'What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it'

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

One of the method conversations that runs through most of my teaching (and especially the intro course I'm teaching right now, which is designed especially for students training as RE teachers) is about how we determine normativity. Spoiler: there is no good answer.

(whispers) I wrote a book about this malarkey, and where it can lead: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ghosts...

I have a short open access piece out in the new journal, Dialogues on Digital Society, which looks at the right-wing politics of the Praxis Network State... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is part of an excellent special issue of almost 50 short pieces on digital authoritarianism.

"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

I can’t get over the idea that a party called “Labour” is going all-in on an industry that promises to destroy the value of labor. No wonder Starmer is flailing.

I miss when you would get the bus/train to your nearest city to queue up for gig tickets. Sitting in front of a screen that tells you there's 68000 people in the queue ahead of you for a venue that holds 20000 is just not the same. Neither is the comparative price. Sighs.

I wonder why far-right leaders and their mainstream enablers are not targeting this minority which plays a key part in deciding the plight of the left behind... It is a real mystery... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ahem bsky.app/profile/timb...

That’ll do! #YNWA #LFC

It's odd to me that no UK university seems to have recognised the potential recruitment advantage of promising prospective students "Your work will never be marked using AI, unlike at [growing list of institutions]".

I get the point about marking 100 essays in two weeks but how can those suggesting this think that generating a summary of each essay, uploading it into co-pilot and then editing the result isn't considerably more labour than marking it and responding in the first place? It's beyond me, I despair.

Good advice for any day: read @ruha9.bsky.social

You have to ask what took Danny Kruger so long to go over to Reform. Wonder if his pal from the New Social Covenant Miriam Cates will be following his lead to try and get on Farage's selection list.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

(1/7) HOT off the furnace and pressed into print!!! 🔥 Costello, E., & Gow, S. (2025). Authoritarian EdTech. Dialogues on Digital Society. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

"Degree programs must deliver a clear return on investment... College is not a place to 'find yourself' - but to quip yourself for a concrete career," like making lots of 💰 off people who like to watch guys in spandex and face paint pound the crap out of each other, says our Secretary of Education

I understand the words 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' but nobody told me that meant that if I watched Jake the Snake Roberts vs William Regal in 1992 there would be no Department of Education in 2025.

Instead of using AI to be feminist, maybe read my feminist book about cyborgs mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

"For example, higher education accounts for around one in five knowledge jobs in both Hull and Edinburgh."

Human beings have a moral language for a reason. We have a concept of evil for a reason. And we are in a historical moment right now where we need to get a lot more comfortable with using it.

Every day even greater depths are plumbed. No quarter should be given to this kind of casual depravity and anyone who has colluded with the American right and their funding streams better not dare raise another argument about protecting women. This is, and always was, who they are.

diminish a book The Average Mr Fox

“Protecting your country and your society is one thing, but bombing hospitals and killing innocent boys and girls with hunger is another thing entirely... It’s exterminating a defenceless people. It’s breaking all the rules of humanitarian law..” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“I watched my bank balance disappear – I had to go back,” she shrugs. “People asked, ‘How much maternity leave are you taking?’ & I thought, ‘I don’t have any – that isn’t a thing.’” She’s adamant that more support is needed in general for freelancers. “We saw this in the pandemic – it was abysmal.”

This week's column on Labour's rapid implosion resembling the Tories' slower one, and ending up in the same place of government by bullshit and crackdown. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Since Blunkett, Home Secs immigration thinking has been the cruel-but-won’t-change-outcomes, the symbolic-but-meaningless, the already-done-but-with-a-new label & the undoable. The unthinkable is common place. Does this No 10 berk think officials have ideas they didn’t tell May, Patel, Braverman?

A private school-educated former city trader’s systematic tax avoidance measures, including but not limited to stamp duty, are understandable & forgivable. A former care worker & effective minister’s lack of due diligence is not. Propaganda works. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the fund that awarded to @workersobservatory.org, in collaboration with Citizens Rights Network and Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA). Together, the three organisations have formed the collective "Migrant Justice Edinburgh."

This is why it is particularly problematic to see the lenient coverage Reform receives from the newspaper whose readership is supposedly likeliest to oppose it This is breaking down resolve and resistance, while the right-wing emboldens those already espousing far-right views

Skeet a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn‘t Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Well of course Eilean Donan would be my favourite.

Our paper "Right-Wing Populism and Museums" is out! It shows how European museums are navigating rising pressures from the far right, from direct interventions to subtle forms of influence, and how this leads to self-censorship, reshaping curatorial practices & the role of cultural institutions.

The rise of the UberMATs in England. Inevitable given the model successive governments have chosen to run with. How this will change our society is, as yet, unknown but there’s some fertile ground here for some meaningful #EducationalResearch to happen. #EduSky #TeacherEducation

'He also defended the benefits of migration and blamed traditional rightwing parties for breaking the consensus over the response to the climate emergency by copying the policies of their populist rivals.'

Once again - why would you trust a machine to think for you when that machine can be modified by the powerful? medium.com/p/232bf010694a

My points for discussion at yesterday's event below. AI is adding to the sector's uncertainty and anxiety. It was great to see so many people turn-up for this event & many people had critical insights & questions. Thanks to Gavin, Sheena and Karen for organising. This conversation needs to continue!

Spot the difference (1/2)

People are here for #EdAIHE! Thanks very much for @semacrae.bsky.social and @karengregory.bsky.social for making this happen!

This afternoon! Very much looking forward to hearing from @semacrae.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social @walkyouhome.bsky.social @huwcdavies.bsky.social @louisedrumm.bsky.social and more today! #EdAIHE

'the question at the heart of immigration crises isn’t “how many is too many”, but “how few is few enough”. The answer is “fewer than zero”. And because that is not a scenario that is possible, no matter what ever-escalating pledges, solutions or policies are offered, nothing will ever be enough.'

Hey folks if you’ve messaged me sorry but I haven’t done the U.K. registration thing - ping me and I’ll get back to you

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Tory party officially gives up on being bothered by climate change. And once again I reminder you that *in 1989* Margaret Thatcher declared climate change to be an existential threat to humanity.

While there can be no complacency in countering fascists on the streets, concerns about the far right must also be concerns about the role of mainstream politicians and media in shaping the reactionary agenda aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...

This is my new sign, I have a feeling it will be getting a lot of tapping.

This is what happens when communications systems become so imbalanced and entrenched that the editors of a national newspaper fear no consequence or pushback. There will be none, there hasn't been any resistance for far too long.