Laura Chuhan Campbell

So I'm hoping that the influx of new members will lead to a revision of some of the weirder policies at conference.

I find this concering too. However, I think this is probably because policy is decided by members at conference, like a TU. Having been a small and fringe party for a long time, some pretty woo woo policies will have crept in over the years, but they can also be scrapped and challenged by members

I like that it's a cow. Primates and corvids get all the attention. Give me more ungulates smashing that glass ceiling!

Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...

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As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.

Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇

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“We’re here to talk about A levels”

“Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

The Reform-led council in Durham have withdrawn funding for the annual Durham Pride march. The TUC and Miners Association are organising a fundraising event in September:

redhillsdurham.org/event/we-are...

Name a TV show you are positive nobody remembers but you

Removing departments is about removing academic nodes of power and autonomy (and plenty of attendant responsibility by the way) and it is being done practically everywhere outside of college system unis. It always leads to consolidation of power and budget lines in fewer hands. Always.

I know, my office is such a mess… ideologies lying around all over the place. Really need to get some sort of filing system.

Yeh, the final season more than makes up for it I guess!

With the exception of that weird slump in the middle of season 2 though

"Elite ideology"... the old cultural Marxism again is it?

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

Gaza Soup Kitchen w mult locations across Gaza, they also provide medical aid through visiting physicians+ supplying food to the infirm. On the ground op w vast experience in the humanitarian sector. Things are still available to purchase but prices are exorbitant

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Samsies, joined Greens today🌿 the Labour Party in its current form has become such a disfigured and twisted version of itself, I don’t recognise any of my values in it anymore. If the Greens can do for the left what Reform are doing for the right, then I’m in

Ruminating Cashew Nut

I left it this long to finally quit because my local constituency is good. But the national leadership are now no better than the Tories, and I’m fucked if I would ever join them—so why would I stay in a party that is becoming a poor imitation of them?

I’ve campaigned and canvassed for Labour. And I know it’s not all bad. But nothing can outweigh the evil of inaction on Gaza, or the abandoning of the most vulnerable in our society.

I was raised in a former mining town in the Labour heartlands, and I now live in a different former mining town in the Labour heartlands. Labour has always been my political home, although I did duck out a bit during the Iraq War years.

My local MP is fantastic. No criticism of her at all. And I know there are good backbenchers out there. But despite the good eggs out there, the party is enabling genocide in Gaza, persecuting pensioners and trans people, and bringing back disastrous austerity.

I’m done

The realest of the real ones ❤️

Shaimaa’s PhD will be funded by @sgsah.bsky.social (supervised by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Will Tattersdill & me, in partnership with @commapress.bsky.social) - but she is currently trapped in Gaza unless the UK Gov relaxes its requirement for biometric data bsky.app/profile/comm...

Vic Reeves in the Reeves and Mortimer sketch saying “you’re just a fakey cake maker and I ain’t got time for you”

There was a time when Masterchef judges upheld the highest standards of ethics.

Yeh go on mate, ask me about this extremely niche prog doom metal band from Huddersfield, I can name all 4 songs on their EP

Most band t-shirts I wear are confusing and illegible, including to dickheads

Really cool image of women's football, dating back to 1923

In all this Bob Vylan pearl clutching some are conveniently forgetting the IDF is committing genocide.

I have had death threats for my work on trans rights. I have been stalked. I have had people try and have me thrown out of my University. I am by no means alone, and lots of trans-inclusive academics have spoken publicly about the violence and harassment they face. But no mention of that here.

Photo of a protest sign made of a brown USPS Priority Mail box being held in a white woman's hand. The sign reads "no tyrants", shown as the word written in black with a blue prohibition circle over it.

I'm struck by how the major political theorist Giles of Rome (c.1278) described the ways tyrants cling to power, including:
–prohibiting study
–impoverishing the people
–promoting discord
–monitoring citizens
–restricting gatherings
–fomenting war
But that list was a bit hard to fit on a placard...

I hear that Trudie and Sting tend to make activities that normally take a few minutes go on for hours