I spoke with MSN reporter Arjun Kharpal on crypto bros, scalpers and Pokémon www.msn.com/en-my/money/...

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

Burnham says nothing on universities, just more emphasis on trade. Utterly depressing and unimaginative. The only difference to Starmer is he said the word "pint" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I have been thinking about this a lot recently re: cultural studies and "media literacy". So much of the discipline was built on the belief that reading *and* thinking were both radical and valuable. I never fully understood the urgency of Williams and Hoggart on these points, but I get it now.

This is bad economic policy, because it will cost the government billions in lost tax income.. ..bad progressive policy, because the richest 10% of households will benefit three times as much from the freeze as the poorest 10%.. ..and terrible climate policy: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fue...

AI companies are clearly fed up of simply waiting for the planet to become uninhabitable so are doing what they can to accelerate the process www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If Burnham suddenly thinks we should stay out of the EU, just to help his own naked ambition, then I actually do hope the Greens run and give him a good fight for the seat

Watch us rejoin the EU after the HE sector collapses

We’re seeing the reemergence of academia as a sport of the leisure class.

Policy Exchange continues with its programme to push Trumpism in the UK - and the hapless Charity Commission continues to funnel public money to Policy Exchange. A total joke.

Joanne Rowling's fellow traveller Kellie-Jay Keen is speaking at Tommy Robinson's rally tomorrow. Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

England water companies to have one of worst ever years for pollution. The Environment Agency blames wet weather, ageing infrastructure and increased inspections. Last week companies hinted at water cuts because of dry spring/winter. People fleeced, profits keep rolling. archive.ph/TTIIs

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

The Environmental Photography Awards were just announced. Here are some of my favorites. Full descriptions in the alt texts. Sandra Hoyn Not His Fight: Orangutan exploited by the tourism industry Thailand, 2025

The Louisiana state senate has passed a bill for a new congressional map which eliminates one of two majority-Black congressional districts. The bill now moves to the state house and if it passes and is approved by lawmakers could give Louisiana Republicans and extra... TAT: [Undermining democracy]

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

Always worth remembering: ChatGPT isn't a tool, it isn't a companion. It's a product -- and everything you type in that box is data you are sending to OpenAI.

NEW on Wonkhe: King’s College London and Cranfield to merge wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Streeting is more right wing than Starmer and if Rayner is the solution I fear we're doomed

Forgive my happy tears over this. September will be my 11th year studying, lecturing, & writing about women’s trauma in horror & I can’t thank enough the Horror Writers Association enough for this honor. Many thanks to Matt Rogerson at 1428 Publishing for the space to write about trauma so deeply. 💋

"Universities across England face ‘real risk’ of closure due to insolvency for first time"

For those of you concerned about university solvency, there is actually a lot of good work out there. What about this from m'learned colleague at Brunel on the financial health of every single uni? I count 40 universities rated 'Red' on the Critical List. policycommons.net/artifacts/48...

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

OpenAI was sued this week over a mass shooting in Florida and the overdose death of a college student in California. They are among two dozen cases filed in the last year that claim ChatGPT should be subject to consumer product safety laws: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/t...

A dull ache, a continuous ache - no longer the sudden and unexpected slash, but the slow and inexorable spread of an infection, draining vitality from the system, the ever-present chronic pain, the hideous lurking knowledge that it is coming your way and there is nothing to stop it.

Given the horror with which we heard about Cardiff slashing programs just over a year ago, I note that a certain dull ache has crept in to announcements of the latest university to slash staff. It is no longer shock. It is resignation that the inevitable is spreading.

Thinking, as I often do, about my dad - and how his generation of academics were effectively radicalised by the Thatcher government and their disdain for our universities. Astonishing to see it happening again, and from a Labour government.

One thing that kept me up last night was thinking about Labour's policies toward working class young girls. They've traditionally done very well through the arts, but if access to that falls while trades rise where will they go? Will Labour radically address gender imbalances within trades?

If universities go bust so will many towns and cities, our economy will tank due to mass layoffs, those people will struggle to find work thanks to AI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

England university crisis. 24 institutions at risk of insolvency within the next 12 months. A further 26 at risk of exit in 2-3 years. Dire consequences for students. Need govt plans. Sector destroyed by successive govts. £267bn student debt.

Curiously if the government turns away overseas students who bring £ billions of foreign currency into the country that finances our universities and the communities around them it causes economic problems.

Labour really said working class children should be plumbers and not art historians

Starmer: we should save British steel so working class turns don't suffer but good god don't look at our policies on higher education Starmer: every child should go as far as they want but good god don't look at our policies on higher education

If Labour's plan is to take the rhetoric of the Greens and the policies of Reform then they really haven't learned

If I was Polanski I would be so happy that Labour consistently give free advertising (and almost always personal attacks, rarely policy critiques)

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

If you're worried about whether your NHS Trust is already using Palantir, and would like to ask them not to, you can use this tool that we developed. goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...

Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

UK universities urged to exploit EU programmes while they can. Skills minister and officials push for participation before negotiations on Horizon and Erasmus+ restart. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Let’s go. The cancellations of already awarded grants by DOGE ignoramuses (made using chatbots) were sophomoric, vindictive, and (now confirmed) unconstitutional. Good to see some relief for the plaintiffs, and this win in general for the needed-now-more-than-ever humanities. Gift article.

Hi, I am watching The Pitt, I woke up too early yesterday and was bored AND Keza is away, hence… www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Reform threaten my marriage rights, disability accommodations at work, and whether my workplace will even remain open.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

'Concerns have already been raised that humanities courses are being disproportionately hit amid the current redundancies wave, and recent analysis by Times Higher Education found that English language and literature academics have been some of the hardest hit by the cuts.' 3/3

As an English graduate who writes for a living, this makes me very very sad. I believe in the humanities, they have to be preserved.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.