‘Airports had to go back to pen and paper…’ what a strange idea, customers interfacing with human beings, employed by a gigantic corporation. 😱 #r4today

Can we stop inviting on BBC radio the major supporters of genocide #r4today

When does the UK start accepting US refugees? #R4today

Please, thought of the day, do your research. Here is the type of free speech Charlie Kirk represented. #r4today youtube.com/shorts/U9SzH...

Nick Robinson HAS got to do better than this in pushing back against these lies #r4today

UPEND THE ESTABLISHMENT, by voting for a party composed entirely of rejects from the oldest party in the country that was in power for 14 years. 😂 Reform UK increasingly look like the Tories just ran off stage, then ran back on wearing a comedy glasses-nose-moustache disguise.

I don’t like Mandelson, but are we going to prosecute everyone Epstein was ever friends with? #r4today

Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

The sad reason ppl are celebrating Kirk’s death is bc it’s exactly the reaction he so often had when others (inc children) met the same fate. He’s made a career peddling this type of zero empathy divisive rhetoric and I don’t think we should forget this #r4today

People have been saying this for years: Israel is simply not interested in finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict. It’s high time their western allies stood up to them. #r4today

For someone who prides himself on being a strong tough leader, #Trump s soft treatment of Israel reveals every aspect of his weakness. #r4today

Can someone call Luke Johnson an ambulance #r4today

Yet again, Tice, another fossil fuel shill (not even hiding it) given extended airtime on #r4today

Yet again #R4today invites on a pompous fossil fuel shill to tell us all that we need to maintain the status quo. Climate change not mentioned once.

Pritzker gets it.

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Game on.

This administration are picking up brown ppl off the street for no reason, detaining them w/o trial or charge and then deporting them to foreign gulags. 60k ppl in detention!? I mean, at what point is someone going to say or do something? Did 60 yrs of #Hollywood WWII movies not resonate?! #ICE

If you don’t think Trump is compromised, ask yourself how Ghislaine Maxwell got a meeting with Todd Blanche and how Putin got a summit on American soil.

A tale of two vibes.

Reading @richarddenniss.bsky.social latest book “Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us” and finding it quite a good read. Great analysis on how things have been working against the public good and for the status quo. An alarm bell 🔔 ringing! #auspol #economy #planet #politas

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it is literally never under any circumstances worth it to do an unfunded PhD. The ROI is absurdly negative and it's perhaps the only financial decision you could make that is worse than doing the PhD in the first place.

Again: shock.

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They *can be* useful! See www.andrewheiss.com/ai/ but whatever's happening in higher ed rn is not it

'A 2021 study estimated that UK academics contribute $391 million worth of unpaid labour annually through peer reviewing alone. These non-cash contributions are essential to the functioning of the scholarly publishing system yet are often overlooked in discussions about cost and value.'

And the award for cringiest thought of the day goes to …. #r4today

I’m not sure I buy the logic that #reform are somehow strengthening by welcoming lots of failed, ineffective (by their own admission) former Tory MPs. #r4today

Getting really fed up with #r4today inviting fascist sympathisers on air to comply with “both-sidesism”

Oh fuck #r4today really are going to have the conversation about whether Trump deserves the Nobel peace prize. And we wonder how we’ve made it here!

Freddie Fox is Laurence Fox’s cousin, just saying. #r4today

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Political commentators salivating over the drama of R Reeves tears would b wise 2 think back a little to the chaos of the Johnson Gov. This would barely have made page 16 in that government. Let’s please just get real, we all have an off day/week. #r4today (specifically you @newsagents.bsky.social!)

Amol Rajan is just insufferable at times #r4today

Good Letter of the Day in @thetimes.com this morning:

If you disliked or were concerned by what #BobVylan said at #Glastonbury the worst thing you could do is what you’re doing right now. Perfect example of the Streisand effect.

Just watch #gbnews, it’ll get you there.

We’ve had a ten minute discussion about Israel/Gaza, not once have we dealt with accusations of genocide, the indiscriminate killing and systematic denial of food and water for Gazans. #r4today

Ppl now blatantly arguing for a North Korea style suppression of free speech. #r4today

So The Maccabees have won #Glastonbury then. Love these guys.

Is #glastonbury just a pop festival these days? Can’t believe these pop acts are there in the first place, never mind pulling these crowds. Maybe I’m just old.

The other frustration of course is that a university can't "ask itself" anything. An exercise like this would inevitably become mired in internecine battles over what should be prioritized...or worse, those battles will often be won by the best self-promoters rather than the "best" scientists.

If anyone thinks this is going to make it safer for the ppl of Israel, they are sadly misguided. What have we done now?! #Us-iran

It’s all very well preaching democratic values that Iran should follow, but when you can’t live by those values, as those in the west are currently struggling, we should probably stop telling them how to live #r4today

Oh god please, can someone just put a cork in Justin? N.I.C.E is our last (and best) defense against a pharmaceutical and health system that extorts us, like in the U.S. Let them do their job! #r4today

Lack of agency - people feeling the government isn’t in control drives the sense of malaise and desire for something different - HS2, or lack of, typifies it for lots of people. “We can’t even finish a train line” comes up often in groups as eg of what’s wrong with Britain