Huw C. Davies
@huwcdavies.bsky.social
Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Interview with Jayna Devani - International Education Lead at OpenAI - on the future of education. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
#297 Open AI: The Great Equaliser? AI and the Future of Fair Learning.
Podcast Episode · The Edtech Podcast · 28/11/2025 · 50m
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November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Interview with Jayna Devani - International Education Lead at OpenAI - on the future of education. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Everything - the political economy of information - the structural incentives - whatever we want to call the systemic drivers - is all going the opposite direction.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Everything - the political economy of information - the structural incentives - whatever we want to call the systemic drivers - is all going the opposite direction.
Imagine meeting a time traveller from the 80s who only knows the domination of the Murdoch press, explaining the information revolution, the ability to access all the world’s knowledge through our phones, and then explaining the public is still somehow grossly misinformed.
Spoke to the New York Times for their report: the British public think immigration is up. It's actually down, sharply
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The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Imagine meeting a time traveller from the 80s who only knows the domination of the Murdoch press, explaining the information revolution, the ability to access all the world’s knowledge through our phones, and then explaining the public is still somehow grossly misinformed.
Brits overestimate the amount of Muslims in the UK by 350%.
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Brits overestimate the amount of Muslims in the UK by 350%.
Comparing Gemini to Grok on ‘National IQ’.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Comparing Gemini to Grok on ‘National IQ’.
Just checking in to see how non-racists supporters of the non-racist Farage are responding to today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just checking in to see how non-racists supporters of the non-racist Farage are responding to today’s budget.
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🚨Fantastic online conference here for digital sociologists, platforms studies, STS and surveillance studies folk 🚨
FYI: The #PlatGovNet2025 conference is free and online. You can see the fantastic full programme here: platgov.net/assets/site/...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨Fantastic online conference here for digital sociologists, platforms studies, STS and surveillance studies folk 🚨
Here’s transcript with the text missing from the broadcast. downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Here’s transcript with the text missing from the broadcast. downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Glasman is some time of monster of the Id, summoned into existence by progressive media professionals projecting their repressed self-hate for not being authentically w/c.
He's such a fucking loon. "My beloved working class". You patronising tosser.
And anyone old enough to have fought in the War was already on the way to retirement when Thatcher got in.
Quite a lot of them voted for her.
41% of C2s, 34% of DEs... 47% of age 55+...
And anyone old enough to have fought in the War was already on the way to retirement when Thatcher got in.
Quite a lot of them voted for her.
41% of C2s, 34% of DEs... 47% of age 55+...
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Glasman is some time of monster of the Id, summoned into existence by progressive media professionals projecting their repressed self-hate for not being authentically w/c.
It’s striking how much this lot still hate the EU and still campaign against it through the MCC. Almost as if it was never about ‘sovereignty’ and they are just malignant actors.
The group, the MCC, is set-up to indoctrinate young Hungarians into the regime’s ideology & so that they promote its interests. Speakers at this event who claim to oppose such indoctrination in unis in the UK include Furedi, Fox, Goodwin, Orr, Williams & various other members of the Spiked/RCP cult.
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It’s striking how much this lot still hate the EU and still campaign against it through the MCC. Almost as if it was never about ‘sovereignty’ and they are just malignant actors.
The group, the MCC, is set-up to indoctrinate young Hungarians into the regime’s ideology & so that they promote its interests. Speakers at this event who claim to oppose such indoctrination in unis in the UK include Furedi, Fox, Goodwin, Orr, Williams & various other members of the Spiked/RCP cult.
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The group, the MCC, is set-up to indoctrinate young Hungarians into the regime’s ideology & so that they promote its interests. Speakers at this event who claim to oppose such indoctrination in unis in the UK include Furedi, Fox, Goodwin, Orr, Williams & various other members of the Spiked/RCP cult.
A long time ago, I once thought that Pinker was a credible intellectual.
This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A long time ago, I once thought that Pinker was a credible intellectual.
Excellent article on the racism at the heart of the British establishment. Its conclusion echoes my analysis of Paul Marshall’s ARC where Farage spoke. ‘Globalist’ neoliberalism but only for the wealthy white ‘Christian’ in-group. Hypocrisy = expression of power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excellent article on the racism at the heart of the British establishment. Its conclusion echoes my analysis of Paul Marshall’s ARC where Farage spoke. ‘Globalist’ neoliberalism but only for the wealthy white ‘Christian’ in-group. Hypocrisy = expression of power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A government that refuses to face down the forces of ignorance and tell a section of the public that it can’t have its fantasy of a homogeneous backward looking culture and a thriving economy funding public services.
They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A government that refuses to face down the forces of ignorance and tell a section of the public that it can’t have its fantasy of a homogeneous backward looking culture and a thriving economy funding public services.
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. We’re in a 1945/1979 moment when the pre-existing economic model has broken down. The difference between now and then is that there is no alternative model waiting in the wings, even if there were politicians who could sell it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. We’re in a 1945/1979 moment when the pre-existing economic model has broken down. The difference between now and then is that there is no alternative model waiting in the wings, even if there were politicians who could sell it.
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They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
Reform is the party for denialist cranks, obstructionists and the fossil fuel industry that contributes to its coffers. Forcing people to ‘adapt’ is about as anti-human as you can get.
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reform is the party for denialist cranks, obstructionists and the fossil fuel industry that contributes to its coffers. Forcing people to ‘adapt’ is about as anti-human as you can get.
Whelan was on BBCQT last night riding the Spiked cult hobby horses about lockdowns & climate change. She attacked net zero & claimed it was unpopular within the public, not because it is but because the cult wants it to be. Why do the show’s producers think this worldview needs more airtime?
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Whelan was on BBCQT last night riding the Spiked cult hobby horses about lockdowns & climate change. She attacked net zero & claimed it was unpopular within the public, not because it is but because the cult wants it to be. Why do the show’s producers think this worldview needs more airtime?
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Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just an absolute joke of a newspaper these days
Reform activists are calling criticism of its policies Project Fear 2.0. Yet, post-Brexit UK, with its huge predicted loss in GDP, is so rubbish they all want to leave now.
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reform activists are calling criticism of its policies Project Fear 2.0. Yet, post-Brexit UK, with its huge predicted loss in GDP, is so rubbish they all want to leave now.
My paper was rejected by reviewers for the BSA's conference next year. Therefore I'll: be on GBNews later to denounce the whole of social science, start supporting Reform, present work at the Heterodox Academy, and join a dark money think tank to make a career out of externalising this failure.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My paper was rejected by reviewers for the BSA's conference next year. Therefore I'll: be on GBNews later to denounce the whole of social science, start supporting Reform, present work at the Heterodox Academy, and join a dark money think tank to make a career out of externalising this failure.
Also, David Starkey, who claimed that the slave trade wasn’t that bad because there are so many “damn blacks” around today, was the discussant for this lecture. Apart from anything else, this illustrates that the bar for being a conservative intellectual is horrifically low.
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Also, David Starkey, who claimed that the slave trade wasn’t that bad because there are so many “damn blacks” around today, was the discussant for this lecture. Apart from anything else, this illustrates that the bar for being a conservative intellectual is horrifically low.