Anna Page

If I could change one piece of the discourse-that-drives-policy it’d be to underscore that higher education is not only a benefit to the individual but to all of us. It’s a collective good.

BREAKING: Richard Tice is to announce Reform UK's plans to introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will scrap Labour's Employment Rights' Act and rent reforms

JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM

This is what the rubes who think AI is some whizz bang solution to work fail to get. The point of the work in education isn’t the output. The point of the work in education IS THE WORK.

Vatican News No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence". "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said. Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted. "If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ." vaticannews.va

PAPA LEONE YES

According to the last census, the population of the UK is currently 69,785,969. The number of people who "can't speak English" is 161,000. That makes a non-English speaking minority here of 0.23%. Far fewer than the Brits in Spain who don't speak Spanish!
#RefUKkers

I'm glad that in the UK we have Robin Cousins commentating and he is calm, measured, realistic and interesting. Doesn't hype any of the skaters.

pairs figure skating

The left, being actually educated, with enough humanities to have discernment and judgement as well as moral reasoning, is pretty damn good at metabolizing new information. And it sniffed this pile of badly generated shit to discern it’s environmentally & informationally poisonous as hell.

Reform UK and Germany's AfD: why is Britain asleep at the wheel? - West Country Voices Let me tell you what’s happening in Germany right now – and why the UK should be paying very close attention. In Germany: The AfD is under heavy surveillance. In May 2025, Germany’s domestic intelligence...

Reform UK and Germany’s AfD: why is Britain asleep at the wheel?

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.

Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

YouTube video by The Open University Study Like A Performer | How Freya Balances Performing and Psychology

Study like a Performer - learning and working in parallel youtu.be/XQxPx37kz3o?... #HigherEd #learning @openuniversity.bsky.social

Yes, it's fair that my taxes pay for someone else to learn to be a doctor or an artist or a teacher or an architect or an actor or a biochemist because I want to live in a society that has people that can do all the things I can't.

Still of the opinion that having a well educated population is a societal good and we should just pay for it through general taxation.

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM

Peter Thiel’s spyware firm Palantir is wiring itself into critical UK services - with over £630m in government contracts.

We need a full Parliamentary debate on Palantir’s role 👇

(Graphic via @thenerve.news)

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.

www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has almost 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Northern publishing co-op makes its mark The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary

Northern publishing co-op makes its mark

The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary

By Andrew Bibby

"Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken. There are students who feel that they are being robbed of an educational experience, because AI has fundamentally shifted the culture of education."

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

In light of recent events, this should surely get some more traction

YouTube video by The Open University Study Like A Musician | Balancing a music career, a degree and gaining skills to become a teacher.

Study like a Musician youtu.be/UBJqcypYHeY?... @openuniversity.bsky.social #music #teaching #performing #studying #career #skills #flexibility #BlackDykeBand

The bit that the 'learning = memory' narrative misses out is that learning is an emotional as well as an intellectual pursuit. Knowledge and skills aren't enough on their own; we need to have the bravery, confidence and motivation to use them. #EduSky

The blissful unawareness of millennials who do not remember the threat of the USSR and mutually assured destruction.

If you were 5 when the Berlin wall came down and grew up in the West in the decade of hope that was the 1990s, maybe you just have zero radar for Russian aggression.

Which is real.

Briefing should ahead of announcement should have clear embargo header on it and announcement from government should be in parliament first.

it also requires making mistakes, changing thought processes, acknowledging that you arent a perfect person. Often it requires you to look silly, be judged, and always to be vulnerable. All things these people fail at/are scared of.

What they don't realise is that there is enormous inner strength in being able to face those creative challenges and vulnerability. They're too scared to take that first step to self-discovery of creativity and potential growth. So they condemn creatives for being bold enough to try.

they are secretly intimidated by creativity because it takes work, imagination and isn't always predictable (which is 'safe')

Good luck with finishing your thesis and getting through the slightly mad school stuff this week.