Paul Kitchin
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I’m an academic based at Ulster University exploring youth, sport, gambling, and disability.
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3 days ago
NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter-the-bbc-could-send-back
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Greg Jericho
17 days ago
"When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion" by
@stephenlongaus.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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When public services become PR: How charities and corporations blur the line between care and self-promotion
There are certainly cases where working with a charity lets government draw on specific expertise and enhance service delivery. But too often, that’s not the case.
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251029-when-public-services-become-pr-how-charities-and-corporations-blur-the-line-between-care-and-self-promotion
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Super piece by Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I hope Yazley-Lennon attends and gets his deserved treatment... But the real villains are the spineless politicians who Jon Snow on football, yet again.
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Prem Sikka
about 1 month ago
UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way. 40% of Unis in financial crisis. Major exporter destroyed by successive govts Obstacles for foreign students. Low fees in England, lack of govt funding. £267bn student debt. Home student numbers down. How will the UK compete with other nations?
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Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3ve5jegkvo
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Badvertising
about 1 month ago
🚨 Last week, EA was sold for a massive $55bn (£41bn). The buyers? Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), a private equity firm and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners. The world of gaming is fast becoming a wild west for polluter advertising and sponsorship. 🧵 1/6
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Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
EA is known for making best-selling games such as EA FC, The Sims and Mass Effect.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4w3jzx807o
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check our Erin's event at
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about 1 month ago
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Ulster University
about 1 month ago
The ESRC Festival of Social Science returns from 18 Oct – 8 Nov 2025. This year’s theme, ‘Our Working Lives’, explores how technology has shaped work over the past century and what the future may hold: https://ow.ly/4Ho850X64zF #WeAreUU |
Queen's University Belfast
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Brian Pempus
about 2 months ago
Gambling Myths Spreading Like Wildfire, Study Finds
gamblingharm.org/gambling-myt...
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Gambling Myths Spreading Like Wildfire, Study Finds
Gambling myths and misinformation have grown dramatically since legal online sports betting, a study from the U.S. Midwest found.
https://gamblingharm.org/gambling-myths-and-misinformation/
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RECORDING: All-island public health conference addresses commercial factors that influence our health
www.publichealth.ie/events/recor...
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RECORDING: All-island public health conference addresses commercial factors that influence our health | Institute of Public Health
https://www.publichealth.ie/events/recording-all-island-public-health-conference-addresses-commercial-factors-influence-our
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Marita Hennessy
about 2 months ago
Thinking and Caring With Arts-Based Research: An Assemblage of Methods to Promote Public Health Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, and Katherine Boydell
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Thinking and Caring With Arts-Based Research: An Assemblage of Methods to Promote Public Health - Ann Dadich, Chloe Watfern, Barbara Doran, Katherine Boydell, 2025
What do we learn when we invite others to make and create? How can drawing, cutting and pasting, repurposing objects, and photography enable us to explore compl...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/16094069251381707
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Tom Roberts
3 months ago
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.
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Alasdair Mackenzie
3 months ago
This is certainly one way of saying “pathetic turnout by the fascists, outnumbered nearly two to one by decent people, despite weeks of bloodthirsty media coverage”
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Hundreds turn out for Perth protests over asylum hotels
About 150 protestors and 250 counter protestors held signs and chanted outside of the Radisson Blu hotel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz602e075q6o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
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The British cannot stand being told by the Irish they are wrong.
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Josh Bland
3 months ago
I've been thinking a lot about the Reform UK football kit launch and what it says about the place of football culture in UK politics. This piece in
@uk.theconversation.com
asks if Reform can become the party of the football supporter. Spoiler: I'm skeptical.
theconversation.com/football-fan...
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Football fans will see Nigel Farage’s branded kit for the cynical move it is
The pale blue strip is unlikely to become Reform’s version of the Maga hat.
https://theconversation.com/football-fans-will-see-nigel-farages-branded-kit-for-the-cynical-move-it-is-263513
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Otto English
3 months ago
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
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John McAlaney
3 months ago
'm quoted in a Times Higher Education article today on the new system for gambling harms research funding. We need more people doing work in this area, even if it makes it more competitive for established researchers to secure funding.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gamblin...
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Gambling research ‘at risk of going backwards’ despite new levy
UKRI handed more cash for betting-related research but campaigners claim ‘industry-friendly’ funding call stops ‘fresh start’ from old regime
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gambling-research-risk-going-backwards-despite-new-levy
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Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back (Dawn Butler)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back | Dawn Butler
Communities feel powerless because the law gives betting firms the upper hand. But a simple change could transfer power to the people, says MP Dawn Butler
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/19/high-street-gambling-poverty-addiction
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Chris Baraniuk
3 months ago
Really good analysis of the "delete old emails to save water" nonsense that's been going around lately. There are FAR better ways to save water - which people should be doing!
andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
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Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water
You'd need to delete hundreds of millions of emails to save as much water as fixing your toilet
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the-uk-government-please-dont
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The Friends' School in Hobart boycotts STEM programs sponsored by weapons manufacturers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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World's largest Quaker school boycotts weapons-sponsored STEM programs
The Friends' School in Hobart — the world's largest Quaker school — says the weapons sponsorships do not align with the school's peaceful philosophy.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/friends-school-boycotts-stem-programs-weapons-manufacturers/105657330?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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The Cathy Wilcox
3 months ago
Killing journalists. My @smh cartoon.
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BSSH
3 months ago
The shortlist for this year's Lord Aberdare Prize has just been announced and features authors such as Conor Murray, Matt McDowell, Conor Heffernan, as well as Matthew Llewellyn & Toby Rider, best of luck guys...
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Bill Corbett
3 months ago
Please old chap, delete those pics of your mum… my plagiarism machine is quite thirsty
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Congratulations to the 4 funded
HEA.ie
funded North-South projects announced today. Special note to the
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
team successful on their Tier 3 grant.
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Higher Education Authority
The HEA leads the strategic development of the Irish higher education and research system →
https://HEA.ie
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matt
3 months ago
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
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Stiofán Ó Donnáin Dálzéil 🇵🇸
3 months ago
Countries only murder journalists because they want to hide what they're doing. Gaza has become the graveyard of journalists, human rights, international law, red lines, diplomacy, and the UN.
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Philippe Auclair
3 months ago
I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.
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A sign of the times.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Tasmanian government to end funding for greyhound racing by 2029
The Tasmanian government will end its funding for greyhound racing in the state by 2029 the ABC understands, effectively winding up the industry.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-09/tas-liberal-government-greyhound-racing-funding-end/105632818
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Martin Paul Eve
3 months ago
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
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Progressive Politics NI
3 months ago
We always knew what it was really about
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This is an interesting angle - using gambling taxes to rid us of the 2 child cap - I simply cannot believe Labour is considering it, would be impressed if they did it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Reeves confirms Treasury reviewing gambling taxes – UK politics live
Gambling tax reform is being strongly promoted by Gordon Brown, the former Labour PM who also spent 10 years as chancellor
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/07/defence-spending-gordon-brown-interest-rates-immigration-labour-uk-politics-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6894a13c8f08d9249e461246#block-6894a13c8f08d9249e461246
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Hey! Come work with us - closing date 18th of August
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD447/l...
More than happy to field informal queries, just drop me a line
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Lecturer in Sport Sociology (0.5FTE) at Ulster University
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Sport Sociology (0.5FTE) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD447/lecturer-in-sport-sociology-05fte
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Public Health Jobs UK
3 months ago
Head of School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Northumbria University - School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Newcastle upon Tyne Salary: Competitive Closes 14/09
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE516/h...
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Head of School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation at Northumbria University
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Head of School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE516/head-of-school-of-sport-exercise-and-rehabilitation
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Lee Hurley
3 months ago
“The ‘Drag Queen Storytime with BSL Interpretation’ event is one of our longest running events and returns every year based on the positive feedback from those who attend and engage with the event."
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What an amazing finish. There is nothing better in cricket when fast bowlers turn up -
#Siraj
here (unbelievable stamina) and Joseph in Brisbane a while back
#INDvENG
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@physcstudy.bsky.social
commercialization of wellness?
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Philippe Auclair
4 months ago
New for
@josimarfootball.bsky.social
: the shocking relationship between Premier League clubs and illegal betting operators, some of them linked to cyber slavery, is set to continue in the 2025-26 season, right under the nose of the regulator.
josimarfootball.com/2025/07/29/p...
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Plus ça change - josimarfootball.com
Money-laundering, scamming, cyber slavery compounds and appalling human rights abuses are no obstacles for Premier League clubs looking for betting partners – or the UK regulator.
https://josimarfootball.com/2025/07/29/plus-ca-change/
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Asking a favour of anyone who subscribes: I don't suppose anyone has access to this to let me know how Risdon Vale fares?
www.themercury.com.au
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JosimarFootball
4 months ago
New. Uefa’s integrity partner Sportradar consistently claims that it doesn’t sell data to unlicensed gambling operators. But its annual report states that it generates significant revenue from unlicensed gambling. By
@journoandy.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/07/22/b...
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Below the radar - josimarfootball.com
Uefa’s integrity partner Sportradar consistently claims that it doesn’t sell data to unlicensed gambling operators. But its annual report states that it generates significant revenue from unlicensed g...
https://josimarfootball.com/2025/07/22/below-the-radar/
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Brian Pempus
4 months ago
In July 2025, a U.S. News survey found that at least 21% of sports bettors admitted to “verbally abusing” an athlete, whether on the internet or while they were at a sports event.
gamblingharm.org/sports-betti...
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Sports Betting Anger Issues: One in Five Gamblers Verbally Abuse Athletes
Sports betting anger issues are a big cause of concern, with a 2025 survey showing that 21% of betters verbally abuse athletes.
https://gamblingharm.org/sports-betting-anger-issues-one-in-five-gamblers-verbally-abuse-athletes/
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Martin Calladine
4 months ago
Just a few says ago, the Prime Minister was decrying the racial abuse of England players. Today, though, he's stirring fear and resentment towards migrants, as though this kind of officially sanctioned xenophobia doesn't contribute to the climate in which black Britains face increased racism.
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David Storey
4 months ago
A Labour government that gets worse and worse by the day - scapegoating and demonising a group of precarious workers
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Dr Naomi Jacobs
4 months ago
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University Website
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Shirley-Anne McMillan
4 months ago
Fixed it for you
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Atrios
4 months ago
Opposing genocide is student politics. Real governance is about free arsenal tickets
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JosimarFootball
4 months ago
New. Leicester were set to unveil their kit for the new season last week, but the announcement was postponed. Was it because their new sponsor KBET is a hitherto unknown – and illegal – online bookmaker? By
@philippeauclair.bsky.social
josimarfootball.com/2025/07/21/r...
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Running like a fox - josimarfootball.com
Leicester were set to unveil their kit for the new season last week, but the announcement was postponed. Was it because their new sponsor KBET is a hitherto unknown – and illegal – online bookmaker?
https://josimarfootball.com/2025/07/21/running-like-a-fox/
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Racing’s response to tax ‘harmonisation’ bombshell risks disturbing endgame
www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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Racing’s response to tax ‘harmonisation’ bombshell risks disturbing endgame | Greg Wood
An effective end to the decades-old distinction between betting and gaming feels increasingly imminent
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2025/jul/21/horse-racing-response-to-horse-racing-response-to-online-gambling-tax-risks-disturbing-endgame-talking-horses
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When "reform" distracts you from the real issues. Of course, voting age this is a Labour policy as PR would crucify them (although they are doing a decent job of that themselves)
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🤔 Ireland clearly no longer the ‘wild west’
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Paddy Power owner Flutter pays €1.5bn to complete ownership deal for FanDuel
Gambling giant purchased remaining 5% of FanDuel and deal values FanDuel at €26bn
https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41667866.html
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Editorial in the Belfast Telegraph on the need for gambling reform in NI.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/edit...
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Our gambling laws need radical reform
Addiction to gambling ruins lives. Those brave enough to tell their story will recount the hours they’ve wasted, the thousands upon thousands of pounds lost and the spiralling debt.
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/editorial/our-gambling-laws-need-radical-reform/a591107519.html#
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The Irish News
4 months ago
Cricket Ireland invites East Belfast GAA children to Stormont sports camp
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Cricket Ireland invites East Belfast GAA children to Stormont sports camp
Amid the controversial cancellation of a summer sports camp in Co Down, Irish cricket’s ruling body has invited East Belfast GAA to an ‘alternative’ event
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/cricket-ireland-invites-east-belfast-gaa-children-to-stormont-sports-camp-CO226EOTOVCIHDVETU3QSIRHOI/
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