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Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.

The UK media has been so captured by privileged, powerful, and well-funded ‘gender critical’ transphobes, that it’s quite a shock when an article is published so clearly exposing their bullying, gaslighting, and hypocrisy!.. Read 👉🏻 archive.ph/oQ2Cs

Another day, another public letter condemning the ridiculous and harmful decisions made by our administration... This time, the letter comes from the All Parliamentary Party Group for Music Education, calling out the VC and UEB's push to close our music department.

This is Rowling's pinned tweet, and yet, just this week, she is funding legal cases against Féile Belfast and Amnesty International for exercising their free speech and fair opinion. She is using her massive wealth to terrorise these orgs into compilance, because she doesn't believe in free speech.

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

Microsoft's planning to build 3 massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

One thing I'm noticing from a lot of people here, and the media reports surrounding the arrest of the Tates, is how many are using the term "child pornography" Children cannot consent and therefore it is not pornography It is Child Sexual Abuse Material or CSAM and it's vital to call it that

It’s a big day, start of a week of fundraising for @parkinsons.org.uk Listen to BBC R4 at 0754 to learn more

As lethal wildfires abound and record-shattering heat takes tens of thousands of lives on the world's fastest heating continent, the EU plans to row back on emissions cuts Capitalism will never stop sucking the world dry until either we are dead or it is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Slavonic Studies friends: are there any good/recent translations of Gogol's Taras Bulba in print?

Both The Guardian and Times Higher Education are highlighting the devastating effects that closing our modern languages courses will have on the UK and the midlands. A similar argument can be made for every one of our courses on the chopping block. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cold-sp...

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Worth noting: 8 out of 11 members of the Women and Equalities Select Committee have signed the motion to reject the EHRC guidance and fix it.

“By cutting the GTA budget, not only is a major financial lifeline taken away from PGRs, but inevitably this means an increased workload for permanent staff, who are already overstretched and burned out.” - Rory Hamilton, UCUG PGR Rep. Read full article here: thetab.com/2026/06/25/g...

"What do we owe an aggressor’s culture while the aggression is still going on? I don’t think the answer is a ban, but I’m certain it’s not a shrug." Great analysis.

Ah yes, those notorious Reds at the *checks notes* Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph.

Have I got this right? Privately educated Farage (Dulwich), recipient of gifts from Cottrell (privately educated, Malvern, descendent of titled aristocracy (Baron Manton, Baron Hesketh)) and from Harborne (privately educated, Westminster) is standing in a “people vs the establishment” by-election?

The tactic is clear: Bulldoze the various investigations into his finances. Recapture the limelight just as Burnham becomes Prime Minister. Win a likely victory to try and regain momentum for Reform UK after a rocky two months.

"The new guidance ... identifies excluding children from attendance rewards because of a medical condition or allergy as unacceptable practice and expects schools to ensure their policies do not disadvantage pupils because of their health." Excellent!