Naomi Fallon

She’s not wrong 😀

I’ve been banging on about the extra costs imposed on schools by an underfunded FSM policy for over a decade

Fantastic research work by @livinghealthy007.bsky.social and great reporting by @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social for @schoolsweek.bsky.social

@andyjolley.bsky.social The issue you have been highlighting for years.
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🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Been doing a lot of thinking about governance, geopolitics, and wicked problems lately.

Here's a thought: politicians/political parties *alone* aren't responsible for how messed up a country is.

Here me out....

Remembering what Nye Bevan said about why the NHS existed:

“No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

Reeves needs to learn the history of her party.

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Damn. This post from @graceblakeley.substack.com is so on 🎯

We're are now accepting applications for an exciting DPhil at the @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, *FUNDED* by the THRIVING Food Futures research hub!
The project is about divisive policies, supervised by me, Dr Rachel Pechey @petescarbs.bsky.social @ashakaur.bsky.social
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OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization.

We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition.

Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This. One hundred times this.

Calling all global food governance scholars! Call for papers for a special issue in case you missed it... info below!

Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link!

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Instead of blunting extremism, this dynamic justifies and strengthens it. What was once fringe becomes common sense. The Overton window shifts, and centrists are left managing expectations they can never satisfy.

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study Politicians talk about being pragmatic on climate change to avoid hard decisions.

Happy to share our new research on UK climate politics 🚨

We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay.

More detail below and in 🧵

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Oh, this is lovely.

Headshot of Stella Nordhagen smiling at the camera

Join us on Wednesday 24 September, when Dr Stella Nordhagen @stellanordhagen.bsky.social will share details of GAIN's new food systems policy coherence diagnostic tool.

Book your place!

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Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La... As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...

This piece by @anandmenon.bsky.social sums up superbly what many people who either aren't 'White British' (or because of their skin tone don't pass as such) are feeling right now. It's a deeply uncomfortable read, but then it's a deeply uncomfortable feeling for them. Do read if you get a mo.

My main takeaway is how the employee reports all her colleagues being supportive, it’s clear than transphobia is an orchestrated, top down assault on civil rights that doesn’t enjoy the support the media and politicians want you to believe

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This is truly fascinating -- a quick read, too.

The False Narrative of Conflict Evolving Into One

“Each time we make an organism extinct we commit a crime which transcends present, future and past and erases 3.8 billion years of evolution”
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Seriously, how is it going to help to release a suspect’s nationality or status? It’s simply playing into bigots’ hands. It also suggests an acceptance of the idea that migration status is an indicator of criminality.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Blueberry jam isn't blue because the anthocyanins in blueberries function as a pH indicator. They shift from blue to red in more acidic conditions, like when lemon juice is added during jam preparation. h/t @helenczerski.bsky.social

And foreign-born people in the UK are younger, so it's even more notable that rates of imprisonment are lower.

Worth noting, even with this significant cut to prices, the £2.75 is still 14p per meal more than DfE funding

LSE Library Fellowships Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning