Nick Watson

As long as they don’t run up stairs!

A great intro to @uofgussp.bsky.social's Dr Jane Cullingworth's new @evidencepolicy.bsky.social article.

That will make up for it!

Can’t see how that was a clear and obvious error

The world’s wealthiest dynasty is growing richer from Britain's SEND crisis Voracious sharks of private equity are exploiting the crisis afflicting special educational needs

Autistic children left 'frightened, traumatised and screaming in pain' at a special school charging six-figure fees as it boosts income for the world's richest family.

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I wrote about this profiteering scandal a couple of months ago inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

3 year Research Associate post working on evaluation of #CommunityWealthBuilding working with me @uofglasgow.bsky.social and colleagues from @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social and Lancaster: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Is the bar War Pigs still there?

We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Not my favourite, but then it takes all sorts

Dis Dis!

Great paper Louise, really enjoyed reading that

It’s the whey you tell them!

In 1985 I played a game of pool against John Wark in The Carousel, Myrtle Parade, Liverpool

Or, as it’s usually called in the Avenues, haricots sur du pain grillé

A kitchen bookshelf in the Revered Avenues without either a Slater or a Lawson? I’m not sure that’s legal.

Exactly this, we shouldn’t underplay the risks Ed the Bee takes to ensure we get honey to put on our porridge

Don’t go down the mines daddy, there’s plenty of slack in your pants.

Maybe add some hollandaise sauce next time?

Assisted dying about ‘human cost’ not pounds and pence, MP behind Bill says Kim Leadbetter said the Bill was ‘the most robust piece of legislation in this area in the world’.

“for me, assisted dying and giving people the choice at the end of their life when they’re facing a terminal illness is about the human cost. It’s not about pounds and pence.” @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social talking about the heart of this issue - the human cost www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Socrates, Brahms and Liszt?

Unpicking the changes to disability support for young disabled people across the UK Professor Charlotte Pearson Professor Nicholas Watson Image is of the Downing Street street sign, and the University of Glasgow and Centre for Public Policy logos.

NEW insights 📝

Prof Charlotte Pearson and Prof Nicholas Watson @uofgussp.bsky.social share their expertise into the impact of the proposed withdrawal of Employment Support Allowance (ESA) on young disabled people in the UK.

Read 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Not at all bitter, the best team won and France deserved both their win tonight and the championship, but why wasn’t Mauvaka’s headbutt a red card?

“”I’m in a lecture…nah, it’s rubbish, I can talk, I’m not going to miss anything important”

Do you mean rum?

Robert Harris’ novel on Dreyfus, An Officer and a Gentleman, is also excellent and well worth a read.

Medical and political paternalism and the end of life

Ahead of tomorrow's next stage in HoC on #AssistedDying this letter in BMJ by @charlotteaugst.bsky.social is v compelling

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

More of a paddle than a swim. The real question is why?

Just picked up a lot of new followers who are comedy sketch writers, hopefully they have not read my papers and decided I must be one too!

That will be all the Taylor Swift fans looking for new icons to follow.

They’re still at it today judging by the amount of time my Citroen spent off the road.