Business leaders back the Humanities and Social Sciences, noting their important to economy and culture in Exeter, Cornwall and the Southwest. This is one vital strand in defending the SHAPE subjects. Don't ignore it (or carp about it). Build on it. biz4humanities.com

At today's UKRI board meeting, the fate of UK particle physics and astronomy will likely be decided. Have we done enough to convince the powers-that-be to halt the proposed funding cuts? 🤞 Read Prof. Hiranya Peiris in Nature today eloquently explaining why these cuts are wrong.🧪🔭⚛️ 📖: rdcu.be/friwM

It's genuinely funny that Goodwin once sat on an anti-hatred taskforce for UK government.

Reform UK want to wind down climate action in West Norfolk because 'the UK is only 1% of emissions' But decarbonisation isn't a burdensome obligation to wriggle out of - it'll be a massive benefit to our region We'll have better health, energy sovereignty and a stronger economy Me in the EDP

It is nonsensical to spend more money on nuclear weapons which must never be used than on the strategic investment in defence we truly need - that includes not just equipment to counter state threats like cyber warfare, but action against global security threats like climate breakdown

Let's take a look at this claim as "revealed" by the Daily Mail. TLDR - It's taken them a reeeeeally long time to "reveal" this law 😜 So what's the reality behind this headline? 🧵 1/23

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

If you reduced immigration to actual zero (not net), it wouldn’t appease the far-right. They’ll go after previous immigrants. Then citizens with immigrant parents Then citizens who “aren’t British enough”* Then dual nationals Then Irish people Then LGBTQIA+ people, women, the sick, opponents…

Old enough to remember when Halifax was the biggest lender in a mortgage market dominated by mutually owned building societies www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

'With the higher-education sector generating £52.3bn of income, any large-scale losses would first and foremost hit the public purse as well as further compound this country’s significant productivity problem.' (Prof. Anne-Marie Kilday, VC University of Northampton) 1/3

'A Nobel laureate has challenged the University of Nottingham’s decision to slash staff numbers in its prestigious physics department by a third, arguing that short-term budget difficulties should not lead to cuts in areas of internationally recognised research excellence.' 1/3

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

It might seem a given that chemicals linked to: 'reduced fertility, altered nervous system + immune system function, diabetes, neurological + learning disabilities, + certain cancers' wouldn't be allowed in children's toys, teethers + sippy cups but we are very far from a ban on EDCs in toys.

The problem with Today is not the race of the presenters. It's that they are chronically under-briefed. The advantage of having Mishal Husain was not that she was brown. It was that she was well-briefed. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

That's funny... I thought the greatest threat to our country was having a kleptomaniacal octogenerian rapist as our sitting POTUS with a complicit Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, DOJ and military. Silly me. 🤷‍♂️

This weekend NYCACC killed 7 dogs. Some were mere pups. Fosters could have saved their lives. There are still good dogs and puppies hoping to be saved. Fostering is All Expenses Paid and transport to 12 NE states. If interested please read comments.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

What's going on is that the Strait of Hormuz is still essentially closed for oil/ urea/LNG. Tank bottoms have been reached already and more will be reached in 2-3 weeks. Markets are being manipulated. POTUS has lost his marbles, is sundowning hard while the world heats up. Let's not be distracted.

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

Following Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Other Bennet Sister, which other minor literary character(s) would benefit from their own story being told?

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

You rarely hear about these impacts of war. Ukraine has evacuated about 700,000 museum objects from frontline areas to safer locations. Now the country is working on specialised storage facilities and digital records for museum collections. According to Culture Minister Tetiana Berezhna.

Back when I was a Head of Sixth Form advising students on university applications I never imagined that the major challenge 10 years later would be trying to guess which university departments are likely to close and which subjects might be abolished

Foreclosures are at a six-year high. Lenders repossessed 45% more homes than last year. And Trump held a bipartisan housing relief bill hostage for a voter suppression law that will never pass. The cruelty of this man is staggering. #TrumpsHousingCrisis

Ten years on from that damned referendum and I am still seeing the same lack of knowledge and understanding of the EU, Schengen, freedom of movement and residence obligations as I did then. Plus the same arrogance and exceptionalism. 《Sighs and shakes head, sadly》

Texas protesters against ice facilities were just sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison. Meanwhile, the insurrectionists are free… Where is the American Constitution? Where?!

🚨🚨Ten years ago I was in #Birmingham for a biannual conference with my wife and newly born son on #EUlaw and policy: I remembered vividly reaching the conference venue in the morning on the 23rd with a deafening and nearly horror-struck audience with UK collegaues close to tears.

"In some cases, the very same companies selling detection tools are also making apps that allow students to cheat, including by writing papers for them or rephrasing text written by others." Sylvester McMonkey McBean approves.

Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.

So, little Fartage is shooting his mouth off calling for another General Election. Apparently, because we've had too high a turnover of Prime Ministers lately. Well that makes about as much sense as usual Nige. None at all... 🤣🤮

The far right terror attack in Edinburgh doesn't seem to make the front pages of the papers tomorrow. No Daily Mail articles about how he could have been radicalised or what his community leaders are doing about it. Strange.

"Trump and Xi should affirm the principle that humans must remain stewards of AI systems until adequate frameworks for reliability and security have been built. Their govts should form a joint commission" www.economist.com/by-invitatio... Lord, grant me the confidence to write sentences like that

A couple of the artichokes in my wife’s garden got taken over by ants, so she didn’t harvest them and just let nature do its thing. Neither of us had any idea they would turn into blooms this beautiful.

Male hummingbird dancing for a female: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Curse of private equity For quick profits it destroyed: Monarch Airlines The Original Factory Shop Payless Shoes Poundworld Silentnight Southern Cross Thomas Cook TM Lewin Toys R Us. PE uses excessive debt, tax abuse, financial engineering, opacity to devour. Town centers became economic deserts

My 4xgreat-grandfather Felix Yaniewicz, a Polish-Lithuanian violinist and composer who arrived in Britain as a migrant fleeing revolutionary France, and founded the first Edinburgh music festival in 1815. | Josie Dixon

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

Fear and othering are the easiest emotions to activate. They comfort – to a point. Then, constant division with no actual solutions becomes exhausting; self-defeating: keeping people trapped in a trap they start to recognise as a trap. Burnham's defeat of Reform shows endless rage doesn't win.

The Farage effect. A losers’ charter. Everything gets worse and costs more when prejudice is turned into policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well said, Billy 👏🏼 #BookSky

The distinction between MoU and Treaty has utterly blurred under this US administration, which mostly lacks patience for the painstaking work of negotiating comprehensive legal texts, and which wouldn't consider such documents to actually be any more binding anyway. 🤷‍♂️

That awkward moment when you realize you are part of one of the biggest foreign policy failures in history.

What happens when governments conclude social media can't be made safe quickly enough? One Cambridge researcher says the proposed ban reflects a loss of faith in the platforms themselves – and that's a much bigger story.

A leaked May 2026 briefing confirmed Palantir staff have UNLIMITED admin access to identifiable NHS patient data,BEFORE pseudonymisation The S.254 direction overriding the National Data Opt-Out has never been published‼️ Send a UK GDPR complaint to NHS England, an ask to the National Data Guardian &

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Politicians keep promising to cut migration. They cut routes, tighten rules and announce crackdowns. So why does concern about immigration never seem to go away? This article by Stephen McNair explores the "doom loop" at the heart of Britain's migration debate. @eastangliabylines.co.uk