Chloe Wallace

(I think there were a few abstentions, I’m afraid…..)

Delighted to move this motion on behalf of @qmucu.bsky.social and particularly @ruthfletcher.bsky.social who have shown such powerful leadership on this. Carried, no votes against!

This was completely fantastic-educative and inspiring.

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Right, because I've now seen misunderstandings of this enough times that it's got me worried that people don't know this - transgender people in the UK are protected by the Equality Act 2010 under the category of gender reassignment.

*That* was not under discussion today and hasn't changed.

Delighted this output from our @leedsteaching.bsky.social fellowship is published. We were very fortunate to get two years of funding to engage critically with the notion of global citizenship.

Well at least that frees up the evening
(Although they haven’t said which Friday…..)

🇫🇷 Le Premier ministre sera nommé vendredi matin a annoncé l'Elysée #AFP

Six days. Apparently. News is reporting that Macron may name a Prime Minister today but maybe he won't. He's coming back from Poland. Whatevs. *shrugs gallicly*

Picket photo outside the UCU Yorkshire and Humber regional office in Leeds- photo of Unite strikers with red hi vis and red Unite flags, and supportive visitors to the picket from UCU members (including me on the left) with the edge of the Uni of Leeds UCU banner visible on the left (pink with purple and white stitched lettering). My pink t shirt reads “Black Staff Matter” top to bottom next to a graphic of a raised fist, with “Black Members Matter” horizontally along the bottom.

Please show your support for @uniteucu.bsky.social who are on day 3 of their strike today that began on Monday, for a Safe & Professional Workplace. I’m ashamed that it has become necessary for workers to strike against my union @ucu.org.uk /1

Christmas elf holding a placard that reads “I’m on strike”

🪧Day 3 of strike action

Today we’re protesting at @ucu.org.uk regional & national offices, 8:30-10am:

UCU Scotland at the UCU Edinburgh branch office

West and East Midlands UCU: Alpha Tower

North West UCU: Manchester Office

UCU Yorkshire & Humberside: Leeds Office

#SupportTheStrike
#ReclaimUCU

Our branch stands in solidarity with our colleagues in @uniteucu.bsky.social (Unite branch LE 127), who have commenced a three-day strike action today as part of their Safe & Professional Workplace dispute with UCU. ✊ 1/7

That HEPI article about teaching-track university staff seems to be annoying everyone on my feed.

Two brief requests:

1. Please remember not all disciplines are the same.

2. When you say that someone without active research can't teach at university, you're saying I can't do my job. Thanks.

French President Emmanuel Macron to name new PM within days The statement comes in a political crisis that saw his Prime Minister ousted in a no-confidence vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron to name new PM within days

It really was a bingo card of leadership cliches. Here ‘my decision to dissolve the AN in June was criticised because people didn’t understand it’

Apparently he wants a government of national unity including the people he is telling off like small children.
That’s obviously going to work out….

Macron currently explaining to the French people why he is right and the Parliament they elected is wrong.
Not, shall we say, edifying…..

France’s government collapsed last night.

Now it finally falls to President Emmanuel Macron to step up and confront a snowballing political and economic crisis.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Shutdown budgétaire, affaires courantes, dissolution : les questions que pose la chute du gouvernement Barnier Toujours sans budget pour 2025 et maintenant sans gouvernement, la France se retrouve dans une nouvelle période d’incertitude politique, ouvrant la voie à de nombreuses interrogations.

Shutdown budgétaire, affaires courantes, dissolution : les questions que pose la chute du gouvernement Barnier

L'Assemblée nationale a fait chuter mercredi le gouvernement de Michel Barnier, un geste inédit depuis 1962, qui plonge le pays dans une période de fortes incertitudes politiques et financières, six mois après la dissolution.

🔴 331 députés ont voté la motion de censure, le gouvernement Barnier est renversé

Suivez la situation en direct : bit.ly/49D7HEZ

What do I think? It’s a mess, the political class needs to sort themselves out and a constitution can’t help with that.

And off we go- more fun times to be a constitutional lawyer, at least in France ….

I’m afraid I’m assuming it will run late……

I think there is a while yet to go…..

If anyone thinks that the Westminster Parliament is uniquely badly behaved, they’re shouting ‘bullshit’ in the Assemblée Nationale…

Happy collapse of the French government day to those who celebrate.
(apparently Barnier is holding a reception for his ministers during the vote, which feels a bit fiddling whilst Rome burns, tbh....)

A massive Christmas tree with golden lights and surrounded by more light, next to the wavy bacon sculpture at Leeds University

An avenue of golden light at the centre of Leeds University campus

Torn between delight at how magical @universityofleeds.bsky.social campus is looking, and plotting a campaign for More Sparkle on the Western Campus