#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Prof Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) introduces this month's theme, 'Communities':
'It is not just that literary culture is sustained by communities... but that communities themselves are sustained by literature'
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#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Prof Stephanie Jones (Uni of Southampton) reflects on the process of shaping an interdisciplinary, cross-sector community:
'Shared language is powerful, possible and necessary for inclusive action.'
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#EnglishStudies
On animals and currency: just look at this gorgeous echidna. The Aussie heroes of my youth were all native animals.
And here missing the fact that Plan 5 (of course the debts are lower; most of these are current students) is a bigger scandal than Plan 2, just waiting to be discovered. 2/2
Once again, the quality of debate about student finance disappoints. Here’s the FT opening its piece by stating the blindingly obvious.
The Conservative party logo is a tree.
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'
Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
“I don’t really understand what the argument is for banishing hereditary peers”. Justin - WTF are you doing presenting #r4today, the BBC’s flagship news programme? Then the Earl you’re stroking moans about short notice and you agree that it’s not in line with employment law. Peers are not employees!
My god, the ‘debate’ on student loans. Vivienne Stern is cutting the the very core of things - the balance of burden between state & graduate, plan by plan - and the interviewer interrupts. They just can’t handle it; all they want is big, scary numbers. #r4today
“We can take them at their word.”
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Great quotes in military history.
@atrupar.com
An utterly brilliant article on a revolting spectacle. Do Read. @questingvole.bsky.social
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Truly unbelievable stuff. Just up there shamelessly lying his ass off
New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.
I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
absolutely deranged headline from the depths of hell
How odd – I thought all of this anti-trans stuff was about women's rights?
"The 34-year-old, who won last month's Gorton and Denton by-election, was helped by the police towards a waiting car after anti-transgender activists clashed with women's rights and anti-racism campaigners."
‘And now we have our regular far-right US commentator slot, in which we allow his lies to go unchallenged, then discuss his fantasies among ourselves in the most serious serious tones.’ #r4today
Steve Reed very keen to assure us that, whatever other restrictions his government might impose, transphobia remains totally ok. #r4today
A reminder that if you back regime change (morally) you ought to accept the likely consequences. www.youtube.com/shorts/Uuber...
You can bet your shorts this paper won’t say anything about the fascist thugs’ attack on Hannah Spencer today.
The "feminist" anti-trans movement, everyone
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
🤦♂️ ‘UK-born graduates are’ NOT ‘increasingly competing with international students for places’. International students help keep universities afloat, enabling them to offer many of the courses that home students take. Why keep peddling this xenophobic myth?
English degrees - dispelling the myths about employability. www.dearenglishmajor.com/blog/3-big-r...
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.
This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.
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