If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!

Remind me again how this is growing the economy? That's what Labour is all about right? Growth?

BP made a profit north $2,200,000,000 in the last quarter alone, but can't seem to afford a modest pay increase for their lowest paid workers. Hmmm...

The real truth is that Originalism is more accurately called Humpty Dumptyism, where the careful consideration embodied in over a century of case law can be thrown out because for Roberts et al words mean only and exactly what they decide they mean.

A little part of my inner Kantian dies every time I hear an AI enthusiast say something along the lines of, 'Wouldn't it be cool if we could create a sentient rational agent except we get to make all the decisions about what emotions and dispositions it can and can't have?'

#bbcqt please can someone correct the speaker who says people who are on a visa claim benefits and social housing? It's stamped on the permit that we can't. It's only ever allowed in extreme cases

My general feeling is that if something is called a “Revolution”, but there is no mention of the people and/or cultures destroyed in the process, it’s either not a revolution or it’s violences are being intentionally obscured

Look my favourite podcast is back for Advent! Part history, party music theory, and 100% worth your time.

Fifty years ago, this column would be: 'I am creating hyper-addictive tobacco products, but I'm confident these three parenting tricks will create a world where my son will smoke recreationally and never get hooked.' I'm so tired of tech folks' solution to their bad products being my parenting.

Looks like I've reached the age where once the endorphins have worn off, my whole body is going to let me know how much it doesn't think running is a good idea. Just going to creak through the rest of the day...

Okay, this is just silly. Is the next step to bar BBC staff from reporting on anything Democrats say, since it won't be fawning approval of Trump and therefore even the reporting of it could be construed as somehow defamatory? Trump is a spoiled child and should not be indulged.

Exhibit A in why it's a bad idea for Labour to remove the ability of refugees to normalise their status. In the US the TPS status relied on people with power not being monsters to refugees, not demanding they return to violent and chaotic situations. Well, we live in the age of monsters.

“They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization.” Illegal. Immoral. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Let's say worst case scenario for PA and they've been implicated in some serious criminality. I doubt it would come near to approaching anything an organised crime racket would do, and yet they're able to be tried in a normal courtroom. This whole system is farcical and antidemocratic.

Seen any of these lately in our politics?

I'm in a village pantomime! So if you're in NE Scotland and are looking for some silliness to kick off your holiday season, come along and see me... and some other people with actual talent :)

Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24 Is it A) to get them to leave? Why? B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits? C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.

People say AI/LLMs well never be as bad as they are today again (i.e. they'll only get better from here). But... will AI companies ever have this much cash to burn again? And won't the infrastructure they're investing in decay? If they can't turn a serious profit fast, how will they buy new stuff?

It makes my heart sick to have a supposedly centre left government be introducing these terrible immigration policies. It's a sign that you're out of ideas when you lead day after day with new ideas to marginalise people who have chosen your country and are working hard to make a life in it.

All I want for Christmas is a government brave enough to explain to people that without immigrants much of what is valuable about British life would collapse.

We should be horrified.. and yet the urgency to do anything has been lost...while armies of fossil fuel lobbyists continue to have a hegemonic presence at COPs

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

It's tempting to write this off as a red state issue, but last week I was chatting with someone at an R1 in a blue state whose work is focused on historical race and gender dynamics about how she's finding it increasingly difficult to do her job. The lesson from the 1930s is this can happen fast.

When you flee from home you take what you can.. and maybe sometimes you manage.. because you're already wearing it or something to hold on to jewelry or valuables that have deep meaning. Might be the last memory of a parent. And Mahmood is going to seize it from you

Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Calling all educators! Are you involved in delivering education in theology/biblical studies/religious studies etc? Librarians, this includes you! We want your feedback on our books - and there's a prize draw to enter at the end. Survey closes 2nd January. Click here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Want to catch up on the conversation at the launch of Selina Stone's book A Heavy Yoke? This is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4d...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Nelson and Gladys’s deportation, followed by made-for-television ICE sweeps in Los Angeles, shook Saddleback. The church’s Spanish-speaking congregation in Whittier saw attendance drop by 80 percent, Will Guzman told me."

"If you believe joy is an act of resistance, in ICE detention you will hazard kindness. Hugging was prohibited; Gladys hugged anyway."

This is what the church loses when nationalism is allowed to trump the peaceable kingdom of God.

Some of our followers may be interested in this Seen&Unseen article by one of our researchers, Dr Henna Cundill: ‘How to help someone with ADHD to live well’ www.seenandunseen.com/how-help-som...

This is something I worry about. And the thing is these companies could make machines designed for school use with controls around AI which schools could tailor. But they don't, because they're all looking to get students hooked on AI and lacking the confidence to work without it.

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

My former employer, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, will be the first Russell Group university to cut #Theology degrees from next year onwards: thetab.com/2025/11/06/r... Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r... @uonucu.bsky.social

Theology and Religion is being eliminated at the University of Nottingham www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

The irony meter just broke. The BBC isn't perfect, but it's one of the few things standing between our British values and a Trump-style takeover of our politics.

If the administration would like to help Nigerian Christians, they should reinstitute foreign aid, not attack Nigeria: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’ A.S. Dillingham on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

"God grant us all the unstoppable self-confidence of a Robert Jenrick, who isn’t going to let the little fact of having been immigration minister when the shift to asylum hotels was under way stop him turning up at protests against these hotels."

It's hard to explain how disorienting it is to be a Bears fan and to watch your offense bail out awful performances by your defence and special teams. #ChicagoBears #Bears #NFL

My theory is that David is a double secret traitor playing a game for himself that will only be revealed in the final. No one could be this consistently wrong otherwise. #traitorsuk #celebritytraitors

Add The Great Gatsby to the list of works the Right has missed the point of. Careless people, every one of them.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Once again the Church showed up. A Mass for All Saints at Broadview where again access was refused to bring Eucharist to detainees though all of DHS's protocols were observed. I would guess >1000 souls there to bear witness. All you holy men and women, pray for us. share.google/s6pfmCwdxafc...