Great piece by my excellent colleague Christopher Kirkland on the UK election: theconversation.com/uk-election-ca…. Recommended to all students YSJPolitics YSJReligion School of Humanities History@YSJU Literature at YSJU!

So during COVID, I used Jobs.ac.uk as a rough proxy for what was happening in the sector - This week in May 2020, there were a total of 5390 jobs being advertised. This week there are 2162.

Our blog on why management talking about wellbeing and redundancies reveals a strategy to reduce protest and complaint - it is also shows a surreal understanding of what ‘wellbeing’ means. blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ucu/worried-ab…

Watch this space 👀 We're developing a brand new website for UK general election results! 🔖 Bookmark for accurate and impartial data, coming soon: electionresults.parliament.uk/?utm_campaign=… As always, you can also look forward to our analysis briefing for more on the general election results.

Take a look at our eye-opening run through the financial situation at YSJ where we challenge the premise that the university needs to save money by cutting jobs. Are their calculations done on the back of an envelope? blog.yorksj.ac.uk/ucu/issues/ann…

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire unis' £107m bill for staff redundancies - this is the amount spent on getting rid of staff! YSJ named as a leading culprit bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

👇 Debut piece for The Conversation , with Christopher Kirkland This is billed as a ‘change’ election – but Britain’s electoral system means hardly any seats are true multi-party contests theconversation.com/this-is-billed…

Delighted to share my second article for The Conversation, written with Christopher Kirkland, which is out now! Tactical voting: why is it such a big part of British elections? theconversation.com/tactical-votin…

It's absolutely bonkers how much more marginal Britain has become. With most results in, the average seat majority looks to be about 6,700, down from 11,200 in 2019. We have a Labour landslide, yet at the constituency level seats are tighter than any point since 1945 #GE24

"35% is the lowest vote share ever to win a majority, let alone a landslide"

Trade unions will always fight for those facing unfair dismissal. This is not one of those times.

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Thrilled to share that Christopher Kirkland and I have had our research on tactical voting published in this landmark election report. 🗳️ 🔗 electionanalysis.uk

This is an increasingly urgent question to which we currently have no real answer: how, if at all, can social media companies based in other jurisdictions, but with huge reach over here, be subject to any real legal accountability for what appears on their platforms?

The British public are pretty clear on how they see those involved in the recent riots. "Thugs", "Rioters", "Racist", and "Far-right" are words a majority of Brits would use. "People with legitimate concerns" is chosen by just 16%, while the "far-left" is picked by just 7%.

Saying she posted this because of "false and malicious information" is a bit weak

Have decided to leave this site for a while (maybe even permently) and created a profile on the other place. If anyone misses my occasional retweets/ self publicity I can be found here: bsky.app/profile/chrisk…