Striking that names on Boris Johnson's gongs list were implicated in Partygate scandal: Martin Reynolds, former PPS, invited 200 officials to drinks in Downing St garden. He told officials to "bring your own booze", later adding: "We seem to have got away with it".

Great new podcast on Streetsigns on Isidro Ramirez's photography in Singapore and beyond by Anthony Palmer from the Crossing lines branch of London Independent Photography CUCR Sociology, Goldsmiths streetsigns.online/HIDDEN-LAYERS-…

Tomorrow BBC Question Time is coming from my home town Clacton and its audience features purely Brexit voters. Social media will no doubt be full of negative comments about gammons and xenophobes. But that doesn't tell the full story... (short thread)

Graduating is a privilege I never thought I’d be able to achieve and despite not graduating with a classification I was at least able to take a stand and protest the decisions the uni and UCEA have taken. Universities need to #settlethedispute and renegotiate with UCU now.

This remarkably talented man is about to announce a tour of his family show, I have it on good authority. My own authority. I would expect it as soon as tomorrow, in fact.

I am a dutch, widowed parent, of a British child. I live in the UK on a parent visa and my daughter is happily growing up here, near my late wife's family and our friends. Last week Home Office cancelled my right to be here. In error. A thread to put the record straight.

Govt prepares to take over water firm amid Thames Water '£10bn blackhole' in finances… Also Thames Water: Financial Times reported earlier this year that the largest water monopoly paid £37m of “internal dividends” to its parent company in the year to March 31, 2022.

For the first time since lockdown PUC students from Sociology, Goldsmiths travelled to Paris for a symposium of photography, walking & discussion with their peers Université Paris Cité led by Peter Coles & carolina sanchez boe - great potential collaborations! CUCR streetsigns.online/SEVENTH-PUC-UN…

🚨It’s Horror Show after Horror Show, as management have tried to respond to the MAB. It’s been carnage at Exam Boards across the University and, unfortunately, the victims are mainly professional standards and academic rigour. Stories from across the University include: 1/11

Announcing the Barbican Cinema screening of my Channel 4 film ‘Living with the Bunker’, in this, the 30th anniversary year of Stephen Lawrence’s death. The film explores how the far-right BNP, impacted on London’s communities in the early 1990s. barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/…

Once again for those who wonder why we're on MAB. In Ireland, you can earn more as a Lecturer than as a full Professor in the UK/NI. And they don't have to do REF 🫠. Looking at this I can't help feeling ucu are actually being far too reasonable. #ucuRISING #SettleTheDispute

This weekend 65 years ago #AltheaGibson, the first Black woman to win Wimbledon, retained her title. Althea repeatedly applied for membership of the #AllEnglandClub but, unlike other winners, was never accepted. Her Jewish doubles partner #AngelaBuxton faced a similar struggle

I think Iain means "subject area in a provider" here - these are not "courses" in the sense of things you can apply to. But he has a point - some of this data looks quite bad, doesn't it. Let's dive in.

The police statement issued later (which I will also post) makes clear that the woman had paid her fare.

Inflation in Spain has fallen to 2% - here’s why bit.ly/3Oo4KxK “Spain capped energy prices by more than the UK, lowered the cost of public transport, taxed excess profits and put in place limits on how much landlords can raise rents”.

THE PHOTOGRAPH An old friend of mine came in to my hospital room with an envelope of photographs. He pulled one out, it was of me, taken in Cork in or around 1993. I am at a book signing, handing a paperback copy of my first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, to someone. I am

Get to Know the Bibby Stockholm... - 500+ single adult men crammed onto a barge with a capacity of 222 in normal use (e.g. as accommodation for oil workers) Single rooms: - 2 strangers, sharing an austere metal bunk bed - TV (as mocking and useless as a paperweight: they've

Nigerian students at Swansea University claim they have been thrown off their courses and told to return home after their tuition fees were paid "hours late" during a banking crisis in their country. itv.com/news/wales/202…

claire levy Les Back CUCR Sociology, Goldsmiths Must check this out. Anita is talking about her work, in Charlton House this afternoon.

Great new post by tanja_bb on a Deptford Docklands development project and community push back on Streetsigns from CUCR @sociologygold streetsigns.online/DEPTFORD-DOCKY…