Adam Ramshaw

Reviewer 2 got me good.

Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.

Dana-nana-nana-nana-GLASMAN!

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't.

Listen to the episode on Blue Labour ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

They've went up £5.

Any rationale provided from the club on the increased ticket price?

Best one yet.

The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.

that’s not very free speech-y

From Withering to Flourishing: Repairing Academia Through Holistic and Sustainable Care Practices We are scholars and educators committed to embracing care while working within colonialist, neoliberal, and performative academic environments, and we are withering. Our withering is balanced against....

"[O]ur institutions have become toxic, performative, and mechanistic .... To subsist and survive, too many of us respond by concealing, isolating, and pushing ourselves to breaking points" (Kenworthy et al., 2025)

#HigherEd

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Exclusive: Reform overtakes the Conservatives in media mentions New research from Cardiff University finds Reform is now treated as the opposition party on mainstream news shows

Our new study 🚨'Are broadcasters reflecting multi-party politics in the UK? An analysis of BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten in 2025' written up brilliantly by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social in The @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Thread with headlines: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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