Will the British tax dodgers living in Dubai refuse the help of the RAF and Foreign Office when it’s time to quickly get them out?
Surely? Or maybe that isn’t quite what they had in mind…
An important message to #SteveReedMP @mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy on #housing standards in the NPPF - 'Building regulations must be seen as a floor to increase standards across all new buildings, not a ceiling.' - Hugh Ellis TCPA director
Call for Papers: This joint event hosted by SocRel and @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social is an opportunity for shared learning between the two study groups and will be the first event of its kind. In coming together we hope to share experiences, research findings, and explore areas of mutual interest
'Cathedral bosses said documents found at the local record office showed sign language was used in a marriage ceremony at St Martin's Church - as it was formerly called - on 6 February 1576.' #Skystorians
Beautiful looking thing tbf - what does that hold? 1.5lr?
Amazing, thank you!
This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?
Where might someone be able to buy this sort of thing in London? Have been wanting to give sake a proper go for a while
Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?
"Pull factors" on steroids.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Everything in this report reflects on what we value, for communities, for peripheral places, for young people, for education, for the future - and it looks like we’ve got it all wrong.
I have a plan 2 student loan plus postgrad - borrowed £55k, have paid back £7.5k, now owe £98k
I have a plan 2 student loan plus postgrad - borrowed £55k, have paid back £7.5k, now owe £98k
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.
This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.
📍 Southend rally | 5 February
There is evil and then there is this
That Bentham line….good god
Opening page for the Royal Historical Society article 'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment'. Full abstract: This series of comments brings together four historians of neoliberalism, each of whom focuses on a different part of the world but whose work has implications that are transnational if not global. Quinn Slobodian reconstructs the rise of the category of neoliberalism among historians and identifies the different paths of inquiry it is generating. Priya Lal, offering an Africanist’s perspective, moves beyond the reduction of the neoliberal narrative of the continent to one of linear declension and abjection by way of structural adjustment to show continuities from the colonial era to early independence. Gary Gerstle, an Americanist by training, offers a macro take on the move from a Keynesian and social democratic order to a neoliberal one while insisting we attend to the diverse ways policies and elite neoliberal ideas are taken up by populations for whom promises of freedom may mean something different from what intellectuals intended. Finally, Tehila Sasson, a historian of modern Britain and the world, explores the left-wing features of what has come to be called neoliberalism, insisting we keep a keen eye out for unintended consequences and unlikely origins. Together, the comment offers a satellite’s eye view of a subfield reaching maturity."
'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.
With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle & Tehila Sasson.
@quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social @tsasson.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Imagine being this brave!
It’s not as if they ever take very long to read though ? You can almost end up reading them by accident…
Looks like this article discusses the change, though not at length
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Very true! I’m sure a few cleverly crafted FOIs would yield interesting documents
Presumably someone has written about this in the context of establishment of UKHSA? If not, would be an interesting piece
Yes it is the job of politicians to do this? The pronouncements of states form a really important part of customary international law…(at least in theory! )
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
This is super interesting! Says a lot about what No10 / the PM would reasonably be keeping abreast of too vs needing to be informed/ reminded about
I always find these memorials at Postman’s Park unbearably moving. They make my eyes water every time. It’s a lovely idea, to commemorate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
'Cornwall is beautiful, rather austere, but I think that if I am here long enough I shall paint good things,' so said Christopher Wood. This painting of St Ives is from 1926
Now published…
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This!!!
