Handwringing about the situation for music and languages at Leicester and Nottingham isn’t really meaningful unless you’re in the union.

If I had signed this letter back in 2021 I would now be busy distancing myself from it and Miller in every way possible.

How are all those David Miller defenders feeling now?

Do they think announcing this before a period of more strike action when the branch has a mandate is a remotely good idea. Idiots.

God I hate 'look at this crap medieval art' accounts.

PSA: The Left get it wrong as much as the Right

Excellent set of reflections on the macro-economic structural problems and drivers shaping (or not) Labour higher education policy policy

This is, by some distance, the longest and most expensive legal letter we've ever sent. It involves a team of multiple KC and junior specialist environmental barristers. It's taken us 18 months to draft and has cost us a substantial six figure sum.

ICYMI: our report from HEC, Friday 10 October 2025, which went out in yesterday's newsletter. #UKHE #UCU ucucommons.org/2025/10/31/r...

Good good! Keep it up @britishlibrary.bsky.social staff at @pcsunion.bsky.social! And keep respecting that picket.

very, very clearly the most reform breed of dogs. There should be no rules except when they apply for other dogs and all food is mine

You clearly haven't spent time with beagles

I reckon we're all fighting off bugs a lot of the time that don't give us massive symptoms but just make us sad or a bit off.

Want to hear me say 'buttocks', 'cock and balls', 'vulva', 'farting' & 'flatulence', for FREE? Listen to my #audiobook preview on Am*zon! Has the algorithm been making mischief with its sample selection? I think so! (The preview on Google is just the Introduction, which probably makes more sense...)

A few months ago an online talk I was due to give was postponed the morning it was due to happen w flimsy excuses. I was told it would be rearranged - me & respondent put time into planning it out. I’ve had crickets to 2 emails I’ve sent since. This is not good when you are autistic & anxious. /1

Shameless plug for my book forthcoming next spring (in which I argue some of the most in/famous Enlightenment history books were secretly fights to acquire students).

A grunge/High Renaissance mash up band, Tallis in Chains

Ever the details man, Boris Johnson evokes the 'massacre of Jews in London in 1066' while speaking at Auschwitz. www.thejc.com/news/politic...

The ‘leading academics’ were from History Reclaimed

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

jfc

Hahahaha classic

oh cope

i do genuinely wonder if reactionary cenrists ever get tired of never being right about anything

So stoked that @zoejardiniere.bsky.social is speaking at UCU's Women Members' Conference next week!

The fortnightly newsletter from @ucucommons.bsky.social feels like a calm breath of insight + reflection, even when - as now - our HE sector is on fire. Thoughtful perspectives on developments + issues that matter.

Happy burning Catholics at the stake day!

The latest issue of our fortnightly newsletter includes a report from the HEC held on 10 October. Also featuring @davehitchcock.bsky.social, @matildaf.bsky.social, @hagenilda.bsky.social and more! #UKHE #UCU ucucommons.substack.com/p/ucu-common...

Mamdani responded to the smears by putting out an ad in Arabic and speaking Arabic in his victory speech. The lesson is to never apologize for who you are and never cede to your opponents the idea that their voters are somehow more legitimate than your own voters.

Hope the transphobes are happy

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Wait, but didn't the voters know that Mamdani once referred to his father's cousin as his aunt?

Love it.

The bleak reality of university restructuring... it breaks lives and careers #Noredundancies #WearetheUniversity juliecupples.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/f...

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx

Great paper from @sarahlimb.bsky.social at @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social followed by dinner at my second home (Siam Central on Charlotte Street). Love our seminar so much.

people be like “this strategy of a popularly elected socialist mayor of one of the world’s largest cities pales in comparison to my strategy of organizing the vanguard party” and then pay Elon to be Verified on the Everything App

Alexa, define 'a snowflake'

No joke of a lie, Spotify threw Without Me at me earlier, including the classic line, 'I know that you got a job, Ms. Cheney But your husband's heart problem's complicating'. Quite.

Totally

The premodern villages that now make up Milton Keynes were an absolute hotbed of demonic possession, bewitchment and hauntings in the early 17th century. Newport Pagnell especially.

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

Eat shit, Matt Goodwin.

A fairly large hill I’ll die on is that the insistence that the art you consume entirely matches your politics is pretty childish.

I’ve had to deal with this from trades people in my own home several times - my current guy is a fucking gem though. I don’t need it on social media as well.

Oh just tax the fucking rich already.