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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 4h

I gave a keynote on accent bias and social mobility at the ABI (Assoc. of British Insurers) last week. Alongside my keynote, they invited me to write a blog post on our work which you can now read below:

www.abi.org.uk/news/blog-ar...

Accent bias as a barrier to social mobility | ABI

www.abi.org.uk

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 4h

Tory claims about 'millions' of people getting Motability cars for anxiety or ADHD wholly wrong, experts say - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 4h

There are very few of the cheapest seats. They are high above the corner flag. A terrible view.

Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 5h

As a friend who was planning to go to the 2026 WC told me, "this settles it". He won't.

Comparison of prices between the prices of tickets at the 2022 and 2026 Fifa World Cup, showing prices increases of up to 1,000%.

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Gildy Stern @oldhamletsghost.bsky.social · 5h

This is obscene.

Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 5h

As a friend who was planning to go to the 2026 WC told me, "this settles it". He won't.

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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 4h

Switzerland is expensive, though. My son was shocked how expensive it was, compared to Austria and Germany

Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 4h

My son worked in Linz. That would make a good day trip from Vienna. Innsbruck is nice too.

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Libération @liberation.fr · 4h

Le risque d’une épidémie de grippe aviaire réhaussé de «négligeable» à «modéré» en France

En cause : les migrations saisonnières d’oiseaux sauvages et la confirmation d’un foyer dans un élevage du Pas-de-Calais

Le risque d’une épidémie de grippe aviaire réhaussé de «négligeable» à «modéré» en France

www.liberation.fr

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7h

Making a play like this suggests that it won't stop there, because Labour knows that people don't have to be Einstein to figure out that it therefore follows that perhaps something should be done about it other than passively accepting the costs of Brexit.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

www.theguardian.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 21h

Gavin Williamson has described the decision to open, then close, primary schools on 4 January 2021 as “panicked”.

I would describe it as idiotic.

Boris Johnson gave parents 'false hope' over schools reopening, Gavin Williamson tells Covid inquiry

Watch as the former education secretary gives evidence at the inquiry, which is focusing on the impact of the pandemic on children and young people.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 8h

Starmer's words on Brexit were not an abberation, then - Reeves is going with 'Farage and the Tories put your taxes up'.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledges she is looking at potential tax rises and spending cuts to fill a black hole in her Budget which she said was partly due to the lingering impact of #Brexit. 🧵
www.independent.co.uk/money/rachel...

Reeves eyes tax hikes as economy suffers ‘severe and long-lasting’ Brexit impact

Rachel Reeves said ‘austerity, Brexit, and the ongoing impact of Liz Truss’s mini-budget’ had weighed heavily on the UK economy.

www.independent.co.uk

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 17h

I assume all the 'hurty word' free speech warriors that were crying their eyes out over Lucy Connolly will be absolutely furious about the guy who has just been sent to prison for his social media posts about Nigel Farage.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21h

Covid was a wasted opportunity. During lockdown the climate of earth drastically improved, outdated work practices were uprooted & people had time for their own lives. It's a shame none of that continued.

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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 19h

So many students think they need to keep their reader guessing what they think until the end.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Why is academic writing so boring?

Every now again I like to post my old Guardian columns. This one, from 2007, now counts as an antique.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Literary boredom

Academics love a dull read, says Jonathan Wolff.

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

Why is academic writing so boring?

Every now again I like to post my old Guardian columns. This one, from 2007, now counts as an antique.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Literary boredom

Academics love a dull read, says Jonathan Wolff.

www.theguardian.com

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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 20h

In 2017 a long standing Bristol rumour was proven to be true. Vale Street in Totterdown was officially declared the steepest residential street in England. It has an average incline of 22 degrees. Cars have to be parked diagonally to prevent them from rolling down the hill.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23h

⚠️@pimlicat.bsky.social, Best for Britain CEO:

“Increased inflation linked to food and hospitality prices underscores the urgency of EU-UK cooperation."

"An SPS agreement with our largest market can cut supermarket and catering costs, driving down prices for consumers”
https://bit.ly/47eSkBQ

Efforts to cut Brexit red tape urgent as IMF increase inflation forecast

The urgency of delivering on UK-EU cooperation in areas linked to food and hospitality prices has been highlighted by campaigners, after UK inflation was forecast to surge to the highest in the G7.

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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 22h

Probably Macbeth.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 23h

In this interview, Farage said, "Brexit is the best thing to happen to..." and the first country that came to his mind was Russia.

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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 22h

Classes should not be recorded. The point is that they should be places where students can risk asking naive questions or make misjudgements in their comments without them being recorded.

Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 1d

This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

College lectures may not always be engaging, but in the past, students still had to go (or borrow notes from a classmate). Now that many lectures are available to view remotely, Dr. Wolf-Wendel added, professors have to try harder to draw students into the classroom.

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 1d

This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...