The VC has planned to cut 400 jobs, close the Southend campus, demolish the Essex Pathways (foundation year) department, and decimate other departments like language & linguistics, maths & stats and business.
She met us for an all-staff meeting on Thursday. It was... fascinating! Let's fact-check.
🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.
The EU is home to:
🌍 24 official languages
🎉 60 regional or minority languages spoken by 40 million people
And, over half of Europeans are proficient in a second language!
Multilingualism is a founding principle of our Union.
Diversity is our strength!
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
🚨BREAKING: In a powerful moment, Hillary Clinton just shredded to pieces Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. She’s right again.
I got it last year after reading your post, so thank you. It was easy at my GP surgery, which was supportive and agreed that 'it's a very sensible thing to do'.
This is why I am on strike #UCU ucuessex.bsky.social If you are in academia something similar has probably happened in your institution already. If not don't be naive - it will very soon, and no-one will fight for you if you don't fight yourself. Join a union. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I agree with all AI = radium, arsenic paint, cocaine, fags, asbestos analogies.
Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
Me too! 👍
Is 'Thank you for reaching out' AI slop or just annoying mid-Atlantic bollocks? I've never 'reached out' in my life, although numerous recent emails suggest I have.
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨
The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit:
📉 GDP down 8%
📉 Investment down 18%
📉 Productivity down 4%
📉 Employment down 4%
❌ No trade benefits
❌ No regulatory freedom
❌ No upside whatsoever
Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
Jenrick? 'Chancer', 'charlatan' and other words which start with c. For god's sake stop giving these utter nonentities the 'oxygen of publicity'.
It's good to see what looks like a fairly active Erasmus presence here 👇
Bowie Heroes album cover holding a box of Heroes chocolates
I, I will be twix
And you, you will be the creme egg one
King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
Cartoon of a lorry reversing and beeping. Caption: To drive an HGV in France you need to pass your backalorryup
Your library card is the most priceless card you will ever own.
Proud to say I bought it. And tried to work out the chorus harmonies. And 'choreograpny'.
Indeed. But I recall reading somewhere he later regretted his Brexit choice due to the division caused... Also disappointing that Australian-born actor Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey) was early advocate for UKIP and, I think, Goldsmith's Referendum Party - which doesn't get the blame it deserves.
We chatted about the bizarre experiences of working with minor local celebrities in provincial pantomimes. My friend Alan was right. I still smile about it now. All the best and keep up the good work.
Robin, I've followed you around here for years but never disclosed why I like you. I met you exactly 27 years ago in Edinburgh when you were low on the bill and my friend Alan (now deceased) was even lower. He thought we'd get on. We had a great chat for ages. Liked you then, still like you now 👍
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
So the Gang of 2 adopt the Oor Wullie as well as the Mickey Mouse stance: "Oor Party! Your Party! Naebody with a brain's Party!". But you can be in the SWP too, if your like. Dearie me. They're not Roy and Shirley, are they?
These 'senior BBC figures' all seem cut from the same very odd, supremely confident yet profoundly unimpressive cloth. The MPs are little better. Who is on which side? The stench of 'good chaps' joshing rather reminds me of my years at a Russell Group university.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
