating even further. UCU staff deserve so much better.

Deeply ashamed of my union behaving like the bosses we fight. Imposition, victimisation and union-busting needs to stop right now @ucu.org.uk. Solidarity with UCU Unite staff ✊

😡 Imposition, not negotiated agreement 😡 Victimisation of reps 😡 Refusal to engage with the recognised union ☣️ All signs of a toxic organisational culture & not what we should see from a union employer. Shame on @ucu.org.uk whose staff deserve so much better uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/1...

Currently on pat leave (2 weeks plus taking 2 weeks annual leave). It is crap and reinforces gendered social reproduction. Taking ten weeks shared parental leave later (lucky) but that's still not great given that it comes out of my partner's leave. We should demand more through our unions.

I was one of the parents who attended Parliament to launch this important campaign. I am also a signatory so please join me and sign the letter. Young people with #SEND should not be denied transport just because they have turned 16.

This is shameful, absolutely disqualifying stuff from Reindorf and Cunningham. Neither should ever be taken as an authority on human rights (or law) again. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"There are so many children that need medical care outside of Gaza.. the neighbouring countries.. they've been absolutely swamped.. the EU have taken about 130 & Britains taken 2" Dr Victoria Rose explains how there are so many sick children in Gaza that desperately need help.

Oh we will see hundreds of such incidents You cannot take £400 per month from the poorest & sickest on UC, while restricting PIP, without homelessness, debt, death

Human rights groups fear those wearing masks for health or religious reasons, and dissidents seeking to protect themselves from hostile foreign states, will be swept into the criminal justice system

The world’s wealthiest dynasty is growing even richer exploiting the failures of a floundering system of special needs education failing many British families. My @inews.co.uk column asks why the government is making cuts before tackling profiteering by financial sharks? inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

Three people reported killed and dozens wounded near aid site in Gaza, medics say reut.rs/4dFx0be

Every day I ask myself: what the hell is happening in Starmer's inner circle? It seems determined to stamp out every spark of hope.

I reached a point at my last place where I realized all the things I thought we'd done a good job on - building a world class research culture; improving teaching; growing student numbers; creating a growing post-grad community doing interesting work - simply didn't matter.