A quick analysis based on what’s reported. Hopefully the full policy does in fact address these issues. Leeds University UCU 🧵

The wording is very similar to the Public Order Act 1986 but seemingly neglects to notice that “insulting” was removed from s5 (compare old and revised).

It’s really hard to describe the pressures of being an academic at risk of redundancy. You still have to deliver everything the job demands (and normal working conditions demand way too much, prompting years of industrial action) in teaching, research & admin …/1

Here is some unsolicited advice for people currently in open-ended jobs in UK HE, with quite a few years under their belts. My qualification is not that I lived through the process, but that I have been a UCU caseworker for 11 years. 1/

A much love doll, Olive, has just been lost on a train either at Doncaster or on the London North Eastern Railway train from Doncaster to London. I have a devastated little girl and I’ve seen these sorts of posts work before.

Queuing for record store day outside Crash records.

The Liz Truss saga is a strange one. Has she genuinely moved to the far right? Is she trying, cynically or cleverly or both, repositioning herself there for a political comeback? Or is there something else going on?

Suella Braverman says that British Muslim children who are British citizens with British values don't have the right to pray in their lunch break 🤷‍♂️

Francis O’Gorman 21.ix.67 - 11.iv.24 Francis died peacefully at home. May he rest in peace.

I went to visit my daughter’s grave (in a woodland burial site). There’s a single bluebell pushing up from her. Such a powerful little symbol.

Facebook privacy alerts are hopeless. “Someone logged on to your account from a computer near Croydon”. Me, in Hull: Yes, that was me. To some computer in California, a server in Croydon is close enough.

Dropping by to see Mr Larkin heading for his taxi to the university library.

Social reality. Hull. 2024.