David Gadd

Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet

UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy.

Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn.

Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale.

Govt want skilled labour.
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Reflections on almost 3 decades of listening to men's account of sexual violence and what they reveal about some currently newsworthy debates

Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’ The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

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Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’ Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France

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In 2024 only 13 out 19125 NRM applications were deemed to have been made in bad faith. It's disgraceful that UK Labour are continuing the Conservatives false narrative on pervasive abuse of modern slavery protections.

In London, hate will never win.

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.

They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

"Who do they think they are?!"

A furious @andyburnham.bsky.social on the news that a Reform UK government would scrap plans to build Northern Powerhouse Rail.

The Slow Professor

An excellent read for academics wondering what not to prioritise after the 'break'

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings

With UK news shows reporting more than 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel since Labour came to power now would be a good time to remind Nigel Farage & others that Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings

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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Has student-centred teaching gone too far? Marketisation and the pandemic pushed student preferences to the top of every university’s teaching and learning agenda. But should those preferences be acted on even if they risk undermining educatio...

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Makes some insightful points about incremental learning and the difference between student need and student choice that have become lost in an over marketised system

Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon

Well put and really means the question needs to be, not is neuro diversity over diagnosed, but how do we design organisational structures that embrace and build on such diversity

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Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls

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Spot on. Come on Labour. Don't reproduce the shortcomings of your predecessors

Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator Move follows intense criticism of utilities over sewage spills, shareholder payouts and ballooning debts

Causing concern and confusion among fans of The Hanmaid's Tale ;-)
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term) We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...

Come and work with Emily Gray, Maria Grasso and I on our @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded project on #NewLabour and their social and economic policies.

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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Praise You: A forgotten love letter to black men The secret civil rights history of DJ Fatboy Slim’s dance anthem Praise You

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Exceptional interview. Revelatory

Joint letter to Yvette Cooper: Child sexual exploitation (CSE) must not be stereotyped 27th June 2025 – Following Baroness Casey’s audit on group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) and abuse (CSA), we have grown concerned by the lack of recognition for CSE support, com…

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Presumably the same for Meta AI

The #1 most frequently asked question about Copilot in Microsoft Word or Gemini in Google Docs is how do you turn it off.

One really tricky issue with ethnicity data relating to suspects - as opposed to defendants -is that it's based on child victims' perceptions of someone they may not know very well or even at all. That lends itself to a crude 4-fold typology, rooted in British colonialism and remade in police data

A wedding of Game of Thrones fans?

🗣️Understanding and rehumanising the harms of hate - powerful reflections from Professor @NeilChakraborti in today’s talk on how we discuss and address hate in society.

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

If you see Sir Keir, tell him

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.

WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?

TRUMP: I don't know

Nicely put, Kate and instructive also on gaps and silences that are currently dampening the UK government's chances of having Violence Against Women and Girls with 4.2 years.

‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’ Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians

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If the UK really were leading the world in combatting modern slavery, it would be reconsidering hosting the brands listed here -Starbucks, Nestlé, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Dunkin’, Illy and McDonald’s - and advising the public against buying from them.

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Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums Exclusive: Police set up taskforce to tackle online violence as young men seek victims on eating disorder forums

'big tech could help by stopping the algorithms pushing extreme content to young people who wanted' and if that is the case, then the solutions are more geopolitical and more corporate than is conventional assumed.

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