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A major new funding row has erupted after the Welsh Government accepted a decision of its UK counterpart to allow an English ministry to administer the latest post-Brexit aid round for Wales ✍️Martin Shipton

A pretty novel form of psychic damage is losing your news media job, having your entire portfolio of work wiped from the Internet, only for it to then be resurrected without your consent to promote an AI slop factory scam! Find out more about this headache here 👇

Labour is disgustiing @prifweinidog.gov.wales you should all defect to Greens or Plaid. They mwy not be that inspiring, but they're not genocidal murderers

Is this disgusting irony lost on anyone in the west??? Netanyahu admits to turning Gaza into “Concentration Camp”!!! www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...

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I have a piece in Buzz Magazine - thanks to Film Hub Wales www.buzzmag.co.uk/do-not-go-ge...

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons theonion.com/concern...

Over half a million children could die as a result of UK aid cuts to vaccination programmes, MPs have heard

Diolch i bawb ddaeth i rali Nid yw Cymru ar Werth heddiw i fynnu dyfodol i'n cymunedau

As hundreds of my university colleagues across Wales lose their jobs, I wrote this for @nation.cymru - do please share nation.cymru/opinion/yes-...

OK so this just happened! ✊🔥😎 “Stars including Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles & Stormzy call on the PM to help save Cardiff University's school of music. The department with a global reputation is earmarked for closure under proposed cuts.” www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

I missed the year anniversary of publishing this blog. I was shocked when I was told it's had over 10k hits...

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Yes, the interview was originally published as an edited transcript in 2018, long before Wendy Larner had applied her views to Cardiff University. The document linked to in the VC’s all-staff email on Thursday was the final proofs doc, ie after peer review and the VC’s own subsequent edits.

“Differing Grief” on geographer and vice-chancellor Wendy Larner nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

This is horrifying. Wendy Larner used to write about poverty, race, gender & globalisation. She co-edited a book in 2010 called *The Point Is To Change It*. Then she became Management... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

'This is a clear attack on freedom of speech and freedom to organise. It is unprecedented for a University to try to close down legitimate trade union activity in this way. It also appears to be evidence of a climate of fear' @hefindavid.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

More than 650 students at crisis-hit Cardiff University were affected by course changes during the last academic year, a Freedom of Information disclosure has revealed ✍️ Martin Shipton

Cardiff University confirms that in College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 699 jobs are “in scope” of redundancy with 86 in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion. At the leading Welsh university in the capital of (checks notes) Wales 13 are in the (checks notes) School of Welsh.

Cardiff University academics are hoping members of the House of Lords will take up their campaign against job losses this week when the university holds a reception for its alumni ✍️Martin Shipton

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Tynodd BBC ffilm am fywyd yn Gasa am bod y bachgen sy'n lleisio'r ffilm yn fab i gyn ddirprwy-weinidog dros Amaeth dan lywodraeth Hammas. Go brin mai dyna'r rheswm go iawn, ond beth bynnag y rheswm, mae'r BBC yn gwrthod rhoi llais i bobl dan ormes. Gwyliwch y ffilm fan hyn rumble.com/v6nm6n9-bbc-...

Cyfweliad heno ar S4C Interview tonight on S4C www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I just a BBC Radio Wales interview for Cardiff UCU. Cardiff Uni needs to work in true social partnership with the Union, and draw on its millions in available ££ to fund a more gradual recovery which doesn’t destroy 400+ jobs & irreparably harm the University/Wales. ✊👇 youtu.be/tqjaFuFdESM?...

Leighton Andrews: "What they have done is frankly destroy trust and goodwill within the university and morale at the moment is through the floor. These are the people you need, to boost the university, but at everybody's focus is on their own jobs." www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

Again, the heavy handed response is inappropriate even if the defensive take were substantively correct. Which I don’t think it is. I think the use of “fake news” in her email is pretty damning for charitable interpretations of her interview.

UCU condemns climate of fear @ Cardiff Uni in wake of VC’s attacks on free speech: “We stand by our claim that the [VC & uni executive board] are not worthy of our trust, and we urge all university staff to engage with our vote of no confidence.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/under-f...

Cardiff Uni VC Wendy Larner implies “things like poverty have a genetic explanation”. Cardiff UCU: “In the context of her vision for a more elitist university, cutting schools like nursing & favouring ‘higher quality’ students, the attitude indicated here is disturbing.” nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

I’m going to take away the jobs and livelihoods of 400 of my staff. But if you question my judgement I will accuse you all of bullying me …

I reread the original. It still says 'if things like poverty have a genetic explanation'. This still sounds like reheated Bell Curve bullshit to me, and it is hard to come to a charitable explanation for that.

Apart from not fully grasping epigenetics, she also doesn't seem to understand how journalism works. Providing a comment to a journalist does not equal 'endorsing' the article. As any PR manager who's been giving the same bland quote to journalists for the past year could have told her.

Love to see the idiom of left accountability – “I am calling this out”, “we are better than this”, “who we are as a community” – being used by a £290k pa VC against a trade union protesting redundancies. Crit Geog! ✊

Kiwi Musk cries "fake news"

Hitting back against a blog likening her to Musk she does the most Trump-Muskesque thing and threatans staff, throws a public tantrum and even accusess a respected news outlet of "fake news" 🙃🙃🤣

Cardiff University’s beleaguered Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner has sent a message to all staff falsely accusing Nation Cymru of publishing 'fake news' about her and berating the University and College Union for criticising her ✍️ Martin Shipton

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Looking for tips for pitching to magazines / news outlets. I hardly ever get a response - any suggestions? Bizzarley i pitched the piece Shipton quoted at length but didnt get a response from Nation Cymru. Is it that news outlets only comission people they know?

I've been waiting for a reason to post on here! Six months after joining @nestauk.bsky.social, my first blog is out. More and more households in Wales are turning to clean heat, but could the Welsh Government do more to speed up adoption? www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-wel...

Well this is a fascinating mixture (ahem) of ideas from the Cardiff Vice-Chancellor. In the same interview, "decolonisation of research is vital", "everyone should read Marx", and "we must prepare for the revelation that poverty is genetic" (!!!) exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex...

It's giving early C20th Eugenic Fabianism

Here's the original piece that highlighted this, which means you don't have to read Martin Shipton quoting it (who does unavoidably good muckraking at times but, alas, remains a transphobe)

My blog quoted in this 👇

Hapus iawn i gyhoeddi bod gen i gerdd fach yn y flodeygerdd yma 🐣✨

Cardiff University, Techno-fascism & did the VC really say that poverty is genetic? open.substack.com/pub/subv3rs3...

Dylai Cymru gael yr un cyfleoedd â’r Alban, yn enwedig ar adeg pan fo Ystad y Goron yn cyhoeddu elw net sy’n torri record, a phan fod anghydraddoldeb economaidd yn parhau yng Nghymru, gallai Cymru elwa o £42m.

Cardiff University, Techno-fascism & did the VC really say that poverty is genetic? open.substack.com/pub/subv3rs3...