That sudden urge wanting to make the same mistake 😃

I prefer a government raising taxes and being open about it to the one rolling out a stealth income tax on working people while claiming that no tax imposed. Just saying... www.bbc.com/news/article...

My quick-fire take for @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why we should celebrate the scrapping of the two-child limit Draws on research for @nuffieldfoundation.org & ongoing work with the amazing @changingrealities.bsky.social

The video that everyone should see before the budget announcement and think little bit on. www.instagram.com/reel/DRcdg2W...

international day against violence against women in istanbul

UK universities sinking faster than expected under the weight of contradictions that are too many to list on a standard SWOT form

Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures. Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...

Have been studying a few new things recently. The feeling of learning sth totally new is priceless.

A new report condemns the UK’s #Covid response, citing failures & a “toxic, chaotic” culture in Boris Johnson’s No 10. 'When This Is Over' explains what went wrong and how we can respond better next time. Guardian: https://ow.ly/oc3X50XwQaC Find the book: https://ow.ly/P5Jc50XwQaF

📣 USSP Seminar alert! Prof Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens 🇬🇷, will give a paper on the emancipatory power of commoning. 🗓️ 10 Dec 2025 🕒 3:30-5:00pm 📍 Adam Smith Building - Room 386AB More info: www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi... Join us for the last seminar of 2025 😀

Sad and pathetic.

Some of Glasgow's parakeets enjoying the winter sun

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers

TL;DR: If you arrive on a small boat, you wait 30 years for settlement. If you arrive on a yacht, you wait 3 years. And they call this Labour policy. NB: Never thought I would see a Labour Home Secretary repeating David Cameron verbatim, calling it "a privilege, not a right to settle in the UK."

Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures. Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...

And our third and final online event of the term assembles a diverse panel of academics, practitioners, and activists to reflect on what gentrification means today and how we can remake cities without displacing residents. Sign up below. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

First rowing session after a pause. Absolutely loving it!

Is Shabana Mahmood’s plan to seize the jewels of asylum seekers a joke? | Zoe Williams

Worth noting: • Upward revision applies to entire 2021-2024 series — the *trend* in emigration is *roughly* flat • As infuriating as big revisions are, they mean data is getting better • BUT wild that we ever used a survey to gauge movements into and out of the country instead of counting people!

🔴 NEW: The MoD accidentally revealed that Scottish sites - including Grangemouth and Finnart on Loch Long - were being assessed for new munitions factories. In total 12 sites across the UK have been reviewed. Read our investigation: www.theferret.scot/m...

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Pretty convinced that tomatoes are from heaven.

Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance and artificial scarcity. Listen to the latest Radicals in Conversation with the authors of Radical Abundance, @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLrh...

Things you don't notice missing until getting them again: a quiet Sunday brunch after a few busy weekends 🤌

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

All the result of the Right Wing governments you constantly tell everyone to vote for. They moan about the things they have voted for.

My phone just dropped this memory. 6 years ago today. I was on a plane to Sydney. So much and so little change. What a world it became.

photo of the day: the coven www.instagram.com/p/DQklJrCDB_...

Helloo pitch black at 5 pm.

Are you passionate about public services for people not profit? Last chance to apply to work with @weownit.org.uk on operations or communications and campaign support Deadline: tomorrow Sunday 9th November weownit.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Did you know that rental payments will now be used by Experian to assess people's credit rating? This opens up a can of worms! www.whatmortgage.co.uk/first-time-b...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Loving how all the New York Times headlines are absolutely flabbergasted that someone with a clear affordability platform based on human decency could win an election.

"A brighter future is within our grasp..." says Chancellor Rachel Reeves as she previews the upcoming Budget. Our Life in the UK Index shows that more systematic and sustained action is required to improve the collective wellbeing of the people of the UK: carnegieuk.org/publication/...

Here we are at the time of the year that there is no way to tell what time it is. Could be 11 am or 4 pm. Pick yours.

Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive are hosting a talk by Ståle Holgerson on his new book, Against the Crisis 4 Nov 6:30-8pm Civic House free but ticketed www.eventbrite.com/e/against-th... “The most clarifying dissection of ‘crisis’ as concept and reality to appear in several decades” --- Andreas Malm

The exhibition was an intervention to highlight the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion amid recent attacks on these principles.

Sign, omen,coincidence or just planning? It's the World Cities Day and the last day to visit our exhibition 👇 So, pop in to celebrate diversity in cities!

Sign, omen,coincidence or just planning? It's the World Cities Day and the last day to visit our exhibition 👇 So, pop in to celebrate diversity in cities!

Last call! ⏰ Only one day left to catch '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' - proudly led by our own Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social 🤗 📍JMS Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus 🗓️ Open till 31 Oct More info: festivalofsocialscience.com/events/52-sq...

Double the creativity! ✨ 2️⃣ exhibitions led by our colleagues Dr Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social & Dr Louise Lawson are open to the public as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences - come & explore! 📷 🎨 WHERE: James McCune Smith Learning Hub (foyer), UoG main campus Do pop in - details 👇

Impressive as always!

Thanks, everyone who came to the opening. Enjoyed responding brilliant questions and thought-provoking comments. Special thanks to @crenellatedarts.bsky.social for a fantastic facilitation!

Here we go!

“Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis The council is rolling back Thatcher’s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Here we go!

Join us for the opening of the '52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life' exhibition on Monday at 1 pm in James McCune Smith Learning Hub (JMS) foyer 👇