“Conceived to protect freedom, laïcité has over the past 20 years, opened the door to the pursuit of an unrelenting Islamophobia, embodied in a fixation on Muslim women and girls’ appearance.” Read my latest for the The Guardian ⤵️

The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”

Excellent point.

My acceptance speech drive.google.com/file/d/1d0u6hC…

NEU Fred and Anne Jarvis award
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Congratulations to the formidable Hilda Palmer Stop Covid@work Make workplaces safe and Julia Waters for jointly winning this NEU award. All of us benefit from your amazing work!!

'The NEU is to ask other unions and the TUC to join in lobbying the HSE to make changes within its RIDDOR (reporting of injuries) guidance to ensure work-related suicides are reported and investigated, with recommendations for good practice.'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unions…

Julia Waters wonderful, heartfelt and incredibly important speech to NEU conference:

Julia Waters will be speaking to @NEU conference at 9 am today.

Excellent piece by Martin McKee on the dangers of not listening.

I know AS believes she did the right thing but the views she expresses in this interview are utterly repulsive and perfectly illustrate why she was never suited to the role. theguardian.com/education/2024…

The extreme distress that can lead to suicide at work has systemic causes. Those systemic causes have not been addressed. They are still treated by Ofsted + HSE as personal failings. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ofsted…

Excellent piece on limits of mental health first aid in the workplace. Time to focus on the organisation rather than the individual Kevin Jones hazards.org/stress/mentalh…

Teacher suicides are treated as personal and unrelated tragedies by UK regulator. They are not officially recorded, investigated or prevented. Let's start there.
theguardian.com/education/2024…

2019: Theresa May, 'After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall'

2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, 'A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water'

World famous #TheBoatRace2024 The Boat Race…

The idea that UK doesn't have money to nationalise Thames Water is economically illiterate.

To nationalise, Parliament sets the price & swaps govt bonds for shares.

TW's debts, pollution & mismanagement should all lower purchase price.

Nationalisation will *save* us money.

Tory patriotism=concocted outrage about the colour of football shirts while allowing the actual land and its beautiful waters to be filled up with shit and bacteria and the people of the land to be poisoned.

So that their privateer mates can profit.

“Thames Water boss says bills need to rise by 40%.” Here’s why 👇

Paris - where water has been taken back under public control. The only answer to England's shitty water problem. corpwatchers.eu/en/investigati…

Why do UK universities keep losing legal cases? timeshighereducation.com/depth/why-do-u… via Times Higher Education

I would say - mainly because they are wrong. My experience was (and is) - really dangerous mixture of arrogance and incompetence.

Thanks for your support Times Higher Education 21group

Declining influence of French in post-colonial African countries independent.co.uk/news/world/afr…