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Given the chance to criticise police utilisation of available resources, justin webb chooses to use this opportunity to defend right wing loony tunes Allison Pearson who was posting racist nonsense #R4Today

’Tis the season once again

I actually can’t describe how much of a RELIEF it is that a journalist FINALLY FUCKING SAID THIS. Australian offshoring didn’t “work” it caused massive scale abuse. I hate being so pathetically grateful but no other journalist seems to give a damn about that small detail.

The announcement of the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media is a grim end to a shaming episode for the Scott Trust.🧵

Happy New Year everyone! 🥳 Perhaps so-called journalists on the likes of BBC Breakfast could take a New Year’s resolution to question idiots like this with “Why on Earth would the French accept that?” & if they can’t answer, stop platforming their nonsense?

At last! Bayswater called out! thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

Just sitting here waiting for Keir Starmer to speak out in support of a female colleague who is being unjustly attacked by one of the most influential bullies in the world. Basic leadership stuff, you know.

I hope you’re watching Steve Race MP 💙💛. Very many of your constituents will support Zoe Hughes: these are the inclusive values we’ve been used to Exeter Labour upholding.

This is appalling dog-whistle, fishing for support at the bottom of the pond, unsubstantiated b*llocks. If it were true, Jenrick or a fellow Conservative Minister or a Con MP would have acted on it during the 14 years they were in Government.

Does Trump think “windfall” is a type of windmill? (The piece he links to does not mention wind energy.)

Don’t apologise for raising tuition fees, celebrate them, says Hepi director timeshighereducation.com/news/hillman-d…

Two stabbings of two teenage trans girls in less than a year, one of them fatal, both motivated by transphobia, demonstrate that “gender critical” beliefs are in no way “worthy of respect in a democratic society.” They are dangerous and produce violence and deadly hatred.

It’s Completely Unknown - but I wrote a chapter in here about ‘Hard Rain’ and Shakespeare’ Sonnets 😉 (and also, the rest of the book is fantastic) 👇

I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Brian Maidment this week. We collaborated for years on the Cotton Famine Poetry project, and it was a privilege to get to know a scholar whose work on labouring-class C19th culture was foundational. He will be much missed.

This paragraph in the preface to the Goodwin book is quite extraordinary. I can’t think of another sector that has so many employees telling people outside their institutions about its problems. Omertà my foot!

How’s this not striking?

This is a great review from the brilliant Gideon Haigh. The fact it is headlined as ‘joyful new book’ makes me very happy indeed as it was the driving force behind the book. Joy & positivity. There’s too much negativity in the world! substack.com/@thecogitorium…

Whilst the uproar about the effects of the govt's announcements this week to curb #Migration - especially on #adultsocialcare continues, the impact on our already hard-hit #University sector is also alarming. More details on a c.6% levy on income from foreign students will be

Time to tune into #aflhawkscrows on ⁦ABC SPORT⁩