Tommaso Sabbatini
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Tommaso Sabbatini
@tommsabb.bsky.social
Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
q: would the government consider intervening ala Dundee?

a: J.E. gives an absolutely pabulum non-answer and pivots to a. smaller institutions (not the q) and b. says there would be a specific point (protecting taxpayers).

so they'd let it go under
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I mean, reactionaries (including those with a red rosette) already think universities are for effete rootless cosmopolitan ‘anywheres’, whether UK-born or international: the boosterist rhetoric about int'l students only flatters their prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Great that you're pushing back against this far-right rubbish and wishing you luck, but I'm afraid wearing the same rosette as its proponents is going to hamper your efforts.
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Amazing, thanks!
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
C'è l'imbarazzo della scelta, ma per campanilismo sono tenuto a dire che quelle di Birmingham e dintorni non hanno eguali.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Magari non sanno di essere gongoozler, ma è incredibile come gente di ogni età e di ogni origine si fermi incantata a guardare le barche passare nelle chiuse, o addirittura le segua. (E ovviamente a quel punto glielo spieghiamo, che questo fa di loro dei gongoozler).
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
L'inglese britannico ha il meraviglioso termine gongoozler, che sta ai canali come l'umarell sta ai cantieri. E proprio come per l'umarellismo, da volontario su un canale vedo lo spirito del gongoozler accendersi nelle persone più insospettabili.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I suppose all Bark-shire jokes have already been made, haven't they.
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yeah. Thinking of how Britain revoked Shamima Begum's citizenship with the argument that she was supposedly *eligible* for another nationality…
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM