Siân Evans

Around 2 if I remember correctly (having not seen either of the subsequent seasons). Sorry

Struggling to find many Labour policies that are forward tbh! 🙃

My 2014 diesel car costs £20 to tax (no I don’t understand why it’s not more either!). I don’t understand where this policy fits at all with a net zero agenda and given the state of public transport outside of London in the UK

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Plus their call and the fact they are ducks. On a beach.

Please read and consider signing this open letter to UKRI regarding their initial and future responses to Michelle Donelan: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

UK govt minister, in the last hour, ordering the national academic research funding body to censor the members of its expert panels, for unacceptable sympathy with Palestinians.

Screenshot of a letter from Michelle Donelan to the CEO of UKRI, implying that academics appointed to UKRI boards/committees should be impartial online

Holy shit. This is insane and the implications are terrifying

“Support the legal right to protest” but invite this amount of police to wait around on campus in preparation for escalation and arrests 🤔

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Extremely disconcerting to see such a police presence on campus - 4 vans, 3 cars, 10+ officers - because apparently they’ve received “some information that there might be a protest”. Seems excessive and I wonder if it’s at management’s request or under their own steam…

Of course everyone’s circumstances are different and people have their reasons, but seeing a number of non-union members/union non-strikers on a call about USS… you’re welcome! 🙃

Vice chancellor resigns after pressure from staff - UCU University of Leeds Branch Following motions of no confidence passed in June/July by all three staff trade unions (UCU, Unison and Unite), the University of Leeds vice chancellor and president Simone Buitendijk has announced th...

Obviously not an impartial account of the last three years but there are also some facts here that can’t be disputed

www.leedsucu.org.uk/vice-chancel...

Not quite sure what this account will be. I started one in the other place for work reasons, then never really felt like tweeting work stuff or quite right with much personal stuff… maybe it’ll just be cats!

I’m informed it’s tradition for a first post to be feline themed

“End of the year” but it’s effectively the end of this month. Makes you wonder what happened…