A test case for #values: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Joy, we should do everything we can to ensure all young people experience it: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Trump has underwritten Israeli war machine by c. $30bn since Oct 7 2023; despite COL crisis in US: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/AidToI...

US requests to use other nations' bases is unrelated to need. It is a blatant attempt at political incorporation, that seeks validation of its own policies.

If only we knew what the words 'evaluation', 'evidence' and 'impact' meant these days, and what these concepts no longer 'mean' due to reductive neoliberal logics. And don't get me started on #AI: evaluationconference.co.uk/LIVE/en/page...

"Meloni has had real success in reducing numbers; small boat arrivals are down almost 60% thanks partly due to deals with North African nations to stop the boats from leaving." Did you ask how @katbbc.bsky.social? Anything to do with the bodies found in the Sahara? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Reform's claims will come to nothing, but then they know that; performative politics is their MO.

Leeds supporters boo stoppage for Muslim players to break... share.google/WEUFt30zEZRV... @rorysmith.bsky.social spot on - yes, I feel "sorrow, despair and shame". Less time than a typical VAR decision. Sort yourselves out.

Absolutely loved this: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

"Democracy Volunteers reported "concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton & Denton", "where voters confer, collude or direct each other on voting". Manchester City Council insisted "no such issues" were reported by staff at polling stations." #BBCNews Nb. staff have a duty to intervene.

Noa Hoffman clearly not happy with Green win in Gorton & Denton #BBCNews. More a Reform dogwhistler than a journalist.

Starmer happier losing Gorton & Denton than Burnham winning. Awful politics. Labour a catalogue of self-harm from day 1 that has inevitably led to the haemorrhaging of progressive voters.

The No 10 boys’ club has collapsed. Now Labour needs to g... share.google/kJjo5zUlPjet...

People of Gorton & Denton, please think twice about whether to facilitate a party intent on imposing a UK-version of ICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTW0...

"Those injured were evacuated and given medical assistance, the statement added." Unlike the Venezuelans, that the US 'double-tapped': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sooner the better, or you'll be haemorrhaging a good deal of the youth vote too: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Never forget, there's a clue in the word e - value - ation is about values. And measurement depends on the existence (and reasonableness) of a unit of measurement. Is this a case of the emperor's new clothes? evaluationconference.co.uk/LIVE/en/page...

It seems that mathematics may be very similar to philosophy in terms of the value of social collaboration, and yet also subject to the tyranny of metrics (sic.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ld...

#Football and #racism, an ongoing problem. Great to see some heavy weight philosophers and sociologists name-checked, awful that their commentary (much from long ago) appears unknown / unheeded by many: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Is it now even possible to conceive of #detachedyouthwork as anything but violence prevention? Is this a practice so re-conceptualised - not even a palimpsest - that it bears no relation to its former selves, selves rooted in community, education and democracy? www.chad.co.uk/community/pa...

Even in the epicentre of an evolving autocracy, the people have power.

Wish I could vote for this lassie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNmz... Gorton & Denton

Maybe it's my age, but there's little I disagree with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social

Probably give that a miss then: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyU...

Important #communitywork

Important #youthwork

Whether DOGE or DOLGE, there is nothing to find here; local authorities have been cut to the bone for years.

14 years in Opposition; what was Labour doing?

We might need to learn a version of this if #Reform gets in; better though to ensure that never happens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUO...

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

There's lots to worry about in terms of US politics, and how what's happening has implications for the rest of the world. By far, though, is the threat to #democracy; #Trump's is a regime whose primary purpose is to pull up the democratic ladder, to ensure they will never lose power ever again.

Better think again if you believe AI is the answer to everything: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PFI - didn't that go well. Worth remembering that 'New' Labour was as keen on privatisation as Thatcher; where's the thinking now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ask yourself, if you had to flee, whether war or persecution, or whatever else, what one thing would you take with you? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The folk in N Lincs would do well to study what happened in Tower Hamlets: share.google/3GbX9NXAE9Fq...

Surely time to worry when even the architects of #AI are terrified by what they have unleashed: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ryder Cup golf - a lesson on the Trumpification of America: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

It's not just sex and gender; a great deal of the language we use is lacking in conceptual clarity, poor question design and political impartiality. Surely a case for #philosophy being taught more broadly? www.gov.uk/government/p...

"He thinks silence is peace, and does not seem to realise it can also reflect oppression." One of the first thing peace studies students learn is that peace is not simply the absence of conflict / violence / war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today I learnt that the number of 'peace walls' in Belfast has doubled since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Awaiting the backlash; expect a diatribe about foreigners coming in by the backdoor etc. Commentary on costs will be misplaced too, UK will likely be a net recipient #Erasmus www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

Back in the day, the likes of Carey would have walked. Has technology become an inhibitor to #ethics? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Lecturer uses #AI to write course materials. Lecturer uses AI to set essay question. Student uses AI to write essay. Lecturer uses AI to mark essay. At least and at last the questions posed by philosophers of #education for millennia come to the fore: what is education and what is it to be educated?

@mslbrewis.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...

Let it not be said that, we, the people, have no power: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Yorkshire's heritage brazenly stolen; thieves need a 'good hiding': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Botanical neo-colonialism

Women, incarceration, The Stigma Machine and Low Hanging Fruit: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...