Richard Carr
@richardcarr.bsky.social
https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
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Richard Carr
@richardcarr.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973
Using extensive and fresh archival material, this book places the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland after 1921 in a new light, encouraging us to rethink the dominant narrative of con...
www.routledge.com
My book on Britain and Ireland from the 1920s to the early 1970s is now available to pre-order (sure, given the price, very likely for an institutional library - but hey, flag it up).
Trade, tariffs, and sovereignty - so very current. Also marriage and migration.
www.routledge.com/Britain-and-...
Trade, tariffs, and sovereignty - so very current. Also marriage and migration.
www.routledge.com/Britain-and-...
The Twitter left I can now discern is just a nominally Labour fresh faced Oxbridge guy in his thirties hating everything about the Labour Party but liking a cherry picked bit of its history
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The Twitter left I can now discern is just a nominally Labour fresh faced Oxbridge guy in his thirties hating everything about the Labour Party but liking a cherry picked bit of its history
My uni is on the highest growing unis list. This is in part due to opening a big new campus, and franchising elsewhere. It's defo been better managed than many competitors. But it's still rolled out voluntary redundancies to generate a small carry forward profit. Noone wins in the uncapped nos game.
'David Maguire and Alex Bols, vice-chancellor and chief of staff respectively at the University of East Anglia, updated their prediction made last autumn that 10,000 jobs could be lost in 2024-25, claiming this same amount could in fact be lost every year going forward.' 1/3
UK universities ‘could cut 10,000 jobs every year’
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
My uni is on the highest growing unis list. This is in part due to opening a big new campus, and franchising elsewhere. It's defo been better managed than many competitors. But it's still rolled out voluntary redundancies to generate a small carry forward profit. Noone wins in the uncapped nos game.
If my browser is accurate, google books just arbitrarily chucking the cover in the first image onto the book in the second it seems.
"Screw it, close enough"
"Screw it, close enough"
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If my browser is accurate, google books just arbitrarily chucking the cover in the first image onto the book in the second it seems.
"Screw it, close enough"
"Screw it, close enough"
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The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.
'Bols and Maguire trace the current financial problems higher education institutions are facing back to the government’s decision to remove the limit on student numbers in 2015-16 and deregulate student recruitment, while maintaining caps on tuition fees, thus limiting universities’ income.' 2/3
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.
Neighbours ending on a storyline where a highway is being rerouted through Ramsay Street like the State of Victoria is moving infrastructure around at the flick of a switch like pre-Olympics Beijing.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Neighbours ending on a storyline where a highway is being rerouted through Ramsay Street like the State of Victoria is moving infrastructure around at the flick of a switch like pre-Olympics Beijing.
ChatGPT: pls can you mock me up some visual evidence for the most bizarrely humble REF impact statement?
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ChatGPT: pls can you mock me up some visual evidence for the most bizarrely humble REF impact statement?
Had me at what is mansion tax
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Had me at what is mansion tax
Archive one of the day: done
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Archive one of the day: done
Add a layer of adrenaline to the pre-Budget hype by designing a first semester module entirely constructed around those Fantasy Budget/post-Budget “Impact on You” widgets you get in the press/think tanks. What’s the package? What will you leak? What composite Worcester Woman-ish voter is the target?
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Add a layer of adrenaline to the pre-Budget hype by designing a first semester module entirely constructed around those Fantasy Budget/post-Budget “Impact on You” widgets you get in the press/think tanks. What’s the package? What will you leak? What composite Worcester Woman-ish voter is the target?
It’s almost 2026, this will take some retrospective spinning of my 2021-2025 research agenda, I’ll be honest
REF changes ‘to help deliver new UKRI objectives’, says chief executive Ian Chapman.
Research Excellence Framework should help the agency achieve its new objectives, which have been tied closely to government priorities, he says.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Research Excellence Framework should help the agency achieve its new objectives, which have been tied closely to government priorities, he says.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF changes ‘to help deliver new UKRI objectives’, says Chapman - Research Professional News
National funding agency handed targets tied to government priorities as part of R&D revamp
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It’s almost 2026, this will take some retrospective spinning of my 2021-2025 research agenda, I’ll be honest
Paper edition Guardian booking income tax as both an expenditure and receipt this morning
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Paper edition Guardian booking income tax as both an expenditure and receipt this morning
Reposted by Richard Carr
This fits well with the "everyone is twelve" theory.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This fits well with the "everyone is twelve" theory.
Show a bit of get up and go. A bit of innovation and drive. I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Show a bit of get up and go. A bit of innovation and drive. I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
Look do I now have to sacrifice my salary to The Times too????
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Look do I now have to sacrifice my salary to The Times too????
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The important thing in all this is we don’t cut the >£100k-ers who do jobs at universities that don’t add anything - can’t stress this enough
all those years work pitching the value of the humanities and STILL when financial crunch comes and management consultants role in, they could not care less.
history doesn’t have enough commercial applications! humanities aren’t engaged enough with AI! why isn’t my house a helicopter!
history doesn’t have enough commercial applications! humanities aren’t engaged enough with AI! why isn’t my house a helicopter!
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The important thing in all this is we don’t cut the >£100k-ers who do jobs at universities that don’t add anything - can’t stress this enough
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Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems!
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Reposted by Richard Carr
Political speeches, particularly in parliament, can sometimes run a difficult line between scathing and just a bit nasty, and it strikes me that Kemi Badenoch's budget response risks falling into the latter camp.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Political speeches, particularly in parliament, can sometimes run a difficult line between scathing and just a bit nasty, and it strikes me that Kemi Badenoch's budget response risks falling into the latter camp.
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Probably unfashionable view but, given the economic and political constraints, I think Rachel Reeves did rather a good job...nice also to see a marriage of political conviction and fairness...
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Probably unfashionable view but, given the economic and political constraints, I think Rachel Reeves did rather a good job...nice also to see a marriage of political conviction and fairness...
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Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
Clobbering family homes? Naff off
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Clobbering family homes? Naff off
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Looks like enough to broadly placate markets and lots of small things to please Labour backbenchers happy.
A safety first budget in terms of shoring up the government’s position.
But against a background of sluggish growth and a tough outlook for living standards.
A safety first budget in terms of shoring up the government’s position.
But against a background of sluggish growth and a tough outlook for living standards.
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Looks like enough to broadly placate markets and lots of small things to please Labour backbenchers happy.
A safety first budget in terms of shoring up the government’s position.
But against a background of sluggish growth and a tough outlook for living standards.
A safety first budget in terms of shoring up the government’s position.
But against a background of sluggish growth and a tough outlook for living standards.
Reposted by Richard Carr
A few things I liked in the #Budget - abolishing two-child limit (should've been done a year ago, but they got there!); I don't mind the freezing of tax thresholds - broadening the base of taxation is how you make your mega-bucks; the wee change to energy policy and removing...
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A few things I liked in the #Budget - abolishing two-child limit (should've been done a year ago, but they got there!); I don't mind the freezing of tax thresholds - broadening the base of taxation is how you make your mega-bucks; the wee change to energy policy and removing...
Can Madam Deputy Speaker “can colleagues please leave the chamber quietly” come into seminars and lectures where students do the keep chatting thing when you’re four or five sentences clearly into the start of the class
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Can Madam Deputy Speaker “can colleagues please leave the chamber quietly” come into seminars and lectures where students do the keep chatting thing when you’re four or five sentences clearly into the start of the class