Absolutely crackers

That's a practical vehicle tbh

I'm refusing to read it but is it kind of like Cultural Marxism but in reverse?

It's a horrible situation

The Dirty Harry approach... 'do you feel lucky?'

The whole thing could have been stabilised if a government at some point in the last 20 years had had an HE policy

Right. At Manchester they offered us voluntary redundancy on enhanced terms or take a chance and risk compulsory on reduced terms. Which was cool.

With a focus on spite and hatred, you could market it to academics as well

Will they be wearing deerstalkers and monocles?

Remember when people had jobs?

Who are 'they'? The ascendant clique within hegemonic capital.

Who are 'they'? The ascendant clique within hegemonic capital.

...Almost seems like HE has been *put* into freefall. Hard for unions to be effective in a state of industrial collapse. In the future we'll still have universities, in the same way that we still have factories.

They're deindustrialising the knowledge economy, like they did with the manufacturing economy. No full time employees = no union = no more problems.

I knew we'd get to the gigification of Higher Education sooner than later

GAI is the worst thing to happen to academia, ever.

Can I listen to this and just not read the book. Please? I can't face reading the book.

The front of that light coloured Super Deluxe looks terrible

The S Car. Cool.

Horseradish sauce? A lot of horseradish sauce?

I watched one yesterday dig a right big hole in my flower bed.

I get called an Anchor quite regularly.

Smoked, too. An aristocrat.

"Behind every great fortune - a crime"

Actually it's a sand-bar chart

Don't ever think they're coming for you because you're not good at your job.

We need to renationalize ours, asap

This is what industrial collapse looks like