It is genuinely incomprehensible to me how people who have devoted their lives & careers to education can decide it no longer matters whether high school graduates are capable of reading an entire book.
Stock's assertion here that nobody supporting trans people ever believed what they said, and were just doing it to climb the corporate ladder, is a remarkable admission that people like this don't believe in the possibility of unselfish ideals.
Feminism for them really is "What can I get?"
Without stating your age, post a movie that was released when you turned 18.
Gorgeous, thanks for posting 🙌
“Post a song that gives you goosebumps”
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This is where free speech absolutism on university campuses leads: the widespread dissemination of disinformation 👇 The journals who published Lynn’s discredited database - where the claim that Somalians have an average IQ of 68 originates - typically did so in the name of “freedom of enquiry”
We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
If he'd become Elon's buddy like Yaxley-Lennon has, I very much doubt he'd have such concerns
People out there arguing coldly that it should be a crime to try to live as a trans person.
These are dangerous fanatics, and they have the ear of at least 3 UK political parties, and most of the media.
All academics teaching Erasmus students in the UK shortly to be accused of being fifth columnists
As someone 5 foot 2 on a good day I hear you after the best part of a decade of tip toe night hugs ✊
BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint!
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Flummoxed MAGA supporter struggles to comprehend the deepest of religious queries '*Is*the Pope a Catholic?'.
60 million visits to a "rape academy" website telling blokes how to be a bunch of pelicots & the British columnist class are clutching their pearls that Lily-Mae has pierced her nose, gone on an anti genocide demo with her mates and is voting green
The first question is "Why did Mandelson have to have the job at all costs?"
And the most serviceable answer is always "He gets what he wants when he wants from that flank of the Labour Party."
The next question then is "Why?" And that is the one which is about who holds the microphones.
Yale: "universities are undermining public trust"
Harvard: For example,
The imagination is “a vital resource in all social processes and projects, and needs to be seen as a quotidian energy”.
Love that. Quotidian energy. From Arjun Appadurai in The Future as Cultural Fact.
#everydayEducationalUtopias
I spent 7 years researching Bill Richmond, an extraordinary figure in British-American history who was born enslaved but became one of Britain’s earliest Black sporting celebrities — a blue plaque would be wonderful, so please donate if you can 👇
It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris.
But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.
I was thinking this weekend about how I miss the magazine section of the old Borders bookshop in Glasgow. I loved it there, they had the best selection Vogue international editions, design tomes, hobby stuff, proper film journalism and every music magazine you could think of. Fantastic place.
I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?
just a wild country
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What if the misguided construction of 'right-wing populism' has prevented us from holding the elite accountable and rejuvenate democracy?
This is what @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I explore in our new article: 'There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’'
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It's easy to lose the substantive win here in the Government's transphobic framing. Last summer, we expected the Code to be forced through without scrutiny. Instead, they have had to amend it and recognise they got their legal analysis wrong. It was our community's hard work that achieved this.
A Japanese researcher just interrupted me in the restroom and said, “are you David Ho?” He proceeded to tell me how much he enjoyed this piece I wrote in Nature. You should read it too. 😄
Some massive better-worlds-aren't-possible, and you're-just-envious-for-thinking-they-are, vibes in the public sphere at the moment.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk's net worth exceeds the GDP of Belgium, and is set to exceed the GDP of Taiwan within the year.
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The situation where you are sounds awful. I’m so sorry you’re being treated this badly.
Desperate stuff from Scottish Labour, bigotry in lieu of policy. Deeply depressing, yet completely unsurprising. We're saddled with the most milquetoast political operatives, both sides of the border, at a time when we crying out for innovation and radical transformation. Pathetic doesn't cover it.
Imagine the scope of the *something* that would be needed to reverse that long-term trend - never mind what kind of something it would be.
Look at the offer from most political parties. How many orders of magnitude are they failing by?
Then think about climate mitigation, & the scope of that.
My uni’s marketing department: we won’t advertise your course. It’s not a ‘hero’ course.
Management: you haven’t recruited. We’re shutting you down.