Feargal Cochrane

Picture of Andrew M-W as an England rugby player

I’m sorry - but this wins the internet today -I will be taking no more questions at this time 😂😂😂

Goodwin was to academia what Guillis was to teaching😉

Moving deckchairs on the Titanic here. -the scandal goes right to the top including the now King Charles & his mother -the police, the palace & senior politicians. Hard to imagine that they were not fully aware of Andrew’s activities & have paid money to cover it up & deny justice to the victims.

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& Dev turns into John Bruton in 1952 😂

Though on reflection -is ‘the AI’ making some clever clogs point that they’ve all been more or less the same? #oldgreymen Hmmm 🤔

Albert Reynolds 😂

This is a really excellent piece - detailing the situation for geography (&other subjects) across UK #HE. The cuts & more general lack of support are having a devastating effects that will reverberate for decades @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social

Lovely obit here. He was brilliant in The Godfather -the evil civil servant who seemed urbane and charming. #RIP

Will Trump even allow an election? The President is manoeuvring to delegitimise the November midterms

Will Trump even allow an election?

The president is manoeuvring to delegitimise the November midterms

By Freddie Hayward

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Bereft of ideas, UK Far Right copy the US to manufacture ‘free speech’ culture wars focused on unis. They target unis not because of their rich recruitment potential (they aren’t) but because we teach critical skills that easily undermine their divisive claims. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What does Peter Mandelson have to do with Palantir?

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It’s time 🥬

Smile when you’re winning…

There’s another way of looking at it though -other than the PM is just a gullible fool. It’s more in cynical fecker territory -how better to wrangle a convicted sex offender serial liar & harasser, just elected US President, than appoint someone who ‘understands’ him?
Marriage made in hell perhaps?

Nice obit of the great man here
-no one did Alex Higgins impressions as well as JV -including Alex Higgins! Saw him ambling into the Crucible at last years World Championships -dandering along talking to all the punters. #RIP

They are definitely leaning into their Mountbatten legacy these days 😉

👏 seems a good case for misconduct in public office and significant jail time if convicted.

(ironically nothing to do with his friend being a convicted pedophile -but due his leaking of sensitive information from Cabinet to a hostile foreign actor).

Been a farcical pantomime so far -an awful ordeal for their victims to endure. Hopefully lawyers will now get on with it - finally.

Photo of Sunday Morning show on Sky News with Trevor Philips and guests

GBeebies level of ignorance on this show - woeful 2 minute ‘discussion’ of current Troubles Bill which Philips refers to as, ‘sort of domestic affairs’, while Baroness Cavendish 🤷‍♂️ opines gravely about 100s of soldiers being prosecuted! Sonia Sodha: ‘yeah I agree. It’s a difficult message to send’ 🤦‍♂️

The totalitarian turn of US is well underway. Closing down the media print & broadcast, show trials & suspension of constitution are next -with rule via emergency legislation while a new (territorially larger) America is built.
Killing US citizens in the street & denying due process only the start.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

UK clearly needs to rejoin EU for Nat security and economic reasons.
But As I recall it, the UK was the author of its own misfortune in #Brexit.
EU merely backed Ireland as a remaining member state in its negotiations with UK which proved a very unreliable and amateurish negotiating partner.

Graph showing total share of overseas student population at each university made up of Chinese students

"Top UK universities increase their reliance on China for overseas recruitment: Data shows that two in five overseas [NB OVERSEAS] students at Russell Group institutions last year were from China" (though that figure hides considerable variation!) www.ft.com/content/9db6...

Correct! And when he was an academic he ate his own books as a penalty for getting it completely wrong! This was his inevitable destiny.

Agreed and probably a great boost for Andy Burnham in the long term as well as others like Angela Raynner. Starmer looks increasingly weak and vulnerable.