This, just down the road from me, is some of the worst I've seen. Portrayed as a community movement, it is in fact a national push, with Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, and Nick Tenconi here. The Nazi White Vanguard and other far right groups have also travelled.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

#EnglishCreates: Futures In today's post, Professor Philip Seargeant (The Open University) reflects on how English Studies connects us to heritage, place, cultural networks and commemoration: universityenglish.ac.uk/how-a-geogra...

The story of the student who worked 3 jobs and it affected his grades really resonated with me. Of course Uni won't feel worth it if your HEI spent a ton on fancy facilities that you can't use because you're working 3 jobs, or if you miss classes or deadlines because of paid work and grades suffer.

What a job title www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-pe...

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

A very interesting Reuter lecture from @dianewatt.bsky.social on Margaret Paston. Good to think about Medieval stuff again.

A masterstroke for Meta here. I'm sure that their actions mean no one will buy this. (I've read it; it's very good).

"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

This essay is sensible, coherent and brilliantly written and yet also somehow about AI. @sarahoconnorft.ft.com explains why we’re thinking about it all wrong

I have bookmarked this.

This is most striking figure from Millburn Review. They estimate that around half of the 18-24 population who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are not claiming any benefits. This limits how effective any reforms to the benefit system can be in reducing the NEET rate.

Bonfire of the Universities continues 600 staff at Sussex Uni will receive notification that their positions are “at risk” & asked to volunteer for redundancy If 200 volunteers don't come forward, compulsory redundancies will follow Grim & upsetting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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This is a totally normal sector and everything is fine.

The levels of stupidity on display here are quite something. All institutions do the same thing to gain an advantage over the others. Therefore, none gain an actual advantage.

Do join us at U of Southampton in person or online Mon 1 June 6pm to hear Prof. Diane Watt talk about the letters of Margaret Paston in 'Crossbows and Sugar: the Life and Letters of a Medieval Heiress' for our annual Reuter Lecture. Registration link to follow #medievalsky

Do join us at U of Southampton in person or online Mon 1 June 6pm to hear Prof. Diane Watt talk about the letters of Margaret Paston in 'Crossbows and Sugar: the Life and Letters of a Medieval Heiress' for our annual Reuter Lecture. Registration link to follow #medievalsky

Husband and I reached this conclusion last night.

While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...

Yes Tony we really must abandon net zero. There will be no bad consequences. (By the way, the Pyronaut fire boat is excellent.)

It is dangerously inaccurate for Tony Blair to say "US security strategy [under Trump] describes the principal threats no differently to how Europeans see it" when one of its main concerns is of "civilisational erasure" in Europe being caused by migration & ethnic diversity

And another thing: text in from Wessex water warning of heat related supply issues. Never happened to us before. No-one supporting abandoning net zero is serious, and this guy is now an absolute clown. No, I saw a good clown at the weekend (Frankie Thompson); actually that's an insult to clowns.

Oh just piss off you terrible ghoul. We're in 35 effing degrees in May, for f's sake. The news was about a road melting, and my gooseberry bush spontaneously dropped all its berries in one go today due to heat stress. Anyone who ever called to abandon net zero should be too embarrassed to go out.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Netflix Kylie documentary.

I love Danny Kruger now trying to say it's 'a private matter'. Very much a self-own. Obviously if it's a Russian hack then it can't be a private matter and security services should investigate Farage's bank accounts, which Reform do not want. So it's Schroedinger's hack.

GB news should lose its news broadcasting license.

Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ

It worked so well for the Liberal Democrats working with the Tories at national level 2010-2015.

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See, the thing is, I don't actually cost more to run when I'm thinking complex thoughts.

I love it when a student does something they did not think they could do (normally 'do well at this hard thing'), and it's because I basically just Told Them Firmly that they could do it, with a bit of guidance about how. They always come back and tell me how I helped, with thanks.

Outstanding stuff from the RHS.

Way to increase bullying and kill morale in the lower ranks.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Ooh! Lovely.

I think PR could lead to more stability as parties would have to build longer-term coalitions around matters with broader support. A Belgian friend in green politics once told me how they once built a socialist, green and Christian (!) Coalition around a progressive energy pricing model - genius.

Stares in *collecting policy*.

"What I hadn't been prepared for was the sheer trauma of school for so many". This research really should have been factored into the DfE's Curriculum and Assessment Review, which increasingly looks to me to have been carried out too quickly. onemillionfutures.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

These creatures are very peaceful. They won't attack you unless you threaten them. They are also slow moving and a bit lazy (like me), so if you want to stop them raiding your crop I suspect the solution might be to make raiding the crop a bit harder and place other, reliable, easy sources of...

I wonder why he would lie?

This kind of behaviour by the BBC just isn't on.

The once and future seminar! ⚔️👑 Get ready for @mareganlefay.bsky.social talking about King Arthur online tomorrow at 17.30(BST). Free per usual, just sign up here: bit.ly/londonmedieval #medievalsky #skystorians @ihr.bsky.social

Classic edtech.

What do English grads do with their 'useless' degrees? Oh right! They become politicians, lawyers, execs in tech firms, civil servants, academics. They teach, write books, do journalism, work in advertising & communications, the Health Service and, oh yes, become top diplomats!

This is naive. The anxieties about engaging with tutors are there and greater than before, but are part of a massive anxiety spike affecting an enormous proportion of our students. I make loads of consultations available but other than the high performers, students only come in when they start to...

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

I like Dan's analysis but disagree. At some point you have to accept what the professionals say and stop poking around another people's business. HMRC says she was not careless. It's their job to analyse this. The more info she releases the more the right will strip search her.