I really enjoyed the “Inspired!” exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery y’day. Musing on how literature, theatre & music and painting & sculpture have inspired each other. A superb statue of Irving’s Hamlet (those fabrics), Grant’s cheeky copper, Clytemnestra’s & Macbeth’s eyes!

This lurcher called Pokoe was stolen or got lost in the area around Brighton/Hove/Worthing. Please share — if her disappearance is advertised widely enough she will hopefully become too hot to handle.

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson arriving with wife Carrie at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Platinum Thanksgiving Service is booed by some in the crowd BBC News (UK)

The brilliant The Academic Imperfectionist @rebecca_roache telling Hay how philosophy can improve your (academic and other) life.

Every trusts law lecturer looking for a problem question on trustee investment powers, suitability, etc, say “thank you” to Josephine Cumbo

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“We cannot go on as a society thinking that people don’t matter … It’s not about growth. It’s about distribution.”

Hunt is deliberately making all the pre-2005 mistakes and knowingly unlearning all the lessons learned post-2008. A deeply dangerous idiot. Odious hedge fund managers and similar will be delighted. Brexit, as they intended it, is now done.

Today, 50 fellow parliamentarians and I have written to UCEA. We are urging them to rethink - and end - their recommendation of a 50-100% wage cut during @UCU's marking and assessment boycott.

A brilliant message of support for university staff from Barry Gardiner MP💥    'Staff are still going in, they're still lecturing and supporting students. But employers want to cut all of their wages. No wages. That's not fair'   Withdraw the deduction threats, now!   #ucuRISING

Vice Chancellors throwing their weight about in this way sours the industrial relations climate in our colleges even more but this bullying strategy makes members of UCU even more determined in their campaign for decent pay & employment conditions.

I've signed cross-party letter to UCEA, urging them to rethink & end their recommendation of an unnecessary, unfair & unethical 50-100% wage cut during UCU's marking & assessment boycott 👇 Sussex UCU Brighton UCU #Brighton

🧵A thread: why I’m standing to be GS of UCU and why I believe we need change in leadership, a new approach, and to ensure the union works for all of us. I’ve spent the last 14 years active in UCU from branch rep to President. I understand how the union does & doesn’t work. /1

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Breaking my X policy for this: Our beautiful cat, Katniss, is missing! We think she might have jumped in a car or van and ended up further afield. If you are in North London (NW5 and surrounds), please keep an eye out! details below.

She’s a good egg (with a recent masters degree). Anyone in creative writing academia available to chat?