Good thing the Govt did all it could to prevent this by launching a massive campaign of free vaccinations in the autumn...oh, wait a minute....https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/11/nhs-bracing-for-worst-ever-winter-crisis-in-next-fortnight-amid-rising-flu-cases

I'm so impressed by Starmer's work here. In fact, I think Fifa should give him a peace prize. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Wow, a massive disaster that will lead to large-scale redundancies, closures of universities, degraded working conditions for young academics, and free cash for the private sector. If you're in the union, vote to strike! www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-16...

VCs won't protect their institutions or students, so we have to. UCU members, vote to strike! Use your power before the uni managers use you up and throw you away. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Why only eliminate Modern Languages when you can axe American Studies too? Please sign this petition! Protect higher education in this country! c.org/TdWF5QkVf6

Protect Modern Languages at University of Nottingham! Defend colleagues, defend knowledge, defend thought! c.org/dxgQ6fBtYM

Vote Green Vote Green Vote Green! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great news! I can cross waiting ten hours to see a doctor in Croydon University Hospital's A and E off my bucket list!

In every generation, some people are rich and some people are poor; some have made money by exploiting others, and others have been exploited. No one on the Left should accept the idea of "generational fairness"; that's a false division, obscuring the real ones. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How do we even tolerate this for one second? What is wrong with all of us? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Can't wait to talk about Bob Kaufman's "Second April" at this conference, which has loads of great speakers. Hope to see you there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-aesthe...

The OFS is a joke, with ZERO credibility. But it's a sick joke, and this is just a fraction of the damage it is doing to HE in the UK. They have no authority to "regulate" us, because they have no understanding of what we do, or what universities are for. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Friends in UK HE: as global stock markets crash, reflect on how changes to our pensions mean that WE take the hit for this in the rather large "DC" portion of our benefits. And dwell on this fact next time your line manager asks you to "go the extra mile."

And.....the OFS, with Labour's full backing, launches a Trump-style "culture wars" attack on UK universities in general and our trans community in particular. Love and support to trans students and colleagues. The OFS wants "free speech? Let's give them some! www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Tax the rich! Tax the rich! Tax the rich! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So the new German chancellor's name is actually Merz? I didn't need this to think things had already gone full Dada!

Sorry, Labour, but this can be fixed by "throwing money at the problem." And you know very well the UK has more than enough money to do this. Labour, why are you so useless? Tax the rich! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

OFS and OFSted--pretty much the same assumptions, pretty much the same problems. Both should be dissolved. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Why aren't people like Clive Lewis in the Cabinet? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour leadership are terrified of MPs who put principles above career. That's their REAL sin. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lovely work if you can get it, and it doesn't seem that any background in or knowledge of teaching is needed! jobs.theguardian.com/job/9376011?...

The racist German state refuses to distinguish between the state of Israel and Jews, in an astonishing form of essentialism which is, well, in keeping with the worst moments of German history, and repeats anti-Semitism in a new form, while claiming to oppose it. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Still having trouble finding my friends over here. If you're one of them, do help me connect!