NEW on Wonkhe: Staff in higher education are motivated by many factors – David Kernohan assesses the gap between aspiration and experience buff.ly/T93OJLJ

Sadiq Khan says he loves visiting Liverpool for its food and culture and people, joking: “It also means I can take a break from the sharia lot in London.”

Bought a new coat today. 'You look like a courgette. No. Peas in a pod.' Don't have kids.

Well, this is a hot mess of dog whistles and utter nonsense. For a speech claiming to tackle "toxic" and "poisonous" rhetoric Starmer leans heavily into pandering to the usual misinformation about migrants and portraying anti-immigration ideals as "patriotic" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Also economically. The argument is explicitly 'New Labour's economic approach was wrong'. Okay, Keir...what is yours? Do you have one?!

What I find darkly comic about this, and just how bad Labour is at policy, is that many of the "target migration", crew will be pissed off at the idea of them having to have digital id and people who would support id cards are more liable to be progressive and anti the xenophobic pitching. Lose lose

UK: pls can we have a crumb of affordable homes and non-cost-of-living-crisis Starmer: so you're saying you want *spins wheel* ID cards

BREAKING The backlog of cases in Crown Courts in England and Wales has reached a record high of 78,329.

Source: dailynous.com/2025/09/24/t...

This is a wide profession; there are myriad ways to be a good lawyer; and your entire task in law school is to figure out at least what you should try first.

Statement from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency "MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children" www.gov.uk/government/n...

I'm not seeing the funny side at all. The actual American president undermining early years vaccination is nothing else but pure evil. Vaccinations work. Please don't listen to this man. Your children are too precious.

Allen Jones and David Hockney at the memorial evening for Derek Boshier at the Royal Academy last night. Very much missed. One former student spoke about Boshier's advice to him: "Don't try to be interesting, be interested."

My faith in human nature is probably never going to recover from all this

Throughout my life some things have been much cheaper than I anticipated (washing machines), others much costlier (curtains!), but finding out that one week of respite care in a Suffolk care home is £1,950 has blown my mind in a way that hard drugs could not.

Anyone with an interesting Postdoc idea related to critical legal theory, law/exception, public order, policing, strikes or critical engagements with human rights, drop me a line. The timeline is short on this (23rd of Oct) but its well worth applying: www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.

Rourke just broke the CFL single-season passing record three days ago. Legit face of the sport. Listen to him call out CFL leadership directly, this is wild.

Over the last 24 hours Reform, with just a single policy announcement, have put fear where previously there was none into the hearts of millions of UK residents. No 10 and the Chancellor have said nothing about the ethics of this. I have no words left for them.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

The Batman reboot looks LIT

@mintisculture.bsky.social @briansayle.bsky.social @peteregan.bsky.social @harrylime69.bsky.social @thegarylambert.bsky.social @lewisguyphoto.bsky.social 📸 Kodak Ektra 12-EF 🎞️ Lomography Color '92 - 110 📍Hill Dickinson Stadium 🏟️💙

Big fan of the sky on tonight's long trek with Apollo. I was asked what I wanted to do on my birthday later this week; 'walk 10 miles, alone, but with the dog' probably wasn't the anticipated answer!

The current attorney general must be doing *a lot* of things right, to deserve this big of a target on his back from the Telegraph/Policy Exchange and the rest

I will continue to be baffled that McSweeney shepherded Labour into power and then immediately pivoted to the next election rather than the minor business of actually achieving anything of note, but your ten year plan isn’t going to be worth much in opposition in three years’ time

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and: 1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character 2) we should make more actors do this

I’m into self-improvement as long as it doesn’t require actual effort or feelings.

So instead of assessing the student submission and providing feedback, Lecturer A is summarising the student submission and assessment, then assessing and personalising the AI feedback. Presumably a few hours into this 2 week window, Lecturer A says "fuck it" and opens a bottle of wine.

Good luck to him. Seems like a great lad. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Today, we remember your beautiful, joyful life, Isabelle. X m.youtube.com/watch?v=22jp...

Question one from any journalist present should be "why has Downing Street withdrawn the press credentials of ABC?"

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Apart from the inhumanity of all that, having read the work and summarised their view of it, what does the academic or student get out of adding an extra stage?

I hate how they normalise one member of staff having two weeks to mark 100 essays (and as if they had absolutely nothing else to do but meet that deadline in that time)

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

Do you recognise any of these people? Wanted by the Met after the violence on Saturday news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-...

BREAKING: A Hillsborough Law will be laid before Parliament on Tuesday after decades of tireless campaigning by the families of the 97 Liverpool fans who died at the 1989 stadium disaster A huge and historic moment

ps other uk law schools, this off switch now exists but you need to contact them directly…

Everton Women, Goodison Park - 14th Sept ‘25 🔵

A sweet twist to this tale: when Husband started to flag our 18 year old son, who spent a childhood on & off the GOSH blood cancer ward, ran alongside his dad, in jeans and anorak, & kept him running until he saw the finish. I feel like a non-elite version of the Brownlees’ Mam.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Thanks to an Evertonian's public service in outing themselves as a 'legitimate concerns' person today, I've found a load of ace people in the replies.

Went to a work event at Formby Hall with Ricky Hatton as the speaker. The 'comedian' before him was shit and started to sexually harass the waitress walking past him when nobody laughed at his jokes. Hatton came on called him out. Was very funny after that and had time for everybody.

Where is the Prime Minister? Why is he silent as American tech billionaires fuel and finance the biggest far right march in British history? When will this government start fighting Elon Musk, racism and the threat of fascism to our democracy?

Peter Mandelson: 1. Never thinks his downfall is his own fault 2. Always thinks he can convince the public of this, if he only explains the situation 3. Is rarely correct about (2). At all.

More evidence I'm afraid of a complete lack of understanding of what being a leader is about You still have to do the unpleasant jobs as well as the easier ones How that will have gone down with those still left in post I'm not sure but some will be thinking that's not very good

New look Goodison Park, complete with new Everton Women’s timeline too. 👀

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.