What??? Reform is standing on the right for soldiers to commit war crimes?? They should be allowed to rape and murder without sanction so long as it’s “the enemy”?

Trump saying: “The US is a big producer of oil, so price rises are good for America” shows you exactly which America he represents. Not everyday Americans that can’t afford to fill up their cars, but the oil companies making obscene profits from death and destruction in the middle-east.

Temperature BELOW 38 today! 🥳

The problem with Louis Theroux’s Manosphere documentary is that it did nothing at all to explore its effects on women beyond those happily within its circle.

It’s going to be chaos isn’t it?

Trump saying: “The US is a big producer of oil, so price rises are good for America” shows you exactly which America he represents. Not everyday Americans that can’t afford to fill up their cars, but the oil companies making obscene profits from death and destruction in the middle-east.

Can we just …. Stop oil???

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

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Am I naive for being shocked at this? 20% of LGB people back Reform 🤷‍♀️

In the wake of attacks on pay and conditions in UK universities this week, and the move to avoid pension payments by outsourcing academic staff, there is no more important course of action IMO than to build union density. Long strikes are futile if undertaken by a few. 1/

Bizarre that Russell Group VCs are telling staff they’ll have no job security, a bad environment and will be overworked to the point of burnout, but telling students “hey, come to us, we provide the UK’s finest and most esteemed education” 🤷‍♀️

No to Palantir. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Just a quick reminder that our Vice Chancellor said this into a microphone in front of university employees last week and thought nothing of it!

We don't live under democracy because if we did this war with Iran would never have even started. What we live in is a dictatorship of the rich, obscenely wealthy old men who are happy to destroy the world so they can have one more billion or one more inch of land.

I really didn't think I could still be shocked by the capacity of university managers to demean, demoralise and betray the best qualified and most talented people in the country. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...

£1.04 billion in profit out of extorting our institutions for the outputs from our free labour in our own time. Got to stop. And don’t get me started on the profits from university rankings corporations ihe.bc.edu/pub/6nf0v9ku...

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

Now might be a good time to untether electricity prices from gas prices and work towards ending dependency on oil.

Saw this in the bin on the way to visit my partner’s mum in the hospital. Someone was having a good International Women’s Day 🤣

Huge congratulations to our very own @hagenilda.bsky.social and @matildaf.bsky.social, who have been co-opted to @ucu.org.uk's Anticasualisation Committee for a period of one year! They join Ben Pope who sits on the committee ex-officio as Casualised Rep (HE) on NEC. 💫

The price of oil goes up causing a spike in inflation and the he Bank of England keeps interest rates high because ….. 🤷‍♀️

Well if you said to me “Do you like the taste of hospital food?” it would have to be a strong “Yes!” #JamesPagetHospital

We stand with fellow trade unions in condemning the illegal war on Iran. Reports of civilian casualties, including students and schoolchildren are deeply disturbing and require urgent and independent investigation. The killing and wounding of civilians is indefensible.

UCU’s elections concluded this week and I am honoured to have been elected as the next Vice-President for Higher Education, to become President in 2029-30. Thank you for all the support. A short statement about the election and what’s to come after I take up the role in May.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

It’s so gratifying watching this beet-faced pig smugly deploy the same circular logic that’s sending him and his entire party of dogs swirling down the drain

Big money has bought British politics 75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

The @ucucommons.org slate has done exceptionally well in the NEC elections. We need to encourage greater engagement with these elections, but this is a solid endorsement of our principles from our members.

Whoohoo!!

Seems like Israel’s plan to save people from being killed by the Iranian regime is for Israel to kill them all first

All this death for the right to vote once every 4-5 years between parties that all worship the same economic systems. 🤷‍♀️

So, America has dragged the UK into another endless war in the Middle-East.

American military “liberating” Iran and winning hearts and minds …

Another endless miserable war

Just saw Lisa O’Neill. No photos. Memorizing!!

What has Israel got on Trump I wonder 🤔

We voters have got it totally wrong by not voting at Labour according to Starmer and his cronies. We can’t see that only extremists condemn Israel, inequality, racism, corruption and transphobia. We should just grow up and support someone with literally no moral compass and nothing to offer 🤷‍♀️

Labour had a, small, chance of potentially turning their downward spiral around today by doing a massive mea culpa, and announcing a scrapping of their hostile policies. Starmer's unhinged rant doubling down though makes it even more likely they will lose more seats. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fight for what I wonder 🤔

Fielded a terf, received the "worst result for the conservatives in by-election history"

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Could there possibly be no UK convictions after: #Grenfell #PostOffice #Water #Epstein

Great response 👇 to the racist BS since last night's result.

Greens got 41% of the vote #BBC, Reform got 29%. I wouldn’t call that a narrow defeat.

Well, #DirtyBusiness is an eye-opener even for those of us that have followed the sewage dumping scandal with interest. This was the biggest lie I didn’t know was a lie: “We’ve inherited a crumbling Victorian system and it’s too expensive to repair”.

So the Telegraph is taking this well

We have nowhere else to go!

Interesting juxtaposition on Apple News: