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Just discovered the ‘Mutuals’ feed on here, where you see posts from people who you are following and who follow you back. Really nice. Feels a lot more friendly and community-ish than the standard feeds…

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Great morning today bringing in partners from local homelessness charities + housing associations to speak to students about work they are doing in SE London. Homelessness and precarious housing are huge, growing issues in our area and across the UK. Massive political action is needed to combat it…

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Bleak news from Kingston. Their philosophy department is for the chop and seemingly much of their humanities offer now seriously under threat: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kingsto...

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Redemptive early spring sunshine on campus today 🙌

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Rest in peace David Johansen, last of the New York Dolls. Beautiful and trashy, right to the end: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

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Are we going to have to go through a whole cycle of history and invent everything again? Trade unions, international law, multilateral institutions, consensus based politics… None of this exactly perfect but Jesus Christ we are going to miss it when it is gone (in about 6 months at the current rate)

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Deptford graffiti… Always tells it like it is!

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Lots of interesting #history #walks #talks and #events coming up in the next month or so, including a fundraiser on 8 April. More information at: drjohnprice.net/upcoming-events/ #walking #localhistory #historywalks #deptford #newcross #lewisham #nunhead #hatchampark #gfwatts #postmanspark

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Possibly the best take on UK Higher Education I’ve ever read…

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So, it’s taken the new Labour govt around 8 months to fall into exactly the same trap as the last one (i.e Blair/ Brown) did. An ambitious domestic reform programme completely hijacked by foreign policy madness and trying to chum up to a batshit administration in the USA….

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After a period of shock, I wonder whether the performative cruelty of DOGE will massively backfire. Workers will join unions, organise and fight back, just as they always have when harassed and exploited in their jobs. Unions could well see a big jump in membership and energy…

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Popes - Bears - Woods - Catholics. Come on @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social We need your help! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Excellent (but also slightly maddening) piece about the Elizabeth Line. Everyone moaned relentlessly when this was being built. The press derided as a waste of money, etc. Now it’s up and running and a huge success! We need to get better at infrastructure projects www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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The only valentine you need open.spotify.com/track/1KKuoY...

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Jean Rhys, as ever, knows the score…

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Finally watched Ferrara’s The Addiction (1995) last night. What a movie! A unique blend of New York street hustle, Euro art house and vampire film. Made me nostalgic for a time when 90min indie art films were a viable part of the movie industry, and more strange nightmares made it to the big screen.

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Heading up to Sheffield this morning for a work thing. Beautiful winter sunshine beaming through the glass-and wrought-iron cathedral that is London St Pancras station 👌

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‘When he rose painfully the thrusting forward of a skinny groping hand deformed by gouty swellings suggested the effort of a moribund murderer summoning all his remaining strength for a last stab’

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If the UK really wants growth it should rejoin the Single Market. This is by far the simplest and easiest single thing it could do to help the economy. Better than airports, free ports and AI pipe dreams. The blindingly obvious remains off the table for reasons of mind numbing political idiocy…

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Even universities traditionally thought ‘elite’ are starting to feel icy economic waters around their ankles now. No one is entirely safe (some are much safer than others). Don’t expect to see solidarity across the sector. It’s a dog eat dog battle for survival and not everyone is going to make it.

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‘There was about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: the air common to men who live on the vices, the follies, or the baser fears of mankind; the air of moral nihilism’… Conrad (1907). Remind you of anyone? 🤔

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Amazing gig at the Barbican last night. Mabe Frattie and band playing what I can only describe as Rage Against the Machine influenced post rock, with a dash of Cocteau Twins, but with heavily distorted cello as the main instrument… Jaw dropping stuff. Part of Unsound festival 👌

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David Lynch… Fuck… Where even to start? I watched Eraserhead on Channel Four on a tiny TV in my parent’s house after they’d gone to bed when I was about 15 and it was the key to a door in my mind that I didn’t know existed. I’ve never been the same since. R.I.P www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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Just got excited about spotting a redwing in my garden. Seconds later a SPARROWHAWK lands on my fence, chases a few smaller birds around, then wings it off in the direction of the Common!

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Abandoned bicycle, on a frozen lake desolate…

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Short walk before work (from home today). South London as a winter wonderland…

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Yup! 👇

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Spot on 👇

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News at the moment is just bleak. The world’s richest man is currently going to great lengths to try to personally bring down an elected govt in one of the world’s ‘stable’ democracies. Basically just because he can. If that’s not a dystopian start to the new year, I don’t know what is…

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Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

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Really enjoyed this year’s Turner Prize show. Four thoughtful artists brought together in a show that feels complimentary and raises important questions around identity and belonging. The Turner’s come a long way from the days when it was falling over itself to seem ‘shocking’. It’s better for it.

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Christmas Day walking. Even in zone 3 London, surprisingly easy to get that ‘haunted midwinter woodland’ feeling… 👌

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Worth reading. It’s absolutely obscene that someone should be given a two year jail sentence for nonviolent political protest: ‘You won’t find the real criminals here’: a Just Stop Oil activist in jail at Christmas: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Frosty mornings. Suburban stations.

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Christmas shopping in Brixton. They are well and truly gentrified now, but I do still love these covered markets. Like Electric Avenue and the Bon Marche (London’s first purpose built department store) a reminder that Brixton was at one time right at the epicentre of urban modernity.

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