Alan Stedman

Agree

I'm still pondering the couplet "aggressive integration"

I suspect it will run something like:

you can't wear that religious or cultural garb, all religious services will be on Sundays, you have to take on an anglicised name

etc

Listening more than you

In an attempt to be a pedant you missed the mark entirely

No 3 applies

"Toil
noun

1. Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment.
"caught in the toils of despair."

2. A net for trapping game

3. Exhausting labour or effort. synonym: work"

Now run along

Maybe read the room before posting like that

Kemi Badenoch

🤭

It's all important toil if it helps pay the mortgage and keeps the house warm 🤗

Wrought from the same chunk of wood then, but one a little more polished 🫣

I can't watch...help me please. Worse than Truss?

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pissupnobooze?

Follow the money applies

You are generalising

Try bunging 'Our campuses' in your search engine

Exeter, Liverpool, UCL Buckinghamshire, Southampton etc

A priori, not a good look

We are done

So in summary they see it as a threat and that for me is the nub of a lot of this. There is a nostalgic view amongst them that it was all so much better 'then'

Right Wing politics is rooted in looking back to times that they perceived were better, but as those who read a bit know, it's all a myth

True probably, but a minor point is that a few of us went to what were called campus universities back in the 60s/70s (and even now), in my case, @kent.ac.uk

Others include Warwick, UEA, Sussex etc

Genuinely, I think your point is correct but we have had 'campus' universities here for a while

Sarcasm totally appropriate! 👍🏼

Nick Candy could do with reading Naoise Mac Sweeney's 'The West' that I have just finished. He would then be able to put his view of 'The West' into context. It's a very limited and narrow view

Indeed, nostalgia can play some pretty mind bending tricks with memory in people like him

She's probably fluent at shouting in English a little louder every time they don't understand 😉

With the necessary dismissive arm wave as well

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Was going to make a similar point. There's always an opportunity cost

Chris do me a favour please

Can you say, "You go girl" from me!

Well done her 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

As for Badenoch words are beginning to fail me!

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Anyone else get a feeling in their waters that we are in colonial mode again?

'Our Universities are better than yours, you need ours because we know what's good for you'

This time though the receiving country might just have our measure

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It speaks volumes that a No 10 spokesperson wasn’t able instinctively to say something about seeking access and providing consular services to British citizens detained overseas.

Now imagine substituting certain other countries for Israel and being told ‘it’s a matter for that government’.

That poses a lot of questions

Whoever that person is they have laid the Govt open to criticism of not treating all UK citizens abroad the same, of making judgements about them

It undermines the process we pay a lot of money to uphold of having embassies etc abroad to support UK passport holders

Israel have destroyed Gaza more completely than the Americans destroyed Hiroshima when they dropped a nuke on it.

It's not an accident and it's not warfare.

It's Genocide.

I doubt a)

I'm pretty sure b) is correct

He's just a publicity seeker and the RW press love him because they get a story. It's a symbiotic relationship

You have to wonder what his children will make of him as they get older

Twitter/Bluesky

I seem to remember the whole follow back thing over there consumed far too much of my time. The FBPE tag did however bring people together 👍🏼

Follower numbers seems to be less of a thing here

Indeed, I passed 5000 followers and only noticed a while later!

Thank you 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Succinctly put

@channel4news.bsky.social reported David Norris’ belated confession of involvement in Stephen Lawrence’s racist murder immediately after highlighting that being openly, blatantly racist is no longer an impediment to an ambitious politician, but an asset. History is not progress.

I see the Secret Statistician has been playing games again!