Dr Eleanor Janega

"Isn't it interesting: 1 am probably the most scrutinised figure in British politics, having been in public life for 32 years. Several books and thousas of stories have been written about me, but it is only now that my party is leading in the polls that these allegations come out. I will leave the public to draw their own conclusions about why that might be.

This is going to ring true to this guy’s idiot fan base because it’s largely true. Timing may not make any difference to the allegations but it’s true we are now getting a very late, very isolated bout of Noticing Things that could and should have been noticed many years earlier.

She's a child. A seventeen year old child. Not an activist. A child.

Hmmm giving him David Harbour except no one would help him cheat.

Goddamn it.

Reflecting on this bit, about tuition fees, over lunch. This comment shows me just how little Smith understands UK HE. In an uncapped system driven by reputation and student choice, raising the fee itself does not, in fact, represent any financial stability. It only intensifies the market pressure.

For some reason I've suddenly remembered those two Palestine activists who were convicted of harassment (later overturned on appeal) for filming themselves asking a Labour MP questions about Gaza.

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Sorry for the typos. I am mad and also my phone constantly wants me to write v češtině.

not to mention everyone else in the town which suddenly supports night clubs and shops and bars and whatnot

How on earth can we get young people to remain in towns and smaller cities when there is nothing for them???

Man this is gonna do so much growth. Trust me.

Universitiws are one of the only three truly world-class institutions that the UK has and this government wants them to collapse. It's mind boggling.

If Dundee implodes, which seems to be simply accepted at this point, where were those workers go? Who will employ them? This government is either too stupid to think about that or too callous to care. Possibly both.

It's not *just* academics and students (two groups that Starmer's Labour despise and see as undesirable) who populate universities. They employ vast work forces! There are administrators, cleaners, cafeteria staff, gardeners, post workers, builders all dependent on their university remaining open.

Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.

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Eeeeeep! Huge congratulations Gabby! Can't wait to check it out.

Welcome to the UK, where minors are blocked from accessing porn but it's perfectly legal for a grown man to shout about sissy hypno porn in a minors face.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"

There will be no transformation fund for mergers, despite them loving the idea of mergers. Smith is 'not convinced' that it is necessary.

This lady was involved in various water companies right? I'm not misremembering that? Some absolute neck.

Smith gives beautifully contradictory answer where they want to direct some bits of universities (research, national priorities) and yet they want to lean back and act as if they are not directing universities at all because autonomy and no it's not for us to &c. Hitherto unseen levels of smug.

This is great, Smith seems to think they can continue to "support research" in the middle of a compulsory rapid liquidation of a university. That is absolutely amazing levels of wishful thinking.

"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.

per this morning's education committee.

There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.

Whenever they want to make fun of England they circle back to the idea that there's an inherent white English-ness. So immigrants to America from England never become American, not even their children. Also, say, Asians who immigrate to England will never be English. This is meant to not be racist.

What a terrible time to be an historian.

It's January 1649 and Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is about to be put on trial for treason...

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A heady mix of "beans on toast" and also generalised disgust of the hated slav.

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