Gav Maclean
@gavmaclean.bsky.social
Small time sociologist.
He/him
He/him
(this is the Question Time approach to bias as long as red and blue are equally weighted it's fine even if it is delivered by a pinko communist)
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
(this is the Question Time approach to bias as long as red and blue are equally weighted it's fine even if it is delivered by a pinko communist)
Was I too heavy with the Tory bashing? Here, have some Keir quotes to balance it out.
Two child benefit policy is gone? Well, here's Wes saying Ozempic for unemployed.
Oh, the coalition did some bad stuff? Well, Cooper introduced the WCA.
Oh Thatcher said what? Here's your Gordon Brown quote.
Two child benefit policy is gone? Well, here's Wes saying Ozempic for unemployed.
Oh, the coalition did some bad stuff? Well, Cooper introduced the WCA.
Oh Thatcher said what? Here's your Gordon Brown quote.
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Was I too heavy with the Tory bashing? Here, have some Keir quotes to balance it out.
Two child benefit policy is gone? Well, here's Wes saying Ozempic for unemployed.
Oh, the coalition did some bad stuff? Well, Cooper introduced the WCA.
Oh Thatcher said what? Here's your Gordon Brown quote.
Two child benefit policy is gone? Well, here's Wes saying Ozempic for unemployed.
Oh, the coalition did some bad stuff? Well, Cooper introduced the WCA.
Oh Thatcher said what? Here's your Gordon Brown quote.
Yeah it does feel like there has been a move to being simply content providers in publishing. Feel bad for the illustrator here!
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Yeah it does feel like there has been a move to being simply content providers in publishing. Feel bad for the illustrator here!
People have such short memories, the Tories nationalised wages 5 years ago!
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
People have such short memories, the Tories nationalised wages 5 years ago!
Sort of sad I missed this one. When I was 17 I had a list of bands that I wanted to see live and they're the last ones I can that I haven't.
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Sort of sad I missed this one. When I was 17 I had a list of bands that I wanted to see live and they're the last ones I can that I haven't.
the cheek of him to say deindustrialisation
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
the cheek of him to say deindustrialisation
Also, as any feminist researcher of "labour saving" technologies could have predicted, this:
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Also, as any feminist researcher of "labour saving" technologies could have predicted, this:
Harry Braverman didn't really envisage how white collar professionals would actively consent to their deskilling. He could quite easily see how deskilling would lead to computer science graduates having a harder time now finding employment after years of public policy saying compsci was a sure thing
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Harry Braverman didn't really envisage how white collar professionals would actively consent to their deskilling. He could quite easily see how deskilling would lead to computer science graduates having a harder time now finding employment after years of public policy saying compsci was a sure thing
These guys just don't care about a single thing.
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
These guys just don't care about a single thing.
Should have a word with your colleague Jonathan Hinder (Alma mater University of Oxford)
![A Labour MP has said he would not be disappointed if a reduction in net migration to the UK meant that some universities went bust, claiming the UK should not have “anywhere near as many universities”.
The comments have been dismissed by higher education experts as “silly” and “very obviously wrong”.
Jonathan Hinder, MP for Pendle and Clitheroe, told an event hosted by the think tank Civic Future on 29 April that “too many working-class people see Labour as the party of immigrants, minorities [and] those on benefits”, and was critical of the number of people from overseas that support the UK higher education system.
“You’ll have people from a very powerful higher education lobby who say, well, we need foreign students to service these universities, which are popping out degrees of dubious quality, of dubious value to the economy,” Hinder said, in comments reported by the LabourList website.
He added that he would be “happy to be bold and say, ‘I don’t think we should have anywhere near as many universities and university places’”, and that if universities argued they would go bust without people from abroad, he would say, ‘OK, I’m not that disappointed’”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pv5rfayylqy5nrugcu75iaqd/bafkreiea56anuzw4f5nyiumsgdepjyzl2xa62iejr7fr2rt3qzjuibqj7y@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Should have a word with your colleague Jonathan Hinder (Alma mater University of Oxford)