Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Too much travel? Well, he's no Kissinger, is he?

In a just society, everyone involved in this, from the CEO down to the coders, as well as the cops responsible for not doing their jobs, are the ones who have their lives destroyed

Sadly prisons are not a safe space for women. Presenting the tiny numbers of trans people as the source of that danger is driven by bigotry and not a concern for women. Source for data: www.gov.uk/government/s...

In the 12 months to 9/25 female prisons in E&W saw: 2,265 assaults (the highest level recorded); 1,179 prisoner-on-prisoner assaults; 20,210 self harm incidents; and 13 deaths. Whatever is driving the Times and BBC's 'interest' in an alleged sexual assault by a trans woman it is not care for women.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

606 full-time job losses over time - "the next phase of the university's 'Future Nottingham' restructuring programme"

University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

L.S. Lowry on drugs? Reflections in The Bean, Chicago. #BlueSkyArtShow #Odd #TravelPhotography #Bean #Chicago #Photography

What kind of country does this? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

grifters gonna grift

The process here was 1 Timetabling is really difficult 2 we’ve bought new timetabling software 3 The software doesn’t work 4 We’re cutting modules so the software can do the timetable.

We need men in open revolt against this gender system & the masculinity messaging it sends. It's been great to see men being horrified by rape culture & speaking out to other men. We need activist gender traitors, we need mass pickets of media platforms, we need men in the streets together...

'The unit’s closure comes only a fortnight after the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, said respect and support for international law would be one of the linchpins of her department under her leadership in her major annual set piece foreign policy speech.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I like interesting graphs…and this is one of them: #RunSky

friend asked me for advice on returning to university and aiming for an academic career. it’s so hard to realistically portray for someone how unrealistic that is in 2026 without sounding incredibly bitter and pessimistic. but honestly who would advise someone that this a good career path?

“Within a week she seemed back to normal. What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain, poised to exact a terrible toll years later…. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

'Universities are also banned from using non-disclosure agreements to silence victims of campus misconduct, protecting vulnerable individuals who may have faced harassment, abuse or sexual assault.' New powers to protect vital free speech at universities - GOV.UK share.google/pFlLIF7npmxb...

Disgusting, heartbreaking, wrong. HE leaders are callous vandals, we can't go on like this

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human syllabus—for ever.” #BTHOcensorship

MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol? These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

A 91-year-old peace activist has crossed Ireland on foot and arrived in Dublin to petition the government to bar US military flights via Shannon Airport. Lelia Doolan completed a two-week, 220km (138 mile) trek on Wednesday accompanied by throngs of supporters. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

When you reach the point where the answer you reach for is 'let's get rid of a quarter of the people who actually make this place possible', you have GOT to ask yourself some questions about how bad you are at managing, no? #UKHE Solidarity with @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social

Exactly 💯

The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)

Lets hope jd vance campaigns for Reform in Britain

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance

A really profound and memorable speech for our times.

And I bet there are still Academic Standards and Quality Assurance managers who would still want you to develop criteria grading profiles for each degree classification.

Wow, Mark Carney speaks on multiculturalism (what a contrast to island of strangers Starmer!) Mark Carney, "Canada is a nation forged through accommodation, not assimilation" "Through partnership, not domination" "The founding insight of our country is that unity does not require uniformity"

Gotta be one of the best headlines ever. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

It's giving tunnocks teacakes!!!

Police can't issue a fixed penalty notice as they can't find an address for Mandelson. If he is out on bail, surely he is required to reside at a known address? Why not just arrest him? BBC News - Mandelson faces £300 fine for urinating in street www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It looks like DJT has met a kind of tariff he doesn't like.

JD Vance learning that unblinking loyalty and 'moral flexibility' may not be rewarded. "What once might have been a cruise to the 2028 Republican presidential nomination now looks more like a run through the Strait of Hormuz." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...

Brilliant from @wonkhe.bsky.social as usual.

Honestly, there's no AI that could compete with Karoline Leavitt.

I believe Hungary is a member of the EU but not of the USA.

"No leader standing in front of a court at The Hague would be able to finesse that language: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” doesn’t leave a lot of room for charitable interpretations." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"That one man with the means to do it would threaten destruction of a part of our planet at the same moment its beauty and fragility are on full display. We are, in this tense moment, living with our own overview effect." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

scott's oquaga lake, deposit, new york, 1978

What an appalling few weeks - a pointless war that started with the murder of 120 children, ‘ending’ with a dictatorship entrenched and Lebanon seemingly abandoned to Israel’s expansionist imperialism.

Setting aside the reparations debate (complex, not one that we should dismiss) the idea that you ban every citizen of say, Jamaica, because its govt's policies, shows that REFUK isn't a serious party. But the USA shows us that unserious parties can be in govt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting hearing Justin Webb making the argument for no platforming this morning #r4today.

This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.