Very excited to read @sathnam.bsky.social book about George Michael which arrived yesterday.

A compromise we can all get behind surely

This is a slightly odd story - isn't the sentence identified just wrong rather than a question of interpretative nuance? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Wondering what @tgplawson.bsky.social makes of this news? Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...

The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip.

Arsenal losing at home and needing to go to France and turn things around in a Champions League semi final second leg? We know it can be done

This sounds like a fascinating discussion

This might just be straight in at number 1 in the books I wish I had written list... although I would have called it 'did you cover your eyes when they told you' or 'all God's children crept out the back door'.

1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

3 days to go...

Here’s a pretty sobering start to the day…

Growing numbers of post-92 universities likely to pull out of collective pay bargaining if they remain compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics, warns @tgplawson.bsky.social in @hepi-news.bsky.social blog www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-92...

Read the original blog here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

New: Leaders at Northumbria University argue the time to reform the Teachers Pension Scheme is now. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

I wrote this with my colleague on one of the most pressing issues that some UK universities are facing at the moment: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

How very sad. What an extraordinary author.

For some of us Christmas is just too much…

NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. https://buff.ly/402xYcg

Me too.

a lot can happen in 5 years

Massive away win for the little fella.

PhD Fully Funded Scholarship Opportunity! Anyone fancy writing on the history of war graves and commemoration? We have a great collaborative PhD lined up with Chester and @cwgc.bsky.social Full details here or DM me: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...

I smell winter

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