Joe Smallman

This is a poor analogy. The UK HE sector isn't about to be *entirely wiped out* like steel was a few weeks ago. And in a time of war, we can't always rely on international markets for critical goods for defence industries like steel.

Found @jonsopel1.bsky.social in an art gallery in Bruges... @newsagents.bsky.social

Forever stanning Gwen and Dave Coaches (and Dave Coaches helping Smithy get the girl 🥺)

My views on protest rights after sitting in an office in Westminster all day listening to these bloody farmers:

So I finally saw Wicked and it was great (duh) but when did cinema etiquette get SO bad?!

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

Tough day for Labour homosexuals choosing between the BRAT Arena Tour and the Number 10 World AIDS Day reception

Love to see the Tories fall into the trap of making wealthy landowners and private schools their two main target demographics. Centre ground well and truly vacated. #pmqs

Sometimes I think about the fact that the dominant ‘popular history’ of the 70s among educated left of centre types was written by a guy who says inflation is basically a fake problem ‘moral panic’ and people couldn’t really have been mad about it

so we moved to bluesky

Insane how I didn't see just how cursed X had become until I joined Bluesky. Like a frog being boiled alive.

Though there are obviously big differences there's something of the Cummings/Johnson dynamic here. Two people thinking they're using the other one to achieve diametrically opposite objectives following a brief period where their interests matched.

Princess Diana would have loved Bluesky