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Prof Mark Priestley

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Education Professor, Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling. Mountain and prog rock enthusiast. European. Blog at http://mrpriestley.wordpress.com Publications at https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255862 .. more

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Now available for preorder

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📚Er👻n H🎃ust🎃n📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 10h

Agreed 💯% owned horses and cats most of my life and things shifted for the worse with the conglomerate vet practices in terms of both pricing and the quality of vets. You rarely see the same vet 2x and always haranguing you to sign up to subscription based health plans or "medicate". Conned again.

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 10h

The treatment prices were so high that the insurance company capped the payments. This is a rip off based on an assumption that customers are insured. It is hard for those without insurance. The same treatment at an independent would have been half of what we were charged

Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 10h

Our local independent vet is very reasonable. A trip to a chain vet in Fort William cost us over £500 for an overnight stay after what was likely cannabis poisoning (after eating human poo - don’t laugh, a stoned dog that kept falling over)

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 10h

The purchasing of independent vets by national chains seems to be the problem - with a business model of hiking up prices to maximise income from insurance. The result is ripped off customers and higher insurance premiums

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off

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Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off.

news.sky.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off.

news.sky.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves

It’s about time!

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more journalists than World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq combined. More 👇🏼 🧵

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 1d

Recognised as a nonsense and a dangerous erosion of civil liberties and human rights except by the UK government

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...

Human rights official urges UK to review laws after Palestine Action placard arrests

Counter-terror laws must not place unnecessary limits on ‘fundamental rights’, Michael O’Flaherty tells Shabana Mahmood

www.theguardian.com

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

The @bbcnews have been such a let down on the Covid inquiry coverage.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 1d

This is not peace. It is the first stage in returning agreed rules to warfare and occupation

Without an end to occupation, the release of Palestinian leaders from captivity and return of justice through The Hague we are just seeing rich and powerful leaders toying with people’s devastated lives.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d

Confused policing of hastily enacted bad laws - a waste of public resources and continued erosion of free speech. All in all, a mess

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Mc @hhmgm.bsky.social · 2d

The Tories had 40 deals in the bag, remember? (They didn't).
They needed to say they'd got two biggies just to show how easy it all was and how great they were.
Content? Irrelevant.
We all pay the price for their lies in office, fighting Britain's corner.
They betrayed Britain - and want your vote!

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Colin Boden @colinbags.bsky.social · 2d

If I remember rightly NZ got everything they asked for. Became a bit of a joke on NZ TV. The UK government a laughing stock.

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Paul Cochrane @mrdissent.bsky.social · 2d

Headlines Mark
They needed the headlines
It’s something the Anzacs knew
The desperation….

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d

‘Why did he/Tories Tories sign them?’

Because they are incompetent and corrupt charlatans?

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Former Tory Minister Michael Gove says the post-Brexit Tory trade deals with Australia and New Zealand were bad for UK farmers.

Why did he/Tories Tories sign them?

Brexit hasn't yielded any economic benefits. UK gave up the best trade deals and now scavenges for whatever it can get.

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 3d

The rainbow is Brocken Spectre, btw. One of the loveliest mountain cloud phenomena

📚Er👻n H🎃ust🎃n📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 3d

These photos are spectacular. What a day for it. The one with the rainbow and the other with the dog's reflection 👌 One of my favourite books is Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain.

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 3d

Great pics - taken on her run over Ben Each, Stuc a Chroin and Ben Vorlich

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📚Er👻n H🎃ust🎃n📚 @thereadwarrior.bsky.social · 3d

These photos are spectacular. What a day for it. The one with the rainbow and the other with the dog's reflection 👌 One of my favourite books is Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain.

Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 3d

I missed a fabulous day in the Scottish hills today. @andreahgp.bsky.social took these pictures

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 4d

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

www.desmog.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 4d

This is an interesting and important contribution - especially in the way it reported that the government is considering weakening the OBR

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 4d

This article clearly illustrates why the government should be prosecuting the individuals who enabled and benefited from this wholesale corruption, including the politicians who facilitated it

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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