Ruth Holliday
@ruthholliday.bsky.social
#MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please
The Torygraph is literally histrionic about tiny tax rises for wealthy people 🤷♀️
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Torygraph is literally histrionic about tiny tax rises for wealthy people 🤷♀️
Appeared in Armley, Leeds (Rachel Reeves’ constituency)
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Appeared in Armley, Leeds (Rachel Reeves’ constituency)
Press out in force today to condemn any tax rises on the rich …
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Press out in force today to condemn any tax rises on the rich …
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As I recall Roy and Hayley were seen as pretty iconic national treasures.
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
As I recall Roy and Hayley were seen as pretty iconic national treasures.
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🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
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UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
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7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
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The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
The question is whether any of this damages his reputation amongst his supporters 🤷♀️
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The question is whether any of this damages his reputation amongst his supporters 🤷♀️
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
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Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...
transsafety.network
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Time to concede that the whole privatization of higher education was a giant mistake? Second only, perhaps, to the privatization of water?
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Time to concede that the whole privatization of higher education was a giant mistake? Second only, perhaps, to the privatization of water?
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'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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I would much rather pay more income tax than have this ongoing chaos at work
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I would much rather pay more income tax than have this ongoing chaos at work
Apparently if governments take any action to reduce the profits of fossil fuel companies within the next 20 years the fossil fuel companies can sue governments for the lost income. This is on top of the £40bn or so of tax-payers’ money they get in subsidies. 🤷♀️
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Apparently if governments take any action to reduce the profits of fossil fuel companies within the next 20 years the fossil fuel companies can sue governments for the lost income. This is on top of the £40bn or so of tax-payers’ money they get in subsidies. 🤷♀️
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📊 NEW | As Labour launches crackdowns on refugees and trans people, Starmer's approval hits new low.
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📊 NEW | As Labour launches crackdowns on refugees and trans people, Starmer's approval hits new low.
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
✅ Favourable – 19% (-2)
❌ Unfavourable – 73% (+1)
Via YouGov, 16-17 Nov (+/- vs 14 Oct)
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It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be prohibited from attending COP meetings.
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It’s a problem that none of the people criticised in the covid response report seems capable of shame, reflection or believing they could be wrong about anything. Everything’s just a game, other lives or deaths aren’t something they understand or even believe
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It’s a problem that none of the people criticised in the covid response report seems capable of shame, reflection or believing they could be wrong about anything. Everything’s just a game, other lives or deaths aren’t something they understand or even believe
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Criticize, smear and defame in the media, then cut.
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Criticize, smear and defame in the media, then cut.
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
The MO of neoliberalism.
All so rich people, with more ££ than they could ever spend, pay less tax.
Meanwhile we lose hospitals, universities, schools, libraries, welfare, youth clubs, social housing, social care, BBC.
When will we learn?
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
Today’s Ivory tower folks …
Today in the life of an academic specifically targeted by management as under hours: PhD supervision meeting; exam board attendance; read and rank 51 job applications; write and deliver tonight’s MA lecture; write tomorrow’s 3rd year class.
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today’s Ivory tower folks …
Wow! We need one of these about Farage!
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Wow! We need one of these about Farage!