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Are you streaming #HaegeumTo1Billion..?

open.spotify.com/playlist/5L6...

Not giving up tho 💜

Sadly not...lucked out with O2 & Wembley, but this was another level mayhem for London tickets 😥

BTS named their new album Arirang. What is so striking about their choice? The title is loaded with meaning for all Koreans, and will give fans globally an insight into the folksong culture that shaped the world’s biggest K-pop group

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #BTS #Arirang

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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

We marched through London against mass migration. Were no racists People at Saturday's Unite the Kingdom say the majority of attendees were peaceful protesters worried about the state of the country

In the 1930s Mosley and his rank and file BUF were careful not to outwardly portray themselves as racists.

They weren't antisemitic... far from it... they were just concerned about "bad principles" and "international bankers" and the influx of foreigners

Everyone knew what they meant.

If you wrap yourself in national flags and go on a fascist march with violent thugs… you shouldn’t be validated by our media.
It was a march for racism, for radicalised prejudice, for mass deportations and for threat against ethnic minorities. It was an ugly expression of division.
Shameful.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

'Whether or not he can plead for special status in the White House is going to be interesting'

🚗 UKICE's car industry expert @dgbailey.bsky.social talks about the impact Elon Musk's relationship with Trump is having on Tesla for BBC News 👇

Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia | Clarivate New approach enables broad, simple and affordable access to trusted scholarly content for learning and research

As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."
clarivate.com/news/clariva...

EBSCO "reaffirms support to libraries' diverse acquisition needs" - Research Information Statement released in response to "providers in the library market shifting their strategies", after Clarivate moves to subscription model

EBSCO “reaffirms support to libraries’ diverse acquisition needs” www.researchinformation.info/news/ebsco-r...

Clarivate launches subscription-based access strategy - Research Information Company will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital academic collections, print and digital books for libraries

"Clarivate has launched a subscription-based content access strategy, while also phasing out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."

My thoughts are...not appropriate for public airing, but if you know me and/or #ebookSOS, you can imagine. 📚

We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us. This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants"

Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"

Broadcasters who repeated this obvious bollocks are not required to make any correction or apologise to their listeners/viewers. And I saw at least two columnists making hay with it. They too will retract nothing.

Brexit cheerleaders have gone awfully quiet – so let me remind you what they did to Britain If we do talk about it, we start to recognise the gulf between their words and reality

When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are.

inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Telling that Starmer's response focused on the tweets about Jess Phillips rather than himself. Systems and policies matter, but never underestimate the importance of having a genuinely decent human being in charge.

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

Man in black complains about electric car batteries

Greg Jackson explains how batteries are a long term asset

So refreshing to have an actual expert on #BBCQT

a neon-blue frame with Harrison Ford/Deckard's face in profile, a darker blue silhouette

Deckard with neon lights in background, a mannequin, lots of onlookers behind him, artificial snow falling in foreground

closeup on Deckard's face with horizontal orange neon lights behind him, a slight orange light along the side of his face

Deckard sitting in his spinner, very dark shot with a bit of blue neon light in the foreground and along the side of his face

doing that thing again where I play roulette with Blade Runner and screenshot a bunch of random frames and they're all perfect and beautiful

Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”

A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:

STAND OUT

“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.

I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

Badenoch post: “It was a pleasure to chat to Jeremy Clarkson (tagged in) today about the farmers’ rally and the terrible impact Labour’s budget will have on our rural communities. Jeremy and I agree that we cannot allow the government to get away with it”

Isn’t this cosy? Badenoch and the pompous Clarkson foghorn having a fireside chat about how the Tories will help tax-dodging wealthy landowners like him.

God knows what she thinks her own govt did to *all* our communities, including rural ones.
Or to the public services that our taxes pay for.

Hello! Where are all our crafty and quilty peeps at?

Consciously or not, each of Trump’s nominations trigger part of his culture war coalition;

Gabbard anti imperialists and peaceniks: RFKJnr wellness and anti-Pharma: Gaetz incels and insurrectionists: Miller xenophobia: Hesgeth Christian fundamentalism.

It’s uncivil war 1/2

Morning

some excellent (I'm biased) colleagues on here

go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX

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Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

It feels like Labour's decision to cut winter fuel payments is a huge mistake.

In the bigger picture, it won't save that much. Not compared to overall government spending.

But it gives RW media and opposition parties a v big stick to beat Labour with, and causes internal rifts.