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Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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MPs and peers make awkward small talk during wait for box-office hit Macron French president fills seats for stylish Royal Gallery speech, after snubbing Farage and meeting the king

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John Crace on brilliant form here

South Korea election: Lee Jae-myung takes over a country split by gender politics Gender conflict subtly but powerfully shaped South Korea’s election.

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Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and

Join us on Thursday 12 June at the beautiful garden of the Freud Museum in London for a very special theatrical workshop (rehearsal and live analysis + Q&A) on Shakespeare's Pericles: Prince of Tyre - a manual of reconciliation in a fractured world.
www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...

Congratulations to the editors of this exciting new collection, which interrogates psychosocial studies as a scholarly praxis of “creative disruption”. Including a playful piece of my own about Brexit, drawing on @profcand.bsky.social work on political culture: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

What Farage's fashion choices tell us about his politics The Reform leader's penchant for country cosplay is designed to reassure people that he isn’t a threat

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Mrs Dalloway It’s 100 years this week since Virginia Woolf published her novel, Mrs Dalloway.

Mrs Dalloway
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This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

A reminder for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group - 6pm tonight! Please join us to discuss the allure of fascism in liberal societies, with Alasdair Cannon and @profcand.bsky.social

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Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and

Delighted to be taking part in this international theatre workshop in the beautiful garden at The Freud Museum London, 12 June. Come and join us! www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...

The Allure of Fascism: Infinite Discontent with Alasdair Cannon Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Alasdair Cannon on the allure of fascism in contemporary societies.

Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm.
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
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Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politics — The Economist Britain’s parties are catering to a voter who is, often literally, dead

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Awful

22 of my publications are listed on that website

I’m in the same boat. Please keep us informed

How fragile we are: Why Netflix drama Adolescence is essential viewing for everyone Debbie Ging says the new Netflix drama series is a call to liberate boys from toxic gender scripts.

With reference to the film Adolescence, Debbie Ging’s excellent article on the gender scripts of patriarchal masculinity and the contradictions between the exp of male fragility and the performance of toughness- leading to violence www.thejournal.ie/readme/adole...

So shocking and destructive

Thanks Jenny! Very helpful!

Exciting things are happening for APS 2025 @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social
More details coming soon!

It was a great session - very timely and thought-provoking. thanks Fintan for your excellent presentation and Tom for organising

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said at the time. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains … We want to put them in trauma.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Dreams under fascism, and paralysis:

Do join us for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group on 19 Feb! Prof Fintan Walsh will be presenting his latest research on theatre, performance and post-pandemic grief @noreengiffney.bsky.social @profcand.bsky.social @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...

My god, if you'd told me 15 years ago that the British press and establishment would be mesmerised by the antics of a needy overgrown man-child ... What foolishness. We were supposed to have had our great debate about sovereignty - tell him to piss off & get on with the real business of politics.

Trolling the UK: the issues enraging Elon Musk, world’s richest ‘pub bore’.

On the history side it would be 19th/early 20th century politics/economic history

On pol sci it would be comparative govt/sociology

Another piece that highlights the contemporary relevance of Richard Hofstadter’s essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’ -characterised by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy”’

McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term