Blairism in its death throes. Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

From Tony Blair’s interventions, to the bond market’s reaction or privatised utilities warning of doom, the pattern is the same. When anyone suggests progressive change, those with wealth and power push back. Me for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My favorite scene from the Bible

The closure of Southend rips away jobs, education and the lifeblood of local businesses. The rationale? Barely fills an A4 page. In Westminister Yesterday MPs & union reps handed a vote of no confidence in Bowen to education minister Jacqui Smith.

The student support we’ve received throughout the Essex campaign has been phenomenal. Here are just a few of the staff and students fighting back together. Sign the petition to save Southend. Strike days: 16-19. #SouthendSpeaks #SaveSouthendCampus

This is brilliant from @labourlewis.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... One can only hope that at least some of the Parliamentary Labour Party can derive some advantage, or at least insight, from Clive spelling out here WHY half of them are likely to lose their seats to Greens.

Reform mayor of Lincolnshire has voted to slash ESOL. A clear signal of the damage Reform intends to inflict on our communities. Demanding migrants speak English then cutting the very provision that makes that possible. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1441...

🧊❌BREAKING 🧊❌ 500 #MOworkers and community allies from across St. Louis just rallied to demand ICE OUT of our city! Solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota during their bold general strike to fight back ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy. Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼 action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

This, please.

Entire political class cohering around the project of telling two generations simply to lower their expectations. Definitely going to end well. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A brilliantly written piece, showing once again how privatisation and outsourcing fails people.

This year was also the year in which I failed to write a new end-of-year poem.

’Tis the season for presents and goodwill. In Westminster, especially over the Christmas period, the giving of gifts, freebies and swanky receptions for MPs, their advisors and colleagues go into overdrive. Read my article for @eastangliabylines.co.uk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/gif...

🚨IT'S A WIN: 7% pay award at Runshaw College‼️ Well done to every member who voted to strike & forced management to make a decent offer✊ Time for other colleges to follow suit & pay up. If they refuse, strikes are set for the New Year❗️ #NewDealForFE www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 5 December buff.ly/wQQwoHU

🚨Our statement on #Budget2026 Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change. www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...

100% @francesryan.bsky.social

32 colleges hit the turnout threshold. 90% backed strike action. Our ballots have already won pay deals at 17 colleges now others must follow. College teachers are still paid £9,000 less than school teachers. This isn’t sustainable. Pay parity now. feweek.co.uk/ucu-ballot-r...

🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill "Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity" More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇 www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...

This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go! ✅ 100% reduction of some subjects! ✅ Modules slashed! Study them before it’s too late!

Since 2023, 38 students have graduated from Bantshire University in error. We are conducting a full investigation into how this happened.

Progressive Zohran Mamdani had a simple, defiant message for President Donald Trump after he won the New York City mayoral election.

JUST UNDER 4️⃣ hours to go and we are LIVE! Tune in on X or YouTube as we go live! www.youtube.com/live/NynAXdu...

@patrickneveling.bsky.social @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

#wearetheuniversity #ucu Just voted. Let's get the vote out for better funding and working conditions in higher education

Reform's racism is dividing our communities. The Green Party stand against the politics of hate and fear. It's time to bring a politics of hope, compassion and unity. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I ❤️ Viz

DMU Leicester faces a new threat from DMU Dubai De Montfort University Leicester now faces new challenges: legal and financial threats from its former partner, Study World in Dubai

📣 @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

We'll be out again tomorrow. #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #highered #ucustrike ucubournemouth.uk

Day 3 of strike action at Bournemouth University. Staff are striking to defend jobs, courses and the future of their university. ✊ Show your support and solidarity with a repost to spread the word!

Strike day 3: stop the job cuts #holdtheline #bournemouthuni #highered @ucu.org.uk

On war: a reflection www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06... This morning, it's worth recalling that around the world, the billions of people who populate this planet have vastly more in common with each other than they have things that separate them.

“The entire UK higher education sector is currently engulfed by mass redundancies and talks of ‘crisis’. Industrial relations between staff and employers in many institutions are at a historic low, and it seems that worse is yet to come.” Steven Brown reviews Shaping for Mediocrity buff.ly/vsJReUq

We're heading out again in the morning because our toxic trait is that we think students and research are important to universities @ucu.org.uk #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #stopthecuts #highered

🚨NEWS🚨 We are devastated to hear of the passing of the Assisted Dying Bill by 23 votes today. We extend our solidarity to all the Disabled people, DPOs, campaigners and MPs who have worked together to oppose this bill. Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/devasta...

☔️ Solidarity rain or shine! @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

No compulsory redundancies! Humanities teach humanity! Out on the picket line with 90 other staff @bournemouthucu.bsky.social in the sun yesterday 🌞 #UKHigherEducation crisis

#Solidarity #stopthecuts @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

English summer picket #bournemouthuni #stopthecuts #saveourjobs #protectouruni @ucu.org.uk @bournemouthecho.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Bournemouth university staff on strike today to protect jobs and working conditions @bournemouthucu.bsky.social @patrickneveling.bsky.social

🩷 @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

This us. Staff experience is student experience. Cuts are a choice. #ucu #strike #savejobs #tradeunion #picket #highereducation #studentlife #unilife #university

“If the VC and her team succeed in [these] attacks, it will not only ruin the livelihoods of more than 100 of our academic colleagues but render the university unrecognisable, irreparably harming students’ education" #bournemouth #bournemouthuni #highered www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2522297...

Pleased to see Labour MPs opposing policies which attack disabled people. ‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Register us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... A HUGE meeting exploring new ideas in social care AND resistance to the crisis! Speakers:  Jan Shortt, Nat Pensioners Convention Rachael Tomlinson Disabled activist, with ESCaD and DPAC     Simon Duffy Director of Citizen network