Adam Ramshaw

There was no state? Who killed him, then?

This is what bothers me. I'm surrounded by green belt. People think it's the green belt that makes it a nice place to live - it isn't at least not directly. It's the density that makes it a walkable area with shops, restaurants, and pubs. Density is the key - whether you're in a city or the burbs.

Rachel Reeves to curb high-end bike purchases in Cycle to Work scheme Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk

Climate crisis? What climate crisis?

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Car Size

xkcd nails car bloat

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Our convenor, @lauragraham86.bsky.social, is speaking at a research event in France. Laura is a project partner on 'droits et politiques du travail sexuel 2026', a research/action initiative on improving European laws and policies on sex work. It is funded by l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

Hollow laughter

Could someone smarter than me explain how the Greens reconcile their 'come one, come all' immigration policy with their 'build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything' housing policy?

Switching 2p from National Insurance to Income Tax would bring the rate of tax paid by pensioners closer to that paid by working-age people.

Even so, pensioners with incomes below £40,000 would still be better off next year than this year, due to upcoming increases to the state pension age ⤵️

Increasingly I think one has to accept that a chunk of the Labour party is ideologically committed to an anti-enterprise, pro-losing position.

HOWAY THE LADS 👊

Breakfast. Dinner. Tea.

I will die on this hill.

Book Launch - Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925 Join the authors to celebrate the launch of the new book Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925.

Associate Professor Helen Rutherford has co-written a book on Newcastle Prison. There will be a book launch on Thursday 21 August at 6:30pm at Newcastle City Library. You can book your place at the launch here - www.tiny.cc/newcastlepri...

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To those using endnotes.

Lovely piece by Suzi Ring on the surprising resilience of the courtroom sketch. The one of Wayne Rooney is delightful. on.ft.com/4o5rp2M

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

What is wrong with these people.

How professors spend their time from PhDComics.

Professors wear every hat. Who gets burned?
Most professors signed up for autonomy.

To think. To teach. To write.
To finally do meaningful work on your own terms.

But here’s what we actually do:

• 59% of our time goes to teaching
• 23% to service
• 18% to research

#academicsky #phdsky

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

I don’t want to pile on, but at some point people really do need to engage with a) how high the minimum wage now is and b) that labour costs are, you know, a big part of how much an organisation costs. Minimum wage is now just c£1900 shy of what an early career teacher earns!

I wrote a whole book about this one post....

There’s a lesson here with rather broad applications

Don’t forget the alcoves. You use this word, alcoves?

Shamelessly replugging this from two years ago. We would never look at the proportion of, say, schools, that don't turn out literate pupils and go 'oh well, probably those kids were better off out of it'. We shouldn't view the short tail of bad courses and/or outcomes any differently:

I once asked a very eminent, and not particularly youthful, expert in the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries if there were any film adaptations of classic novels he really rated.

He didn't even have to think: "Clueless. Unquestionably the best adaptation of Austen".

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Signing off emails to myself with 'Best wishes'.

Our convenor, @lauragraham86.bsky.social, and @lawandsexuality.bsky.social are co-editing a Concise Encyclopaedia of Gender, Sexuality and Law. Laura and Chris are seeking additional suggestions of entries to the encyclopaedia. See attached poster for full details and get in touch if interested.

JFC! Put your name in - my entire CV comes up! Practically everything I've ever written! 😡

The Ramshaws haven’t been far.

Dear Newcastle, no letters, we promise. Just a little love note to say: get into them George Caulkin gets a few things off his chest before Wembley

📝 "Dear #NUFC - fans, players, staff.

"'No more bloody slushy, emotional letters to players,' you said.

"Hang on, lemme just make a note here. NO. MORE. LETTERS. Got it.

"But while I'm here..."

⚫⚪ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social's pre-Wembley unique letter to fans:
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