Shame on the so-called "leadership" of Coventry University. ⤵️

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

Sign the Petition Stop redundancies at Ulster University

Please sign and share this petition to stop redundancies @ulsteruni.bsky.social

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"This report is open access for the membership, the University Executive Board, MPs, the media, and the general public. Please share it widely." - @ucuhallam.bsky.social ⤵️

"Streeting is already rolling out Palantir technology across the NHS. He’s asking the public to accept vague reassurances while denying us access to the facts on the ground." ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

What a week for University of Essex staff fighting to stop ruinous cuts.

A massive vote of no confidence in vice-chancellor Frances Bowen and a chance to raise the case directly with the Department for Education.

#IBelieveThatWeWillWin

Read more: eastern.unison.org.uk/news/2026/04...

Iran is winning the propaganda war against Trump – brick by brick Tehran’s viral videos satirising a Lego-style president have harnessed the power of AI – and Maga’s debasing of political discourse – and turned it against the US, writes disinformation expert Nina Ja...

"Iran is winning the information war, and Maga only has itself to thank...
But it wouldn’t be possible if Trump hadn’t lowered the floor of American political discourse..." - @ninajankowicz.com in @thenerve.news

www.thenerve.news/p/nina-janko...

These folk make great political theatre: educating, entertaining, inspiring!
And touring to venues all around Britain.

Great interview: @helencarr.bsky.social talks to @brookenewman.bsky.social, author of The Crown's Silence.
www.hive.co.uk/Product/Broo...
Podcast here: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/int...

The crisis in UK higher education continues and so many people's careers are damaged. ⬇️

#JoinAUnion ⬇️

The right to protest is a fundamental right, not a privilege as some seem to think it should be. It is a cornerstone of our democracy.

A crackdown on dissent is almost always a sign of weakness not strength. ⤵️

Did the BBC assume that asylum applications, unlike every other area of society, were completely free of fraud? Seems like a total loss of perspective over their investigation, now into its second day of dominating their headlines

The Man with the Plan Sands Films New project

🎬 "The Man With The Plan" -
"an urgent film for our desperate times…a full-blown exposition on why if we had done what Beveridge advocated we might be in a better place today." - John Bird, @bigissue.com ⏬️

www.sandsfilms.co.uk/the-man-with...

Sri Lankan student could be deported from UK after one-day student fee delay Coventry University reported Navodya De Silva, 25, to Home Office after £8,000 arrived late, causing termination of visa

The zeal with which universities enforce these rules stems from their fear of losing their sponsor licence, but seems incompatible with a duty of care to their students. But then international students are treated as cash cows not as people deserving care and respect.

Ukraine, solidarity and the war to stop Europe from burning by Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell Ukraine, solidarity and the war to stop Europe from burning from Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell on Podchaser, aired Tuesday, 14th April 2026. Please follow my guest Sian Norris's work at https://s...

The Russians are waging war against workers, a war against children. @sianushka.bsky.social talks to @snellarthur.bsky.social ⤵️
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🎭 The @townsendprod.bsky.social one man show version of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is brilliant.

The tour continues this week with performances in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Scarborough and Manchester.

More to come in May. 🎭

www.townsendproductions.org.uk/shows/a-new-...

Simon Callow stars in a new film about William Beveridge PRESS RELEASE...

The Man With The Plan - I'm going to be looking out for a screening of this.

"The film follows a young person of today (Flea) discovering William Beveridge’s visionary 1942 plan to abolish Want, Disease, Squalor, Idleness and Ignorance, “the five giants”, and more."

pressat.co.uk/releases/sim...

Today, UNISON members joined a demonstration at the University of Glasgow.

After over a decade and a half of real-terms pay cuts, a broken funding model, course closures, cuts and redundancies, HE is in crisis.

We need a model based on free education.

#fundourfuture #fundourpay

Workers made history. We carry it forward.

100 years since the #GeneralStrike1926

Be part of the biggest #LDNMayDay for a generation

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#MayDay #MayDay26 #GeneralStrike100

⏬️ #JoinAUnion ⏬️

⏬️ An important thread on pensions and employer coercion that makes clear why staff at @northumbriauni.bsky.social are taking further strike action this month.

Solidarity! #JoinAUnion ⏬️

Image shows yellow fixed penalty notice reading: “Penalty charge notice. Warning. Violation of workplace rights.” Text beneath reads: “Break the rules pay the price. The new Fair Work Agency, enforcing workplace rights.” Logo of Labour Unions

The new Fair Work Agency launches today.

Enforcement agents now have the power to punish employers who violate your rights at work.

This is a big win for workers after years of campaigning by trade unions.

Did Big Tech Ruin the Internet? with Cory Doctorow by The David McWilliams Podcast Did Big Tech Ruin the Internet? with Cory Doctorow from The David McWilliams Podcast on Podchaser, aired Tuesday, 31st March 2026. What happened to the internet? Why did the platforms that once felt u...

It's 2,447 days since I last bought anything from the Bezos-owned behemoth named after a jungle.

Listen from 29 minutes in to hear why supporting that business is not a good idea ftom @doctorow.pluralistic.net

The whole interview is good.

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We are now 34% funded with 41 days left to tour our new show 'Farewell Leicester Square'. Thank you to everyone who has pledged so far! Please help us get this show off the ground. It's a beautiful musical show celebrating Britain's first black bus driver, Joe Clough. Just head to our website

Susannah Clapp · On Soaps I listen to The Archers every night, as automatically as I brush my teeth. Yet the episodes are quite often dull and...

He did. I heard him. 😎

I hope others on here will enjoy this bit #TheArchers appreciation. ⏬️

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If anyone has any spare cash down the side of the sofa - you could for worse than donating to this.

This group has produced brilliant theatre in the past including about the International Brigades in Spain and the Grunwick Strike.

No doubt the story of Joe Clough will be inspiring!!

This is a good time to brush up on what’s actually in the Geneva Conventions and their later additions. It’s been a while since I took a read so I went back this morning and reviewed.

No Surrender and This Slavery are also brilliant.

This is why the 25th Amendment exists.

This is the purpose of having the 25th Amendment.

To not use this power to remove the president is not a passive act, a mere option: it is a positive decision to misuse the constitution.