Tom Lawson

Imperial War Museum rejects criticism of caption in Holocaust display Visitor to museum and two eminent historians say wording of information board on Nuremberg race laws is incorrect

This is a slightly odd story - isn't the sentence identified just wrong rather than a question of interpretative nuance? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.

Wondering what @tgplawson.bsky.social makes of this news? Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...

The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip.

Why? I mean I take the point about understanding the context and all that, but why use that flag? Why is it not also a symbol of oppression and violence?

Arsenal losing at home and needing to go to France and turn things around in a Champions League semi final second leg? We know it can be done

This sounds like a fascinating discussion

This might just be straight in at number 1 in the books I wish I had written list... although I would have called it 'did you cover your eyes when they told you' or 'all God's children crept out the back door'.

More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows ‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher

1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

3 days to go...

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

Here’s a pretty sobering start to the day…

Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.

www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

As you know Alex we take different views but this article is really interesting and it is good that it sets the memorial in the wider historical context of British memorialisation. I remain unconvinced that the memorial can (in its suggested location) ultimately avoid triumphalism

Post-92s ‘may quit collective pay bargaining without TPS opt-out’ Northumbria leaders say modern universities will be forced to rein in pay rises if they are compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics

Growing numbers of post-92 universities likely to pull out of collective pay bargaining if they remain compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics, warns @tgplawson.bsky.social in @hepi-news.bsky.social blog www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-92...

Read the original blog here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.

New: Leaders at Northumbria University argue the time to reform the Teachers Pension Scheme is now.

www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.

I wrote this with my colleague on one of the most pressing issues that some UK universities are facing at the moment: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation

FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

How very sad. What an extraordinary author.

For some of us Christmas is just too much…

He really hid that.

NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. https://buff.ly/402xYcg

Me too.

a lot can happen in 5 years

Massive away win for the little fella.

PhD Fully Funded Scholarship Opportunity! Anyone fancy writing on the history of war graves and commemoration? We have a great collaborative PhD lined up with Chester and @cwgc.bsky.social Full details here or DM me: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...

I smell winter

From few days ago….

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