the 'no racism in the uk' report team meeting

First delivery from Oddbox and we are very satisfied 😊👍🌱

Gilberto Malvestuto was the first Italian Partisan to set foot in Bologna after fighting to liberate it from the Nazis. A few days ago, a crowd celebrated his 100th birthday with a chorus of ‘Bella Ciao’ outside the nursing home.

Great to see these signs up in the streets of Milan to fight #catcalling

Solidarity to Italian dockers refusing to load arms bound for Israel ✊ “The port of Livorno will not be an accomplice in the massacre of the Palestinian people,” said L’Unione Sindacale di Base (USB).

Everyone’s busy working out how Johnson, twice divorced, was able to get married via a catholic ceremony and I don’t know why, we all know the Catholic Church is wildly susceptible to the pull of influence,money and power

Il #4giugno 1944,#Roma,prima capitale europea a insorgere contro gli occupanti,si liberò dal nazifascismo.L’avanguardia della V Armata USA giunse alla periferia sud, mentre i tedeschi fuggivano a nord. Il #16luglio 2018 alla #CittàEterna è stata conferita la massima onorificenza.

It is MAJOR NEWS for the UK that Public Health England have upgraded the risk from #DeltaVariant (aka #IndianVariant) to *red* in terms of higher transmissibility, more risk of hospitalisation and more vaccine escape than previously thought yet hardly any news outlets covering it

Nazareth-based activists are restoring Palestinian murals and street art after they were attacked and vandalized.

With a £37 billion price tag, was it really so outlandish to expect it to, you know, work?

The term 'white privilege' didn't cause the neglect of white working-class pupils. A decade of Conservative austerity in education, housing, and youth services did. Just as it destroyed the life-chances of working class Black and minority ethnic kids. Stop trying to divide us.

The Amanda Gorman translation controversy centered a crucial question: Who gets to translate? Who is chosen to bring a certain writer’s voice into another language and why? Three translators—Corine Tachtiris, Anton Hur, and Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths—stake their claims in our June roundtable feature.

Seems very sad to block entry to university based on someone's circumstances at 15/16 years old...? Gavin Williamson heralds GCSE grade bar for entry to university timeshighereducation.com/news/gavin-wil… via Times Higher Education

This week on Wonkhe: Research in the social sciences, humanities, and arts enriches our society and our economy. The British Academy's Simon Swain calls for the KEF to better recognise this. The British Academy buff.ly/3xXB0xA

Personal choice is a useful way to think of some health issues, like contraceptives or abortion or resuscitation. But it doesn't work for health crises where the stakes are higher than just your own life. It's not about personal choices. It's about collective responsibilities.

6/ We’ll be appealing to the public to continue to be considerate, because there’s no way of knowing if the person next to you is immunocompromised.   We’ll also continue to update our pages on vaccine efficacy bloodcancer.org.uk/support-for-yo… and coping with risk bloodcancer.org.uk/support-for-yo…

"How can we even think about global Britain without building the nation’s multilingual capacity? The closure of university language departments affects Britain’s capacity to produce the best linguistic and cultural talents" 👏👏 Li Wei 李嵬 timeshighereducation.com/news/new-ioe-d…

Fantastic to see that UCAS will be providing individual-level data on free school meals to universities this summer. We have long been calling for this to help higher education institutions with their contextual admissions.