France not infallible, goal shy and struggle to capitalise on dominant possession against an organised defence...

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Palestine is at the core of Egyptian identity — & the Egyptian dictatorships betrayal of both peoples. This is a beautiful gesture that speaks to a long history, and the jubilant footage from Gaza shows the love is mutual. People with people, may all who oppress them be toppled.

Hossam Hassan, Egypt’s head coach, carried the Palestinian flag after Egypt advanced to the Round of 16 of the World Cup. He said, “I dedicate this victory to the Egyptian and Palestinian people.” 🇵🇸 🇪🇬

So gutted for them, Romero should've been off - Wrighty was right - before scoring.

Come on the Verde! Can't believe ITV trying to credit fifa with their success, embarrassing 😂

The FBI says that anti-capitalist graffiti can indicate a mobilization to violence and can be reported to the bureau, according to a counterterrorism report obtained by @prismreports.org through a public records request.

While there are some losses in higher education, the UK remains highly competitive in the easily preventable crisis sector

After years of campaigning and lobbying, UCU has welcomed the fall in employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. With rates falling and employers set to save around £900m, there is now no excuse for post-92 universities to deny staff access to TPS. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1456...

Too many to mention. The faintest whiff of copaganda turns me off v quickly...

I’ve got no wish to divide and I give total solidarity with those affected there; but, as others have said, it is notable how much more attention the proposed cuts at Exeter are getting relative to those at some other institutions, including my own (where the numbers affected are, I believe, higher)

Having studied to become a lecturer this year, the only analogy I can think of is training to become a bricklayer then being told on your first job to throw the bricks at people instead of laying them.

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

Coz he's the GOAT that's why 😁

A rhetorical "trick" I keep seeing from cis commentators is something like "if they'd target such a small minority, they won't stop there." ... phrasing that implicitly accepts the majoritarian premise that "minority status" justifies discrimination & outright degradation of rights.

This is the same law prof who described racial harmony and public protection as a "trade-off"

I think that the worst thing about the "refugee tax" is that the high accommodation costs are caused by the Home Office, and in particular their inability to make fast AND accurate decisions, leaving people rotting in those grim places. Refugees are effectively being fined for HO incompetence.

'EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley said staff were striking to protect 100 jobs, research and course provision. The university said it was being forced to reduce posts because of a drop in income from overseas students.'

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

Academic festivals are not festivals, just fyi

I say this very gently, but no one should think they are 'safe' if they work in UK HE today. There might be 10-15 people working at a university who are safe by dint of the fact their job involves seeing redundancies through. Everyone else must understand the fundamentals here, and then organise.

"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."

So at least we can agree white countries are racist. I'll leave white folk to argue among themselves as to who's the most racist. Then we can have a bigotry Olympics to bring in the rest of the world (with old colonies disentangling themselves from Victorian laws awarded a higher handicap?).

How UK higher education -- and education policy/the country in general -- is viewed in Germany. Wie peinlich. What a mess.

The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Lee Dixon's monotone for a 10pm kick-off perfectly symbolises the death of tv as a medium

Footballers being silly make some people so giddy with laughter. And tennis players being interviewed after winning wimbledon. Centre court erupts into laughter at the literal drop of a hat. He dropped his hat, what a character 😂😂🙄

Prisons are for poor people. Prisons kill. From the govt's own guidance from March, authored by Chris Whitty (yes that one). His solution? I'll give you a clue. It doesn't involve doing anything about poverty, or recognising prisons are - indelibly - prisons. www.gov.uk/government/p...

A school boy was sent home from school for wearing cornrows! Read my analysis of the courts decision in my published journal article academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...

Nine anti-ICE protesters were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison on Tuesday on terrorism charges. The maximum sentences prosecutors sought in the case stand in stark contrast to the treatment of January 6 rioters, says Sufia Khalid, who represented one of the defendants, Maricela Rueda.

All these yanks harping on about aircon. Haven't they heard of mr freeze freeze pops??

A Law Prof friend should let me take one of their classes some time and do vagrancy law up to 1824 and how massive that statue is in global history (work's been done on this). While I'm at it we can look at how vagrancy law was used expansively the way 'terrorism' laws now can be.

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And people are not even beginning to reckon with how much “the economy” will have to change for our basic survival in the coming decades. We need people trained to think carefully and innovatively. Not so they can earn more than someone else. So that we can survive as a functioning society.

Unfollowed a bunch of Americans feeling they need to express clumsy opinions on heatwaves and aircon use over the Pond. They were already on thin ice with attempts at footy chat 😂

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun Guardian does deep dive on Rep. Nancy Mace's [R-SC]crazed bill to stop fed dollars to study gender transitions in "trans mice." This turns out to be transgenic mice, bio-engineered for cancer research. But no matter, Mace has double down and vowed to plow ahead.

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📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Having come from 20 years in the legal aid sector to the HE sector, the media silence is not only deafening, but eerily familiar. Organised abandonment of key pillars of society.

More awful news from Exeter. Solidarity with all colleagues who got horrible news today.

Uni announcements be like 'flowers are in bloom' DON'T MENTION THE MANAGERIAL BLOODBATH

"Ruling classes shape the law based on preserving their own political, economic, & territorial interests, among other things. Additionally, issues like subjective morals, religious tenets, ethnicity, race, & more may play a role in what the laws are." — @williamcson.bsky.social

UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7

It demands everyone doing organising work and realising that unless we take stronger, bigger forms of collective national action senior managements will keep picking away thru local disputes 1 by 1. They wanted the 2018-2023 cycle to end & end with fragmentation & demobilisation. That has to stop.

None of us is safe until all of us are safe

An American who called it in April 2020 (RIP)

Pretty rude of people not to think of the poor political scientists, good point

Lately, I've had an increased awareness of how little I know about most things, and I've reached the conclusion that the solution is to delve deeper into the things I do know well while accepting my discomfort with the other things. I can't know or learn everything.