Ruth Holliday

Press out in force today to condemn any tax rises on the rich …

As I recall Roy and Hayley were seen as pretty iconic national treasures.

🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.

What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.

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7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?

The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.

The question is whether any of this damages his reputation amongst his supporters 🤷‍♀️

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