Stourbridge and Halesowen very excited for the Black Country boys tonight!

Union heatwave guidance for reps www.ucu.org.uk/media/13584/...

Amazing sunset over Stourbridge tonight 🤩

Democratic Republic of Congo World Cup up fit #fashionsky

Court of Appeal judges here demonstrate complete ignorance of the reality of the suffrage movement. Far from operating transparently the militant suffragettes covertly ran destructive arson and bombing campaigns that harmed both property and people. Learn some history before quoting it fgs.

All out in Brum this Saturday!

PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.

The only immigrant we need to worry about is the South African billionaire based in the United States who is encouraging this by quote tweeting the UK's most famous fascist who is currently holidaying in Russia.

No ifs, no buts! No Education Cuts! @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk members, students and supporters came together today to stand with colleagues in Architecture, Black Studies and Biomedical Engineering as university leaders met to review redundancy consultations.

Solidarity with @bcu-ucu.bsky.social fighting redundancies at BCU @illdoitanyway.bsky.social

Support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social tomorrow at noon. We are calling on BCU leaders to remove all colleagues from risk of redundancy, including - Architecture and the Built Environmentt - Black Studies - Biomedical Engineering It’s not too late!

Horrified to hear there has been an arson attack outside Salma Yaqoob’s family home in Brum and sending her lots of solidarity. This is terrifying.

Kid is off to her first pride in Wolves today ♥️

If a white murder victim dies while being treated with unnecessary force by the police, this does not mean the police are suddenly “woke”. It’s a different iteration of the same issues when there are Black deaths & unnecessary force at the hands of the police.

Met this chap at #UCUcongress.

Maria #chondrogianni, UCU president, opening the 2026 #ucu Congress in #harrogate with a barnstorming, inspirational speech and call to action against job cuts, precarity, and broken funding models all across post-16 education

On the Dudley coach down to #Nakba78 @ucu.org.uk @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social

How long before we get the Covid meme of lashes Burnham & the mobile phone but the text he is looking at is Reform taking the Makerfield seat? 😬

In what universe is Wes Streeting the answer… to anything? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Open letter and petition to save the BCU Black Studies MA, and the Black sociology staff members who teach on it, here: www.change.org/p/save-black...

"More than 100 academics, writers and activists from around the world have signed an open letter condemning plans to close an MA in Black studies and global justice at Birmingham City University (BCU), just months after it was first launched." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Swans nest in a bank of irises on the cut yesterday 🦢💚💛

If it’s public interest for BBC to report tallies of migrant crossings on a regular basis, why isn’t it also public interest to report daily UK theft of global resources, or profits the multinationals take while keeping their workers on wages requiring state subsidy to be liveable for that matter?

Once you start seeing the eagerness with which some people want to cut others out of civil society, you can’t stop seeing it.

Says the man who has let his boat be dragged into an enormous whirlpool filled with icebergs.

"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”

One of the most destructive things which has happened over time is the ideological neoliberal-nationalist shift from welfare being a living, breathing commitment between people to look after each other, and these things being represented as heritage resources, for competitive distribution.

Out at Bodrum in Wolves for my dad‘s 76th birthday last night.

A day late, for #MayDay The Feminist Path of Margaret Prescod: Black Women's Fight Against Unpaid Labor msmagazine.com/2025/03/19/m...

My VC last year: ‘I envisage a university that doesn’t directly employ anyone’. He means it too - all need staff are hired by a subsidiary company without any of that pesky ‘decent pension’ or ‘rights’ stuff.

The University of Sussex's victory over the Office for Students lays bare the extent to which the university regulator was only ever going to reach one outcome in this case. The OfS wasn't promoting free speech, it was seeking to force unis to align with it's agenda: share.google/LDAc0al5tGq6...

Awful hearing about this fire in Wolves 💔

Bluebells out at Clent yesterday 🪻💙💚🪻

Keir Starmer: "We are not involved." Meanwhile US bombers are taking off from British soil loaded with bombs for genocide in Iran. Stop gaslighting us. Kick US troops off British soil NOW.

Maundy Thursday dip at Clevedon on our way back from Cardiff 😎 🏊🏻‍♀️

Waiting for Pride at the Sherman Theatre with Megan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🪧♥️🎭

The death penalty is the latest violence of a state built on racial discrimination under law. Israel is an apartheid state.

Really glad West Mids UCU banner was there, showing Malcolm X’s visit to Smethwick & the Chainmakers in our regional history. To tackle the threats we face now, we need to understand racism and sexism are not new, middle class concerns, they’re fundamental, historical components of class division

West Mids ucu ano the @ucu.org.uk bloc at @togetheralliance.bsky.social

On the coach from Stourbridge to march today with @ucu.org.uk and @neunion.bsky.social in the union bloc at @togetheralliance.bsky.social #Together

We’re marching on 28 March in London to show that hope is always more powerful than fear. 🔗 togetheralliance.org.uk 📍 Main Route: Meet at Park Lane at 12pm. 📍 Short Route: Meet outside Waterstones in Trafalgar Square at 1pm. See below for full route maps and nearest accessible stations.👇 #Together

In December 2025, the Palestine Coalition informed the Metropolitan Police of its planned route for the annual Nakba Day march on 16 May. This has only now been refused because of the announcement by Tommy "Ten Names" Robinson of plans to hold a far right march on the same day.

Approx 1,150 trans kids go to Girl Guides in the UK. Out of approx 300,000 Girl Guides in total. There's around 23,000 Girl Guide Units (groups) in the UK. That means the vast majority of units have zero trans kids. With the ones that do having around 1. medium.com/@mimmymum/th...

Some Brum things from the last few days: Peaky Blinders at the Mockingbird, Bearwood Goths, scoping out cakes at CherryReds, Jekyll & Hyde revision with the teen at the Alex 💣🐈‍⬛🍒🧪

A 20-day-old infant, his mother, sister, and his uncle’s family were killed when a US-Israeli airstrike struck their home last night

It’s the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Today, like every day, is a reminder that racism is not an isolated issue but is institutionalised in politics. From the ongoing genocides to anti-Black policing to xenophobic abuse, we need to disrupt all fascism taking place.

Join our bloc at the @UKTogetherAll march on 28 March! 🙌 Assemble 12pm, Block C. Find us on what3words: ///patrol.cone.pulse March with us against the far right ✊ Full route info: togetheralliance.org.uk