The UK Home Office know that there is no evidence to substantiate their claims that ever harsher border control policies will reduce asylum seeking or stop irregular arrivals. They commissioned a review of existing evidence under the last government hoping it would provide a solid evidence base for

There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…

Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1. cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...

Vote Labour

Don’t worry Keir. I’m sure the months of cos-playing as Nigel Farage will see an uptick in support… … … …any moment now… … …

Asked a question by Kuenssberg about whether her proposals on refugees would mean refugee families being broken up, Shabana Mahmood immediately started talking about illegal migration. Eventually, she’s admitted that yes, Labour’s policy will break up settled families. Vile.

What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".

The tech billionaires want: AI to manage their relationships, robot slaves to serve their every whim, & their minds uploaded into cyborg bodies. Their pet projects are eugenics & leaving the earth. They are terrified of being human. The same people think they should be the leaders of humanity

Rather than global cooperation on preventing people seeking asylum, there needs to be global cooperation on ensuring they can do so safely if we are to avoid further tragic loss of life. There's no question Rohinga Muslims need asylum. It's a question of how they get it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So I think the 5th December might be the day I die………of laughter. I don’t think I’ll be able to withstand the scale of the laughing fit I will have when Infantino gives Trump the “FIFA Peace Prize” and Trump extols the prize as the greatest honour ever bestowed on a human being.

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I can find lots of surveys about general public attitudes to AI, but I can’t find anything on whether the public actually want AI generated communication from public bodies (UK). Does anyone know of anything along these lines? Curious given some dynamics developing in comms in various depts.

Guess if you're not an ethicist, biologist, environmental/climate scientist, creative, cog scientist, housed near data centers, privacy expert, software dev who fucking knows better, comp scientist ditto, worker w/o work bc of deluded execs, or just abt anyone else, maybe it's just, like, 2 things

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

No Microsoft, I do not want Copilot to summarise my emails. Ever. I will read them myself. Because I care about what they say. Reading is a useful skill & literacy is good for humanity, stop trying to undermine it you pricks.

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

Bonnie says “Good morning hoomans!”

My beautiful mother would have been 68 today. Happy Birthday, mummy. I miss you everyday xxxx

Bonnie celebrating our win over Liverpool 🤣❤️

If I’m Oscar Piastri I’d race with gloves off from now on. Constructors is done, no need to help my teammate anymore, especially if my teammate is going to collide with me during the race.

Refugee protection is the definition of a collective action problem. Can the UK on its own solve that problem? No. The system has been collectively broken and it can only be collectively fixed. But, what the UK can do on its own is NOT MAKE THE PROBLEM WORSE. #KeirStarmer

If you want to stop smugglers putting people in small boats STOP GIVING THEM BUSINESS!!! Jesus wept, I can’t bear this F-ing stupidity and cruelty. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So the Starmer of the conference speech didn’t even last 24 hours…

A meme for the modern university...

And it’s going to take a hell of a lot more than one speech given his appalling rhetoric for months on end, dancing to Farage’s tune, and this obscene ‘settled status in exchange for indentured servitude’ plan they’re cooking up.

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Migrants already have to demonstrate their immigration status to be able to work, rent etc. Key thing when talking about "undocumented" migrants is they are undocumented, and those employing them know it, so an additional form of ID makes absolutely sod all difference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Deep sigh... Okay, for those at the back who missed out on the whole fact that asylum seekers and other migrants already have arduous ID checks, or that, by the very nature of people being undocumented additional, id's are irrelevant in this context. 1/3 www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/star...

The only possible silver lining in this game is that a Utd win will mean Amorim keeps being Utd manager for a while. But, since that silver lining helps me not one bit as a Chelsea fan: screw you Robert Sanchez.

this exists it is called thinking

In my Contemporary Political Theory module I have my students write an essay on a film using one of the theorists we read - to engage with concepts through a different medium. The films I’ve used for the last few years only seem to be getting more relevant: Good Night and Good Luck; 13th;

Deleted my account. Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

MAGA says Kirk's a hero because he went to universities and said whatever he wanted in the name of "free speech" But when university students and professors say things in disagreement with the MAGA agenda, they must be fired and their lives threatened Those who can't see the BS are wilfully blind

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

"There is no inherent virtue in caring about your own children; that is the bare minimum requirement for effective parenting. Virtue lies in caring about the safety and well-being of children you don’t know." This is an award-worthy piece of writing. Bravo, @espiers.bsky.social.

At this stage I would be willing just to take him not actively emboldening it through his own rhetoric and policies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Call for participants for a pedagogy workshop on Teaching Ethics in Dark Times: www.bisa.ac.uk/group/8/content/1053?destination=members/working-groups/ewpg/nodes January 14th 2026 (online) Please share with your networks.

A plea from a lowly Associate Editor of an academic journal: if you have the option to upload a Cover Letter with your article, please do!! And in that letter, help the editorial staff out with finding reviewers by recommending a few names that would be appropriate reviewers!

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Indeed. The Home Office knows full well that ‘deterrence’ policies don’t work. So why do it? Because successive governments think they have something to gain politically by being cruel to migrants they consider ‘worthless’. That’s it. That’s why.

Homework is basically just teaching kids to have a shitty work-life balance and to work for free outside their contracted hours.

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis