Builds new National Innovation Health Campus for many millions of £ only to cut courses in healthcare (among many others). Solidarity with colleagues and friends left at the mercy of feckless management who are just glorified property developers. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Very sorry to hear this. I was external examiner for HudUniHistory until last year, and the department was doing a great job for its students.

I had my first full-time permanent academic job in 1992 at a former poly & have spent most of my career in the sector. The joy of teaching creative subjects to students from working-class backgrounds/state schools/mature students, many felt they were given a 2nd chance 1/

It is quite wild to imagine that this “response” to student protest is in any sense a defense of an institution of higher learning. Depending on your perspective, it is either the destruction of a community or the exposure of a lie.

Unconscionable.

I’ve got a Rest is Politics running tally of how many times Rory Stewart can say “I’m speaking to you from Yale, where I’m teaching”.

It’s a lot…

Speech-writers meeting.

Your daily reminder that it is a key feature of colonial warfare to blame one's own violence on the alleged 'savagery' of the enemy - which essentially boils down to 'they made us do it'.

Handcuffed and in scrubs. Doctors who remained steadfast, refusing to leave their patients. Handcuffed, executed, and mass buried in their scrubs.

Israel is among history’s most depraved dealers of death

Realism is realism to those who espouse it (I don’t). But for the converts, claiming you’re going to do it in a progressive or reactionary way is like saying you’re going to do Newtonian physics in a progressive or reactionary way.

The state of this. Ideologically incommensurable jibberish. At least using “woke” requires me to read less of you people’s nonsensical takes on political philosophy. If you’re going be unread and unlettered - keep it concise, children.

The same BJP election video which uses alt-right images depicts gay sex in Mughal art with once vignette tying this sexual activity to Muslim rule. Islamophobia, homophobia, racism. All the while they’ll tell you they’re making India a “gay utopia”. Make it make sense.

Hindu nationalists will tell you they are not Nazis and then use an image classified as a “hate symbol” by the anti-defamation league in their general election campaign. It is popular among Nazis, white supremacists, and the KluKluxKlan. So much for “decolonial” politics…

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They're never going to be in power again if this is the best they can do.