Ruth Holliday

And, at all cost, the memory of academics as professionals, not ‘content deliverers’.

The one thing that must be eliminated at all costs: institutional memory of when university priorities were teaching and research and workloads were things that staff could do AND have a private life.

CHAPTER 7 WHEN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY DOESN'T WANT YOU ANYMORE: EXIT CULTURES IN THE MARKET ERA OF HIGHER EDUCATION Steven Jones University of Manchester, UK

Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!

Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

I bet these civil servants wouldn’t be so in favour of privatization if the civil service was privatized …

Time to concede that the whole privatization of higher education was a giant mistake? Second only, perhaps, to the privatization of water?

Refreshing to see UUK representing our sector instead of vilifying the people who work in it. This comes too late for many of us though as the sector continues its rapid contraction.

University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget

'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3

I would much rather pay more income tax than have this ongoing chaos at work

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Apparently if governments take any action to reduce the profits of fossil fuel companies within the next 20 years the fossil fuel companies can sue governments for the lost income. This is on top of the £40bn or so of tax-payers’ money they get in subsidies. 🤷‍♀️

📊 NEW | As Labour launches crackdowns on refugees and trans people, Starmer's approval hits new low.

✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)

Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)

It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament

Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.

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It’s a problem that none of the people criticised in the covid response report seems capable of shame, reflection or believing they could be wrong about anything. Everything’s just a game, other lives or deaths aren’t something they understand or even believe

Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do

Criticize, smear and defame in the media, then cut.

The MO of neoliberalism.

All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.

Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.

When will we learn?

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Today’s Ivory tower folks …

Wow! We need one of these about Farage!

14,000 university staff to be made redundant by end 2025 😥

Reminder that men have no inherent right to the surname of the father, regardless of situation.

You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.

Three images including a monochrome photograph of a white woman, a fabric design and a leather and wood chair

Ray Eames (1912 – 1988), US artist and designer who worked in a variety of media, including furniture and fabric design #Womensart

Pickets, pickets, and more pickets!

Join us and show your support #StopStaffCutatUoE

We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.

Meanwhile in Denmark:

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

You have to wonder if the uk is actually just managed by the US

On one level I feel sorry for these children-of-migrants anti-migrant Home Secretaries, placed to avert accusations of government racism. What must that do to your psyche?

Dear [my MP’s name], As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.  That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest. I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights. Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming. A manufactured crisis As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.

🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.

🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.

It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.

My letter to my MP.

#asylum #Mahmood

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