Caleb Day

Yet one more reason to reject Eric Metaxas’s trash bio of Bonhoeffer.

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Open letter to Wes Streeting: release your messages with your private healthcare donors The public has a right to know that health policy is not driven by quid pro quo relationships.

🤯60% of Wes Streeting's donors are from private health.

Good to see your texts with Mandelson. The public also has a right to know if health policy is being driven by unaccountable lobbying

Wes Streeting, release your messages with private healthcare. weownit.org.uk/news/wes-str...

Unite national officer Andy Murray said: "Our members will not tolerate this approach from UCU management and with no resolution in sight feel they have no choice but to show their anger on the picket line. We urge UCU to come back to the negotiating table and make the concessions necessary to end this dispute."

#HandsOffMarie

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Illustration of placards with the Welsh ‘Ar Streic Heddiw’

Our Wales colleagues showing what solidarity looks like.

#HandsOffMarie
#UniteAgainstVictimisation

Every Russell Group uni where lecturers and support staff will definitely strike in 2026 Two Russell Group unis are striking in February

RE this Tab article: Durham UCU is *not* "definitely [striking]". We have a *mandate* to strike, and - per our ballot result & a confirmatory motion at today's GM - we'll be engaging in ASOS. We do not currently have plans to strike (this could change, depending on employer response to our claim).

Just because he beat the fascists in a local contest in 2006 by uniting all left of centre doesn’t give him a free pass 18yrs later to do the opposite, become like the fascists, alienate all left of centre & repeatedly do what most helps Reform.
(Meme created before Mandelson revelations) 2/end

McSweeney coverage is like “genius political strategist tho” but… is he? Everything he’s done, even 2024 election (won for him by Covid partying Tories & even then reduced @teamlabouruk.bsky.social votes) has tanked the party, exiled 2/3 of the members that win for them, betrayed values& pledges. 1/

Unite members in the north west on a picket line while taking strike action to defend Marie, their H&S rep, who is being subject to trade union victimisation by our employer.

Unite against TU Victimisation

@Unitetheunion.bsky.social doesn't tolerate the victimisation of its reps by employers. Today our members in the North West are showing what solidarity looks like.

It's time UCU ended the victimisation of Marie, our Health & Safety Officer.

#Strike #HandsOffMarie

Headline: 'Unite staff to strike over union victimisation' with the quote 'Across the trade union movement there is one thing we are all united on: that we do not act unlawfully towards our own. This issue will now bring together all voices across our movement. The victimisation of our Health and Safety rep and the threat to their job and livelihood must end immediately."

Regrettably our members will be commencing strike action from 9 February over the victimisation of our Health and Safety Officer.

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Caleb makes some really useful points here - the feeling that we need a new approach to workload in Durham is even more widespread than the raw ballot numbers suggest. We need to hear more from our employer than "We responded fully to [your] claims".

& over 60% had intention to vote but not all possible in time.
Oh & the main reason given for not having voted was “completely swamped at work, haven’t had time to even look at it”

This mandate gives the branch leverage to seek real negotiated solutions on workload & job security at @durham.ac.uk

Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.

Then covered it up again when caught.

Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.

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Without any defence of your two major parties, it’s more that the guy who actually ran the govt, after having removed Corbyn and installed Starmer, had a mentor who successfully lobbied to protect banker bonuses on behalf of JP Morgan via their friend Epstein

So he’s resigning?

The Government must reveal all details of Peter Mandelson’s links to Palantir - Foxglove Sign the petition for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm?

Peter Mandelson accompanied Keir Starmer to Palantir's HQ while his lobbying firm had Palantir as a client.

Since then? Palantir has landed £720m+ in UK government contracts.

We deserve answers. Sign the petition ⬇️
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Despite considering myself a Mira Nair fan, I had to look this one up (scuppered by my general disengagement from movies with a 37 on Metacritic)

Btw, Goodwin doesn’t support anything “British” per se, but English. His book on “the new British politics” doesnt mention Scotland or Wales (nor the north of Ireland fwiw) once.

It turns out this meme doesnt just apply to policies and choices but also speeches bsky.app/profile/cale...

It turns out this meme doesnt just apply to policies and choices but also speeches bsky.app/profile/cale...

Those living British values (of Peterloo,unions,abolitionists,chartists,suffragettes) aren’t insecurely declaring their Britishness. They’re too busy organising against his ‘middle-ground-btwn-fascism-&-anti-fascism’ govt.
Btw it wasn’t the left betraying the public, lobbying to save banker bonuses.

UCU staff walk out over alleged ‘trade union victimisation’ Leaders of the union call the claims ‘categorically untrue’

Two thirds of UCU staff walk out. I worked for UCU two decades ago. In fact I ran for General Secretary and just lost. There is no way two thirds of the staff would walk out if the story of victimisation isnt true. My sources say its been coming for years.
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Photo of Marie, Unite UCU's health and safety rep, who is being victimised by her trade union employer

📣 Hands off Marie!

Tell @drjogrady.bsky.social and @ucu.org.uk to stop victimising Unite UCU's safety rep.

✍️ jgrady@ucu.org.uk

#HandsOffMarie

#UniteTheUnion @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Meme with guy sweating over a decision about which of two red buttons to press. Man is labelled “Morgan McSweeney’s Labour”. Buttons are labeled “Whatever most empowers/legitimates Reform while tanking Labour” and “Literally anything else”

The meme of a thousand relevances

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social

If you have it so bad, maybe you should consider selling your investment property and giving the money away. Would you be better off then?

Screenshot of a THE story with the headline "Nottingham posts £85 million deficit as value of campus plummets"

Screenshot of a NottinghamshireLive news story with the headline "University of Nottingham's disastrous 'vanity project' campus could be sold for just £14."

Now I'm not an economist, but I feel like this is not great economic news.

As someone who works for another UCU branch (@ducu.bsky.social), I endorse this message at Lboro, Durham, and everywhere

One of the dangers of normalization therapies like ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is that they can interfere with parents knowing what their autistic kids’ legitimate likes and dislikes—and even personalities—are.

#autism #neurodiversity #BetterWaysThanABA

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

UK loses measles elimination status Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced.

Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.