My favorite scene from the Bible

The closure of Southend rips away jobs, education and the lifeblood of local businesses.

The rationale? Barely fills an A4 page.

In Westminister Yesterday MPs & union reps handed a vote of no confidence in Bowen to education minister Jacqui Smith.

Student Solidarity

Student Solidarity

Student Solidarity

The student support we’ve received throughout the Essex campaign has been phenomenal.

Here are just a few of the staff and students fighting back together.

Sign the petition to save Southend. Strike days: 16-19.

#SouthendSpeaks #SaveSouthendCampus

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

This is brilliant from @labourlewis.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One can only hope that at least some of the Parliamentary Labour Party can derive some advantage, or at least insight, from Clive spelling out here WHY half of them are likely to lose their seats to Greens.

Reform cuts ESOL funding as it doesn't help "native Lincolnshire people" Responding to a report that Reform mayor of Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns is pushing ahead with plans to scrap all funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) from 2027, UCU attacked the ...

Reform mayor of Lincolnshire has voted to slash ESOL.

A clear signal of the damage Reform intends to inflict on our communities.

Demanding migrants speak English then cutting the very provision that makes that possible.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1441...

🧊❌BREAKING 🧊❌ 500 #MOworkers and community allies from across St. Louis just rallied to demand ICE OUT of our city!

Solidarity with our siblings in Minnesota during their bold general strike to fight back ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy.

Urge your MP to sign @sianberry.bsky.social Early Day Motion 👇🏼

action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...

Palantir was a warning sign.

Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.

All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

Prayer for Uninteresting Times   Send me a slow news day, a quiet, subdued day, in which nothing much happens of note, save for the passing of time, the consumption of wine, and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day, a spare-me-your-views day, in which nothing much happens at all, except a few hours together some regional weather, a day we can barely recall. Brian Bilston

This, please.

UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional world

Entire political class cohering around the project of telling two generations simply to lower their expectations. Definitely going to end well.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A brilliantly written piece, showing once again how privatisation and outsourcing fails people.

This was the year that was not the year   This was the year that was not the year  I repaired the bathroom tap  and emptied out the kitchen drawer  of a lifetime’s worth of crap.    This was the year that was not the year in which I launched a new career.  A West End hit eluded me  as did Time Person of the Year.    This was the year that was not the year  I became a household name.  Action figures were not sold of me. I wasn’t made a dame.    This was the year that was not the year I spent less time on my phone.  A night of passion did not happen  in a boutique hotel in Rome.    This was the year that was the year  I didn't get that much done – much the same as the year before,  much like the one to come.  Brian Bilston

This year was also the year in which I failed to write a new end-of-year poem.

Gifts, temptation and the colossal corrosion of politics At Westminster, gifts and freebies aren’t simple goodwill, but rather part of the slow pull of money that turns heads, normalises privilege and corrodes public service

’Tis the season for presents and goodwill. In Westminster, especially over the Christmas period, the giving of gifts, freebies and swanky receptions for MPs, their advisors and colleagues go into overdrive.

Read my article for @eastangliabylines.co.uk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/gif...

Strikes off at Runshaw College as staff win 7% pay award Staff at Runshaw College in Leyland have overwhelmingly voted to accept a pay offer of 7% and pull out of the England wide college strike action.

🚨IT'S A WIN: 7% pay award at Runshaw College‼️

Well done to every member who voted to strike & forced management to make a decent offer✊

Time for other colleges to follow suit & pay up. If they refuse, strikes are set for the New Year❗️

#NewDealForFE
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...

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JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026.

Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community.

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We are living in an era of sickness caused by political choices. Many are getting more ill under the weight of poor working conditions, inadequate incomes, precarious housing and overstretched health and social care services. The fault for this lies squarely at the feet of successive governments who have chosen profit over people.

🚨Our statement on #Budget2026

Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...

100% @francesryan.bsky.social

UCU ballot results: 32 colleges vote to strike over pay and workload Pay deals were agreed at a further 17 colleges during the ballot window

32 colleges hit the turnout threshold. 90% backed strike action.

Our ballots have already won pay deals at 17 colleges now others must follow.

College teachers are still paid £9,000 less than school teachers. This isn’t sustainable. Pay parity now.

feweek.co.uk/ucu-ballot-r...

Health and care funding crisis will create pressure to choose assisted suicide, MPs and peers are told Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of the lack of funding for the NHS, palliative care and social care services,…

🚨Liz Carr's evidence against the Assisted Dying Bill

"Once [Assisted Suicide] becomes a medical treatment, then that’s when it terrifies me, because it happens behind closed doors and is based on medical subjectivity"

More from @johnpring.bsky.social 👇
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c...

This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go!

✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!

Study them before it’s too late!

Since 2023, 38 students have graduated from Bantshire University in error. We are conducting a full investigation into how this happened.

Victorious Zohran's Message For Trump Progressive Zohran Mamdani had a simple, defiant message for President Donald Trump after he won the New York City mayoral election.

Progressive Zohran Mamdani had a simple, defiant message for President Donald Trump after he won the New York City mayoral election.

JUST UNDER 4️⃣ hours to go and we are LIVE!

Tune in on X or YouTube as we go live!

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@patrickneveling.bsky.social @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

#wearetheuniversity #ucu
Just voted. Let's get the vote out for better funding and working conditions in higher education

Reform's racism is dividing our communities.

The Green Party stand against the politics of hate and fear.

It's time to bring a politics of hope, compassion and unity.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

I ❤️ Viz

DMU Leicester faces a new threat from DMU Dubai De Montfort University Leicester now faces new challenges: legal and financial threats from its former partner, Study World in Dubai

DMU Leicester faces a new threat from DMU Dubai

De Montfort University Leicester now faces new challenges: legal and financial threats from its former partner, Study World in Dubai

📣 @bournemouthucu.bsky.social