Dr Nick Dickinson
@nickdickinson.bsky.social
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Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | DMs closed, so email me @ [email protected]
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nickdickinson.bsky.social
Absolutely correct yes. Oxford is the same if not more so in that even the VC has less power than average. The conference of colleges and the college principals themselves are the seat of power.
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Important to note that the Chancellor does not run the university. Despite names the Vice Chancellor is the executive. Hague doesn’t have the power or the influence to do anything like this and statements like this are just red meat for the anti-woke press.
nateo.bsky.social
Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Colonel Mustard with the Lead Pipe in the Book Depository
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ox.ac.uk
#OnThisDay in 1920, the first women received their Oxford degrees 🎓

📷 | St Anne's College Oxford
Black and white image of the first degree day for women, 14th October 1920.
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heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social
Week in week out, signs of an electorate crying out for electoral reform.
yougov.co.uk
Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
nickdickinson.bsky.social
It was never really an age bracket. It was a convenient euphemism for a loose collection of narrative tropes which, if you had to describe them explicitly, would sound embarrassing.
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Ha sorry apparently when I see those words in the same sentence my brain automatically adds “war” before criminal
nickdickinson.bsky.social
It's not even about that. He's talking about the domestic corruption charges that have been on hold since the war
nickdickinson.bsky.social
As he said this the BBC had a split screen to Hostages Square and the stony silence was notable. Not even sure BiBi was happy for him to bring this up so ham-handedly apropos of nothing.
atrupar.com
Trump to Israeli Knesset: "I have an idea -- Mr President, why don't give him a pardon? Give him a pardon. Whether we like it or not, this has been one of the greatest wartime presidents. And cigars and champagne -- who the hell cares about that?"
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instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Last chance to apply! Applications to join our team as a CRM Executive with experience in Zoho will close on Wednesday 15 October. 🚨

Find out more about the role and apply www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...
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mileendinstitute.bsky.social
Next Monday, 20 October, we will be exploring Thatcher's legacy and her impact on British politics today. With former Thatcher minister Gillian Shephard, Conservative peer Simone Finn, @philipjcowley.bsky.social and @robertsaunders.bsky.social. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/still-that...
nickdickinson.bsky.social
No but that’s not what she said
nickdickinson.bsky.social
I know what she means but this is a ridiculous argument. A USN ship turns up to do hurricane relief or something. It must be war!
atrupar.com
Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."
nickdickinson.bsky.social
If this was workable it would have happened on its own already. The problem is this group of people don't want collective solutions and social safety nets. As @foldablehuman.bsky.social put it, they're looking for an opportunity to be the boot in an imaginary future economic system.
joshalien.bsky.social
Man, reading some crypto forums, Democrats should be hammering the insider trading charges. It reminded me of that times focus group where the main frustration with guys into crypto was the rug pulls/insider stuff. cc @jlray.bsky.social
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explaintrade.com
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Starting a conversation with a barrage of questions is bad enough on its own. "Hello. Please list your interests in alphabetical order"
youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Democracy becomes aristocracy so gradually it’s hard to notice
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Third generation really. Same with RFK. We're dealing with failgrandsons at this point.
nickdickinson.bsky.social
We didn't. It's why our comedy is better than Americans
nickdickinson.bsky.social
The rule is anything and everything you hear about crypto is a planted story to feed the attention economy which props up the constant pump and dumps that are the only real economic activity in the space.
nickdickinson.bsky.social
Bet you all a tiny fraction of a Bitcoin this is not a meaningful donation at all but an agreement to boost the price of some random s***coin by getting it in the news linked to a major party. The real money will come in £.
catneilan.bsky.social
Exc: The Electoral Commission has been given early notice of the UK's first ever crypto donation

The has been "made, but not declared", to a party understood to be Reform

Reform spox said: "All donations above the reporting limit will be disclosed in the usual way"

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Calls for transparency on political funding after first c...
Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is rumoured to have been handed to Reform UK
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nickdickinson.bsky.social
Interesting uniform. VR on the collar for volunteer reserve and the navigator badge (one wing).
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pfarrelly2025.bsky.social
Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference. All sign up and speaker information here. Please share with anyone interested in attending. Just over a month to go!!! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference - TheUnchartedPast
Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference. 14th November (Online).
theunchartedpast.com