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Martin Myers
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Sociologist of education, writer, researcher, poet.
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Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Cool 1972 Panther paperback cover.
Nabokov short stores in pulp edition.
£1 #charityshop bargain
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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How Shabana Mahmood uses her ethnicity & origin story to justify white supremacy...I can think of similar examples within academia. Can you?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
How Shabana Mahmood uses her ethnicity & origin story to justify white supremacy...I can think of similar examples within academia. Can you?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Lots to get irritated by in Shabana Mahmood article. I’m mostly disturbed by the emphasis on support for Ukrainians as evidence of British tolerance. Whiteness as a key characteristic of refugee status? Undermines Mahmood’s claim about people who ‘look like me’

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are stirring up anger in the UK. My asylum reforms are our chance to stop them | Shabana Mahmood
I know some of these measures will face opposition. But a country without secure borders is less safe for those who look like me, says Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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“We were absolutely gobsmacked.”

48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare.
No consultation. No vision.

This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities.
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Terry Eagleton on Andrew 'surplus to the needs of humanity' Windsor:

"Andrew doesn’t know very much. No doubt he has some knowledge of ships, horses and dubious commercial dealing, but like almost all of the rest of his family, he’s probably never read a book."

unherd.com/2025/11/the-...
Andrew: the half-buffoon prince
unherd.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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More of that blogpost on protected conversations in slide form: qmucu.org/2024/08/30/m...

⭐ACAS guidance: acas.org.uk/sites/defaul...
⭐Unite information sheet: learnwithunite.org/assets/Uploa...
September 4, 2024 at 12:36 PM
This is ridiculous. Sky journo interviewing suspect before and during arrest. Performative policing. Performative news coverage.
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Counter-terror police investigate claim UK university halted research after Chinese pressure
Sheffield Hallam University ordered professor to cease human rights study into Uyghurs forced labour in China
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Pursued by the ghost of Gene Hackman
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Strike action is BACK ON this week and we have plenty of events to show solidarity and learn from each other:

RALLIES will be held on Tues and Thurs at 12:40, starting in the Trent Courtyard.

We also have 3 TEACH OUTS during the week: uonucu.org/teachouts/

See you there!
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Samuel Beckett went into hiding following the news he won the Nobel prize. Tracked down by Swedish journalists he agreed to give an interview only if they did not ask any questions 🤣
Congrats to László Krasznahorkai. Well deserved!

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October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Brooding over Jambinai’s performance last night. Absolutely stunning. Reminds me of Th’ Faith Healers, MBV, JAMC, Mahler all wrapped into one. A new happy noisy place for sure 😎
youtu.be/fWvUzkAXOMw?...
Jambinai - "Time of Extinction", live @ OFF-Fest 2015
YouTube video by skopjejazzfest
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October 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Jambinai & London Contemporary Orchestra at the Barbican
Overwhelming and massively noisy.
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Keir Starmer's narrative that Farage and Reform are 'not racist' just pursuing racist policies underline the Labour Party's longstanding, ingrained racism (and willingness to appeal to racist voters).
October 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Worth noting a lot of funded research in my field i.e. sociology of education/reproduction of race & class inequality seems funded on the basis it produces knowledge that sits comfortably with the status quo. Unfunded research is often the only option to challenge conformity.
Excellent points ! Hope "shrink and shape" people are listening. @astromikemerri.bsky.social @stuartreeves.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Leigh Bowery @tatemodern.bsky.social is terrific. The fashion and Freud paintings all obviously stunning. But its the archive of memorabilia and random odd stuff, mountains of it, that really stand out
August 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The Man from Mar A Lago
July 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Horace Andy still cutting the mustard
July 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM