15 April 1913 | A Polish Jew, Jan Jakob Borowiecki, was born in Łódź. A worker.

In #Auschwitz from 17 March 1942.
No. 26863
Date of death: 29 march 1942.

I shared the news with colleagues and students this morning that I plan to retire as Principal of University of Glasgow.
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gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/prof…

By the time I step back in late 2025, I will have served 16 years as Principal & well over 20 years in HE senior management. (1/7)

Brave Officer Amy Scott took decisive action when lunged at by knife wielding Joal Cauchi at Sydney shopping centre massacre, where women were targeted by him. After incapacitating him she still gave the man CPR. That, is #humanity . news.sky.com/story/amy-scot…

UK benefit levels do not match living costs and are not fit for purpose. CAB report that 1 in 4 on #UniversalCredit have 'negative budgets' compared to 1 in 15 for general population. For disabled people benefits are increasingly punitive & impoverishing.

archive.ph/zT64N#selectio…

15 April 1883 | A Czech Jew, Rudolf Pollak, was born in Nejdek.

In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 27 July 1942.
Deported to #Auschwit zon 6 October 1944.
He was murdered in a gas chamber.

15 April 1913 | An Italian Jewish woman, Lea Veneziani, was born in Rome.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Rome on 18 October 1943. She did not survive.

I am by no means a domestic goddess but managing to wash a Babybel cheese is a new low even for me

There are MPs from all parties who welcome the #CassReport & who want to make sure its recommendations are implemented & those responsible for the institutional capture & bullying are held to account. Statement coming up in the House of Commons about 530pm.

Not just academics. Lawyers, doctors, teachers - all middle class professionals are directly encouraged to acquire middle class speech, dress & behaviour to get on. It's the core curriculum of elite universities.

Working-class academics have to assimilate to midde-class norms of academia (basically, act middle class) or get considered divisive and problematic when they don’t.

Whoever at the Labour Party has arranged for Liz Truss to do lots of interviews talking about having unfinished business is a genius.

What the DWP is doing to unpaid carers is abhorrent. New blog piece from Dementia Who!

Carers Allowance Overpayments -Don’t Blame Unpaid Carers! dementiawho.com/carers-allowan…

'This scandal happened because too many adults put their own desire for social approval above the safety of vulnerable for children,' says Miriam Cates. Are you listening, Billy Bragg, James O'Brien, Peter Tatchell, Tim Davie?

Just realized this is going on. It's appalling. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today in parliament I called out some of the organisations who bullied & defamed whistleblowers, feminists & LGB activists who warned of the dangers of unevidenced medical interventions & ideological capture of the NHS & demanded a public inquiry. #CassReport

15 April 1945 | Soldiers of the British 11th Armoured Division liberated the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. At least 52,000 of the total of around 120,000 prisoners perished in the camp.
History of #BergenBelsen : bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/en/history/the…

15 April 1920 | A Polish man, Adam Kuśnierz, was born in Tarnobrzeg. A clerk.

In #Auschwitz from 9 November 1940.
No 6149
He perished in the camp on 9 September 1942.

On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.

Sure Start worked. It had big long term effects on the educational achievement of poor children. Its demise is a study in policy failure - over centralisation, over extension, poor data, 'not invented here syndrome'. thetimes.co.uk/article/sure-s…