🚨📽️ UK screening tour of acclaimed new German documentary Das deutsche Volk - NEXT WEEK!📽️🚨
There will be a Q&A with the director Marcin Wierzchowski after each screening.
In cinemas in NEWCASTLE (Mon), LEEDS (Tues), GLASGOW (Wed), EDINBURGH (Thursday) & LONDON (Fri).
Details & tickets below 🧵
More failure and broken promises on university and student finance - and unfortunately probably 5 more years of it after May
“Although we don’t have consistent evidence that our values are different [to the rest of the UK], my word, do we believe that our values are different. We also believe that they are to the left of the rest of the UK, even though they are not.”
This is one of the better press articles I’ve read on Reform in Scotland, with some uncomfortable truths to deal with www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Some ideas for Scotland here, too, I think
Classic Rugby Union moment during Bath vs. Harlequins- referee Sarah Cox responds to protests about a decision by saying ‘It’s a nuanced law, gents’. And a bunch of massive men nod and stroke their beards.
Really grateful for this thorough review of my work in Interpreting and Society by the great Małgorzata Tryuk, especially for the moving personal reflection (open access)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Marking mania but otherwise grand. See you at @ags-gbi.bsky.social this year?
Congrats on the new job!
Rich people are weird.
Freue mich auf den neuen! Glückwunsch!
I have arrived at the Sándor Palace to meet the President of Hungary. @DrTamasSulyok is unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation. He is unfit to serve as the guardian of legality. He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model. Following the formation of the new government, Tamás Sulyok must leave office immediately.
Bemerkenswert.
Das zeigt genau was noch nicht überall verstanden wird: es geht hier zu aller erst nicht um policy, sondern darum ein autoritäres Netzwerk schnell und umfassend zu kappen.
Dass Magyar das mit dieser Deutlichkeit macht gibt Anlass zur Hoffnung.
No tuition fees, but no commtiment to incrased public funding either. In other words, institutions can get bent.
“In the current era of misinformation and disinformation, it’s more important than ever to emphasise our archives, our collections, and the evidence we have about this important history”
Find out more about a landmark project to expand our Bloomsbury home www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Ihr zeigt da klare Kante
My dad’s definition of an app was ‘a program that you’re not allowed to make better yourself’. So this makes perfect sense
Good on Anas Sarwar for taking on Lord Offord directly like that
Jeezo, the Scottish party leaders have just spend 20 minutes of 45 minute debate talking about Donald Trump. Give it a rest, that’s not why were voting for you #scottishleadersdebate #channel4news
Statement of Friedrich Engels in Manchester
Engelsstatue hatte ich zuerst völlig falsch gelesen…
Sun shine breaking through clouds over Edinburgh, taken from a plane
Welcome home
Gosford Park. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder). Oder als interessantes Beispiel für einen schlechten, missglückten Versuch: Crash (2004)
Experiment on Self: the human need to believe prophets of doom vs the human need to trust reassuring voices.
My friend took 8 hours to get from Limerick to Dublin, you’ll never make it!
vs.
Bus drivers know the best ways round the blockades, you’ll be fine!
Am going with the second one…
Family used to live in walking distance from that, I played in it as a kid
I once tried to call someone to install communism but they did a terrible job and overcharged me for labour.
Centre of Dublin snarled up with truckers, farmers in fuel price protests. Made it to Limerick with help of friendly bus drivers…
Niche French humour?
#Easter #Christianity
Oh, and most surprising appearance of a classic Atomkraft? Nein danke! sticker
Non-gallumphing humour, detailed and sympathetic characterisation and a subtle critique of the cruelty of the powerful. And Fafnir dressed like Liberace (as my friend said)
